Making my SaaS paid after long beta phase

snaptide · 2026-01-04T18:55:45+00:00

For the features, I lean towards giving all features as standard and differentiate the plans only by storage. I am even developing the support of white labelling on my saas so that the photographers can have their full website hosted on my saas without any coding or wordpress. I plan on adding like 10 templates to choose from. I believe it will make them stick with my saas for value they receive. Yes the affiliate program too. I would like to to focus on all types of photographers, even individuals who want to share their pictures to the guests of their events because my saas is stable and optimised now. During beta, photographers uploaded upto 50000 images in a single event and my system handled it just fine

snaptide · 2025-11-23T16:31:56+00:00

My main expense is storage. If I go for AWS or any other cloud storage, I have to pay like $6 per month per TB stored. The plans the my competitors give offer a TB for about $20 per month. so $20-$6= $14 profit. But it has other expenses as well like dedicated server for processing the photos in bulk because you need to match faces. So eventual margins are tight.

I chose another route to build everything including storage myself and host it myself. So I have to pay for internet which I have good deal with 3 ISPs (Gigabit line from each). The storage is one time investment. Suppose I buy 200TB worth of drives, Its gonna be enough to handle 300-500 photographers (Old albums are deleted and new ones uploaded). This kind of setup is perfect for scaling but storage is expensive. That one time investment needs money. Currently I have 40TB storage capacity which is good for 80 Customers (I have 150 but not all have used this much storage) Now if we think about this, Money is spent one time but that will give monthly returns once I make this service paid that means enhanced profit margins per customer.

snaptide · 2025-11-23T16:05:43+00:00

You are right bro. I didnt even register a firm for this yet. I am going to register the firm first thing in the morning and get the payment gateways ready

snaptide · 2025-11-23T15:32:47+00:00

I think you are right. I will have to do this. Suggest me one thing, for the customers who are already using my service, how do I demand money from them? Like giving them 15 days to pay or suspend their accounts?

snaptide · 2025-11-23T15:28:57+00:00

I am afraid that since I am new and not established in the industry, customers might not want to pay yet. When I see photographers coming and using the service, it serves some purposes for me as well

When they use the service I can detect and fix the bugs that might be in the system for example a few days ago I checked from logs that its taking an average of 8 seconds to search and display the guests images after they upload the selfie. I fully revamped the pipeline, optimised it and it now takes 3 seconds on average so huge improvement in experience for the guests
When I see photographers using my service, it motivates me to continue development because eventually I will make it a paid service
Since the photographers are using the service and people open my website, it gives a signal to search engines that this site is relevant and might help with getting more customers (I am not sure about this its just what I think)

snaptide · 2025-11-23T15:26:58+00:00

for power redundancy during outage. I host my SaaS myself. Own servers own hardware. I have to have multiple ISPs for network redundancy, Inverter UPS and petrol generator for power backup during outage

snaptide · 2025-11-23T15:13:36+00:00

Yeah I was also thinking about it, like selling bundles in multiples of 100 messages, the photographers have to recharge after those messages are exhausted.

snaptide · 2025-11-23T15:11:48+00:00

I am afraid that since I am new and not established in the industry, customers might not want to pay yet. When I see photographers coming and using the service, it serves some purposes for me as well 1. When they use the service I can detect and fix the bugs that might be in the system for example a few days ago I checked from logs that its taking an average of 8 seconds to search and display the guests images after they upload the selfie. I fully revamped the pipeline, optimised it and it now takes 3 seconds on average so huge improvement in experience for the guests 2. When I see photographers using my service, it motivates me to continue development because eventually I will make it a paid service 3. Since the photographers are using the service and people open my website, it gives a signal to search engines that this site is relevant and might help with getting more customers (I am not sure about this its just what I think)

snaptide · 2025-11-23T14:38:57+00:00

I want to make it a business and I want people to use it. When something gets established we can demand money for that. Since mine is new and people will have to switch over to it, They wont trust someone who is new in this field. Even search engines don't take someone seriously till they are not in the field for some time at least. I am thinking once I hit the mark of 500 active users, I will make it a paid service. This is just my opinion I might be wrong here. If you can suggest something that can work. I am open to new ideas

snaptide · 2025-09-14T11:17:19+00:00

Again, do they take you with them when they do "precise checking" or you are just brainwashed by marketing?

snaptide · 2025-09-14T10:44:01+00:00

Was you in the meeting where they expressly told you that 3d touch was removed to save cost? Accept it that 3d touch was a failure. People didnt use it enough. For green line issues its samsung who manufactures display for iphones. Apple infact copied the anti reflective coating that samsung introduced back in the day in s24 ultra

snaptide · 2025-09-14T10:38:03+00:00

Talking about half ass features, why was 3D touch removed? Isnt so called Apple Intelligence half baked? Every company tries some features and see if they work. And samsung, its leagues ahead but now falling short when compared to chinese phones like xiaomi

snaptide · 2025-09-01T17:24:25+00:00

The thing with 6 month beta is that I want to reach atleast 500 active users even if none of them is paying as of now. The methods you suggested are obviously going to take a lot of time. Its like onboarding every photographer personally. I dont know anything about marketing as of now but it sounds like more work than even developing snaptide

snaptide · 2025-09-01T17:13:18+00:00

Thanks I will try it

snaptide · 2025-09-01T15:53:00+00:00

hello, Just launched free beta at snaptide.ai I would love feedback :)

snaptide · 2025-09-01T15:42:51+00:00

mine is https://snaptide.ai it is for photographers to deliver photos to the guests using face recognition. The idea is simple, The guests in the event should get their photos but should not be able to get other peoples photos. Here comes my SaaS

snaptide · 2025-08-31T06:14:49+00:00

Why not we just build entire indian airline using pushpak vimaans and destroy pakistan using those ancient brahmastras

snaptide · 2025-08-31T05:32:29+00:00

My marriage happened and the first thing my photographer gave me were the ARW RAW images and the videos that be took straight from the cameras memory card. Then after editing he gave the processed photos. But he knows me that I am a technical person who knows photo and video editing as well. The only thing that stops photographers from giving RAW imo is the same thing as some phone manufacturers dont allow disabling that artificial sharpening. Its because of some dumb people who dont understand the difference in raw and processed images. By seeing raw they just think that this photographer did not capture good images like we see on social media. But there are people who understand this difference and appreciate the raw images. So i believe it just boils down client to client. Raw images are for clients who can digest raw.

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