From 0 to 400+ Customers: SaaS Growth Hacks from a Serial Founder
Meet Ricardo - he has successfully launched multiple SaaS products, turning his ideas into revenue-generating apps. If you're looking to build and launch your own product efficiently, we're about to share some of Ricardo's key strategies. He's a developer with a background in telecom engineering, having held leadership roles at companies like Vodafone and Glovo. But after years of putting fires out in management, he returned to hands-on development, focusing on building apps that solve real problems—fast. By leveraging Open SaaS, Ricardo was able to ship multiple projects quickly, skipping the usual headaches of setting up authentication, payments, and other things every SaaS needs. In this post, you'll discover what types of SaaS products he launched and the strategies he used to get them off the ground. Why Ricardo Chose Open SaaS When searching for frameworks to kickstart his projects, Ricardo stumbled upon Open SaaS, a 100% free, open-source starter for React & Node.js. and. He was drawn to Open SaaS because of its simplicity, community, and modern tech stack. He also liked the fact that the company had Y Combinator seal of approval. "The fact that Wasp is low-friction and uses a great stack like Prisma, React, Node.js, and TypeScript—made it stand out. Plus, the community is super helpful. You can get started fast without spending hours on setup." What Ricardo loves most: Pre-built Features: Open SaaS relies on Wasp - a full stack framework for React, Node.js and Prisma. The way Wasp handles routes and authentication was a game-changer. "Just putting routes in main.wasp makes everything super simple. Auth works seamlessly, too." Focus on Building: By handling repetitive setup tasks like setting up payment integrations or making admin dashboards, Open SaaS allowed Ricardo to focus on core features. Adaptability: regardless of the idea he had - a full-fledged SaaS, or a Google add-on which needed a robust-backend and a dashboard, he was able to build the app with Open SaaS boilerplate starter. "I didn't feel limited by the boilerplate—it's flexible and gets out of the way." Ricardo's Projects Built with Wasp Ricardo started a few projects with Wasp, while working on the third one he started before discovering Open SaaS. Article Generator Built in less than 7 days. 40+ paying customers. This tool simplifies content creation for businesses by generating SEO-friendly blog posts with AI. Article Generator is competing in a crowded market of AI writing tools, where each tool claims that it's the best one on the market. Ricardo is using Open SaaS to focus on feature development while testing pricing strategies to differentiate the product from the rest of the market. Integrations with Stripe, Open AI, and similar helped him move faster than he could on his own. His first clients came from Reddit and he has a standard subscription monetization set up. Finding this article interesting? Wasp team is working hard to create content like this, not to mention building a modern, open-source React/NodeJS framework. The easiest way to show your support is just to star Wasp repo!
Meet Ricardo - he has successfully launched multiple SaaS products, turning his ideas into revenue-generating apps. If you're looking to build and launch your own product efficiently, we're about to share some of Ricardo's key strategies.
He's a developer with a background in telecom engineering, having held leadership roles at companies like Vodafone and Glovo. But after years of putting fires out in management, he returned to hands-on development, focusing on building apps that solve real problems—fast.
By leveraging Open SaaS, Ricardo was able to ship multiple projects quickly, skipping the usual headaches of setting up authentication, payments, and other things every SaaS needs. In this post, you'll discover what types of SaaS products he launched and the strategies he used to get them off the ground.
Why Ricardo Chose Open SaaS
When searching for frameworks to kickstart his projects, Ricardo stumbled upon Open SaaS, a 100% free, open-source starter for React & Node.js. and. He was drawn to Open SaaS because of its simplicity, community, and modern tech stack. He also liked the fact that the company had Y Combinator seal of approval.
"The fact that Wasp is low-friction and uses a great stack like Prisma, React, Node.js, and TypeScript—made it stand out. Plus, the community is super helpful. You can get started fast without spending hours on setup."
What Ricardo loves most:
- Pre-built Features: Open SaaS relies on Wasp - a full stack framework for React, Node.js and Prisma. The way Wasp handles routes and authentication was a game-changer.
"Just putting routes in
main.waspmakes everything super simple. Auth works seamlessly, too."
- Focus on Building: By handling repetitive setup tasks like setting up payment integrations or making admin dashboards, Open SaaS allowed Ricardo to focus on core features.
- Adaptability: regardless of the idea he had - a full-fledged SaaS, or a Google add-on which needed a robust-backend and a dashboard, he was able to build the app with Open SaaS boilerplate starter.
"I didn't feel limited by the boilerplate—it's flexible and gets out of the way."
Ricardo's Projects Built with Wasp
Ricardo started a few projects with Wasp, while working on the third one he started before discovering Open SaaS.
Article Generator
- Built in less than 7 days.
- 40+ paying customers.
This tool simplifies content creation for businesses by generating SEO-friendly blog posts with AI. Article Generator is competing in a crowded market of AI writing tools, where each tool claims that it's the best one on the market.
Ricardo is using Open SaaS to focus on feature development while testing pricing strategies to differentiate the product from the rest of the market. Integrations with Stripe, Open AI, and similar helped him move faster than he could on his own. His first clients came from Reddit and he has a standard subscription monetization set up.
Finding this article interesting?
Wasp team is working hard to create content like this, not to mention building a modern, open-source React/NodeJS framework.
The easiest way to show your support is just to star Wasp repo!
