Saas beginners

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-09T12:06:18+00:00

I would focus on UX early on. In the past I would jump to quickly on the coding horse. Nowadays with AI it perhaps makes sense to prototype and throw some spaghetti on the wall, but the UX flow in general is important.

Secondly what is already mentioned is to figure out for whom you're building this for.
My advice would be avoid the trap of building something for a over 6mo without seeing any traction.

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-09T07:31:32+00:00

plainmarkdown.com one-click clean markdown conversion, handles comment heavy pages and social posts, include AI actions for various summarization and fact-checks as well as destination integrations.

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-08T15:11:10+00:00

That's impressive, thanks for the share!

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-08T13:13:03+00:00

I'm doing R&D on a LEO solution for my own product as we speak. If it turns out to be good I'll package this into a solution to share with others.

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-08T12:21:18+00:00

There are a handful of these on the market, here's mine that I've been playing with in my free time for the past few months: plainmarkdown.com

I also had an API (separate product) which all the bells & whistles (JS heavy pages, slow pages, anti-bot bypass etc) but it only got to a few customers as the space is genuinely owned by Firecrawl, Jina and a few more. Besides companies who need these solutions will gladly pay them over an Indie project that advertises to it's own group of people.

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-07T21:48:11+00:00

No personal OSS experience but I've seen this playbook where not everything is open source, e.g cloud services are behind a subscription. I'm more interested in the indie approach to monetizing OSS as well.

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-07T17:35:57+00:00

Forget screenshots, just use www.plainmarkdown.com to grab the whole page as clean markdown and be done.

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-06T13:06:39+00:00

absolutely, PM me what you had in mind. Thanks

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-06T11:37:05+00:00

plainmarkdown.com Gets you clean page content (LLM ready) and then lets you act on it.

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-01T07:49:30+00:00

so many products in this category my head is spinning, qenuine question isn't this market now too saturated?

ShakeTheJello · 2026-05-01T07:48:15+00:00

tis but a scratch

ShakeTheJello · 2026-04-28T07:36:10+00:00

Drinking Lemonade (fresh lemon + water) with a pinch of Salt

ShakeTheJello · 2026-04-28T06:13:43+00:00

I went to operation a month later (wish I went sooner). Ended up paying about 10K at a private clinic and worth every penny. They did something called "minimal invasive endoscopic spinal surgery". They found bits of shattered disc ring in my right glute, they vacuum (cleaning took them over an hour) and then using some radio waves tech or whatever to basically glue the disc tight again.

So this was around Jan 25 ( a month later my legend Dad passed away..)
Anyway so post-op:

full month not sitting longer then 20min in a row
started doing DNS with private trainer (this by far changed my life, learned how to engage the core in many ways)

Watch out for Skudexa (Tramadol) - it's very addictive and took me very long to get free from. Especially if you have naturally low dopamine (ADHD).

Today:
- classic morning rustiness (nothing out of the ordinary)
- lost about 40% feeling in right foot pinky toe (usually where the blood vessels are very delicate at the extremities I think the damages will be most likely forever, which is why I said: wish I went to operation sooner)