Comment by jameshart | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jameshart | Hacker News Reader

Something I wish SaaS and platform vendors took a little more care over though is being aware of the difference between thinking of usecases ‘developer-first’ and ‘DevRel-first’

> ... testing our demo is just one single standard command (docker-compose up), that integrating it is a matter of minutes (less than 30 lines of code, ready to be copied from our examples)...

Great, your sample scenario, neatly sandboxes with all its dependencies and only its dependencies can be brought up in a single line of live-coding to wow the crowd.

But how do I integrate it into my existing codebase? How does it interact with my integration tests? Having got it running on my machine, how do I get it working in production?

Are you actually focused on making it easy for developers to use in the context they’ll actually have to use it, or focused on making it look easy to use in a cherry-picked simplistic scenario?

That's a set of great points. Thanks for suggesting :-).

We are getting started, so we have a limited bandwidth. However, we are thinking to developers and to how they will have to integrate. So fare we tried to keep that as simple as possible given the limited time we have. We created a couple of sample examples with two popular stacks and we are adding others in the next days (basically it's the most basic project you can create with such framework with the integration; the idea is that if you are familiar with the framework it should be easy how to integrate (plus the integration code is well commented and isolated, take a look https://github.com/saasform/saasform/blob/main/src/demo-expr...).

For the moment we kept the code as simple as possible, even if we know there is room for improvement. Also, we are almost always online on the discord server and we have weekly office hours in EU and US timezones)

Of course we don't yet have a stable solution for every thing, butwhat I wanted to highlight is that developer-first is one of our leading principles, even if it slows down a little the release pace.

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