Posted on Oct 4 We want to create a docker hosting solution for freelancers and web development agencies.In the last episode I mentioned that, against all recommendations to validate our idea first, we dove straight into building a Prototype.Now, I want to introduce you to this prototype and give some background info about the build process.We are two passionate developers from Germany on a journey to building our own profitable SaaS startup from scratch. In this series I will share everything we learn along the way, from coming up with the idea, coding a prototype, getting our first users and scaling to infinity. We are starting from absolutely nothing but our coding skills. We will not rely on any external funding. We are Lukas Mauser and Jonas Scholz and this is Zero to Startup.We did not track total build time. We started building in April already, not full time though. The average time working on Sliplane was around 20-30 hours per week per person including all marketing activities as well. We are both still working on other projects as our day job to bring in money, but we try to gradually reduce the workload there.Getting to a usable version of our product took us approx. 2 months but we kept iterating on the product since then.One of the first things we did is buy a domain and publish a landing page with only the hero section on it. That way we were live within an hour and did not drag out our “launch”. Instead of a big launch, we did and continue to do announcements of important milestones. And between them we just keep adding new features and post a product update along with some learnings here and there.Deploy repositories from GitHub on every new commit to the repository. In the background we provision servers, setup firewalls and https, blue-green build and run the container and perform regular health checks and send email notifications if it is down.Additionally, you can connect a custom domain, manage environment variables and check application logs through our platform.Frontend is build with Nuxt.js, backend is written in Go. On provisioned servers we use Caddy as a Webserver as it comes with SSL out of the box. We use Stripe for billing, but apart from that, we don’t really use a ton of other third party services. The main factor for choosing the stack was our experience with it and how fast we could build a prototype.Sliplane allows you to easily deploy your docker containers for a cheap price. We've been building this first prototype for almost half a year now. Next episode, I will explain to you, how we managed to develop and release this prototype while still working a full time day job.Feel free to comment or get in touch with us to talk about any topics you are interested in or questions you have about the project in general.Check out the product on https://sliplane.io.✌🏻Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse Michael Levan - Aug 1 Jean Eudes Nallatamby - Aug 3 Aboozar Ghaffari - Aug 2 Shrijal Acharya - Aug 2 Once suspended, Wimadev will not be able to comment or publish posts until their suspension is removed. Once unsuspended, wimadev will be able to comment and publish posts again. Once unpublished, all posts by wimadev will become hidden and only accessible to themselves. If wimadev is not suspended, they can still re-publish their posts from their dashboard. Note: Once unpublished, this post will become invisible to the public and only accessible to Lukas Mauser. They can still re-publish the post if they are not suspended. Thanks for keeping DEV Community safe. Here is what you can do to flag wimadev: wimadev consistently posts content that violates DEV Community's code of conduct because it is harassing, offensive or spammy. Unflagging wimadev will restore default visibility to their posts. DEV Community — A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With you every step of your journey. Built on Forem — the open source software that powers DEV and other inclusive communities.Made with love and Ruby on Rails. DEV Community © 2016 - 2023. We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.