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I have connections HUGE connections. Through my family however only know the business & marketing end of the company. I need someone with experience in Enterprise SaaS/Microsoft azure/open ai with the right cofounder & connections we will takeover. Willing to give ownership to this person. However needs to be committed and see the vision the way I do

And if there’s one thing that you’d do differently, what would it be?

I've had free users poke around before, but this was the first person who actually put a card down before touching the product. When I saw the stripe notification i actually jumped out of bed and couldnt stop smiling. The feeling when your face is stuck in a permanent smile lol. Some context: I'm building an AI-native lead gen tool with agents that scout, build, and do outreach for you. I just switched from free access to card-required trials, mostly to filter for people who are actually seri...

When I was leaving my job at Google 2 years ago...I had thought that since I had a good pedigree, building startups would be EASIER. Boy was I wrong! Here's my journey so far and the learnings that came with it: Month 1-2: [Naive 1st attempt] Build an AI EdTech startup for college students preparing for DSA placements Learning: You can't replace a good teacher with AI. Month 3-15: [Biggest mistake of them all] Build an AI automation tool to automate "work" Learning: S...

Never happen before! Can anyone suggest any cheaper option for authentication otp service enabled in existing project? Firebase started charging very high and deducted money without noticing prior that per authentication 0.07$ per auth... which means 6.67 INR.... which is really disappointed!! Looking for stronger recommandation..!

What is your budget for getting traffics organically? What do you do for getting organic traffic? What is your strategy?

I'm curious if anyone else feels like this. Over the last year I've spent hundreds of hours building an AI product. The funny thing is, the technical side was never the hardest part for me. The hardest part has been understanding what people actually want to build. I keep seeing people say things like "I have 50 ideas" or "I never finish my side projects," and I wonder if that's the real problem not the lack of ideas, but losing excitement somewhere between the idea and...

People who do marketing, how do you do it? What tools do you use? How much does it cost? What is the best way to promote your products?

Built a tool to solve my own freelance job-hunting problem. Sharing the early build and asking for a gut check before I go further. The problem: refreshing five job platforms a day, competing with 40 proposals per decent listing, and every "AI proposal tool" I found just generates generic cover letters. What I built: scrapes RemoteOK, Freelancer, LinkedIn hourly. Scores jobs against my skills and past work. Matches to real portfolio pieces. Drafts proposals that reference the actua...

I keep getting pitched by directories, newsletters, and "startup showcase" sites asking for $50–$300 to feature my SaaS. Some examples: "Get featured to 10K founders" "Top spot in our tool directory for $99/month" Newsletters promising "5K engaged subscribers" Feels like most of these are just collecting money from desperate founders and delivering zero ROI. But maybe I'm wrong? Has anyone actually paid for one of these and: Got real si...

I’ve been reviewing SaaS applications recently, and I keep noticing the same pattern: Individual endpoints look fine. The problem only appears when several legitimate features are chained together. Things like onboarding, permissions, billing, API integrations or account recovery. If you’re building a SaaS, which workflow are you least confident about, and why?

I sit hear and tear though these posts. They have been extremely helpful. I really enjoy what I read. One thing does stand out to me: it seems to a be a very common path when deploying an app or website - day one/month one subscriptions. Every site and every app has a different purpose, approach, and audience, but so many of us seem to be going to straight for the cash. My approach, which works for what I am doing, is to let people (hopefully) use and enjoy what I have created. If word ...

Last month a founder booked a call that I still haven't stopped thinking about. He arrived with 3 finished products, all polished, all built inside a single quarter and his question for us was which one he should start marketing. I asked which of the 3 problems he had validated and after a pause he said that building them had felt like the validation. He isn't careless which is the part that bugs me. If he can slide into this, anyone can. There used to be a wall between having an idea and hold...

Hi! I am a pentester, and I work with larger companies. I'm curious what solo developers or small businesses actually do about security. Have you ever paid for security services (e.g. testing the app, code review etc.)? If yes, from whom, what was it, and what made you buy it? If you never bought anything, what put you off? Was it the price? Not knowing who to contact? Or it just never came up?

I have an idea in mind. My idea sounds really good and should be profitable and helpful, however I have never build a SaaS before. Should I have very clear idea of what my SaaS should do or should I start building it before I understand how it will work?

One of the problems I kept seeing in IT operations is that companies have plenty of policies, but the connection between the policy, the actual process, and the evidence is usually missing. Months and months of manual work and even then playing catch up for the last audit never mind the next one. So I built a workflow where you can: • Load compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIST, ISO 42001, etc.) • Review controls and coverage • Generate policies from active operational setting...

I’m launching a SaaS and expect steady, organic growth rather than huge user numbers. The plan is to offer both monthly and annual subscriptions. Stripe seems to be the default recommendation these days, and I’ve heard good things about it. For those already running SaaS businesses, do you use Stripe or another provider? If something else, what made you choose it? I’m particularly interested in reliability, ease of integration, subscription management, none/low early fees and what the overal...

I've been building this on nights and weekends for about a year, next to paid work. It went live on Sunday evening and three people have paid for it since. Small number. Still felt like something, given the whole waitlist before launch was 41 people. The thing itself: every FIRE and retirement calculator I ever used assumes you stay in one place. You give it a savings rate, it gives you a year, done. That assumption is wrong for anyone who moves. My burn rate in Chiang Mai and my burn rate in ...

3 years ago I quit a stable job to build a start-up around a problem I had a significant experience at work. I was sure we could quickly build a much cheaper and more flexible solution - and we did. But then we realized that almost no one company actually feels this problem. Those who do have usually already built internal solutions, and selling them external ones is quite resource- and time-consuming. We kept shipping, talking to people, pivoting between various B2B and B2C ideas, and much ...

I have been working on mine non-stop for 1.5 months. No end in sight. I expect this to be at least 6 months. It must be done right. That is the initial build, the alpha. This isn't counting soft rollout, refinement and updates, marketing, etc. I really enjoy this process. It can be frustrating sometimes, but I have learned so much already. I have been using the Microsoft Azure Startup Credits to help with this project. The backend has been particularly interesting. I love learning what is b...

We're only six people, so we've managed without much documentation until now. The problem is everyone has become the expert in their own area. When someone's away, the rest of us spend ages trying to remember how they normally do things. I'd like to start documenting our everyday workflows before the company gets any bigger but I also don't want another complicated system we'll stop using after a month. What have other small teams found works well?

Curious to hear real examples of something you built with confidence, maybe even the thing you were most excited to ship, that just... sat there with near-zero usage once it was live. What did you learn from it, and did you kill the feature or leave it in anyway?

Been building this for a while, a lead gen and outreach tool for freelance web designers and devs. Still early access, no outside users yet, but had a friend who's also a dev go through it this week and he genuinely liked it, which felt like a small win after building mostly in isolation and only really trusting my own judgment on it. Now trying to figure out how to get it in front of people who don't already know me. If anyone's been through this stage, curious what worked for you. ...

It turns out my web app’s seo was broken for months. Please fix your seo earlier than you plan to fix.

Hey folks! Thanks for stopping by this thread. I'm a software developer who's trying to become an entrepreneur, mostly out of necessity because it's been a while since I got laid off. The problem is I'm a developer. I know how to build stuff, but I have almost no idea how to sell it. I made the classic mistake of building first and validating later. Looking back, I probably should've talked to potential customers before writing a single line of code. But here we are. I genuinely believe ...

Honestly every saas tool out there is slapping AI-powered on itself these days . So curious what you all think ? What’s your actual bar for a feature being useful vs just there to look good on homepage ?

I have built multiple SaaS and they are lying in my hard drive. Now a days, building is easy but distribution is the hardest part. I don't know where to go and what to do. Any experience you want to share, would be helpful.

So I started my first SaaS 2 years ago and pretty quickly it took off in a local niche and I went to $6,000 MRR. Then competitors came in, churn was real, and slowly decayed over time. Im now sitting at $1,500 MRR and it’s hurting. I feel plateaued. To go from a trending hype product to a solid business with real PMF, low churn and steady growth is a different beast. Where I sit now I’m just so dumfounded by the rate of agentic AI at coding: I built my initial MVP with ChatGPT 3o in 3 month...

From my experience, I'm saying that I never expected a single cent from my SaaS website. All the features and everything are free. Gradually, users increased like crazy. Then I started rate-limiting on everything and launched subscriptions. That's how I grew users and my portfolio. I've made over $10,000 within one year. Most of the time, I felt lost and stopped working, but when someone purchased, my motivation doubled, and that's how I kept working.