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They made it look way easier in the Zuckerberg movie (alien.top)
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When I got into SAAS, I thought it went like this:

  • Build a project you have in your head
  • Profit

No one told me about validation, marketing, and sales! And I only figured it out 6 months after coding up my first project, finding 0 users. Why is it so hard to understand the importance of these concepts for programmers? It's like we insist on only learning them after we fail.

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[–] ysl17@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This should be the top comment in this thread.

Most of the SaaS founders that I've interviewed attributed their success to priortizing their marketing over building.

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Build it (and marketing the sh*t out of it), and then they will come

[–] cupojoe4me@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

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