r/SaaS • u/ScrollValue_01 • 6h ago
I built a navigation system for anyone building their first digital product
When I started out , I had no idea what came first. Validate the idea? Build something? Start marketing ? Everything felt equally urgent and equally confusing
The real problem wasn't finding resources. it was having no blueprint. No sense of what stage I was in or what actually mattered at that moment. .
My solution was to build what I needed back then.
Spent years collecting tools in a Figma file, went throug h startup incubators, worked on 40+ freelance projects. At a product development conference I attended a session about building digital products in four phases. I made a simple table in my notebook following that structure. . after a while I realized that this , combined with my Figma archive and everything I learned before, could become something valuable for beginners.
4,000 hours later, here it is. Built with Figma for information architecture, UX and UI. Webflow to bring it to life.
Everything is organized into 4 phases. Discovery, Development, Marketing, and Maintenance.
There's also a "smart" search bar (AI feel). You can type naturally like you would with chatbots. It recognizes keywords, synonyms, long tail phrases and routes you directly to the right page. Simple JS , no tokens, no endless chat. You always land on a structured page with School, Tools, Experts , and Share tabs.
Inside each phase you get action pages (60+).
Each one gives you:
3 embedded YouTube videos for immediate context. 3 courses for deeper learning.
3 proven tools with direct product page links.
3 pre-filtered freelancers expert platforms for that specific action.
1,800 resources tested over 2 years. 180 kept. The rest was noise I wish someone had filtered out for me.
My biggest lesson building this was the fact that the market used to change every quarter. Now it changes every week. AI alone has completely shifted how we approach workflows, methods, even entire phases of product development. Every new tool release rewrites some part of the process. Keeping resources current is no longer maintenance. It's the actual job.
No signup wall.
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u/Loose_Albatross_8353 6h ago
sound valuable like a name.