According to upmetrics, the average cost of building a SaaS platform in the United States ranges between $50,000 - $150,500. The startup cost may extend up to $500,000 depending on the scope and complexity of the SaaS platform.

Building with nocode will save you a huge amount of cash, reduce your team size and help you launch faster. These are huge benefits right?

Like every other thing with benefits, building your SaaS business without code does save money and time. But it also requires you to have the skillset and knowledge required to move your product from your head to the hands of your customers.

In this article, I will show you a detailed way to launch your SaaS MVP in the United States the right way.

Let’s get started.

Why build SaaS in the United States?

Great question. With all the SaaS launches daily targeted at customers from the United states, do I still go ahead and add mine to it? Yes, I do want you to.

But paul, there are over 17,000 SaaS companies in the United States, should I still go ahead?

Yes, the more reason why you should still go ahead.

Currently, the United States has the largest and fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world with more than 40% of the global market share. That’s the kind of place you want to launch your product, where you have a ready market to purchase whatever digital product you are selling.

Furthermore, In the States, you can create products for niche markets more than anywhere else in the world. Because there’s always a sector or group of people dying to save cost and optimize processes.

Why should I start my SaaS with an MVP?

First, let’s define what an MVP is:

A minimum viable product or MVP is a product with enough features to attract early adopter customers and validate a product idea early in the product development cycle.

In simple terms, an MVP is a product that allows you to deliver minimum value that solves your product users’ problems.

Moving forward, starting with a minimum viable product allows you to receive feedback as quickly as possible so you are able to iterate and improve product use and delivery while remaining profitable.

At Paulnocode, we always advise founders to begin here. Here are a few more reasons why it makes so much sense to start your product development journey with an MVP

• To test your idea with real and paying users. Not all ideas are profitable. Some won’t work after you’ve spent thousands of dollars working on it.

• You make a profit with only a few features. It is exciting when you earn money from the value you’re providing. This way you can iterate fast, ship new features and have the zest to keep on providing more value.

• You can make your users a part of the entire product development journey. Since they will keep on providing feedback willingly as you iterate and add more features.

Here are the four steps you need to launch your MVP in the United States

1. Choose a niche

What’s my niche?

With over 17k SaaS already in the United States market, it will not be wise to attack a general market. An example is creating an app that allows everyone in the United States to find a house. You know some Airbandb clone.

Building such will take so much from your development and marketing budget. It would be because the solution is too wide and isn’t unique to a specific group of people.

Here’s what you should do instead:

• Pick a specific problem

• Target a particular location/group with the problem

• See if this group has enough money to pay you for the value you are providing. If yes, you build. If no, you find a different location or group.

Choose your development route

To begin building and launching your MVP in the United States, there are three routes available:

• Hire a traditional development agency

• Learn to build it yourself.

• Hire a nocode agency

Hiring a traditional development agency is a good choice that will cost you a lot of money if you can afford it. We will focus on building with nocode in this article.

To begin, you need to decide what route you want to take. If you want to build it yourself, head over to YouTube and start learning. It’s is a good place to start.

The other option is hiring a nocode development agency. There are very good agencies that can build industry-standard nocode applications. Hiring one is just one Google search.

Select your choice tools.

There are tons of nocode tools out there but you must pick a specific tool that solves your selected problem. A tool that allows you to build for your targeted audience without hassle. Look here, it’s not about using the latest shining tool or big names. It’s about choosing a tool that gets the job done.

Here’s our choice tool at Paulnocode when we are building for clients.

• Flutterflow for mobile development

• Bubble io for web development

• Supabase and Firebase for database infrastructure.

• Buildship for API creation and integration.

There are other options like Weweb, glideapp and so much more. Do your research, pick a platform, build and launch.

Measure key metrics

There are a lot of metrics to analyse after you successfully launch your nocode SaaS MVP. Depending on your industry, some of your key metrics would defer.

Just like other major markets. In the United States cash is king.

For a SaaS product, the most important metric is how much you are spending and how much you are making.

You might be burning cash on marketing, development, PR and the rest. Irrespective of how much you are spending on those, your revenue should be more.

If it’s not, you might be heading for a downward spiral. This is more reasons why you must validate your product before development.

Sure you’ve learnt a lot from this article and you have been equipped to launch your product with nocode. Don’t let anyone stop you. You too can think, build and launch your own SaaS product in the United States.

Thank you very much for reading. Let me know your thoughts on Twitter.