When I got into SAAS, I thought it went like this:
- Build a project you have in your head
- Profit
No one told me about validation, marketing, and sales! And I only figured it out 6 months after coding up my first project, finding 0 users. Why is it so hard to understand the importance of these concepts for programmers? It’s like we insist on only learning them after we fail.
That’s the winner bias. There are thousands of people making different SAAS but you never hear about their stories, because their products fail. You only hear about the ones who make it, and using data from those successful ones might give you wrong ideas.