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Things I have learned from creating my own SaaS

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45 points by jvojak · 17 comments

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mring33621

Fuck Medium for making me login to read the story and then, after I logged in, asking me to 'upgrade', in order to read the story.

  • mycodesucks

    Seconded. I just don't read medium articles anymore, same goes for any site that makes me login. That ain't the internet I want so I don't support it

  • jvojakOP

    my apologies, I am a bit new to Medium, here's a friendly link that allows you reading everything: https://medium.com/codex/11-things-i-have-learned-from-creat...

    • cloogshicer

      Please just stop publishing things on Medium. It's very hostile towards users.

      I recommend setting up a static site generator like Hugo (simple) and deploy with something like Netlify (free and quick to setup).

  • SergioCh

    You can open article links in an incognito window. This way, Medium has no way of knowing who you are or how many articles you've read.

  • Jugurtha

    You can delete the site's cookies and refresh.

redhale

No offense, but this is the most generic list possible. I feel like I could have written this generic article having no SaaS experience at all. "Do your research", "Limit the MVP to a narrow number of functionalities", "Think about how you will market, promote and sell the product" -- come on.

I would be very interested in an article that conveys some new insight from your specific experience, though!

  • jvojakOP

    Hey, thanks for the feedback. I am not that good of a writer, the bullet point title is probably more generic than I wanted. There were more specific things, such as, that I lost probably more time on finding out which payment/subscription solution suits me and my country the most, how to write privacy policy and terms and conditions the proper way, how to decide whose idea or workflow is the best, why I regret using specific bootstrap theme and so on... But, it seemed to me like I couldn't find a proper way to categorize those topics and it would be all over the place. I am still learning how to properly organize my articles, so I really appreciate the feedback.

withinboredom

I really hate Medium articles on <3G speed. Somewhere in their JS, they have a timeout (instead of relying on the protocol) so you only get to read the first paragraph. I’m sure their internal stats look great, I doubt they have a stat for “never loaded beyond the first paragraph” though.

blunte

Why make the effort to write something and then give it to a platform which will hide it?

Sorry, can't read it. Logged in, but apparently I've foolishly clicked on one too many essays which are locked in Medium.

benbristow

For those having problems with Medium, archived copy without the clutter - https://archive.ph/5aW7W

smoldesu

Looks like I'm not allowed to read the rest of your blog-post, sorry. Is there a link to a non-paywalled site?

nomdep

12. Don’t put your content marketing behind a paywall

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