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7 Mistakes Every Developer Makes When Building Their First SaaS (And How I Fixed Them)

Shayan on July 10, 2025

I've shipped a bunch of half-finished projects over the years. Most never saw the light of day. But I've also built two SaaS products that people ...
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Jonas Scholz • Edited

GraphQL (for 3 API endpoints)

But what if my app suddenly scales to hundreds of endpoints and 500 developers?!??!?!

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Shayan

ah shit, you're right.

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Roger Oriaglez

A very insightful post thanks, really thanks you

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Shayan

Sure thing

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J J

There's some good advice here. Thanks.

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Parag Nandy Roy

This hit way too close to home...in the best way

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Ali Farhat

This is sow insightful 🙌

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Parag Nandy Roy

Oof, this hit home 😅

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Rafael Nacle • Edited

This ia a great post man, keep going! I finally can give the unicorn emote to someone

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Shayan

Haha thank you :)

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Nathan Tarbert

This is extremely impressive, honestly. I feel like you summed up every pain point I hit when I started out

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Shayan

Thank you! I'm glad to hear.

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Dotallio

This is so real - setting up feedback loops early changed everything for me, too. Curious, what was the hardest piece of negative feedback you had to act on?

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Louis Dussarps

Really interesting — I noticed that userJot offers a generous free tier, which is great for onboarding.
That said, your point #4 emphasizes the importance of focusing on paying users early.
I'm curious how you balance both?

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Abhiwan Technology

Yeah it is right, nowadays most of the India based top metaverse real estate development company has introduced various new techniques also in their development project while delivering real estate software to various clients.

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Marc Lawingco

As someone who overcomplicates stuff. I feel attacked on point 7! Great stuff man. Enjoyed the content of this article.