SaaS5 June 20268 min read
Building a SaaS MVP that can still scale later
An MVP should be small in scope and honest about its foundations. Those are different things, and teams often trade the wrong one away.
01
Decide tenancy on day one
Whether tenants share tables or databases affects every query, migration and support request you will ever run. Choose deliberately and document it.
02
Model the pricing into the product
Plans, limits and usage metering are product features. If billing is bolted on after launch, every plan change becomes an engineering ticket.
- Plan and entitlement checks in one place
- Usage recorded as events, not counters
- Trials and downgrades handled as normal states
03
Ship the boring parts
Invite flows, permissions, audit logs and a usable admin console are what make a product sellable to a second customer.
Takeaways
- 01Tenancy and billing are foundations, not features.
- 02Instrument usage before you need to price it.
- 03Admin tooling is part of the MVP, not a follow-up.
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