A long time ago, I was a salaried employee for LinkedIn, leading the standard corporate life, as a Machine Learning Engineer. Life was good, life sucked. You get a good salary, you play a lot of ping…

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The Startup

Learn how to create a SaaS product that generates income within 24 hours. The guide emphasizes the importance of rapid prototyping and validation of ideas. The author shares personal experiences and practical steps, including choosing a simple but valuable idea, using existing tools and templates, and leveraging AI to handle coding tasks. The post also includes tips on spinning up a frontend, building a backend, testing the product, and using initial feedback to refine the service.

Building a SaaS that makes money in under 24 hours

Build a frontend with a landing page and a pricing page

Build the basic frontend functionality: 4 hours

Build the basic backend functionality: 1 hour

A great read. Thanks for sharing. Liked the logo hack. Definitely time bounding your milestone is the way to go.

Lessons:
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<li>Launch fast and fail fast.</li>
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Feel like I’m missing something… a service that “redacts sensitive information” from PDFs by sending the PDF to a 3rd party API for processing?

Very very very cool article! I have a startup in the same niche and have more-or-less the same strategy. Funny how we came to the same conclusions. Good luck!

Why don’t you go get a job down at thunder freds great mytitology scrolls shakin that thing on a slick bolt. You’ll make plenty busta👍