How do you manage the development of your saas or app as a solo developer or small startup?

Question

As developers and indie hackers, we love building things. That’s what we do. However, many projects (at least my own) have fell short or not met expectations due to bad product management. Honestly, I think a lot of us don’t take this seriously until we get a lot user traction or land funding. Many just get a domain, throw up a landing page, and jump into the code.

What tools do to use and what is your process for managing your project’s feature and releases and development from ideation to release?

Bhaskar K · Accepted Answer

The two main frameworks, Lean Startup and Scrum (time-boxed), are useful to consider.

Here is my approach:

1. Document  a todo list or action list 
2. Set Internal Goals weekly or monthly and come with a developement plan
3. Evaluate the plan after each sprint 
4. Focus on best development practices like using CI Pipelines, a Test Driven Approach
5. Execute the plan(sometimes, whole plan may deviate due to other priories and requiring realignment)

For Small teams, You can consider any leading or opensource tools on the different areas

* Project Management: Trello, Asana, Jira, GitHub Projects
* Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
* CI/CD: Jenkins, Travis CI, CircleCI, GitHub Actions
* Testing: Jest, Mocha, Selenium, Cypress
* Bug Tracking: GitHub Issues, Jira, Bugzilla
* Analytics: Google Analytics, Mixpanel, Amplitude

Ruben Boonzaaijer · Answer

We used bubble to build our SaaS, so no need to code at all

How do you manage the development of your saas or app as a solo developer or small startup?

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