Just shipped my first software product and wanted to share some honest lessons for anyone working on their first SaaS. What I built: Wabio — AI that generates professional GitHub READMEs in 10 seconds. Simple product, real problem. Honest lessons: 1. The product is the easy part The actual feature (AI generation) took 20% of my time. Auth, payments, security, rate limiting, legal pages, DNS — that's the other 80%. 2. Stripe will break your heart Webhooks failed 3 times before I found the bug. Always test with Stripe CLI locally first. 3. Security is not optional Even a small SaaS needs: rate limiting, XSS protection, SSRF prevention, IDOR checks. Learned this the hard way doing a full audit. 4. Launch before you're ready I kept finding "one more thing" to fix. At some point you just have to ship. 5. Your story matters Being 17 building a SaaS is a differentiator. Don't hide it — lead with it. Product: wabio.xyz (free to start) What did I miss? What do you wish you knew before your first launch?

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AI README generator for GitHub repos

AI README generator for GitHub repos