Launching My SaaS App - UK Software Engineer (ep. 12)
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In this video I walk through my week as a software engineer, SAAS founder and design agency owner (quite a lot I know). I also walk through the launched version of my SaaS app interlu, which is open to feedback!
If you have any feedback while looking at the product, I'd love to hear it in the comments below. Previous comments have made significant impacts on the product.
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Hey everyone, I don’t think I explained clearly what the product is or why it exists so let me do that here.
Interlu, is built mainly for Paralegals, Accountants & R&D Tax Credit agents who spend 30%-50% of their working life on companies house (www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house) trying to find specific information about UK companies, it’s a hard software to navigate and usually they have to make mental jumps with the basic data presented. Interlu makes doing this easy and will make those mental jumps for the user (is the main idea for the MVP).
I hope this makes sense 🙌
Hi Jacob, thanks for documenting this. How are you getting the company data from companies house to Interlu?
@@johnhurley2562 Hi John, they have an API, you need to create an account to get access!
Congrats on the launch! I spent a lot of time on Companies House when I was in my first job in Sales so would have definitely checked this out if it was available back then. Now I'm a FE dev so appreciate the UI you've built! Hope you find product-market fit
Thanks Chris, interesting to hear you'd have been interested in Interlu back when you were working in sales (nice to hear you become a FE dev 🔥). At the moment I'm targeting accountants I wonder if I should start to target more sales people too? Food for thought.
Congrats Jacob! The website looks super clean and neat!
Thank you 🔥 Time to get some users 🙌
Preciate the tech stach. Great product man can’t wait to give some feedback
Can't wait!
As always. I’m excited for you Jacob!
Thanks so much!! Should be interesting next week, first paying user inbound!
Great video! Launching my own SaaS next week using the same stack. Very jealous of your frontend design, it looks very clean!
Thanks Luke! It's nothing that special I used Joy from material UI, very useful for building MVPs!
@@JacobSargentTech Using material UI too. My expertise lies with data handling, so not creative at all in terms of layout! 😂
Well done Jacob, look forward to hearing more about your success! 🌟
Thank you 🙏 Looking forward to sharing it with you 👊
Nice job! Congrats man!
Thank you 🙏
This is pretty cool. I need to play around with vercel. If you decided to move to AWS it would be like this:
FE( Route53 > CloudFront (ACM/WAF) > S3/AppRunner ) > BE ( Route53 > API Gateway > Lambda ) > DB ( dyanmodb )
Notes for when I do, thank you 👊
Congratulations
Thank you 🙏
Been following the interlu journey for a while, cool to see it launch. I'd love to hear some insights about the number of demo calls / closed customers you get from using that Book Demo button once some users start coming in, perhaps in a months time or so? Keep it up Jacob!
Thanks for your comment, of course I’ll keep you updated in my next video 🙌
Hi... why is there so much Green color when blue/indigo color is used in the logo. The primary color is not used enough and blue is actually a more subtle and reusable color. Anyway great product though... the tech stack is so simple .. I like it ... validate before overengineering
Thanks for your comment and I think you're right about the colour usage - to be honest I hadn't thought about it too much as I just wanted to get the product launched.
Once I get a few more paying users and actual active users I will start to think about improving the design!
love the video, love the product, keep it up. great stuff :)
Thank you! Will do!
Hope you remember me from the good ol Colyton days.. loving the videos as similar line of work. Great work and if you want any advice or a chat in hosting in the cloud give me a shout 😁
Hey Sam, I sure do! Would be nice to catch up either way soon. 🙌
Very inspiring watching this as a newbie inspiring developer, best of luck!
From a Video Editor/Marketing specialist point of view if you happen to not get the desired traction, I would suggest working on the homepage message. It's clean and good looking design wise but it can be more clear on what interlu offers.
Maybe people who have a use for it will get it right away like accountants that you mentioned, maybe not. Details you might add in the homepage would be the information that it offers and how it makes easier the job of accountants or whoever it is going to use. Just 2-3 key features that make it unique from any other alternative.
Thanks for your kind comment and advise on the changes to the landing page, I think you're right. Will probably make some changes to the landing page before making another marketing push this coming week.
hey, something's wrong with the channel link, when i click on the channel to try to open it on a new page, it goes to another youtube channel! maybe just a bug but idk
Yeah I’ve contacted TH-cam support for help - I hope they sort it soon 👊
Great product idea
Glad you think so - need to get some paying users now 🔥
Excelente produto jacob, Os meus parabens
Thank you 🙌
Hey congrats on that, loved the project journey.
1 question though, what are you using for pricing?
Also can you tell how many users do you have currently.
And what is the market demand for this application.
Thanks for your kind words and comment. The pricing can be found on website: www.interlu.io/ 👊
Looks great!
Thanks!
The screen shot confuses me because I think I can use it until I can’t 😢. Maybe have the landing page describe more what the product does and how it’s worth using to get people to book demos
Very good feedback, thank you! I have updated the site so it describes the product more - check it out and let me know what you think :)
@@JacobSargentTechoh wow thats exactly what I was thinking it would look like in my head and now the changes are there live ahahah. I hope my feedback helps as I am keenly watching this product grow
Yes let's goooo 🔥
nice one man!
Appreciate it - thank you 🙌
When i click on your channel it redirects me to another channel, this has happened multiple times
Thanks for the heads up - I've contacted TH-cam support directly. I hope they sort it soon 👊
I'm 19 years old and I really want to be like you (software engineer). Can I be doubtful and late at my current age?...
Defo not to late, just make sure you start today, do something, if only just 20 mins / day. You can do it 📈🧑💻
Hey Jacob, nice one! Love the default to simplicity. What do you use for video editing?
I'm currently using premiere pro for my videos, been using it for years!
what does this tool actually do though? it looks like a utility to group together saved companies and quickly access the same information on those companies as is available on the Companies House website. is there any other functionality?
its a wrapper over companies house at the core crux of the application. the value prop that this product has is that it provides a more user-friendly way of interacting with companies house data. making the process less frustrating
Great question, for now that's pretty much it (saving the user time) - however the plan is to start making mental jumps for the user with the basic data provided by companies house. For example we calculate the accounting periods and display that in a digestible UI for the user. Once I speak to a few more users I'm sure there will be other mental jumps we can make to make their lives easier!
Are you planning to pitch to investors or ventures to scale up your product?
Not currently, the main aim is to get some early users and see if it actually provides value to them. If that’s true and it seems capital will improve likely hood of overall success then I’ll go for funding. But to be honest I like the concept of bootstrapping the whole thing 👌
it looks nice enough, but it doesn't look like a professional designer was involved here. I designed my own applications and thought they looked good until I saw one of them redesigned by a professional. night and day. Best of luck Jacob, sounds like you're on to a winner!
Thanks for your comment Chris, I know what you mean but to be honest I'm pretty happy with it as an MVP I know it could look a lot better! I'm trying to not let perfect be the enemy of the good. 👍
@@JacobSargentTech I'm in a very similar situation to you, launching an MVP soon. my business partner insisted the MVP needed to look great. Maybe I should have pushed back on that more as it's cost us an enormous amount of resources doing the redesign which I did not foresee 😬
I'm curious to know why you're funnel people through a presentation stage rather than just letting them try it out?
I want to speak to the users, to ensure the product is the correct fit. Get their initial feedback and go from there!
Why doesnt this have an API. Seems very valuable product for finding leads
Alternative would be scraping google search for companies' emails, telephone numbers. But if you have no API then why would someone use it. Just add rate limiting and another programmer cant steal your data without wasting thousands on proxies, assuming your dataset is actually robust
The tool is actually built around a public API provided by the UK gov! I'm going to be adding a web scraping tool soon to add company websites and phone numbers. Thanks for your comment 🙌