<story><title>Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?</title><text>After working in RevOps and sales for VC-backed startups for a few years, I&amp;#x27;m considering creating a SaaS business that helps solve problems for a particular niche industry that interests me.&lt;p&gt;What are some resources that are useful to look at while I consider embarking on this journey?&lt;p&gt;My experience in RevOps &amp;amp; sales the last few years has been that so many influencers are trying to pitch you their guides and resources for a fee. It&amp;#x27;s made me suspicious of pretty much anyone selling their insights and made it hard to determine which are of actual value.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stanislavb</author><text>Not exactly a resource but more of an advice - learn software development. Unless you are familiar to some extent, you will always be dependent on a competent software engineer, and that will make it much harder to build a lifestyle business.&lt;p&gt;Second advice, use Ruby on Rails or Django as a web framework and don&amp;#x27;t follow after the complexities of JS and other newcomers. Phoenix (Elixir) is awesome but that will require much more efforts and expertise compared to the established and time-tested Rails and Django.&lt;p&gt;Good luck!&lt;p&gt;p.s. I&amp;#x27;m writing this as a person managing a lifestyle business (LibHunt &amp;amp; SaaSHub).&lt;p&gt;p.p.s. I&amp;#x27;d also recommend getting into the IndieHackers community for inspiration and shared experience.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?</title><text>After working in RevOps and sales for VC-backed startups for a few years, I&amp;#x27;m considering creating a SaaS business that helps solve problems for a particular niche industry that interests me.&lt;p&gt;What are some resources that are useful to look at while I consider embarking on this journey?&lt;p&gt;My experience in RevOps &amp;amp; sales the last few years has been that so many influencers are trying to pitch you their guides and resources for a fee. It&amp;#x27;s made me suspicious of pretty much anyone selling their insights and made it hard to determine which are of actual value.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitcrab</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been running a bootstrapped, lifestyle software business since 2005. I&amp;#x27;ve linked to some articles you might find relevant here (for free!):
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;successfulsoftware.net&amp;#x2F;starting-a-microisv&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;successfulsoftware.net&amp;#x2F;starting-a-microisv&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>