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🧱 Why I Stopped Building Side Projects and Started Shipping $99 Micro-SaaS Tools

🔥 I built a simple course to help devs launch a Micro-SaaS in 10 days. It’s $1 for the first 50 people, then $99 forever: snappytuts-launch-a-micro-saas-in-10-days.pages.dev


“You build cool stuff, but... what does it do?”

That’s what a friend said to me after I showed them my 5th side project in 3 months.

It stung.

I was deep in the build cycle:

  • Coding new things every weekend 🧪
  • Rewriting the same auth/login flow 🔐
  • Getting excited… then quietly abandoning them 🧊

Until one day, I flipped it.


I Treated My Next Project Like a Business — Not a Portfolio Piece

Here’s what changed:

  • I picked a tiny real-world problem (not a toy app)
  • Used a repeatable 10-day build system
  • Launched with Stripe, emails, and pricing
  • Built in public and got real users

🎉 That project made its first $99 within 48 hours.

I was hooked.

That’s how the Micro-SaaS mindset clicked for me — and I built a course to help others do the same.


🚨 Most Devs Don’t Have a Coding Problem. They Have a Shipping Problem.

Here’s what I see again and again:

The Old Way The Micro-SaaS Way
“Let me learn X first” “Let me solve something fast”
100% code, 0% copywriting 70% product, 30% promotion
Wait for users Pre-sell or test demand first
Try to go viral Go narrow & useful
Build 5 unfinished ideas Ship 1 and monetize it

It’s not about quitting your job. It’s about finally finishing something — and getting paid for your skill.


🔧 What I Use to Ship Every Micro-SaaS in 2025

After testing a bunch of stacks, I keep coming back to this:

  • Frontend: Next.js (with App Router)
  • Backend: Supabase (auth, DB, APIs)
  • Styling: Tailwind (no debate)
  • Auth: Supabase built-in
  • Payments: Stripe + Stripe Checkout
  • Deployment: Vercel (or Railway for backend)

This stack is:

  • 🧠 Simple enough for solo devs
  • 🚀 Fast enough to launch in a weekend
  • 🔁 Reusable for multiple products

You don’t need a huge framework. You need a system.


🧪 So I Built a System — And Turned It Into a $1 Course

It’s called Launch a Micro-SaaS in 10 Days, and it’s designed to help you go from:

❌ “Stuck in side project purgatory”
✅ “Launched with real users + Stripe set up”

📘 Here’s What’s Inside:

  • A 10-day build system (with checklists)
  • A complete starter tech stack you can reuse
  • Plug-and-play templates: emails, pricing page, waitlist, onboarding
  • My exact launch strategy to go from 0 → first customer

💰 Price:

  • First 50 people: $1
  • After that: $99 for lifetime access

🎯 👉 Grab it here


🧠 One Micro-SaaS > 10 Unfinished Projects

What would happen if you committed to launching one product in 10 days?

Not perfect. Not viral. Just done, useful, and real.

You’d learn more in those 10 days than in 3 months of tutorials.

That’s the shift. That’s the new habit.

So stop building in a vacuum. Start solving and shipping.

🚀 Get the $1 course here (limited to 50 people)


🤔 Questions?

Drop a comment below — I’m happy to answer:

  • Stack questions
  • Pricing tips
  • Launch ideas
  • Anything Micro-SaaS-related

Let’s help more devs ship like entrepreneurs, not just coders. 💼👨‍💻


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What a joke.

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