Build 56 micro SaaS, Earn $14,400/m, with SIMPLE Tech Stack

Here is a brief summary of the key points from the transcript: - The speaker, Denis Babish, has transitioned from frequently changing tech stacks to optimizing development with React, Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and other tools to build MVPs quickly. This allows him to deliver projects faster and cheaper. - He is using a "CDO approach" - repackaging software development into new offerings like a subscription CTO service or a micro startup boilerplate to stay competitive as client budgets have declined. - Key decisions are optimizing code for fast delivery of common features, reducing scope to MVPs, and persuading clients this approach is beneficial. - Important points are reacting to changes in the market, modularizing development into reusable components, and focusing on speed of delivery over customization. - The speaker has used this approach to double profits, reduce costs, and launch his own "microstartups" in just a few hours per week. He advocates others adopt this methodology to remain competitive.

I've earned $14,440 over the last month and shipped 56 micro projects over the last year using the same tech stack. This approach has helped me double my profit, reduce software development time and expenditures, increase my clients chances of success by three times, reduce the cost of testing ideas from fifty k to two k and start launching my own micro startups while spending just a few hours perennial week. For those who do not know me, I'm Denis Babish. I'm ukrainian. I'm the director of a software development agency and the owner of a few micro startups. I've been in this field for more than ten years now. Before we start, I want to say that I will give you a perspective not from a developer, but from an entrepreneur and your potential client. Let's begin. Ten years ago, like many developers, I loved switching tech stacks. Wow angular came out then react whats new for mobile react native is cool and now lets switch everything to flutter because its popular and now theres vue js. Maybe we should move all our projects to it. My team and I were jumping from one language and framework to another. Microservices, monolith, graphQl, Docker, kubernetes, load balancer, etcetera. We followed market trends. Yes, we gained a lot of experience. Let me explain the main point. Over the last three years, the commercial market has changed significantly. It used to be easy to find clients with their $200,000 budget for development and you can use any frameworks and technologies and learn at the clients expense. But now the market has changed dramatically. People who want their startup used to be able to spend from one hundred k to two hundred k, but now their budgets has dropped to so you need to change something to satisfy the market. Thats why I started this YouTube channel to get more requests from potential clients. Over the past year I received 379 requests, 10% of which turned into contracts. But as I mentioned earlier, the market went down and clients from YouTube also couldn't spend large budget on development. So I had to change the development concept and sales logic. I had to use the so called CDO approach to sales. I hope you've seen the movie the big short. There is a scene where they explain what a CDO is using the example of repackaging stale fish in restaurant into a soup, making it a new fresh dish. I'll leave a link to that wonderful moment in the description to sell software development services you need to repackage them and start selling them differently. My friend for example, packaged his software development services as CTO as a service with a subscription. While I decided to continue helping people quickly launch startups and started selling a micro startup boilerplate for $2,400, this included all the necessary blocks and modules for a quick start. The truth is, to stay competitive in the market, you need to do three things, optimization, reduction, persuasion. First, you need to optimize all your development and speed it up. How you need to create ready made blocks and modules that clients need identify the most common requests from clients, meaning which features they want and how to deliver these working features with limited functionality. In other words, we optimize the code we deliver to our clients. After that, we reduce functionality to ensure delivery takes the minimum amount of time, for example, deployment to AWS or Vercel. The choice is obvious here. Remember we're talking about an MVP and then there is a persuasion and sales methodology because if you can convince the client that they need to build an MVP instead of a full product for their own benefit, you won't be able to deliver and stay competitive in the market. Additionally, this helped my clients spend no more than $2,000 on creating and testing their startups. Whereas before they had to spend fifty k and wait six months, now they can roll out an MVP in couple of weeks, test it and scale it, or create a new micro startup for one k because the code is already ready. By the way, this optimization also helped me launch my own Microsa startups quickly, spending just a few hours on delivery and launch. So lets break down what we choose, which tech stack crystallized and why. By the way, if you want to learn more about launching microstartups like this video and subscribe to the channel, its just two clicks for you, but it brings me a ton of joy and motivation to share more insights with you. If you want to code something quickly, then react is the way to go. The main advantage is the vast number of ready made UI components as well as modules like calendars, phone inputs, validation blocks, etcetera. It's worth mentioning state managers like Redux and Zustend which help you create simple applications quickly. So for quickly creating micro apps, the best framework my team and I use is next J's. The biggest advantage is the ability to create a full stack app in one place, thanks to API roles and the ability to work with a database that won't get to the client side. Also, this can be a drawback as it makes control more difficult. Another big bonus of next J's. It's super easy and super simple deployment to virtual. However, deploying next J's on anything else AWS heroku Google Cloud is almost impossible because Vercel monopolist and they make their framework hugely dependent on their ecosystem. I think over time there will be some Vercel only features. Along with next JS we use Shedsien UI, next house and other cool tools to speed up development. Additionally, a huge bonus is the large pool of developers who can continue your project if something happens to your developer plus the low entry barrier. This optimization alone helped me reduce cost by 50%. This applies to basic micro apps, but if you outgrown the basics then vue js and nuxt are what we use when we have quickly validated a client's idea and they need to scale the project quickly. By the way, if you want to debate or suggest your solution, join my Telegram group and my twitter right now where I post tons of tech insights and do live chats with my community. With the backend, things are not so simple. Ether my team and I had to choose between Python node, JS and typeScript. We started coding the backend for micro apps in typeScript. Why? Because it keeps you within the same tech stack, JavaScript TypeScript, which makes it easier for any developer to create tiny apps. TypeScript allow us to do a super fast delivery for our clients and I can see the happiness in their eyes. By the way, I should add that typescript is not a replacement for Python. Typescript is not even a language. Yes, you can throw stones at me. It's just an attempt to add, typing and fix the childish problems of JavaScript. Did it succeed? No, but the hype was, is and will be there. There are no specific services. This means you can write integrations with whatever you want, however you want. However, if you plan to work with AI and not just a simple OpenAI wrapper, but on medium and large projects, which by the way are quite common now then, after validating the idea, you need to switch to Python. In conclusion, for small projects, use typescript. For something bigger, use Python databases. MongoDB just doesn't scale even through were promised it does. Nowadays every database can do what MongoDB does, store unstructured data. So we choose postgresql plus supabase. Supabase is a really cool comprehensive solution that offers a three like file storage and lambda functions. Now theyve added vector storage. Hello custom AI. A huge bonus is that its open source and can be self hosted and you only pay for the hardware deployment. Currently I use two options. The first is versatile for my clients where I need to show quick results or for my side projects. It's fast and convenient, but it's very expensive if you have more than three users. However, if I expect high traffic, I use Hetzner plus coolify. Yes, you will have to set everything up once and learn how to do it, but it's part of the experience that will always come in handy. And the price of €5 for two cpu's, four gb ram and 40 gb SSD is the best on the market right now. By the way, one of my microsite projects that I launched in two days is design fast two many people start asking me how I created such cool animations, so I decided to share it with them. Figma slides, animations and 3d objects in the background that you can see see on the screen. You can purchase them the link in the video description I also frequently use services like recent for sending emails for payments. I almost always use stripe. Even if a client has a local provider or stripe doesnt support their country, its always easier for them to create a company in a stripe supported country than to use custom solutions. Why? Because stripe is not perfect but its fast. As I mentioned earlier, the key task is to ship fast. Clients often want an admin zone or dashboard and for that I use strapi CMS. Its very easy to deploy and gives the client access to the necessary functions. Of course when we talk about site projects or microsize its very important to measure the results of our work. For this I use Mixpanel and post hog. These services allow you to monitor how many users visit your site and what they do there. This way you can remove or add blocks that will be useful to your users. By the way, we are currently working on many AI projects. I'm not just talking about the usual OpenAI but about AI called phone calls, long chain knowledge bases for companies, employee training and so on. For all this we need a fasten wrapper and in 99% cases I use my microsass fast boilerplate. Clients need basic functions such as payments, subscriptions, stripe integrations, email notifications, landing pages and bin dashboards, SEO friendly blocks and fast deployment. With microsass fast boilerplate I can deploy the minimum infrastructure in a couple of hours, making the client happy and allowing us to focus on developing their required AI solutions. The biggest bonus is the trust that builds between you and the client which allows you to take the necessary time to create the AI or any other idea. The client needs. The link to the boilerplate in the video description using various boilerplates over the last year my team and I created 56 different micro startups using different tech stacks. But the most important factor was doubling our profit by changing our approach to delivery. To stay competitive in the market, you need to change yourself, change your delivery approaches and create something new. Start creating your micro SaaS today so that in a year you will have several launch site projects bringing you passive income on autopilot. The market needs your ideas and I do believe in you and you can succeed. It's just a number of tries and the Microsaz fast boilerprate is allowing you to ship code fast without busting the budget. Just start today. See ya. You our.