🧠 Brainstorming Shopify for SaaS with Travis Fischer

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2021-05-25 14:00:13

I recently wondered: Shopify does all the heavy lifting and lets me open an e-commerce store in minutes. Gumroad does the same for digital products. What's the equivalent for SaaS products?

After I tweeted the question, Twitter did its magic and Travis Fischer replied: "Happy to chat about my experience building Saasify (Shopify for SaaS)".

Saasify never really took off, but this isn't necessarily bad news. It just means that the opportunity is still up for grabs and Travis is happy to share everything he learned along the way.

When you want to sell a digital product, say, an ebook, you can focus solely on the product and marketing since platforms like Gumroad handle all the rest. You don't have to worry about payments infrastructure, taxes, or how you can reach your customers if you want to send them updates. It all works right out of the box and takes less than 5 minutes to set up.

The same is true for physical products. Of course you have to find a way to source the products and market them, but Shopify handles everything else.