On: What I learned running a SaaS for a year

[cinntaile]

How much do you expect to grow this year? When do you decide it's time to throw in the towel? And I don't mean anything with my last question, I'm genuinely curious about your criteria.

[rozenmd → cinntaile]

That's the beauty of my setup IMO, I don't plan on quitting full time work, so the revenue is all a bonus on top of what I learn.

That being said, I think I'm at a point where I could spin off an API from OnlineOrNot and make it similarly successful within a month or so.

[cinntaile → rozenmd]

I think you misunderstood. I was wondering when you cancel a SaaS project? What criteria do you use to decide that? Also how much would you like to grow this year or did you mean that you don't use that as a metric? Is it more about the learning aspect of it all?

Do you plan on going the API route?

[rozenmd → cinntaile]

Ah right.

I would cancel a project if it couldn't pay its own infrastructure bill after 6 months.

If I had to name a goal for the second year, it's to reach $1k MRR across everything I sell online. I still have plenty of ideas for OnlineOrNot, but there are a few APIs I built internally that I could see others paying for (that I'll be testing if people would, actually, before building).