How To Build a SaaS Product

Learn everything you need to build and launch a production-ready SaaS app from scratch.

Course Curriculum

1. Introduction: What You're Going To Learn
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: Does Tech Stack Matter?
3. Discussion 2: Why Use Javascript?
4. Discussion 3: Which Database Should You Use?
5. Discussion 4: Which Javascript Framework Should You Use?
6. Discussion 5: Which Server Framework Should You Use?
7. Discussion 6: What Are Development Environments?
8. Practical 1: Installing Server Packages
9. Practical 2: Creating server.js
10. Practical 3: Config & Environment Variables
11. Practical 4: Setting Up The Client App
12. Practical 5: Committing To Github
13. Recap: What You Have Learned
14. Quiz
1. Introduction: What You're Going To Learn
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: Why Start With Data Modelling?
3. Discussion 2: Data Modelling Tools
4. Discussion 3: Database Normalisation
5. Discussion 4: Foreign Keys & Cascades
6. Practical 1: Data Modelling
7. Practical 2: Writing The Migrations
8. Recap: What You Have Learned
9. Quiz
1. Introduction: What You're Going To Learn
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: What Is Model-View-Controller?
3. Discussion 2: Should You Use an ORM or Query Builder?
4. Discussion 3: Atomy Of a Model
5. Practical 1: Creating The Knex Model
6. Practical 2: Creating The Account Model
7. Practical 3: Creating The User Model
8. Practical 4: Creating the Photo Model
9. Discussion 4: Atomy Of a Controller
10. Practical 5: Creating The Account Controller
11. Practical 6: Creating The User Controller
12. Practical 7: Creating The Photo Controller
13. Recap: What You Have Learned & Homework
14. Homework Answer
15. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Note: Bugs & Errors
3. Discussion 1: What Is an API?
4. Discussion 2: What Is a REST API?
5. Discussion 3: How Does a REST API Work?
6. Practical 1: Building Our REST API
7. Practical 2: Throttling Our API
8. Practical 3: Bug Fixes & Improvements
9. Recap: What You Have Learned & Homework
10. Homework Answer
11. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: How Authentication Works
3. Discussion 2: What Is a JWT?
4. Discussion 3: User Roles & Permissions
5. Practical 1: Sign In Flow & Protecting Routes
6. Practical 2: Sign Up & Sign Out
7. Discussion 4: How API Keys Work
8. Practical 3: Creating API Keys
9. Recap: What You Learned & Homework
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: Why Send Email Notifications?
3. Practical 1: Building The Mail Model
4. Practical 2: Custom Notification Settings
5. Recap & Homework
6. Homework Solution
7. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: How Does Client Authentication Work?
3. Discussion 2: Local Storage or Cookies?
4. Practical 1: Setting Up The Client
5. Discussion 3: Additional Client Auth Considerations
6. Practical 2: Signing In & Private Routes
7. Practical 3: Checking The Auth Status
8. Practical 4: Reset Password Flow
9. Practical 5: Update Password Flow
10. Bug Fixes
11. Recap: What You Have Learned & Homework
12. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: Layout
3. Discussion 2: Colour
4. Discussion 3: Typography
5. Discussion 4: Iconography
6. Recap & Homework
7. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: Understanding Organisations & Users
3. Practical 1: Building The User Admin UI
4. Practical 2: The User Invite Flow
5. Practical 3: The User Sign Up Flow
6. Practical 4: Multi-Account Logic
7. Practical 5: Switching Accounts
8. Practical 6: Editing Users
9. Practical 7: Closing Accounts
10. Recap & Homework
11. Homework Solution
12. Bug Fixes Part 1
13. Bug Fixes Part 2
14. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: How SaaS Billing Works
3. Discussion 2: Secure Customer Authentication
4. Discussion 3: How Free Trials Work
5. Practical 1: Setting Up Stripe
6. Practical 2: Adding Subscription Plans
7. Practical 3: Subscription Auth Checks
8. Practical 4: Switching Plans
9. Practical 5: Upgrade Flow
10. Practical 6: Updating Credit Cards
11. Practical 7: Subscription Webhook
12. Bug Fixes
13. Recap & Homework
14. Homework Solution
15. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: What We're Going To Build
3. Practical 1: Building The Profile Page
4. Practical 2: Uploading & Storing Photos
5. Practical 3: Fetching Photos
6. Practical 4: Photo Actions
7. Practical 5: The Photo Detail Page
8. Practical 6: User Avatars
9. Recap & Homework
10. Homework Solution
11. Bug Fixes & Improvements
12. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Practical 1: Building The Dashboard
3. Practical 2: The API Keys UI
4. Practical 3: The Help View
5. Recap & Homework
6. Homework Solution
7. Bug Fixes
8. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: Why You Should Test
3. Discussion 2: Types Of Tests
4. Practical 1: Code Cleanup
5. Practical 2: Writing Unit Tests
6. Practical 3: Writing Integration Tests
7. Practical 4: UI Testing
8. Bug Fixes
9. Recap & Homework
10. Homework Solution
11. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion 1: Security Recap
3. Discussion 2: XSS Attacks
4. Practical 1: Keeping Packages Up To Date
5. Practical 2: Content Security Policy
6. Practical 3: CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
7. Discussion 3: Database Security
8. Recap & Homework
9. Homework Solution
10. Quiz
1. Introduction
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Discussion: Where To Host Your App?
3. Practical: Deploying to Heroku
4. Recap & Homework
1. Introduction
2. Discussion 1: Additional SaaS Features
3. Launching Your App & Getting Users
4. Recap
5. Feedback Survey

About This Course

$795.00
172 lessons
25.5 hours of video content

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Instructor

Kyle Gawley

Founder

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Hi, I’m Kyle – I build SaaS products for a living. My current venture is a SaaS boilerplate called Gravity, which has helped 375+ founders save over 180,000 hours. Previously, I launched 10 SaaS products; most failed but one reached $5m of sales. I was also a guest lecturer at Ulster University in Belfast, teaching software development and UI/UX design. I’ve been programming for twenty years (since I was 10!) and work remotely from locations all around the world.