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Build vs. buy your admin panel during YC

by seyz on 11/24/20, 12:35 PM with 4 comments

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Forest Admin (https://www.forestadmin.com) and we provide a SaaS admin panel solution.

3 months at Y Combinator is a short amount of time to build both a customer facing app as well as the admin panel that will support your business at scale. Who would prefer relying on an off-the-shelf (or low code) solution to save time?

  • by codingdave on 11/24/20, 4:48 PM

    I can't speak for YC companies, but I can say that the Enterprise software crowd falls 100% on "buy" for such questions.

    Buy vs. build is often presented as a significant dilemma, but most places come up with the same answer - you build software when it is directly related to your unique value prop in the market, and you buy everything else.

  • by scottporad on 11/24/20, 8:57 PM

    Is it a saas or on-prem solution? I'd be interested in a tool like this, but infosec is going to have some concerns about data security and privacy.