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…

Well, some invoices are included in the email as an attachment, but some are not…just get an email stating that an invoice is ready. Then you actually have to log in and download the invoice. Just get

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.

Expecting to raise 3-5 million for a seed round feels awfully high. As do some of the salary figures offered here. 150k salary pre-revenue?? Maybe I’m just out of touch but that sounds crazy high.

I am CTO at a pre-revenue startup. Fintech SaaS. We bootstrapped with $100k so I haven’t taken a penny for 6+ months. We have MVP built. Now hoping to raise $1 million to scale. I expect I’ll draw something like $60-$75k per year until we’re profitable. And I have kids. Was making ~$200k as a salaried tech employee before this.