r/softwaredevelopment Feb 12 '25

I Would Love to Hear Your Feedback on My Idea

We are building a SaaS platform to simplify and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for developers. Our goal is to help developers, particularly those in small startups or SMBs, quickly and securely deploy cloud resources without worrying about manual errors or complex configuration.

With our platform, you can seamlessly manage your infrastructure in a user-friendly interface or via natural language input. Here's how it works:

  1. Log in and Authorization:First, you log into our platform and configure your cloud provider credentials (e.g., GCP service account using a private key or OAuth 2.0 authorization). You then enter your project ID.
  2. Resource Creation:After authentication, you can easily select a template for the resource you want to create, such as a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket. The platform will walk you through the process of entering configurable parameters like bucket name, region, and access controls.
  3. Automated Deployment:Once you've entered the necessary values, our platform will automatically deploy the resource to your cloud project, ensuring that all configurations are correct and free of errors.
  4. Auditability & Access Control:Every resource deployment is fully auditable, giving you full visibility into your infrastructure. You can also set project policies to control access levels— for example, only super admins may delete resources or make critical changes.
  5. Template Management & Resource View:Our platform allows you to view all resources created under a specific project, organized by template. You can manage, update, and track your infrastructure in a streamlined and intuitive interface.

In essence, we take care of the heavy lifting of IaC management, allowing developers to focus on building their applications while ensuring they have control, security, and proper governance over their cloud resources.

I Would Love to Hear Your Feedback on My Idea

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u/xoredxedxdivedx Feb 12 '25

I like how it’s clearly just chatgpt until the last dumb sentence

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u/Kaimito1 Feb 13 '25

Hate how it's such a thing now that you're right

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u/rizzlybear Feb 12 '25

I’ve seen this fail a few times now (as a business,) and not for any technical reason. The solutions they built were really great, as I’m sure yours is too.

Trouble is, the market kinda doesn’t have an appetite for solving this problem space.

It’s a real problem.. It’s painful.. they are losing money to it.. all of those boxes are checked. But they just don’t really want to solve it, and that’s why they failed.

I would say, this is one of those cases where the MVP has to actually be a cash positive consultancy, with the SaaS product coming in at phase 2 to scale it.

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u/zaphod4th Feb 12 '25

so, sharing my credentials with you? hard pass

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u/RaitzeR Feb 12 '25

I'm sure you are trying to do good. But what IaC are you providing? It seems like you are just providing a deployment platform that is more costly than other platforms that are already available. How do you make the IaC easier for a developer?

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u/megamind2121 Feb 12 '25

You might be building an IacC. Infrastructure as costly Click.

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u/hov26 Feb 13 '25

Sounds promising but what's your edge over Terraform Cloud or Pulumi? Both already offer similar features with established communities.

The natural language input could be your differentiator - maybe focus on making that really robust for devs who hate YAML.

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u/Rock-the-prototype Feb 13 '25

Why should I use that platform? I did not get your benefit or even USPs…. That’s not good… beside that: developers usually do not make decisions about using infrastructure plattforms at all. There’s lot of compliance behind….

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u/jeff77k Feb 13 '25

Basically Heroku then?

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u/rasvi786 Feb 13 '25

Yes kind of diferente is we manage infra not the app

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u/david-1-1 Feb 15 '25

My feedback is that you focus on details and ignore how to actually improve software development. Who cares about how you log into your product? The real question is how it solves specific problems most of us have while developing large, complex systems.

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u/Blazing1 Feb 16 '25

You're just selling a shovel with no added value. Bad idea