I have experience as a full stack developer, and as a machine learning engineer. I know C#, Java, Javascript, and Python. I have my own private AWS account. But I am a first time Saas founder. I’ll be doing the development myself. Should I use my existing skills to come up with my first product or should I learn no-coide tools? The reason I ask is no-code tools seem like they might be worth learning to spin up really quick MVPs. Thanks

  • brazentongue@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I have 15 years of software development experience (same stack) and launched a B2B SaaS startup about 10 months ago. I do not recommend nocode/low code. I spent about 2 days playing with bubble before abandoning it for VS Code. I’ve built an entire platform in Azure consisting of Cosmos DB, a couple C# API’s and a couple C# Azure Functions. Hired a couple Upwork consultants to handle cloud infrastructure (Terraform) and front-end work. Development skills + AI will get you where you need to be quickly.

    Avoid low-code. AI makes it irrelevant IMO.

    • MilkyJMoose@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      If you’re 10 months in to building a B2B SaaS and you’re getting outside help for infra then you’re almost certainly overengineering for the scale you’re at.

      Monolith on Heroku/Encore etc is your friend.

      • OutrageousAnt5590@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You still need to set up back ups, high availability and fault tolerance even if you plan to run it all on one server.

      • OutrageousAnt5590@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        You still need to set up back ups, high availability and fault tolerance even if you plan to run it all on one server.

      • brazentongue@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Considering nobody said anything about scale…you literally don’t know what you’re talking about.

        In our case, this is a FinTech B2B SaaS (our customers are mostly banks), i.e. highly regulated and ALL of our customers expect a high degree of security. We have to fill out extensive questionnaire’s asking about IT security before they’ll even consider us. So, I hired a professional to design and implement a secure, private network (i.e. nothing exposed to the internet, configure a firewall, set up VPN, etc). So, no not over-engineered if it’s a requirement for the industry. Not all startups are simple B2C apps that you can throw up on lowcode and crank out a working MVP in 10 days…