Should I start a personal brand

[leotheperegrine]

I'm currently developping a SaaS. I'm making it completely by myself (I don't have enough money to hire freelancers since I'm in high school and I don't have a job).

I think I will be able to finish my product by the end of this year.

I have been thinking about how I can market the product, and have a few strategies in mind (mostly through organic growth and not ads).

One that comes to mind is to develop a personal brand. If I start doing this now, I think it could be a good long-term decision. Although, by the end of the year, I wouldn't have too many people following me who would want to use my SaaS, it would be beneficial for products and services I would want to sell in a year, 2 years, or even 5 year's time, for example.

Should I invest some time into building a personal brand, or should I keep spending 100 percent of my time on building my Saas?

 

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[Sirrom]

I would build your saas first and start building a personal brand when you have time and cash to spare. Focus on the product and revenue first.

 

[StrikingViper69]

Get your SaaS finished and work on marketing that. Once it's succesful, if you cba, develop a personal brand.

 

[Andy Black]

Start talking online while building your product? Peers and/or potential customers may start following, depending on how you do it.

 

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[srodrigo]

Start talking online while building your product? Peers and/or potential customers may start following, depending on how you do it.

This. There are so many so-called "indie hackers" (hate the name, but whatever) on Twitter building in public, a.k.a. sharing their progress. Some started with just a couple hundred followers, and now they've got thousands, all by building in public. I wish I had done this myself earlier.

 

[BigRomeDawg]

Start now, build in public.

 

[luyang]

This. There are so many so-called "indie hackers" (hate the name, but whatever) on Twitter building in public, a.k.a. sharing their progress. Some started with just a couple hundred followers, and now they've got thousands, all by building in public. I wish I had done this myself earlier.

你的建议也帮到了我，非常感谢，我开发app已经有两个月，但是最近在学习新技术用来开发某项功能，然后一边兼职工作一边学习，我想我可以早点公开建造自己的社交账号公开进度。非常感谢你的提醒

Your suggestion also helped me, thank you very much, I have been developing the app for two months, but recently I was learning new technology to develop a certain feature, and then learning while working part-time, I think I can make my social account public progress earlier. Thank you very much for the reminder

 

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[Andy Black]

I prefer "help in public" to "build in public", but whatever works for you. Just start.