[verelo]

I really appreciate reading this, i lay in bed this morning feeling all the doubts the author is experiencing. I’ve spent about 3 months on a new product, i spent all day yesterday trying to figure out how to sell it effectively. I met with sales reps i worked with in the past, wrote really thoughtful messages to prospects…No one has bitten yet.

I’ve been here before, this is certainly not my first startup, but man it hurts still. I feel like I’m missing something, despite all my efforts, I’m just not there yet and i need to step back and try figure out the missing pieces before i burn too much time.

It’ll be ok, but until it is ok, it’s exhausting.

[brtkdotse]

> I’ve spent about 3 months on a new product, i spent all day yesterday trying to figure out how to sell it effectively.

If it's one thing I've learned from following bootstrappers and trying to start my own SaaS - it's that you should spend 3 months selling and 1 day building.

[SuoDuanDao]

what are you working on if you don't mind me asking?

[verelo]

It's a tool (focused on the Toronto market only for now) that provides detailed reports on the history of a building / area for realtors and/or buyers (and i guess maybe renters or self sellers).

Trying to bring together a lot of open data sources such a building permit history for the property in question and the neighbours, nearby proposed development activity, schools, hospital, police, fire service locations, lead pipe replacement status, legality of any on premise parking etc. Essentially all the "due diligence" related items that come up when you're trying to transact and typically take a fair while to get to the bottom of. A report takes about 1 minute to pull, planning to have the service be a yearly subscription for the customer of around $300/year

[pards]

This sounds similar to what Core Logic [0] provides to realtors in Australia. The majority of realtors use it, and I'm sure they pay a lot more than $300/year

[0] https://www.corelogic.com.au

[verelo]

Interesting. Some of this data isn’t easy to access for me in Canada but yep, they’re in a similar space.

Funny because I’m from Australia, but never transacted property over there.

[SuoDuanDao]

Interesting. Not sure you're looking for well-meaning suggestions from uninformed strangers, but have you thought about narrowing down even more to the tax-sale market? Tax sales can be profitable but hard to access because there's often a minefield of liens, cleanup costs, etc. in the kind of data you're compiling.

[moneywoes]

What market or niche? Is this a SaaS?

[verelo]

Real estate and yep SaaS, although I kind of want to offer a pay per use model along side it. Just feels complicated to do both, i'm personally a little exhausted by the number of subscriptions in my life.