HACKER Q&A
📣 saliagato

I just finished creating a project and I’m lost


I spent the last month creating a little project only to realize it could be useless to anyone because it doesn't solve any real problem. Long story short, months ago I discovered the existence of productized services, or as I like to call them “SaaP”.

I was fascinated that they offer customers an affordable alternative to traditional service agreements, where they might be paying for one on one attention and unpredictable hours. Basically, a productized service provides them with a set price and scope of work and the chance to choose what fits their budget.

So, without taking any time to think further, I thought that creating a SaaP to design pitch decks was a good idea. That’s why I developed Deckly. Problem is, I don’t know if anyone would actually use it. I don’t know if there’s a market for it. I don’t know if it’s even a good idea. I’m lost.

For context, this is my first project ever, I’m young and I don’t have any relevant work experience. But I can design and I think I’m good at creating pitch decks, perhaps that’s why I made such a sudden choice.

Do you have any suggestions? This is the landing page if anyone is interested: https://deckly.altervista.org

P.S. payments are on test mode of Stripe, so if you want to test the pipeline feel free to.


  👤 XCSme Accepted Answer ✓
Don't SaaPs usually require a monthly subscription? A pitch deck sounds like something you only need once or twice in your entire life.

👤 mtmail
Congrats. You have product, now it's time for marketing. Go everywhere founders are and tell them about your product. On Hackernews the place is https://news.ycombinator.com/show

👤 tra3
I'm not the target audience, but congrats on designing and shipping a product. It's incredibly difficult to go from an idea to something that actually works.

I have no idea if there's demand for a product like this, but you should talk about it to people who may be interested in something like that.

If nothing else it's a great portfolio piece to demonstrate what you're able to do.


👤 radiojasper
You created something that shits on "unreliable freelancers and costly agencies" only to find out you have a shit product created on a whim without any market research - and now you're lost.

> Plus, keeping up with freelancers’ rates and hourly billing is stressful! They often even try to bill useless things or waste time doing nothing to earn more money.

Stay lost.


👤 tough
Change stripe to production Market wherever you are able to Profit ???