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Show HN: I built a SaaS without knowing how to code – am I an idiot?

https://www.learnfrom.co/
4•bel_hajo•55m ago
It's called learnfrom.co, a platform for creating, hosting and selling online courses.

I started building it because I wanted to solve a problem I had with existing course platforms. I kept running into things I wanted to change, so I started building them myself.

The problem: I wasn't really a software engineer.

Instead, I started using AI to build the product. I'd describe what I wanted, let it write the code, test it, fix things when they broke, and repeat.

That somehow turned into a real product. LearnFrom is now used by 100+ creators and businesses, with real students and real payments going through it.

And that's where I'm starting to get uncomfortable.

"It works" and "it's well engineered" are obviously not the same thing.

So I'm bringing it to HN to find out how much trouble I'm actually in.

If you were reviewing this before I'd let more customers depend on it, what would you look for first?

Security? Authentication? Authorization? Data isolation? Payments? Architecture? Performance? AI-generated code? Something I haven't even thought about?

Please assume I'm guilty until proven innocent.

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voidUpdate•52m ago
Suppose your LLM provider goes down. How do you fix bugs now?
bel_hajo•50m ago
Then I'd probably just stare at the error message until the LLM comes back...
bel_hajo•52m ago
For context: I can read and understand some HTML and CSS, but beyond that I really can't code.

I started building LearnFrom by describing what I wanted to AI, letting it write the code, testing it, fixing what broke, and repeating the process.

Somehow, that turned into a real SaaS used by 100+ creators and businesses.

And now I'm wondering whether "it works" is a very dangerous substitute for "it's well engineered."

That's what I'd like HN to help me figure out.

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https://www.learnfrom.co/
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