What I learned running a SaaS for a year
This time last year, I showed the internet a little prototype uptime checker I built using Next.js as the frontend, with services running on AWS Lambda. I gave myself one week to put it together. I wrote a few articles about how the business was going throughout the year: The gist of my approach is as follows: I started with a single Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it.
