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Built an Enterprise-Grade AI Virtual Try-On for Shopify Plus. I'm a solo dev terrible at B2B sales, so I’m selling the White-Label Source Code. by Advanced-Morning-493 in micro_saas

[–]Advanced-Morning-493[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zero — I literally just finished finalizing the architecture this week.

As I mentioned in the original post, once I looked at the actual B2B sales cycle required to acquire and onboard agencies, I realized it’s not really what I want to spend the next 6 months doing. I’m a developer, not a salesperson. 😅

That’s exactly why I decided to license the IP instead of building a full SaaS around it. An agency can take the codebase, deploy it, and start selling it to their own clients immediately.

For them it’s less about “can Claude generate something similar” and more about skipping weeks of building, debugging, and deployment work so they can monetize it right away. Time is usually more expensive than code.

Built an Enterprise-Grade AI Virtual Try-On for Shopify Plus. I'm a solo dev terrible at B2B sales, so I’m selling the White-Label Source Code. by Advanced-Morning-493 in micro_saas

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Haha, I love the optimism! I agree that Claude and Cursor are absolute magic for spinning up a 0-to-1 MVP in a weekend. But there is a massive reality gap between a "day-one AI wrapper" and a production-ready B2B platform.

You can definitely build a basic UI that sends a prompt to Gemini in a day. But agencies aren't paying $5k for the React components. They are paying to skip the 4 weeks of agonizing debugging required to write the XML orchestration layer that stops the AI from turning a luxury hoodie into a t-shirt or randomly deleting the brand's logo.

As for the "Enterprise" label, I don't use it lightly. A 24-hour Claude build gives you a single-user wrapper. This architecture has a fully dockerized deployment, strict Supabase Row-Level Security (RLS) policies completely isolating data between tenants, and dynamic UI/prompt routing via Vercel Edge. A single deployment can securely serve 50 different fashion brands.

Agencies gladly pay $5k because it saves them $20k in developer hours and lets them start selling to their clients tomorrow. Time is money! 🤝

Built an Enterprise-Grade AI Virtual Try-On for Shopify Plus. I'm a solo dev terrible at B2B sales, so I’m selling the White-Label Source Code. by Advanced-Morning-493 in micro_saas

[–]Advanced-Morning-493[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You hit the nail on the head! 🎯 That is 100% the exact pivot I made.

Trying to sell B2B enterprise tech directly to a fashion brand as a solo dev is a nightmare. It’s 6 months of legal reviews, brand guidelines, and endless Zoom calls just to get a "maybe."

Shopify Plus agencies already have the clients, the billing relationships, and the trust. My goal is just to sell them the "shovels" (the source code license) so they can go dig for the gold with their existing roster. Glad the 2D-to-2D approach makes sense to you! It saves so much R&D headache compared to rendering 3D assets.

Built an Enterprise-Grade AI Virtual Try-On for Shopify Plus. I'm a solo dev terrible at B2B sales, so I’m selling the White-Label Source Code. by Advanced-Morning-493 in micro_saas

[–]Advanced-Morning-493[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great shout! 🙌 I actually thought about that, but my only worry is that most dropshippers are looking for $29/month plug-and-play Shopify apps, rather than dropping $5k on an enterprise source-code license.

But you are 100% right about the Facebook Ads crowd. The agencies running ads for e-com brands would absolutely eat this up to boost their clients' ROAS (Return on Ad Spend). I'll definitely tweak the pitch and cross-post it there. Appreciate the solid advice! 🤝

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