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Because if not this week, then when? Even if you have a software engineering job with a good salary, wouldn’t it still make sense to start building a SaaS as a solo developer?

It will separate your time from your income. Of course, you’ll need to spend time on your SaaS too, but your MRR wouldn’t depend on the number of hours you spend each month.

🏃‍♀️ It will give you freedom. Maybe you like your job. Great! But owning a SaaS will give you freedom. Freedom to quit your job. Freedom to take time off. Freedom to downgrade to a part-time role that you enjoy more.

🏦 It will be a valuable asset. SaaS startups built by solo developers sell for ~5x ARR. This means that your little SaaS making $10k MRR is $500,000 in your bank. Maybe you want to sell it one day and buy a house.

😌 It will give you more meaning. Jobs in tech companies are different, but often the engineer is quite far from the people who use the product. There are product managers, sprints, and backlogs. But as a solo SaaS founder, you’ll be very close to the real people using your product. You talk to them, listen to their feedback, and keep spending time improving your product.

Every dev should start a SaaS
Yesterday's microstartups

Japan Dev

Tech Jobs in Japan

$62k/mo

Yep

From idea to signups in 15 minutes

$100/mo

Pictalio

Free to use vertical video library

$30/mo

Juniper Technology

Open source sensor ingestion, ML, alerting.

$12/mo

From the discussions
Rauno
Daniel is on Show HN today with KTool:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996

I’m using my Kindle every day to read books, so this looks very interesting to me.

I often think that I want to read this blog post, HN topic, or newsletter but I rarely get to them. Maybe it’s because when I’m on my computer/phone I have so many distractions. Email, Twitter...

The preview tool is also very cool!
I bought KTool very soon after seeing it here. Really great work. I’ve sent quite a few articles from various sites with it and the conversion quality was always...
Radan
Reminds me Mailbrew ($20k MRR). I know it’s a different thing, but a bit similar feeling to it...
Rauno
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