{"slug": "show-hn-i-built-a-saas-without-knowing-how-to-code-am-i-an-idiot", "title": "Show HN: I built a SaaS without knowing how to code – am I an idiot?", "summary": "A non-technical founder built learnfrom.co, a platform for creating, hosting, and selling online courses, using AI to generate code, and it now serves 100+ creators and businesses with real payments. The founder is seeking feedback from Hacker News on security, authentication, data isolation, and other engineering concerns before expanding customer reliance on the product.", "body_md": "It's called learnfrom.co, a platform for creating, hosting and selling online courses.\n\nI started building it because I wanted to solve a problem I had with existing course platforms. I kept running into things I wanted to change, so I started building them myself.\n\nThe problem: I wasn't really a software engineer.\n\nInstead, I started using AI to build the product. I'd describe what I wanted, let it write the code, test it, fix things when they broke, and repeat.\n\nThat somehow turned into a real product. LearnFrom is now used by 100+ creators and businesses, with real students and real payments going through it.\n\nAnd that's where I'm starting to get uncomfortable.\n\n\"It works\" and \"it's well engineered\" are obviously not the same thing.\n\nSo I'm bringing it to HN to find out how much trouble I'm actually in.\n\nIf you were reviewing this before I'd let more customers depend on it, what would you look for first?\n\nSecurity? Authentication? Authorization? Data isolation? Payments? Architecture? Performance? AI-generated code? Something I haven't even thought about?\n\nPlease assume I'm guilty until proven innocent.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435251](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435251)\n\nPoints: 3\n\n# Comments: 3", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-built-a-saas-without-knowing-how-to-code-am-i-an-idiot", "canonical_source": "https://www.learnfrom.co/", "published_at": "2026-08-25 14:55:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 15:16:09.234306+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["learnfrom.co", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-built-a-saas-without-knowing-how-to-code-am-i-an-idiot", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-built-a-saas-without-knowing-how-to-code-am-i-an-idiot.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-built-a-saas-without-knowing-how-to-code-am-i-an-idiot.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-i-built-a-saas-without-knowing-how-to-code-am-i-an-idiot.jsonld"}}