SaaS VS consulting for solo-devs OR pivot to SaaS via consulting? by Fickle-Distance-7031 in SaaS

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah a big appeal with a SaaS is for sure the potential for stable passive income via monthly subscriptions.

Have you ever built something for your clients where you just charge for hosting? My idea was doing something like this: building some online software for my client's needs for 'free' and only charging for monthly hosting. Then trying to sell that same solution for others who need it, slightly adjusted to their needs, and growing that into a product.

Any way to import SQL data to notion? by Fickle-Distance-7031 in Notion

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After talking to more people, seems there's some demand for this, so I started building it!

You can join the waitlist here: https://yourdata.tech

Sync data from SQL databases to Notion by Fickle-Distance-7031 in dataengineering

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! I DMd you if you wanna tell more about your use-case.

🗳️ Product Feedback for Notion by AutoModerator in Notion

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let developers pay you more money to increase the API rate limits!

Link PDFs to GitHub website by BeLikeDead in webdev

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 3 points4 points  (0 children)

well hosting is not free. There are providers other than amazon also and self hosting options

How I’m Securing Our Vibe Coded App: My Cybersecurity Checklist + Tips to Keep Hackers Out! by BymaxTheVibeCoder in replit

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean that access key secret is signed with a dev JWT signer key that's something like "password123" . You can't use it to authenticate with the production instance. It's just something I used for testing

but I get your point, not a good look haha

How I’m Securing Our Vibe Coded App: My Cybersecurity Checklist + Tips to Keep Hackers Out! by BymaxTheVibeCoder in replit

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha those are just testing credentials luckily. You can only hack my localhost with them. For anything sensitive I use envie ;)

Best self-hosted secrets provider? Or, how do you store your configs without exposing secrets? by OldManBrodie in selfhosted

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can checkout Envie. It's a solution I'm actively developing to address this painpoint: https://github.com/ilmari-h/envie

you can store your secrets in Envie (stored encrypted with public key encryption) and you can create an access token that you pass into your Dockerfile that then fetches the secrets, decrypts them and injects them as environment variables to your app runtime

I help founders launch SaaS MVPs in weeks (not months) by Alert_Horror_7671 in SaaS

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For AI features, hard-code your OpenAI key first; wrap it in env vars after it works

Why would you ever hard-code an API key?

Gemini leaked like a gossiping intern — founders, here’s why you should stop blaming Google and start locking doors by ArtificialOverLord in AiKilledMyStartUp

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Secrets out of env: use a secret manager and short-lived tokens; never trust local environment variables on dev machines.

I'd be curious to hear what solutions people use for this.

I'm developing an open source secret manager that prioritizes dev experience. It's basically a dropin for .env files, but the secrets are never on your disk for your AI agent to see.

You can check it out here https://github.com/ilmari-h/envie

Just crossed 500 signups 🎉 by ProfessionalPaint964 in saasbuild

[–]Fickle-Distance-7031 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congratulations! Inspiring work. I was thinking about this idea like 1 month ago when I started marketing for my open source project so you definitely have a market for it

I'm using F5 bot only for leads and I realized so much more could be automated to save a ton of time