I began my first saas app Progress Albums at the start of the year. It was a solution to help personal trainers improve their marketing.

From my own experience at bootcamp and seeing the amount of social shares and interest I thought it would be a good fit. I tried to do things properly - reaching out and arranging interviews and beta testers of potential users. The feedback initially was positive but never really made any traction.

Problem

Solution

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Admin

• Rails API with Devise for authentication
• MySQL on RDS
• Framework 7 for native looking web experience

Learning Outcomes

• Learning how to configure AWS for scalable hosting was the biggest gain albeit unnecessary
• New front-end framework while not my favourite API did look and feel good
• Lots of user interviews and feedback
• Mailing list

Issues

• Too long to build
• Should have asked for money upfront or similar for validation earlier