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How to build a SaaS with $0

How to build a SaaS with $0

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What you can do with this  

  • Build APIs . With API Gateway and AWS Lambda, you get 1M free API Gateway calls (first 12 months)
  • Scalable Databases. Dynamodb is a fast and highly scalable NoSQL offering from AWS. 
  •  User Management (Sign Up, Login with Email and SMS verification). 
  • AWS Cognito gives you all the functionality you need to allow users to sign up, login, verify their emails and phones.
  • our HTTPs website (S3 + Cloudfront/Netlify + AWS Certificate Manager). You want a static website.

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Use Netlify

Their free tier is incredibly inclusive and includes; 

  • Personal or commercial projects 
  • Public or private repositories 
  • HTTPS for custom domains 
  • Continuous Deployment 
  • Form handling 
  • Community support 
  • Identity service 
  • Split Testing 
  • Git Gateway 

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Sending Emails for Free

  • Sendgrid: AWS Cognito will handle sending all your forgotten password or verification emails. For Email Newsletters and Promotional Emails look at Sendgrid.
  • Mailchimp: Mailchimp’s Free Forever plan allows you to send 12,000 emails per month to up to 2,000 subscribers.
  • Stripe: Stripe is stupidly simple to integrate and start collecting subscriptions.

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Sales and Support for free

  • Drift: All you have to do to add one to your site is add a Javascript snippet to the pages you want it to appear on! For free! If you need more than one person handling support then you’ll need a team plan. But if you’re a solo indie maker you’re good to go!
  • Fullstory: Watch how your users interact with your site with session replay by Fullstory.
  • ChartMogul: Chartmogul is a subscriptions analytics service that generates common SaaS metrics for your business, including: Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR), MRR Movements, Annual Run Rate (ARR), Trial to Paid Conversion, Cash Flow, Churn.

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