A small backyard, tended carefully.

Hi — I'm Kaushik, and I started Backyard SaaS for a very simple reason: I kept watching the people closest to me get stuck on problems that were absolutely solvable, but that no existing software actually solved well.

In late 2024 and early 2025, friends and former colleagues in tech started losing their jobs in waves. The advice they got was the same advice everyone gets — "update your LinkedIn, tailor your résumé, reach out to your network" — except when you're grieving a layoff, every one of those instructions costs you energy you don't have. The tools were either built for recruiters, or built to sell more tools. Nobody was building for the person sitting at home at 11pm wondering how to even start.

That's where Relaunch came from. Drop in your résumé and it does the heavy lifting every morning — finds real openings, tailors a résumé and cover letter for each, names two people in your network worth reaching out to, and even writes the InMail. It's the empathy I wish my friends had been handed when their world tilted.

Once Relaunch was out, the next thing was obvious: there were going to be more problems like this. Small, sharp, specific. Worth solving. I didn't want to keep building under a brand named after a single product, because the next thing wouldn't be about layoffs at all. So I built the backyard — a place where each of these little tools can grow under one roof.

Next up: Trellis, a calm CRM + task system for solopreneurs who lose more deals to forgotten follow-ups than to bad pitches. After that, we listen — the next backyard project will come from whoever in our community shouts loudest about the thing they're quietly stuck on.

If you're building in a similar spirit, or you've got a problem worth solving, the backyard gate is open.