No one here, including myself, will probably make a living from a saas.

Spoiler:>!The saas world / social media /youtubers etc are all a lie. I feel like it is exactly as when you are a kid and want to become a football player and it seems like a plausible dream. Spoiler: it is not.!<

I’ve been building and shipping like crazy. I’ve launched around 10 different products, feedback dashboards, website analytics, commit quality analyzers, a promotional video engine, etc.. I realized that:

  1. If I can build a niche tool in a few days, so can 10,000 other solo devs. Even niching down, the market is incredibly over saturated with competitors that do exactly what your saas does and they have experience doing it.
  2. 90% of the indie SaaS products launching right now are just basic AI wrappers. Users are figuring out they can just go directly to ChatGPT and get the exact same result without paying a middleman. And if you want to create a really valuable product you cant just vibe code it, you need real engineering and technical knowledge to know what to do. You cant just say "build me a figma like website, fix me that front end error, bla bla"
  3. Everyone says sell B2B, that's where the money is. True, but B2B is insanely difficult. The space is crowded with already established competitors, and as a solo dev, I don't have the resources to build the massive, trustworthy, enterprise grade tools that companies actually want to buy.

I know how to build and I know how to ship, but I feel like I'm playing a rigged game. I want to build entirely online, so grinding local businesses isn't an option.

I think I might just get a 9-5 lol

Author: WinterMiserable5994