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Simple question. Looking for feedback. I just implemented a simple trial system: an email capture (no CC required) and a 7-day key is minted. Is 7 days enough? Should it be 30 days? Does anyone with trial options for their product see conversions from trials? FYI, the main service is free forever; the paid upsell is only for added features. Thanks.

TL;DR: I’m building a SaaS after running a handmade crafts business. I’m looking for something easier to manage day-to-day while keeping my full-time job. I’ve set a launch deadline. The concept is simple: a personal budget management SaaS. The goal isn't to get rich, but to land my first French customers. Development isn't an issue, but I lack SaaS marketing knowledge. Any advice? ---- After running a handmade crafts business alongside my day job for two and a half years, I wanted a new ch...

Been working on a PDF tools site with a cute theme instead of the usual boring look. Would that make you try it, or would you just stick to iLovePDF or Smallpdf? Link: https://pdfpookie.com Be honest :)

You’re not an investor: the timing of your entry isn’t that important. What matters is HOW you enter the market. Many of you are afraid of arriving too late, missing the wave, and so on… And this anxiety either paralyzes you or makes you rush things. You’re not an investor. you’re an entrepreneur. Forget the When, focus on the How.

I'm at the stage where the product is built, but now I need to find actual customers. If you had to start from zero today, what would you focus on first? Reddit Cold outreach SEO Content Partnerships Something else? Looking back, what gave you the biggest return on your time? I'd love to hear real experiences rather than general advice.

Currently i am working on a 9-5 job but i started build my first SaaS soon i will share it with you. Hopefully one day i will totally join to Indie Hacking group. How many months or days did it take to quit your job? I hope, i’ll get gut results :)

Building the app isn’t the hard part anymore, distribution is. ( Probably my fav line these days to start a topic) If you've launched an app and you're currently sitting on ~5 users, here is a dead simple, 100% free strategy to execute for the next 30 days to hit your first 1,000 installs. The Strategy: 1 Raw Video Per Day Record one video a day talking directly to the camera about your product. Tell the story of why you built it. Break down your customer’s exact pain points and how...

Im sorry but like as a founder SaaS is going to be the end of me. EVERYTHING IS A SUBSCRIPTION. you have slack and Microsoft and salesforce and Autodesk and adobe and EVERYTHING and they are all pay per user and everything so its thousands a month... Look I get SaaS for things like cloud services and hosting with ongoing cost and stuff but Autodesk and Adobe have charged me thousands a month for what is a unchanged version of the same software for years and years. At some point this has got to c...

Solo founder here, building a B2B SaaS for small business owners at $29/month. I've probably watched around 50 YouTube videos on how to get your first paying customers. Every single YouTube video felt like the same recycled advice dressed up differently, leading up to a course. So I am coming here instead, what actually got you your first 10 paying users? Did you post on Reddit and it somehow worked? Did you run Meta ads and actually break even? Did you find a Facebook group that actually ...

Running stablecoin payouts into three corridors from the same provider and the performance variance is wider than I expected. One corridor consistently credits the beneficiary within minutes. Another averages six to eight hours. sometimes minutes, sometimes next business day, and we cannot tell whether the variance is coming from the provider's liquidity depth on that corridor, the local payout partner they route through, or the beneficiary bank's own processing and risk posture. The effect...

Disclaimer: This was NOT AI generated. Not even a rough draft. This is your sign to put down Claude, loveable, VsCode (for the devs still in the thick of it). I see it every damn day, someone say “How do I get my first user?” It’s so infuriating because obviously you built something not for you and not for anyone else because if you did, you’d be using it or the person you built it for would be using it. But, alas, let’s say you’ve built something and didn’t have a target. You can still b...

I’m launching my SaaS soon, and throughout the build I’ve kept moving between believing strongly in the idea, doubting it, then believing in it again. I haven’t had the chance to validate it properly through real users yet, although I’m hoping that will come once I launch. For those further ahead, what was the first genuine sign that made you think your product was worth continuing with? Was it your first paying customer, good feedback, genuinely believing in your idea and the problem it s...

In an hour, I have a meeting with an investor and I'm nervous. I'm a first time founder and this is my first meeting with an investor. Idk what to do?

Building is exhilarating, but the most important part is not, and I think that's one of the main reasons first-time founders fall into the trap of over-building something that nobody is going to pay for. Many first-time founders heavily rely on a magical Product-led Growth that is pure fantasy. Active sales, spending hours talking to customers, and feedback loops are heavily underestimated to a point it becomes a bigtime learning [link] &#...

Hey, how many of you tried Saas and fails and what is the reason for its fail and what did you learn from that

Hi everyone, I’m struggling with bipolar disorder and have reached a very dark point. I recently tried to take my own life, and I’m scared I may attempt again. I’ve been unemployed since last year despite constantly applying. I have a degree in Industrial Management Engineering and experience in operations, project management, process optimization, and data analysis. I urgently need a job opportunity to get back on my feet. If you’re hiring or know someone who is, please reach out or refer...

Hi ! One month ago I wrote a post saying i've reached 72$MRR. Now I am at 328$MRR (which is not a lot, but i'm happy). For context, my app is: helping musicians, beatmakers and artists to create visuals for their music. I am a developer so I spent nearly 3 years making the tool as good as possible and not marketing it. (which is a mistake but if you don't do it you'll never learn this). Everyone says you should market, because an idea without marketing is nothing, and that's FUCKING T...

Hey everyone, need some advice from founders who’ve dealt with competitors using your exact name. My co-founders and I have been building a trading journal app called JournalX (we use the .io domain) since late 2023 while balancing day jobs. We registered a Delaware C-Corp back in August 2024 and put almost all our energy into product dev. Because we were building on nights and weekends, development was slow, and we completely neglected marketing and SEO. Right around the time we launched, s...

Solo founder here, been shipping SaaS for years. My first product was an (NSFW) AI companion platform. Did the normal SEO stuff. Sitemap, Search Console, content, backlinks, wait. Last week I finally put my Google numbers next to my Bing Webmaster numbers for the past 30 days: Google: 150 clicks. 4.9K impressions. 3% CTR. Avg position 24. Bing: 5,000 clicks. 32.4K impressions. 15% CTR. Avg position 4. 33x more clicks from Bing. The search engine everyone jokes about. Same pages...

You made your SaaS. Now you want to advertise it on TikTok but you never danced in front of a camera. No worries, you don't always have to. But it's hard. I'm sharing my learnings over my experiments, myths, wins and failures: 1. TikTok accounts: Use personal/creator account types, not business. If you go with business you can't use most of the popular sounds, just some random commercial boring ones. Do not buy an account unless you plan on using from the same location/VPN. You'll ge...

It's easier than ever to build awesome, fancy looking heros and landing pages for apps. Interactive demos, complex animations, etc. You think of a cool or novel design element and just tell Claude to build it, voila. But then that doesn't always mean it's actually adding any value or helping users I've added some really nice demos lately that I wouldn't have been able to do before vibe coding and they work well, but a stupid simple graphic I added to my H1 is a great example of when this doe...

Its small link creation tool which will redirect users to their correct app store page based on their devices. I needed it for myself as I developed many apps and did not want to generate landing pages, privacy policy, terms pages for every app and wanted to have one sharable link. V1 was launched on April 24 and used by me and to my memory, it got 1 paid user on launch day. V2 was launched on August 25 with the inclusion of Analytics feature and it got 2-3 paid users. And now after 1 ye...

I’m building a Flutter app with monthly/yearly subscriptions. My country isn’t supported for Google Play or Apple merchant payouts, so I’m looking at using a Merchant of Record (like Polar.sh) for checkout instead. The tricky part: I want to avoid violating Play Store/App Store payment policies (no unauthorized external purchase links inside the app, etc.). Has anyone integrated a third-party payment gateway this way and stayed compliant? What approach did you use? submitted by ...

It's so cool to be able to pull Spotify and YouTube music playlists into a music recommendation algorithm that I can fully control 100% of the time. The current usage experience is way better than the YouTube music I've been using all along! Not only that.... Tossed in real-time AI + API quota tracking for Vibe coding on the side… way too satisfying 😂🔥

I wanted to share a recent milestone from one of the websites I'm managing and get some feedback from the community. Google Search Console (Last 28 Days vs Previous 28 Days): 📈 Impressions: 15.1K → 26.8K (+77%) 🖱️ Clicks: 230 → 388 (+69%) 📍 Average Position: 14.1 → 10.7 🎯 CTR: 1.5% → 1.4% Changes that likely made the biggest impact: Cleaned up technical SEO issues (indexing, canonicals, sitemap). Refreshed and expanded older content instead of only publishing new articles. ...

Solo founder here. I’ve spent months writing articles, improving stock pages, adding structured data, fixing sitemaps and building internal links. Twice, impressions started growing and I thought something was finally working. Then they collapsed again. Three months: 4,280 impressions and only 125 clicks. Three-month numbers: 4,280 impressions 125 clicks 2.9% CTR Average position: 47.4 I’m honestly running out of ideas. Is this normal for a young site, or am I missing somethi...

Even before the AI era it was hard to find something to build in SaaS that wasn't built 10 times over. Now it's much worse. With all the AI slop out there you need a really good differentiator, which is basically impossible because anyone can copy you in days. So the only real engine left is marketing. You have to go all in on marketing, like Lovable, Gamma and others did. You need to create hype around your product, preferably before you even have the product. Start early. You can also re...

Hey, this is my website, DSA visualizer, where you can learn DSA through animation and also paste your own code and see how it works, but I don't think that is enough, so I am planning to add interview questions from companies that is asked repeatedly like from FAANG companies, mid-tech, and companies like Goldman Sachs and other fintech companies also, so whats your thoughts on this