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One of my posts went viral on Reddit about how I left my job at Google 2 years ago and have been trying and learning by building different startups since then. The comment section was flooded with people saying how all my ideas are stupid, that it is never going to work out, why haven't I done x,y,z and so on. I have seen my friends and so many other founders giving up on their dreams because the world was just cruel to them and told them "It would never work out". So, if you ...

I launched my SaSs about two months ago and I would say it's been more successful than I hoped. I will share my journey here. What worked: Posting on Reddit has not only been good for SEO (I get some traffic from llms because of it), but it also got me my first few customers. Pro tip: find the subreddits and posts directly related to your niche, but don't make a fresh post instead find OLD posts asking the questions your product directly answers. The key here is that the posts ar...

A lot of people struggle with marketing. Probably the biggest killer in this space. What is one piece of advice you could drop to help the next guy out?

Hi! My name is Vlad. I'm developing Dance Step, an AI-powered app for managing dance studios. It already supports: 📅 Class schedule; 👥 Groups and students; 🎟️ Memberships; ✅ Attendance; 💬 Chats; 📢 News; 👨‍🏫 Roles (owner, administrator, trainer, client). But I understand that I won't notice all the bugs and inconveniences myself. So, I'm looking for 5-10 people willing to honestly test the app. ❗ I don't need words like "everything is great." I need honest crit...

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I've been working with a founder on Struky, a tool aimed at a pretty specific problem: when a new dev joins a team, or when you're maintaining a legacy codebase, understanding "how this all fits together" usually takes way longer than it should. The interesting part of the positioning: unlike a lot of code tools built for individual developers, Struky is built around the idea that a CTO/eng lead adopts it and rolls it out to the whole team, so onboarding docs, context, and navigation...

After creating several products that solved imaginary problems nobody really had, I finally feel like I've built something that actually matters. I genuinely rely on it every day, it makes my life significantly easier, and I'm really happy with the result. It's an app for visualizing date-bound information as timelines: tasks, events, processes - basically anything that has a date attached to it. You can think of it as a hybrid of a PKMS, a to-do list, a calendar, and a Gantt chart. More than ...

Recently been active in many saas related subreddits and one thing people are talking about is "I have built this saas , but the biggest huddle is marketing!" Or "how to get the first 100 customers" And this question is stuck in mind that "how to get 100 customers" And I have been doing some research too around Found out Reddit can help(find subreddit around ur niche) Then seo can help too Some resources like product hunt and betalist As I already wo...

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I've been browsing a lot of startup sites lately and realised I decide whether, I trust a product in about 10 seconds, and it's almost never the feature list that does it. Things that instantly build trust for me: The first sentence says what the product actually does, in plain English. No "unleash the power of your workflow" I can try it without creating an account. Letting the product speak first reads as confidence Real screenshots of the actual product, not stock photos ...

I do product marketing for a living, and I keep seeing the same pattern. AI has created a new problem: everyone is building. We are seeing thousands of apps solving problems that nobody cares enough about. Before building the full product, speak to the people you believe have the problem. Don’t pitch your idea. Don’t ask whether they would use it. Ask about what they already do: When did this problem last happen? How are you solving it today? What have you tried, and what frus...

Hey guys, so I'm running a B2B SaaS API platform where we charge a base monthly subscription in addition to tiered usage rates for extra API calls. Also, I have certain custom volume discounts for our larger clients. Point is, it's been a mess and the setup I'm using for QBO is falling apart. I'm looking at AR platforms like Chargebee / LedgerUp / Kolleno but I've no experience in them. Open to any recommendations, thanks. [link] [comme...

A friend of mine runs a paid online community. A couple of years ago, she raised the annual price from around $199 to $399. The first group of users renewed at a rate below 70%. Six months later, renewals increased to around 85%. The content itself did not suddenly become twice as good. What changed was the delivery. Before, members joined the community and had to browse through hundreds of posts to find something useful. Later, she started selecting the three to five most valuable pos...

Hey guys, I finally shipped my first SaaS application. It's a wedding planner application in Europe. Why I decided to build the application because I faced some planning issues in my wedding and couldn't find an app that would cover all the hassles that usually come with wedding planning. So the app creates animated wedding invitations. It allows you to track your expenses and budgets. It has task management so you can see what's going on, check the tasks, understand the progress, etc. etc....

Been building AI products for a living, 20+ of them over the last 3 years, grew the team to 6 of us now. And the pattern that keeps showing up isn't the one in the headlines. Most companies play on the fear driven marketing « Ai will replace you »… It’s a tale as old as time. also pitch decks right now are some version of "replace your (.insert job) » but most of those products are dying, (or at least wait until VC money dries up and they can’t raise again) because the customer doesn't ...

I am a serial builder and it’s a problem. I ship something, it works, and the next week I’m on to something new. I am sure a lot of you can relate to that excitement of building something from scratch. So I’ll obsess over every detail before launch: what new features should I add, what would be exciting for people, should this be centered or left aligned or… And then I’ll launch, get that initial burst of users, and tbh never think about it again. Maintenance work is not that fun: I don’t wan...

I use Codex to explore product ideas, plan features and work through implementation details. The surprisingly manual part is what happens afterward: reviewing the conversation, extracting the useful decisions, turning them into tasks and making sure important context isn’t lost between sessions. The coding itself is becoming faster, but managing the output can still feel like another workflow to maintain. For founders using AI coding tools regularly, how do you organize decisions and next ...

I build more than 10 websites since 2026. But I don’t like my landing pages. I tried everything that i know. But it still sucks. What is your website? Let’s make some traffic. And which prompt, skill, Ai provider do you use for it.

the best idea to find out a saas idea is to being more productive thinking more deeply about one niche and then validate it using ai and real human like in reddit has .

I'm a solo founder, and lately it feels like I'm answering the same 4 or 5 support questions every single day. It's not a huge volume, but the constant context switching is starting to eat into the time I should be spending building. I've thought about making better docs or an faq, but I'm curious what actually worked for people here. Did you improve onboarding, add in-app help, automate replies, or just accept that this is part of the job? mostly looking for simple stuff that's made a n...

Been working with founders for 3 years where we worked on 20+ products, we’re 6 of us now so relatively small but a few things learnt along the way. First of all, be very careful on the maths that you see: A lot of the news that spread out there « Reached 1M ARR » is usually more about predicting than achieved revenues. Example: I start a company and close 20k contract from a friend on week 1. That’s 80k if I extrapolate it to the month and 860k per year (some companies really extrapolate t...

About 4 years ago, I raised a bunch of VC money for my startup. The product was completely unproven, yet having early faith from a small group of smart people gave me all the confidence I needed to go out and sell. We got to $14K MRR, but a few years of hitting a wall, we eventually closed down. A year later, I was tinkering with a side project and decided to give bootstrapping a go. I turned it into a real product with auth, billing, and in retrospect, a ton of features that I thought were co...

I’ve been building an AI workspace for teams for a while now and honestly I thought getting people to use it would be easy since its free to use now. I just want feedback. But even then it’s hard to get people to spend a few minutes trying it with their team or individually. If any of you have been through this before please let me know what worked for you? How did you get your first real users?

I've spent the past few weeks building a browser game that simulates running a B2B SaaS company, mostly because I wanted it to play it myself. It runs in real time. One season runs for exactly 1 quarter and there's no pause button, so decisions pile up in a CEO inbox while you're at your actual job, and if you ignore them long enough they get decided without you. Your team also trusts you less if you disappear for a week, which felt fair. The part I spent the most time on is fundraising. The...

AI has made building software cheaper than ever. A solo founder can now build what used to require a 20-person engineering team. But here's the catch... If everyone can build, then building is no longer the advantage. Distribution is. The winners over the next decade won't be the startups with the most features. They'll be the startups with: • Clear positioning • A memorable narrative • A focused ICP • A repeatable GTM engine The barrier to building has fallen. The barrier ...

Hey everyone, I'm an 18-year-old solo founder from Pakistan, and after months of building, auditing, fixing bugs, redesigning, and questioning every decision, I finally launched my first SaaS. It's called EmberFlow. The goal wasn't to build "another invoicing app." I wanted something freelancers and small agencies could actually run their business from: * Client management * Professional proposals * Invoicing * Payment tracking * Analytics * Brand customization * ...

nowadays it feels like a trend to opensource a good product or idea and completely remove or reduce the sub charge v much im not against opensource but as a marketer or builder what are the things you can do to make the users believe you're worth it?

AI coding tools have made it much easier to build a functional SaaS product. But they have also made it much easier to build something that looks exactly like everything else. The same gradients, large hero text, rounded cards, generic icons, and landing-page structure appear repeatedly. That is a bigger problem than it seems. For a SaaS product, the interface is often the first signal of whether the product feels trustworthy, intentional, and worth paying for. I initially tried solvin...

in our case 53% of our July customers were already paying Clay, a $100M+ competitor and Here's how we take them off (nothing groundbreaking but mostly the stuff that took us 2 years to actually do consistently) Calling yourself the alternative to a giant is supposed to be weak branding. It's the riskiest thing we did, on purpose, because the buyer isn't learning a category, they have 3-4 tabs open evaluating daily, one bad week and they turn on you. everyone who stayed picked us with a rea...