5 Signs You're Ready to Build Your SaaS (And 3 Signs You're Not)

5 Signs You're Ready to Build Your SaaS (And 3 Signs You're Not) Spending $10,000 building the wrong thing is worse than spending nothing. Before you hire anyone or write a line of code, read this. Every week I talk to founders who want to build a SaaS. Some of them are genuinely ready. Some of them will waste a lot of money if they start today. After 7+ years of building and shipping products, I've developed a pretty good sense for which is which. Here are the signals I look for. ✅ 5 Signs You're Ready 1. You've talked to at least 10 potential users — and they were specific about their pain Not "do you think this is a good idea?" conversations. Real conversations where you asked: What's your current process? What's broken about it? How much time does it waste? What have you tried to fix it? If you've had those conversations and you keep hearing the same pain described the same way, you have something real. If you've only talked to friends who said "yeah, sounds cool" — that's not vali