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Open SourceOpen Journey
We build SaaS products. And the people who build them.
SaaSFarers is a product studio and an academy. We ship micro to enterprise SaaS, AI products and ERP systems for companies that need software which actually works, and we train the engineers the industry is short of.
Project-firstEvery cohort ships real, working software
Live projectsInterns write code that reaches production
Open by defaultShared repos, no vendor lock-in
saasfarers / what-we-do
- We build our own SaaS productsWe are product people firstlive
- We build SaaS for other companiesFrom a first version that has to reach the market this quarter, to a platform replacing fifteen years of spreadsheetsopen
- We build AI productsNot demosnew
- We train the next engineersSaaSFarers Academy is hands-on by designnow
heading · production open journey
Four things, one company
A studio that ships, and a school that feeds it
Most agencies stop at delivery. Most institutes stop at theory. We closed the loop: the products we build become the training ground, and the people we train become the team that builds the next ones.
We build our own SaaS products
We are product people first. We run our own SaaS, which means we carry the pager, feel the churn, and pay the cloud bill. That experience is what you are buying when you hire us for yours.
Learn moreWe build SaaS for other companies
From a first version that has to reach the market this quarter, to a platform replacing fifteen years of spreadsheets. We take it from discovery through architecture, build, launch, and the unglamorous work of running it.
Learn moreWe build AI products
Not demos. AI features that survive contact with real users: retrieval that returns the right document, agents with scoped tools and budgets, evaluation harnesses, and per-tenant cost metering from day one.
Learn moreWe train the next engineers
SaaSFarers Academy is hands-on by design. You build products, you get code-reviewed, you intern on live client projects, and the strongest learners are hired straight into our team.
Learn moreWhat we do
Services, end to end
Discovery to deployment to the third year of quiet, reliable operation. Pick the piece you need, or hand us the whole thing.
SaaS Product Development
Idea to production, then iteration
Learn moreSaaS for Your Business
We build and run your product for you
Learn moreAI Products & Agents
LLM apps, RAG systems, AI workflows
Learn moreERP Solutions
Frappe / ERPNext builds and migrations
Learn moreWebsites & Web Applications
Fast, accessible, search-ready sites
Learn moreTechnical Support & DevOps
24x7 support, monitoring, releases
Learn moreOn-site Discovery
We visit, we listen, then we build
Learn moreTools we work with: Python, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Stripe, Razorpay, AWS, GCP, Hetzner, Frappe, Grafana, Sentry, GitHub Actions, FastAPI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, pgvector, Qdrant, OpenAI, Anthropic, Open-weight models, vLLM, Ollama, Langfuse, Ragas, ERPNext, Frappe Framework, MariaDB, Nginx, REST and webhook integrations, HTML, CSS, Astro, Static generation, WordPress (headless), Cloudflare, Netlify, Ansible, Prometheus, Loki, Process mapping, Time and motion observation, Stakeholder interviews, Data profiling, Fit-gap analysis, Cost modelling, Frappe Bench, Odoo Community, Odoo Enterprise, OWL, XML views, Odoo Studio, REST and XML-RPC integrations, Zoho One, Zoho Books, Zoho CRM, Zoho Inventory, Zoho Desk, Zoho People, Zoho Creator, Zoho Analytics, Zoho Flow, Deluge, REST APIs, Webhooks.
Our promise
Open Source. Open Journey.
Two commitments, and they are not marketing.
Open Source means we build on open technology wherever it is genuinely the right tool. You own your data, your schema and your exit. No licence cliff, no ransom at renewal, no feature you cannot inspect.
Open Journey means the way we work is visible. Shared repositories from week one. A backlog you can read. Decisions written down with their trade-offs. Estimates that change out loud instead of quietly.
You keep the keys
Repositories, infrastructure and domains are in your accounts, not ours. If you walk away tomorrow, everything keeps running.
You can read the plan
Roadmap, backlog and architecture decision records are shared, not summarised in a monthly deck.
You get the bad news early
When something slips or an approach turns out wrong, you hear it in the same week we do.
How we build
We come to you first. Then we write code.
5 stages. Something usable at the end of each one.
- Stage 01
Understand
We visit your place of work, follow a real order or case end to end, and write down where the time and the errors go.
- Stage 02
Frame
We agree what success looks like in numbers, and what we are explicitly not building in version one.
- Stage 03
Design
Data model, tenancy, integrations and the handful of architecture decisions that are expensive to reverse later.
- Stage 04
Build in the open
Two-week increments on a shared board, with something usable to click on at the end of each one.
- Stage 05
Run it
Monitoring, backups tested by restoring them, on-call, and a support line that reaches an engineer.
SaaSFarers Academy
Learn by building things that ship
The industry does not have a shortage of people who finished a course. It has a shortage of people who can take an ambiguous problem and turn it into working, maintained software. That is the gap the Academy exists to close.
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Build, not watch
Every module ends in something deployed to a real URL, reviewed line by line by a working engineer.
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Intern on live work
Contribute to real client projects with scoped ownership, code review and a written reference at the end.
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Get interview-ready
Mock interviews, system design practice, and a portfolio you can defend because you actually made the decisions.
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Get hired
We hire our strongest learners into SaaSFarers, and introduce others to the companies we work with.
Six tracks. One bar.
Explore the Academy →16 weeks
AI Engineering & Applied LLMs
Build AI features that survive production, not demos that survive a slide
Intermediate12–15 hrs/week
₹64,000or 4 monthly instalments
Full syllabus 20 weeks
Full-Stack SaaS Development
Learn to build multi-tenant products, not another todo app
Beginner to Intermediate15–18 hrs/week
₹72,000or 5 monthly instalments
Full syllabus 12 weeks
Frappe & ERPNext Developer
A specialist skill with more open roles than qualified people
Beginner to Intermediate12 hrs/week
₹48,000or 3 monthly instalments
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Questions
Straight answers about how we work
The things people ask us before the first call.
SaaSFarers is a product studio and a training academy. We build our own SaaS products, we design and build SaaS, AI and ERP products for other companies, and we run those products with ongoing technical support. Alongside that, SaaSFarers Academy trains developers through project-based courses, live-project internships, and direct hiring into our own team.
No. We work across the full range, from a single-purpose micro-SaaS built by a small team in a few weeks, through mid-market B2B platforms, to enterprise systems with compliance and integration requirements. The engineering discipline is the same; the scope and the timeline are not.
Open Source means we build on open technology wherever it is the right tool, so you own your data and your exit. Open Journey means the way we work is visible to you: shared repositories, a visible backlog, documented decisions, and no black boxes. You should never need our permission to understand your own product.
No. Cohorts include final-year students, recent graduates, and working professionals moving into AI and product engineering. The entry bar is programming fundamentals and time to build, not a particular degree. Working professionals typically take the part-time track.
Yes. After the core modules, learners join an internship on real client work under supervision, with code review and defined ownership. It is scoped so that a learner can contribute safely, and it is the reason our graduates can answer questions about trade-offs in interviews.
Yes, and for operations-heavy work such as ERP we prefer it. We spend time on your floor watching how work actually flows before we design anything. Most failed software projects are failures of understanding, not of code.
Tell us what you are trying to build.
A product idea, a process drowning in spreadsheets, an AI feature your team cannot get past the demo stage, or a career you want to change. First conversation costs nothing and usually saves something.