Build vs. buy your admin panel during YC

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Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Forest Admin (https://www.forestadmin.com) and we provide a SaaS admin panel solution.

3 months at Y Combinator is a short amount of time to build both a customer facing app as well as the admin panel that will support your business at scale. Who would prefer relying on an off-the-shelf (or low code) solution to save time?

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I can't speak for YC companies, but I can say that the Enterprise software crowd falls 100% on "buy" for such questions.

Buy vs. build is often presented as a significant dilemma, but most places come up with the same answer - you build software when it is directly related to your unique value prop in the market, and you buy everything else.

Is it a saas or on-prem solution? I'd be interested in a tool like this, but infosec is going to have some concerns about data security and privacy.

It's actually both. If you want to wrap your head around it, you can read this article (https://bit.ly/ForestAdmin-architecture).

SaaS frontend + on-prem backend (open-source)

Data transits through the on-prem backend hosted on your servers to your end-user browser, while remaining invisible to our Forest Admin servers.

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