Comments on: Lessons Learned Building a SaaS with WordPress

By: Scott Bolinger

Scott Bolinger — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:56:14 +0000

Great article Brian, you’ve built some beautiful sites, I’d love to hear more about the details of your setup.

By: Tatjana

Tatjana — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:22:13 +0000

Hi there,

Great post and just the insight I was looking for, thanks! I wnat to create a simular setup as yours, but for creative artist.

I have a hard time figure out if I should use ManageWP or Multisite, to handle all client sites. You mention using a managed VPS hosting provider instead of Multisite, can you let me in on why this is?

I am also looking at whmcs.com, As all-in-one client management, billing & online user creation – Any experiences with them?

Once again great site/network you have created and a super niche.

Tnanks,
Tatjana

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:00:31 +0000

Great article Brian. This is the second restaurant specific site that I’ve seen that is built on top of WP.

http://www.happytables.com/ << Saw this a long time ago.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:25:15 +0000

Thanks for posting this Brian. I’m working on a similar project in another industry and you’ve got some good info here.

By: Rustin Low

Rustin Low — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:26:54 +0000

Such a great article, inspires me to develop my own SaaS platform, thank you for sharing!

By: Rafael Montilla

Rafael Montilla — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:20:00 +0000

Wordpress is the best CMS, but as you said it is not gopd for every website.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 10:02:29 +0000

Why didn’t you consider Drupal instead of WP as CMS.
A lot more flexible to develop plateform, Saas, webapp, …
More like a framework !

By: Eric Tyler

Eric Tyler — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:58:48 +0000

Very interesting post. It would be interesting to know more detailed examples of hurdles you experienced and how you solved for them.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:10:59 +0000

Hi guys – thanks for reading :)

@Jonathan – 1 multisite installation (at this time). My other site, HotelPropeller (same idea for Hotels) is another multisite network. No major issues… Using a managed VPS hosting provider.

@Drew – Happy to chat about any of that sometime… For signup/site/user creation, we used a custom-developed solution. But Gravity Forms has an add-on which does the same thing.

@Andy – yes – I think the key with this kinda thing is to focus on a tight niche, where most/all customers have the same set of needs.

@Tim – I worked with Sean Barton on a modified version of his (great) plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sb-uploader/

By: Rocky Walls

Rocky Walls — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:13:56 +0000

Great post! Good to know there are others out there feeling and thinking along the same lines we are ;)

Building Candidido.com on WP has been a tough choice for all the reasons you mention above, but so far we’re happy with the choice.