I work a full-time tech job and build SaaS on the side – the honest truth
Joshua Ajayi shares his journey of building a multi-tenant SaaS application called ZetaFlow while working a full-time tech job. He faced challenges with infrastructure and performance, leading to significant changes in his approach. Despite the difficulties, ZetaFlow is now live and offers integrated project management features.
- ▪Joshua Ajayi is a software engineer in the UK who created ZetaFlow to streamline task management and project tracking.
- ▪He faced challenges with server performance and CPU load while building the application on a budget VPS.
- ▪After switching to a more manageable infrastructure and improving audio processing, ZetaFlow is now operational with multiple features.
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I Work a Full-Time Tech Job and I Am Building SaaS Products on the Side. Here Is the Honest Truth.Joshua Ajayi5 min read·1 hour ago--ListenShareThere is a version of this story where I tell you I had a master plan, a clear vision, and everything fell into place. That would be a lie.The real version starts with frustration.I work as a software engineer in the UK. Every single day at work, I would open one tool to manage tasks, another for project tracking, switch to a different one for meetings, then another for documentation. By the time I had switched between four or five applications just to get context on what I was supposed to be doing, I had already lost twenty minutes. And this happened every day. Not just to me, it happened to everyone around me.That irritated me deeply.
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