Bengaluru is the one place I take SaaS projects with in-person scoping sessions. For a multi-tenant platform, the decisions that are expensive to reverse — tenancy model, permissions, billing structure — get made in the first fortnight, and I have consistently found that an hour at a whiteboard settles them better than a fortnight of messages. Founders here also tend to arrive having already spoken to other engineers, which means the conversation starts at architecture rather than at what a SaaS is.
Multi-tenant SaaS platforms with subscriptions, auth, and admin panels — production-ready from day one.
Read the full breakdownYes, and I would recommend it for the first session. The tenancy and permissions decisions are the ones you cannot cheaply undo later, and they get decided faster face to face. After that, most of the build runs remotely with a staging environment you can check any time.
Postponing the admin panel. It gets cut to save two weeks, and then every customer issue becomes a message to a developer. The second most common is treating multi-tenancy as something to add later — that one turns into a migration touching every query in the system.
For a focused MVP with auth, billing, a core workflow and an admin panel, plan on 8 to 12 weeks. The range depends far more on how well-defined the scope is than on the technology. Projects that slip are almost always projects where the feature list kept growing.
Yes — at least the data model. Adding a tenant boundary to an existing schema and query layer later is one of the most painful migrations in software. The rest, like per-tenant theming and custom domains, can safely wait.
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Multi-tenant SaaS platforms with subscriptions, auth, and admin panels — production-ready from day one.