That moment when you realize building the product is the EASIEST part of a SaaS
Was anyone else naive enough to think the actual challenge was the code?
You can spend months working to bring an idea to life technically, but that is literally just the starting line.
Code is logical, the market isn't: If something breaks in the backend, I check the logs and fix it. If a marketing campaign flops, there's no stack trace telling you why nobody clicked.
The "build it and they will come" myth: You can have the cleanest, most scalable code in the world, but if you don't know how to distribute it, you just have a pretty GitHub repo, not a business.
Sales > Features: You waste weeks building the perfect dark mode before even having your first paying customer.
Nowadays, you have to flip the routine: spend 20% of your time coding and 80% doing marketing. Even though we'd all much rather be doing the former.
Any other developers going through this existential crisis while transitioning from dev to building their own product? Please tell me I'm not the only one struggling with sales.
Getting someone to actually enter their credit card details is the real final boss.