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Am I Solving a Problem - Templates for Code Writing

Hi everyone,
I am asking myself currently if I should proceed with my company.

We provide a solution (SaaS) where developers can continuously generate real code by customizable Templates out-of-the-browser into their file-system.

There are some competitors in different branches, e.g. JHipster, Yeoman, Hygen, Framer X, or IDEs on the Engineering-Side or e.g. Bubble or OutSystems on the "Citizen"-Side, but we thought we'd have found a niche. Our approach is more for the engineering side, but when the product will be finished it aims to combine every project/product member into the process of creation.

Right now we have a very early product with only some parts of the desired MVP, but we already proofed some parts of the concept by creating a microservice-architecture for a startup in our network. Everything went fine. Unfortunately, after founding our company, all of our pilots have canceled their projects with Generato and two of my Co-Founders have left the company, since they did not believe in the opportunity that this might be a success one day.
So right now my money is running out and I just don't know what to do.

Even the creation of the real MVP would take a lot of time. Should I focus on finding new customers (for the very early "kind-a-MVP"), further developing the product, finding Angels, or simply looking for other opportunities to make my living?

If you are a developer, please let me know what you like about the project, what you don't like, and whether you would use it in production.

The website is https://www.generato.com/, and you can use Coupon "IH-IS-THIS-WORTH-IT" after exceeding your trial on the app if you want to try out everything. Currently we support Express.ts, Java, and Angular and work on new Frontend- and Backend Templates for VueJS, Serverless Functions, React, ASP-API, ... As mentioned before it's not finished yet, and there are pages/components missing for the frontend. Even our pricing is not set in stone and we are working on the quality of the code result, but I would love to know if you as a Developer like this kind of creating the "base"-code for your dev-projects.

Otherwise I'd be very interested in how you would proceed in my current situation.

All the best

on May 12, 2020