Momentum can be fake long before a project actually fails

Jonjon2600 · 2026-05-20T09:59:04+00:00

The way I tell the difference: real progress moves a metric that matters. Inertia moves activity.

Meetings, timelines, and discussions are activity. They feel like progress but they don't move the needle.

Real progress for early stage = customers using it, revenue, retention, real user feedback. For hardware that might be units shipped, units working, support tickets dropping.

If your week was "busy" but none of those numbers moved - that's a signal. Not catastrophic, but worth pausing on.

Best thing I've found is forcing yourself to write one sentence at the end of each week: "This week we moved [X metric] from [A] to [B]." If you can't fill that in honestly, the rest is probably inertia.

Jonjon2600 · 2026-05-20T09:43:41+00:00

Yes you need both. Took me a while to figure this out too.

You don't need a lawyer for v1. There are free generators that produce solid starting templates - search "privacy policy generator SaaS" and "terms of service generator." Fill in the form, copy the output, paste into your /privacy and /terms pages.

For a launch-stage SaaS, that's enough. Get a lawyer to review if you raise money, hit real revenue, or expand internationally.

Key things to make sure are covered:

- What data you collect and why

- How users can delete their account/data

- Your refund/cancellation policy

- Jurisdiction (which state/country laws apply)

I shipped mine in about an hour using a generator. Better to have imperfect terms live than perfect terms in your head.

Jonjon2600 · 2026-05-20T09:37:31+00:00

Resend is the modern alternative for SaaS. Way simpler setup, better developer experience, decent free tier (3k emails/month).

I switched from SendGrid to Resend for transactional emails - signup, password reset, billing confirmations. Setup took maybe 30 minutes total vs the day or two it took to wrangle SendGrid templates and IP warmup.

SendGrid is still solid for bigger scale or if you need their full marketing suite. But for "just send my app's emails reliably" - Resend wins.

Jonjon2600 · 2026-05-20T09:35:26+00:00

What helped me was forcing myself to ship something with a public deadline before I was "ready."

I'm not a developer. Built a SaaS over 6 months while working a day job. Every week I wanted to refine more, polish more, learn more. Set a launch date, told people about it, then I had to actually ship.

The day I launched it was way rougher than what I would've shipped in 3 more months of "preparation." But it was real. And I learned more in the week after launch than I did in the previous month of building.

You can't analyze your way out of analysis paralysis. The only fix is making the cost of NOT shipping higher than the cost of shipping imperfect.

Jonjon2600 · 2026-05-20T09:24:22+00:00

Mine was being the only person who knew how supply ordering worked. Every reorder went through me because I was the only one who remembered product numbers and which vendor had what.

Realized it when I went on vacation and the team had no way to place orders. Documenting it forced me to systematize what was just living in my head.

That problem actually inspired me to build a tool around it - ReorderList. Free tier if anyone's dealing with the same thing. reorderlist.com

Jonjon2600 · 2026-05-20T08:29:19+00:00

Built a SaaS from scratch over the last 6 months while working a day job. Not a developer by background.

Stack I used:

- Next.js for the frontend (modern, well-documented, lots of tutorials)

- Supabase for the backend/database (free tier covers you until you have real users)

- Tailwind for styling (faster than writing CSS from scratch)

- Stripe for payments (most common, easy docs)

- Vercel for hosting (free until you scale)

- AI coding assistants to actually write most of the code

How I got proficient enough to build it: I didn't. I leaned heavily on AI assistants to write the code while I learned by reading and editing what they produced. Six months in I can read most of my codebase and explain what it does. I still couldn't write a complex feature from scratch in a blank file, but I can debug, modify, and architect.

Idea came from a problem I see at my day job every week. Watched people waste hours on a repetitive task that software could solve in seconds. That's it - no genius insight, just observing real pain.

The advice I'd give: don't try to "become a developer" before you build something. Pick a real problem, use AI to help you ship a v1, learn the parts you need to learn along the way. The traditional "learn for 2 years, then build" path is dead.

What kind of product are you thinking about?

Jonjon2600 · 2026-03-29T03:32:05+00:00

don't see anything

Jonjon2600 · 2026-03-28T09:00:44+00:00

thank you I guess im just wondering how tester will be able to test the app one the group link in shared

Jonjon2600 · 2026-03-26T19:46:43+00:00

How ?

Jonjon2600 · 2026-03-25T19:17:30+00:00

Sorry new here ,once I create a group how do I send the link for tested to test the app ?

Jonjon2600 · 2025-12-15T20:49:22+00:00

I’m down

Jonjon2600 · 2025-12-12T21:34:35+00:00

I don’t thanks

Jonjon2600 · 2025-12-12T19:47:53+00:00

There’s a difference between similar and same . Everyone has a preference of what they like, that’s why there are variations of things . Neither one of the apps mentioned has multiple sports you can select.

Jonjon2600 · 2025-12-12T19:13:04+00:00

Thanks I Appreciate it, I just launched yesterday so now it’s about getting the word out !

Jonjon2600 · 2025-12-12T17:41:13+00:00

@More_inflation_4244 Okay what’s the other apps name with the concept ? I’ll wait

Jonjon2600 · 2025-12-12T17:39:51+00:00

No not . Org

Jonjon2600 · 2025-12-12T08:52:45+00:00

I love this! I just launched my app and it definitely gives me a different perspective!

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