I built a Micro SAAS using ShipFast from Marc Lou... (ShipFast Review)

if you haven't been living under a rock you've probably heard about micras where you build out a tiny piece of software with just one feature and ship it as fast as possible in order to validate it and make some money with it so how easy is this and can someone with limited coding background make money with it well let's find out the strategy of the ship fast Community is rather simple build out a software that solves just one problem ship it as fast as humanly possible even if that means right rather poor code and see if there is demand for it in the market if there isn't repeat the process until you find something that works I am someone with a lot of ideas and perfectly able to write poor code so I think this is a match made in heaven okay one of the largest influences in the ship fast Community is Mark Lou a solopreneur that had great success selling his boilerplate ship fast in the last few months ship fast is a Cod template that enables you to speed up the process of building your side as a lot of the basics like user authentification payment processing and basic SEO are already taken care of selling such a template during the micras hype is basically like selling shovels during a gold rush you sell a dream and the tools to possibly make it happen but how good is ship fast actually and is it worth the money a few weeks ago I bought ship fast to build out my own little piece of software I've been following Mark for a while and wanted to try the things that he's preaching and as someone coming from a business background I could use all the help I get so fully embracing the entrepreneurial spirit I started a new Venture the first thing I noticed is that the documentation is good enough for someone that has never used the terminal on his PC before I have some experience with building websites but this was the first time that I actually wrote code in an actual programming language setting the project up I opted for the app router in JavaScript and used mongodb for my database Mark's documentation leads you through all the steps you need to take in order to get everything up and running so setting up a project is actually really fast just as promised of course being able to receive payments and authenticate uses isn't actually enough to make money you need a product to ship this part was a little bit more difficult for me and obviously the ship fast template doesn't help you with programming the actual features that turn your idea into reality so I asked jet GPT for help however he had his problems with the new app router in JavaScript maybe GitHub co-pilot works better and actually helps you write code specifically for your project after some long days however I managed to get all the processes done and my project running now I have to admit that I cheated a little building the processes for some backend stuff I just used make.com this allowed me to build out automations with tools that would have have been a lot harder to integrate into my software especially with my knowledge however I don't think that this is a huge problem and I think it actually aligns with the ship fast mentality of shipping as fast as possible and not investing a lot of time into coding a project that might actually flop it is all about speed and making the product as easy to build as possible so in order to for example set up a new customer and integrate other tools into my software I just send this information to a web hook in make and process the data over there this way I am more flexible in the processes I can build out the workflows visually and debugging is also a lot easier so I actually think that I will stick to this method for my next project as well having the technical stuff ready I now needed a landing page to present all of it to potential customers what is great about ship fast is that it actually helps you create this landing page for your product as well there is ready to use template with tips and tricks on SEO and copyrighting as well as a Blog for your website this is amazing as it was fairly easy to set up and is very useful for marketing deploying the project and making it public was the next big challenge here I would have loved some better documentation as I have never done this before if you're a developer you're probably laughing at me right now but it is how it is besides that ship fast was actually very helpful for me without it I would probably still sit on my computer and try to figure out how to get stripe up and running so having a framework to start with makes your life a lot easier now to the economics of this project buying ship fast sent me back just €122 as I bought it at a discounted price on appsumo sorry Mark right now I have one paying customer on a yearly plan that pays me 192 per year taking into consideration the cost of the domain I made about €65 in profit so far hopefully there are a few more customers to come I created the product as an add-on for an already existing software and currently I'm talking to their team to get listed on their Marketplace as this is still ongoing I don't want to disclose too many details about the project right now however I will probably do a follow-up video on this one in the future where I get into the details so subscribe and follow my journey now should you buy ship fast as well for me using a baller plate was integral as I could use the already existing features and analyze the structure of the code to build out my own featur I think even if you are a more experienced developer you can still benefit from the reduced setup time however all of this is true for any boiler plate so you don't have to buy ship fast specifically you can use any other boiler plate with similar features or build out your own and use that in the future in the end it's just a time saer and if you somewhat value your time then it's economical to use a boiler plate like ship fast from Mark Loop especially considering that you can re use the boilerplate for future projects let me know what you think in the comments now here's a video on Mark L's genius marketing strategy so go ahead and watch this next

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Length: 6min 10sec (370 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 04 2024