userbase VS saasform

I haven't used https://userbase.com/ but a friend of mine has had good experiences

Ooofff there are plenty. Especially being a backend engineer. Two examples come to my mind right now. tinybird.co and userbase.com. Mostly what they are is a service to abstract away the complexities of a platform (say GCloud or AWS).

vercel.com

Cloudflare Pages is free + their serverless offering is decent free limits

Firebase

https://userbase.com/ - great free tier

Daniel has got his SaaS as well (Userbase), but part of the reason why he's invited is that I believe he can share his knowledge on:

I filled my own need with https://howsyourblank.com.

I have a minor, but chronic medical condition I am trying to get in check, and I just wanted something incredibly simple to identify good and bad days. I was inspired by "year in pixels" calendars.

And I took the opportunity to try out Userbase[0] and build something with a secure backend and no tracking, considering the potentially sensitive nature of it.

No plans for monetization at the moment. I could see adding more features such as tracking multiple data points, stats, correlations, notes, etc., and creating a premium version. I would need more users and feedback.

[0]https://userbase.com

Likewise, we offer a 15% discount for payments made with Monero at https://userbase.com :)

If you’re wanting something super simple check out UserBase https://userbase.com . You haven’t given a lot of requirements here so there’s not much to go on.

Saasform: https://github.com/saasform/saasform

I had to prioritize another project (solokeys).

I still really believe both: 1) in an open source alternative to auth0, 2) in combining auth+payments for saas.

However, because they’re two problems, it’s probably best to focus on just one. For me trying to launch Saasform the issue has been to find and onboard customers quickly and at scale.

I also purchased Landkit, but eventually found it very heavy. I then essentially remade it on top of Fresh [1]. Code is here if anyone needs it [2].

[1] https://github.com/cssninjaStudio/fresh

[2] https://github.com/saasform/saasform/tree/main/data/themes/f...

If it's a web saas, we're building Saasform [1] with your use case in mind.

One relevant example is launching your MVP as a serverless API (e.g. on Firebase) + react/vue front end. Just iterate on your core product and features, we handle home page, registration and payments.

For mobile apps I'd recommend Expo [2] and, if you can, stay with their managed flow. If you want to iterate fast, you need to take into account the time to release to the stores and Expo can help with that. Similarly as for the web, I'd look into a serverless API model to start.

For email notifications I'd go with Sendgrid.

I personally never used no-code solutions but different people recommended Bubbles [3].

[1] https://saasform.dev

[2] https://expo.io

[3] https://www.bubbles.io

Starter kit to "transform your project into a SaaS", with auth+payments.

https://github.com/saasform/saasform

Saasform: shameless plug, this is my project, modern (at lease I hope), written in typescript

We are also doing something like that lol. It's a crowded field I see. Of course any cross contamination of PR is more than welcome :-)

I made this exercise to guide myself throught the process of starting from a list of features, summarizing benefits, prioritize them, sparkle some keywords and finally output a marketing page.

Working to make a marketing/public site for a micro-saas I was building, I realized there's plenty of articles about the structure of the landing page, sticky header, include quotes, etc. but there's little on how to actually write the content. I worked w/ different marketing professionals in the past and, though everyone has their own style/processes, the tldr is "talk about benefits, not features".

If you're making a marketing page, I hope you can find it useful too!

Please lmk if 1) the exercise makes sense to you, 2) the format is clear/unclear - what can be improved, 3) should I maybe write an accompanying blog post? other ideas?

For context, I expect to launch a number of micro-saas in the next months, so I wanted to build a repeatable process. I then plan to run all these sites out of config files like this [1].

[1] https://github.com/saasform/saasform/blob/main/data/config/w...