The fastest way to blow a SaaS MVP's budget is building infrastructure that's already a solved, commoditized problem. The fastest way to build something nobody else has is spending that same budget on your actual product logic instead.
Buy these, almost always
- Authentication and user management
- Payment processing and subscription billing
- Transactional email
- Analytics and error tracking
Mature providers exist for all four, they're cheaper than building and maintaining your own version, and none of them are what your customers are actually paying for.
Build this — it's the actual product
Whatever specific logic, workflow or data processing is the reason someone pays for your product instead of a spreadsheet or a competitor. That's where engineering time should concentrate.
How we scope this
Every SaaS engagement starts by mapping which pieces are infrastructure (buy) and which are the actual product (build) — see our services, or validate the core logic first with a scoped Starter Sprint before committing to a full build.