TL;DR Most developers jump straight to building a SaaS product before they have any distribution. The product fails not because it is bad, but because nobody knows it exists. Services are not a consolation prize. They are the fastest way to validate your product idea, earn your first revenue, and build the market knowledge your product needs before you write a line of code. The right sequencing is: service first, distribution second, product third. In that order. Let me tell you something I have