Launched and got my first customer

Hey - definitely a reasonable question!

You're absolutely right that if someone has started a SaaS (and wants to use Django) they likely wouldn't require a template. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that starting from a template isn't a good idea. Here are a few reasons that Pegasus might be a good fit for someone:

1. They value their time. For example, if your hourly rate is $50 then buying Pegasus at its current price is trading off against two hours of your time. If Pegasus saves you more than two hours getting started then it's worth it. I believe (admitting my bias here) that Pegasus likely saves days - if not weeks - of development time so is definitely worth the investment from that perspective.

2. They are learning. Another category of person I think really benefits is someone who just getting started with Django. There's lots of decisions you need to make about code structure, libraries to use, front-end setup, etc. and having a functional project with examples to draw from that is done by (again admitting bias) someone with loads of experience can really give confidence and make that process much simpler.

3. They want the front-end. In my experience the biggest drawback of most starter templates is that they don't look that good. I've spent a lot of time and energy trying to make Pegasus beautiful, responsive, and functional and starting with that UI I think can be a major accelerator for some people.

Also, this is just the launch/MVP, but my goal - if the project is successful - is to make Pegasus so darn good that it would be silly not to use it. Not sure if I'll succeed but that's my ambition.

That said - lots of people prefer to learn and do things themselves or would rather hack on something for days than have it "done for them". Pegasus isn't for those people.

Thanks James! We'll have to wait and see on the pricing. My last product's pricing started at $1 so this is definitely an improvement! :)

Thanks Michael!

Hey - sorry about the late response. I already answered this on a different comment below but to summarize - there are a bunch for other languages/frameworks (I'm aware of at least one for Laravel, two for Rails, one for Node.js, etc.) but nothing that met my needs for Django.

There's also been an IH thread on the topic here: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/is-there-a-saas-template-d1d90b8416

Thanks @matthack! Appreciate the support.

Did you create an account and poke around? Most of the examples are available to play around with once you sign up and before you buy (I think I can make that a lot clearer on the landing page and also consider removing the restriction).

My thinking was that anyone serious wouldn't mind at least signing up to look around but maybe that's not right...

Thanks! Agreed!

Thanks! I have no plans to support other web frameworks anytime soon, though I'm aware of similar products for many. For example, there's https://bullettrain.co/ for Rails by @andrewculver , Laravel Spark https://spark.laravel.com/ etc.

A big motivator for Pegasus was that nothing like it existed for Python/Django and I thought that was a travesty, since it's my favorite web framework. :)