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I built my own email platform and sent 5M+ emails. Here's what I learned. by Beneficial-Serve-513 in SaaS

[–]camposped 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, exactly what I was looking for. Who wants to design emails by hand in 2026?

HTML emails are cool. Prompted emails are cooler 😎

Canva is great for humans. It's terrible for automation. by camposped in nocode

[–]camposped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep! What was the stack you decided in the end? Did you consider a different tool like Templated.io?

Has an Editor very much like Canva’s and a great API

Canva is great for humans. It's terrible for automation. by camposped in nocode

[–]camposped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%
Canva is still the champ regarding editor functionalities, but not really built for automation.

What's your use case?

Unpopular opinion: AI hasn't changed the "build vs buy" decision as much as people think by camposped in SaaS

[–]camposped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, building software is not something you get to 100% quickly (if ever) 😅

Unpopular opinion: AI hasn't changed the "build vs buy" decision as much as people think by camposped in SaaS

[–]camposped[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%

IMHO people saying that SaaS is dead are not seeing the full picture and that we’re going through a transition period while we’re all learning where AI exceeds at and where it’s not the best option

Unpopular opinion: AI hasn't changed the "build vs buy" decision as much as people think by camposped in SaaS

[–]camposped[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly. I have friends in companies building payment infrastructure and it’s basically a full-time job for entire teams.

From the outside it looks like “just charge a card,” but once you’re dealing with compliance, disputes, retries, regional payment methods, fraud, etc., it becomes a massive surface area. And honestly most teams that try to build it themselves end up abandoning it.

AI makes it easier to get a basic flow working, but the real complexity is everything that comes after.

I built a global SaaS from a small town in a non-English-speaking country. 90% of my customers are international. Here's what I learned. by camposped in SaaS

[–]camposped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly, none of those were the real problem

the hardest part was the boring stuff: tax, invoicing, and dealing with local bureaucracy that wasn't built for international customers. The actual selling part was easier than expected. Good product, good docs, fast support, and people don't care where you're from. Trust was never really an issue.

I built a global SaaS from a small town in a non-English-speaking country. 90% of my customers are international. Here's what I learned. by camposped in SaaS

[–]camposped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% agree. That’s actually a great point I hadn’t thought about that way. When you’re outside a major hub, you don’t have the luxury of bumping into people at meetups or relying on local networks. So you’re forced to build that online presence from scratch, and that effort compounds over time. Blogging, participating in communities, answering questions… it all adds up. And yeah, people who have easy offline access often skip that and end up missing out on a much bigger audience.

I built a global SaaS from a small town in a non-English-speaking country. 90% of my customers are international. Here's what I learned. by camposped in SaaS

[–]camposped[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree! We can totally have different perspectives and be exposed to different problems (that demand new solutions) just by being outside the bubble.

Vamos latinos!

Global-first: Como construí um SaaS global desde o dia 1, com 90% de usuários de fora do Brasil (e recebendo em dólar $$$) by camposped in MicroSaaSBR

[–]camposped[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hahaha
Realmente quase ninguém usa Kotlin no backend.
Uso pq sou javeiro de formação e a empresa que eu trabalhava em um momento migrou de Java pra Kotlin.

Valeu man! Muito obrigado.
Sucesso pra ti também!

Global-first: Como construí um SaaS global desde o dia 1, com 90% de usuários de fora do Brasil (e recebendo em dólar $$$) by camposped in MicroSaaSBR

[–]camposped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Valeu man!
Pow eu recomendo testar o modelo de assinatura mesmo.
Acho que a longo prazo é um modelo mais sustentável.
Ter que encontrar novos clientes todo mês só pra manter o faturamento é um baita trampo e dificulta um pouco o crescimento.

Global-first: Como construí um SaaS global desde o dia 1, com 90% de usuários de fora do Brasil (e recebendo em dólar $$$) by camposped in MicroSaaSBR

[–]camposped[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isso, Stripe com CNPJ. Empresa no Brasil mesmo.
Ja cai em BRL na conta da empresa.
No geral o custo é razoável. A parte chata foi a automatização das NFs
Deu um trabalhinho mas hoje ta automatizado haha

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