HACKER Q&A
📣 simaogdias

What do you think about growth through collaboration?


A group of friends and I have participated on a hackathon. We want to make a product out of it, and we already have the basic stuff working for individual accounts, and we're currently polishing for validation.

If it was you. Would you invest time in the beginning to build collaboration and team features? It feels like a great opportunity to grow, etc

Also, would you build it yourself, or would you take any shortcuts using a framework to manage access, invites etc.?

thoughts? thanks

  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
Skip team features until a customer (or somebody ready to pay) is asking for it. In our B2B SaaS we have Fortune 100 companies as customers and even they are so far fine with individual accounts. We implemented two-factor-auth after customer requests but it's shocking how few of our users actually switch it on, definitely not relevant to grow or get more sales.

I can't answer it for B2C, that growth might work different.

Start with a framework that includes authentication. It will save weeks of work. https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates

Good luck for your MVP/launch.

👤 groffee
Get it actually working first.

So many people here (especially on the 'show HNs') just release literal crud (no pun intended)

If you want to make a product, then build it, polish it, TEST IT, get it working, then sell it.