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I'm happy to share with this sub, I woke up today and see my SaaS admin panel: 1 users, my first user has registered! I have just used Facebook and Reddit to promote my platform! I has been working in my SaaS in my spare time (aside my 9-5 job) since 2 years ago, but the idea was on my mind since my college days almost 10 years ago. I would like to tank you guys for the inspiration in this sub.

My husband and I launched Glance (a full year calendar app, synced with Google) back in April 2025. Growth has been a lot slower than we had hoped, but we haven't spent any money on ads and are only able to dedicate a few hours per week as it's "only" a side project and we're working full-time jobs. Over the past few months we finally got to the point where we were consistently picking up around 1-2 new users a day organically. It wasn't exactly something to write home about, but aft...

Pretty much the title. Project is open source: https://github.com/ignisda/ryot

Hi, I'm an indie dev who released a chrome extension (adds a couple action buttons to a site that otherwise is poorly designed and has hidden links, etc by manipulating the css of existing buttons) I have roughly 100 users and decided to add a premium "feature" so i found LemonSqueezy. Took me a while to setup their api that morning which was a pain, however upon release i managed to sell a couple subscriptions fairly quickly, however on my lemon squeezy account i noticed a paypa...

My stripe account closed before even launching my Saas, Now im without payment processor for my saas, any help or alternative (im moroccan)

Like every dev here, I ship constantly and announce nothing. My changelog was 8 months stale because writing release notes feels like homework. So I built Bellnote. Connect your GitHub repo, and every merged PR gets turned into a changelog draft that matches how you already write. Approve it in ~30 seconds, and it goes out to an in-app widget, hosted page, subscriber emails, Slack, and RSS. Some numbers from running it this week: A draft takes 2.2 seconds (Haiku-class model) The widget...

I save a lot of Instagram Reels, then can never find them again when I need them. So I built Magpie. You send a Reel to magpie.bot in a DM. Magpie remembers it, and later you can ask for it in plain language. It can also turn saved places into a Google Maps list or save detected songs to Spotify. The main challenge was keeping everything inside Instagram instead of making people open another app every time. It’s live now, and I’d appreciate honest feedback, especially on whether the id...

Hello builders, As a UX designer, this is the first time I've built my own product, and I'm really proud of it. Everything is made under my real name and identity no hiding behind a brand. I have a design studio website, and I faced a huge problem autority CAP : getting quality backlinks without either buying them (150usd minimum to get quality) or spending all day emailing people, risking having my mailbox flagged as spam. I've been working on this for around 60 days building the best SEO...

This has probably been my biggest mistake building my product. Whenever I had an idea, my first reaction was basically: “Cool. Let's build it.” So I kept adding dashboards, features, automations, UI improvements, etc. And honestly, it felt productive. But looking back, a lot of that work didn't actually move the business forward. The things that helped more were much less exciting: Talking to users. Posting about what I was building. Getting feedback. Trying different ways to...

Im sure im not the only one to notice these same posts being recycled over and over again. Its always meant to seem like the op is some startup founder who found the perfect marketing method which skyrocketed their app and now theyre generous enough to share it with you. But i swear every single time they tell you to "go to ucbundle.com or dansugc, download ugc clips and post them on social media with a caption like "this feels illegal" and a showcase of your app". I fee...

Been building UKAgencies.co.uk as a side project since February while job hunting. No marketing budget, just SEO and a lot of shipping. Where it's at now: 920+ agency listings across 50+ UK cities 1.16M+ Google Search Console impressions since launch Zero ad spend, all organic £49/mo Featured tier for agencies wanting priority placement (free listings for everyone else) The honest part: impressions are strong, but conversion to clicks is weak, average ~52 in search results,...

When we are updating our API as our product evolves, how do you make sure the SDKs, multiple doc sources, code examples, and packages like npm/PyPI stay up to date without introducing drift?

I honestly didn’t expect this moment to hit this hard. Today I got my first-ever paid user for an app I’ve been building called Smart Jyotish AI . NPR 299 (~$2.20). For some people, $2 might be nothing. But for me, this is huge. I’m not a professional developer. I started this project with an idea, learned along the way, used AI heavily to help me build things I didn’t know how to code, broke things countless times, fixed them, rebuilt parts, and kept going. The app now has a website...

Hey everyone, We’re exploring an idea around AI automation, and before we build too much, we want to understand whether this is actually a problem people are facing. The idea is simple: use AI to automate repetitive tasks that still require humans to do the same thing over and over again. If you have a workflow that's frustrating, repetitive, or unnecessarily manual, I'd genuinely love to hear about it.

recently, i had a trip back to our ancestor home, and i found we have well documented of family tree that spans generations back, but there are all handwritten and kept physically in the home. i wanted to digitize everything so i can quickly share to other members, search and trace the family lineage therefore i created this family SAAS app for all my family members https://famiki.timx.co/ it is fully open sourced https://github.com/sweetim/family-tree if it is useful to ...

Hey, if you're a small business owner and your team needs to share a business phone number, for sales, support, whatever, I built something called Ringpost, wanted to share it here. It runs on Twilio, pay-as-you-go, so you're only paying for what you actually use, not a per-seat license fee. You can add multiple numbers, set up IVR, record calls, get AI summaries of calls, auto-text people back when you miss their call, that kind of thing. Your team logs in under one account, everyone gets acc...

recently i noticed postiz crossing $173k mrr . the founder, nevo david, has openly shared most of the journey up to around $160k mrr across podcasts, interviews and videos. so i sat down with a pen and paper, watched everything i could find, and took notes. thought i'd share the them here too. $0 → $4k mrr started as an open-source project. kept shipping features and posting every update on reddit (mainly r/selfhosted ), x, linkedin, lemmy and other developer communities. inste...

I'll get right to it... just over a month after I soft-launched my niche SaaS app, I am profitable. I started building the app at the beginning of 2026 just as an app to help me with a problem that I had. Several months later I got some early validation that the app was actually really cool and solved some real problems. At the end of June, I decided to do a soft-launch of the app into an Alpha. In just over a month, I have reached profitability as you can see from the Stripe screenshots. Ri...

I've been building Wizible - wizible.io for the last 6 months to fix all the problems that I usually faced in my SEO career for the last 6 years. As the title suggests, it literally automates SEO for you. Here's what it does for you Research Topics based on your GSC data Article generator that generates SEO articles by reading your competitor pages and publishes directly to your cms Optimize your pages automatically based on Search Console data every 7/14/30 days submi...

I work on landing page/product design, and something I’ve started noticing is that founders often ask: “Does my landing page look good?” when I think the more useful question is: “Does the page make the right thing obvious?” Before touching the visuals, I’d try to answer these 4 things: 1. What exactly is the product? Try explaining it in one sentence without using words like seamless, powerful, intelligent, next-gen, platform, ecosystem, etc. If someone has to scroll to unders...

I started as a freelancer a decade ago. Worked directly with clients. Worked with and managed a small team. Hired other freelancers for projects. Also experienced being the client and having people work for me. Over the years I've used quite a few project management systems too. I've hired people. Managed projects. Dealt with clients. Been the client myself. That means I've seen what the person doing the work needs, and what the person paying for the work expects. I had ideas about how I'd ...

I'm building a small US-based digital art marketplace and need multiple agreements with content owners/artists. As the business evolves, these contracts will need periodic updates, but legal costs are currently around $600–$800 per contract, which is becoming expensive as we scale. How do other startups handle recurring or evolving creator agreements while keeping legal costs manageable? Any recommended approaches or services that allow ongoing attorney involvement without high per-contract fe...

Hey everyone, I keep running into the exact same problem with every app or SaaS I build: 1. Research & Validation: I find a product people are already paying for. I plan to build a better version that fixes competitor flaws. 2. Deep Focus: I throw all my energy into building it. Fast dev, late nights, no sleep. 3. Loss of Trust (at 80% done): Because I've been staring at the same product for days, I get bored of it. Even though I built it well and fixed issues other tools hav...

This started as a passion project to figure out why the Wi-Fi died in one corner of my apartment, and I ended up building an entire app. You walk through your home with your iPhone, it rebuilds the place as a small 3D model, and the Wi-Fi signal gets painted onto the floors while you walk. Seeing the exact spot where your signal dies on a miniature of your own home is weirdly satisfying 😂 What it does : • 3D home scan - walk through your place with your iPhone and it rebuilds it as a 3D m...

I’ve launched a SaaS recently. I’ve built the app and now we’re doing research and collecting feedback from our target audience to help develop ours better. My question is did most of you guys build a tool that was really to help yourself then you ended up launching. Or maybe a problem in an industry you’re in and you built it to fix that. Trying to figure out if I jumped right to creating an app too quick instead of really dialing in on a problem that irks my soul snd fixing that for mysel...

Need the community’s help. Lemon Squeezy, Stripe, Paddle.... didn't get approval from them... Dodo Payments was working… until they suddenly cut off our access... We’re building from Bangladesh, and I know there are payment processors out there that support high risk industries and founders from countries like ours. If you’ve found one that actually works, reliable, trusted, and doesn’t ghost you after onboarding....I’d genuinely appreciate a pointer in the comments or a DM. s...

I'm standing at a pivot and I honestly don't know which way to go. More revenue for me, or lower cost for users. I built OpenVidi , a tool that turns one prompt into a full-length YouTube documentary: script, voiceover, scenes, animation, final file. I originally built it for myself, so I made it as cheap as possible to run. That's how I landed on the model I have now: users connect their own Google Cloud account, they get Google's standard $300 new-account credit, and they pay Google directl...

I had an idea for a fitness app that would basically put everything in one place. Nutrition tracking, workout tracking, progress photos, fitness content, streaks, etc. The idea was to make something where you wouldn't need 4-5 different apps just to manage your fitness. Then I started looking into it. There are thousands of fitness apps already doing basically the same thing. Now I'm wondering if building another "all-in-one fitness app" even makes sense. I could still build ...

I built an online platform to let founders meet and review eachothers projects all in one place, but as it is a community i need to collect founders all together at once, and i am currently lost on how to achieve that goal, does anybody have any advice on how to get past this step and reach the next one?