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Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by valenterry on Sunday August 15, 2021 @08:46AM (#28188343)
If I have a SaaS (e.g. website that offers some service) then is there a good service that takes care of the technical part of user registration, payment and user support / CRM?

Even if there are services like stripe and Auth0, as a solo developer it takes considerable time to connect all these together to get the basic functionality to actually sell things and integrate it into my product.

Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by cspags on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:49PM (#28190251)
https://www.outseta.com/ is the best tool I've seen that offers everything you listed.
Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by valenterry on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:42PM (#28193602)
Wow! That's it!

It just looks like they are offering there services mostly for non-developers (low-code / no-code) and I couldn't find anything about whether they have an API that I can use from my own code to check for registered users and if they paid etc.

EDIT: nevermind, found it: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/3613332/outseta-rest-...

Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by bluedevil2k on Sunday August 15, 2021 @08:52AM (#28188387)
> as a solo developer it takes considerable time to connect all these together

Well hopefully it you’re a developer it doesn’t take that long. I just switched a SaaS to Stripe from PayPal last week and it took less than 30 minutes. These SaaS support tools/websites are increasingly easy to use, making time to market for even a solo dev pretty easy.

Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by heliodor on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:32PM (#28192258)
Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by valenterry on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:37PM (#28193573)
That all requires me to setup my own infrastructure (such as a database) which I'd like to avoid. Otherwise yeah, the list isn't bad!
Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by DanHulton on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:05AM (#28198243)
I can't speak to the others in the list, but I'm building Nodewood, and I have heard this worry from other people as well! Consequently, one of the features I'm working on is a deploy process that can target different cloud providers and set up VMs, managed databases, etc for you.

I feel your pain personally, as well, so I built and already have an Ansible script I use to deploy Nodewood.com, but it turns out that Ansible doesn't play well on Windows, so while I'm happy to make it available to customers, I can't really justify making it the default deploy method.

Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by kolaente on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:01AM (#28188443)
Stripe is incredibly good. And then there's stuff like Laravel Spark which handles all the common stuff like accounts and invoicing.
Re:The rise of the one-person unicorn by valenterry on Sunday August 15, 2021 @09:18AM (#28188556)
Sounds like I have to install/maintain stuff here myself. I wish there was a solution that doesn't require me to have any additional infrastructure...