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by kiliancgn 3993 days ago
Yes, I did it with significant monthly profits. I solved a problem many eBay sellers had at that time. Tips from me:

1. Try to outsource as much as possible and do not try to solve everything yourself. Upwork & Co. is your friend. There are people who are better in coding, designing etc. than you. After a while I outsourced time consuming customer first level support too. Of course you need some money to do it but you will make way more progress if you have a great team. Be VERY careful in selecting the people you work with. There are several good ones out there but a lot of not so good ones too.

2. Developing the Saas platform is not the difficult part. Winning/getting customers is. Customers won't come just because you published your site.

3. Think twice before you want to start something where you face a 2-sided-market. Building this next to your job might be very challenging.

4. Go for it! You (and others) will never know until you built it. Don't let others stop you but consider their feedback.

Good luck!

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Any tips for hiring workers on thinks like Upwork/eLance/etc without them stealing your idea?