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Guides for micro‑SaaS makers
Guides and checklists on validation, pricing, launch, SEO and retention, newest first.
- Oct 6, 2025 9 Plug-and-Play Email Templates to Proactively Reduce SaaS Churn A practical, copy-pasteable resource for SaaS founders. Nine email templates for failed payments, expiring cards, inactive users, trial endings and cancellations.
- Oct 6, 2025 SaaS Customer Onboarding Checklist: Signup to First Value A four-phase SaaS onboarding checklist covering signup, the first session, the first week and measurement, to help new users reach their first 'Aha!' moment.
- Oct 6, 2025 A Founder's Deep Dive into SaaS Value Metrics How to choose the value metric behind your SaaS pricing: the main types of value metric, examples, and a four-step framework to align your price with customer value.
- Oct 3, 2025 A Solo Founder's Guide to Burnout and Recovery Practical, non-clinical guidance for solo founders on spotting burnout early, stepping back without losing the business, returning to work, and when to get professional help.
- Oct 3, 2025 The Solo Founder Tech Stack: Boring Tools That Let You Ship How to choose a tech stack as a solo SaaS founder: a monolithic framework you know, PostgreSQL, simple hosting, Stripe and a transactional email service, and when to add anything else.
- Sep 11, 2025 From Zero to Ten: How to Land Your First 10 Paying SaaS Customers How to get your first 10 paying SaaS customers (not users, customers): network outreach, community participation, trigger-based cold email, specific content, with message templates and a daily routine.
- Sep 11, 2025 SaaS Pricing: A Founder's Guide to Charging What You're Worth A practical guide to SaaS pricing for founders: why early products are often underpriced, choosing a value metric, pricing page patterns worth testing, and a step-by-step playbook for raising prices.
- Sep 11, 2025 The Right Tech Stack for Your Micro-SaaS: A Founder's Guide How to choose a tech stack for a micro-SaaS: why familiar, boring technology usually wins, the hidden cost of complexity, example stacks, rough hosting budgets, and a 10-question decision checklist.
- Sep 2, 2025 Churn Is a Conversation: 7 Emails to Send Before Customers Leave Seven email templates to adapt for failed payments, inactive users, cancellations and winbacks, with suggested timing and a few Laravel + Stripe notes.
- Sep 2, 2025 Customer Interviews That Don’t Suck: A Simple Script A conversational interview flow that uncovers real pain, budget, and urgency — without leading questions or awkward pitches.
- Sep 2, 2025 Fake Door Tests and Ethics: How to Validate Without Burning Trust Run demand tests the right way — be transparent, handle intent with care, and turn ‘not yet’ into future customers.
- Sep 2, 2025 SaaS Pricing Page: Wireframes, Copy, Laravel + Tailwind Plan, write and build a clear SaaS pricing page: a wireframe order, copy prompts, a Blade + Tailwind + Alpine snippet, what to measure, and a pre‑ship checklist.
- Sep 2, 2025 A No‑Drama SEO Content Calendar for Indie SaaS A lightweight weekly content routine for indie SaaS: a publishing rhythm, a one‑page brief, a sample four‑week plan, and how to avoid generic filler.
- Sep 2, 2025 Positioning Workshop for Micro‑SaaS: A 60‑Minute Exercise A 60‑minute exercise to sharpen your ICP, category, and promise — with a worked example and a one‑line positioning formula.
- Sep 2, 2025 PostgreSQL Full‑Text Search for SaaS Apps in Laravel Add ranked, indexed search to a Laravel app with PostgreSQL full‑text search: a tsvector column, a GIN index, a query scope, highlighting and common gotchas.
- Sep 2, 2025 Pricing Discovery Interviews for B2B SaaS A practical approach to uncover willingness‑to‑pay and packaging — so your price feels obvious, not arbitrary.
- Sep 2, 2025 Stripe + Laravel Subscriptions: 12 Common Gotchas and Fixes Common pitfalls when wiring Stripe subscriptions into Laravel (webhooks, trials, proration, seats, entitlements) with fixes and a pre‑launch billing checklist.
- Aug 30, 2025 B2B SaaS Go-to-Market Checklist: A Phase-by-Phase Plan A go-to-market checklist for B2B SaaS, from customer discovery and positioning to pricing, launch week, outbound, retention and expansion, with templates.
- Aug 30, 2025 SaaS Pre-Launch Checklist: 18 Steps Before You Go Live An 18-step pre-launch checklist for SaaS founders, grouped into product, marketing, legal and final-countdown phases.
- Aug 29, 2025 SaaS SEO Checklist: Technical, On-Page, Content and Links An SEO checklist for SaaS sites: technical setup, keywords by buying intent, on-page basics, comparison pages, linkable assets and monitoring.
- Aug 28, 2025 How to Validate a SaaS Idea Before You Build It A complete guide to validating a SaaS idea: problem interviews, honest landing pages, prototypes, pre-sales, concierge MVPs, no-code tools, and a weekly plan.
- Aug 25, 2025 Building in Public: A Practical Guide for SaaS Founders How to build a SaaS in public: why it works, what to share and keep private, where to post, a simple weekly routine, and the trade-offs to weigh.
- Aug 22, 2025 From 0 to 100 Users: A Practical Guide for Indie Hackers Five low-budget ways to find your first users: niche communities, personal outreach, useful content, directories and warm introductions.
- Aug 22, 2025 Choosing the Right Tech Stack for Your Micro-SaaS How solo founders and small teams can pick a productive stack: full-stack frameworks, a monolith, a mainstream database and a UI kit.