Finally revealing the micro SaaS I've been working on

Getting from idea to shipped in public

I’ve hinted my my last issue that I’m working on a SaaS and posted on X quite a few times, but I didn’t reveal yet what I was working on.

I was not looking for a huge idea, but I wanted a micro SaaS that I could get built and deployed quickly, and talk about it in public while I’m building it. Once I have at least one app done, I can try other ideas more easily and use it to test new technologies.

The idea came from an issue I had in a previous project. There were various text snippets in the app for things such as quick tips and announcement bars that changed frequently. The people editing them would be marketing and business people, so you can’t just have them poking in Git to edit the app and re-deploy it to production.

A headless blog is also overkill there: the only thing really needed there is to be able to organize those snippets and query them all, individually or with a list of tags. The app requesting the snippet can then style them to fit with the rest of the application.

So I’m building a tool to manage Markdown snippets with a good editor, and an API to query them in both JSON and HTML. I can then leverage this tool in my next projects if I want to include a very simple blogs or other marketing assets without coding an editor every time.

Would a tool like this be useful for you? Is there anything else you’d need to manage this kind of assets?

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