I am starting a new section on Rails Designer, aptly called Build a SaaS with Ruby on Rails.
This year, next to launching the first UI components library for Rails, I published many articles every month that helped thousands of developers and teams with their UI, HTML, (Tailwind) CSS and JavaScript.
That early peak was from the orange site—where an article was shared.
But something you might not know is that I have been running (successful) SaaS companies for over 10 years! I have also mentored multiple solo-founders and helped a few dozen other small SaaS teams (which is something I enjoy doing!).
This 10+ years of building and mentoring comes with lots of experience and I want to share that with you 🤗. Articles that focus on writing clean, beautiful and extendable Ruby code. Practical tips on what to build next and maybe skip for later (or never built at all!). Ideas to build your product in a lean fashion and balancing when to outsource something to a gem, low-/no-code solution or third-party service. All with the solo/small team spirit in mind (so ideas for marketing will be there too).
With my new SaaS around the corner, I have more likely too many ideas to write about in the coming months.
The first article is just published and explores my way to extend Rails 8’s authentication generator with a Signup class. A quick search gave examples that just created a user; useful, but when building a SaaS that is not enough, you want a class that handles creating a workspace, sends a welcome email and so on.
Check out Add Sign Up to Rails 8’ Authentication. The XML feed can be found here.
I have already a long list with ideas I want to write about, but feel free to reach out with suggestions or things you are curious about.