I have created a SaaS to solve my mother's problems with documents; now, I have publicly available it. Creating something from scratch all the way to production was the most rewarding experience; I never felt like that as an employee.

Hi everyone,I am an engineer in telecommunications who has fallen more in love with software engineering and DevOps. I have a full-time job, but I've always been passionate about learning new things through online 'hands-on' tutorials. One morning about six months ago, I woke up with an idea: "OK, enough, learning without running anything in production is just erudition."👩‍👦Why I created this appMy mother is a teacher and often needs to translate documents / perform transcription, etc. She does this manually and with not always high-quality results. I'm an engineer with a full-time job, but I love building things in my spare time and eventually built an entire scalable platform to solve my mom's problems with documents. So I thought it might be helpful for someone else as well. For example, if you have a .pdf, you can perform translation, conversion, text extraction, and text-to-speech; if you have a .mp4, you can perform transcription and conversion; etc.🛠Development ProcessI started by designing a high-level architecture (an architecture that only showed integrations, almost technology-agnostic). Then, once completed, I began to go one level lower and defined the technologies I wanted to use. I had to do scouting and trial & error to find the technologies and programming languages and adapt them to my architecture (React, Python, Lambda, ECS, Cognito, S3, API GW, Stripe, PayPal, etc.) Finding the best tool for the job can be tricky, and finding the optimal option can be too expensive, so I often went with the "default" based on what I already know.Once I completed the high-level design on paper, I started to code. I sit in front of my Mac, full of enthusiasm and unaware of the complexities I would have faced. I started with the development environment. Then after a while, I added the test environment, and finally, someday ago, I released the code in production.It has been challenging. I worked on this MVP for six months, at least 3-4 hours a day, 7/7 no day off.​🔗 If you are interested, the website is FileWhey. You can sign up for free, and you will get some initial credits to perform some tasks. I would love your feedback about everything you encounter. If you want more free credits, feel free to ask.Finally, let me know if you are interested because I may provide more information about the technology stack I used in another post. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy