Day 1 of hiring a dev to build me a SaaS
- It's not day 1 actually, but day 1 of me documenting.
So why pay a dev instead of building myself or vibecoding?
Easy - I don't know the first thing about development I don't want to learn, troubleshoot and bugfix.
I'm from a marketing background. I have ideas that solve my own problems. Some of them I want to build and take to market.
So instead of spending time learning and vibecoding, I'm expanding capital into someone who does 100% of it.
I decided that I want to run a business. That means efficiently using time and capital.
I'm building a tool that tracks and analyses meta ads libraries and notifies you when competitors launch ads, stop ads, launch new landing pages, try new angles and delivers all data through email so you don't have to log in anywhere and click any buttons besides the setup.
It's 95% done and I'm already using it daily and loving it.
I'll use reddit ads to take it to market, because it's easy to target people who run ads on the platform.
I still need to figure out pricing as the API costs are not low and will cut into margin.
I'll break down the total costs of development after we launch :)