I'm working on building several SaaS and micro SaaS as we close out 2024 and head into 2025. These are the tools I'm choosing to ship fast and have a great developer experience.
Frameworks
I picked up Remix in 2024 and instantly loved how easy it was to get to work. It makes it super easy to load in data and use server actions. If you've primarily been a frontend dev and want to get more into full-stack JS, this is a great way to do it.
I used Kent Dodds Epic Stack which gives you a solid starting point to just start shipping. You get some nice things out of the box like Prisma, sqlite, tailwindcss, TypeScript, better route structure, and more.
If you haven't tried out any SSR react solutions I recommend giving a Remix a try.
Landing Pages
I rolled my own landing page for traderstats.app and after months of development I kinda regret that decision. Tools like Framer get you up and running so so quickly with a beautiful page that is easy to update. I'd rather use tools like this that help you get pretty sites shipped quickly, validate the product idea, then get to work actually building the app. Its too easy to waste hours or days polishing the pixels and massaging the css when you really should be working on the actual product.
SEO
Learning about how to rank in Google and get organic traffic to my sites is something I didn't know much about until this year. While I was figuring out how to get customers to my pages I found this article "How to get customers with programmatic SEO" by Marc Lou. That started me down a massive SEO rabbit hole that has been very fruitful.
I picked up Danny Postma's new SEO course and it was incredible. He takes you on an over the shoulder video tour of how he does demand driven development. I learned how to do keyword research, check on competitors, find out what they are ranking (or not ranking for) and to identify opportunities. I highly recommend it. My link here is an affiliate link, but if you don't want to use it still buy the course.
At Danny's recommendation I started to use Ahrefs for my SEO tool of choice. My initial impressions have been that its very feature rich and the Starter plan includes enough of what you need to get started before needing to upgrade to a bigger plan.
If you want some good free SEO content the Ahref's Beginner SEO Course on YouTube is a great place to start.
Creative tools
I'm continuing to use Adobe's Creative Cloud. Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro are tools that I already know my way around so I'm keeping those close. I know that many people love how quick and easy it is to get something done with tools like Canva or Figma. I think whatever you are comfortable with and enables you to move fast you should keep using.
What I'm building
Right now I'm focused on building tools for traders. Competition is fierce but existing solutions are expensive. As a trader myself I feel the need for more affordable tools that help traders improve their trading and make more money.
traderstats.app: The ai trading tool with all you need to track, review, and improve your trading.
payoutcalc.com: Free tools and calculators for traders to figure out profits, earning potential, risk of ruin, risk management, and more. (WIP)
Tell me about you!
What are you working on as 2024 is wrapping up? What are you building in 2025? If you have any tool suggestions or recommendations I'd love to hear them.
Thats a wrap!
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Top comments (2)
Thank you for sharing! Curious, will you switch to react-router-7 when is released? Or keep with remix 2
I think whatever the migration path is I'll follow! The plans for the remix name haven't been revealed and remix really is just a layer on top of router. I hope they announce more soon.