The hard part of a SaaS build is rarely the first release. It is the second year — multi-tenancy you cannot retrofit, pricing changes the schema did not anticipate, and a migration path for customers already on the platform.

We build for that from the data model outwards. The B2B trading platform we delivered for a Dubai client is modelled around dealers, listings, categories and deal threads specifically so a new trading category can be added without reshaping the schema — the kind of decision that costs nothing on day one and everything in year two.

For founders, the useful sequence is a narrow first release that proves demand, instrumented so you can tell whether it did. We would rather argue you out of six months of scope than build it.

Web, iOS and Android from one team, so the product surfaces stay in step.

• Hyves — a B2B SaaS built end to end