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https://preview.redd.it/fnddsxly5zgh1.png?width=788&format=png&auto=webp&s=22e87ac5054574f811cd1e77dcee948e837be212 A few months ago this was just an idea I wasn’t even sure anyone else needed. I kept building, changing things, fixing bugs and wondering whether I was wasting my time. This week I got my third paying customer. It’s only €60 in revenue, so obviously I haven’t built a real business yet. But seeing three actual people pay for something I made feels completely dif...

Some context on who's writing this... I have built software for 8 years and now run a small AI consultancy. A growing share of our work lately isn't building new products at all, it's rescuing vibe coded ones that already have paying customers. So I get why security dominates the conversation. The leaked keys and open endpoints are real but security is a known category of problem. You can buy an audit for it and the thing I keep running into on these rescue jobs doesn't have an audit and it bo...

Basically what did you use to vibe create your demo video? Or did you hire someone to create a high end motion graphics? Or did you just screen record it. And if you can, share your demos.

A lot of SaaS founders are using AI to ship faster, so here’s a simple checklist I’ve found useful before pushing a new feature live: - Make sure server-only keys are not used in frontend code - Review auth flows, especially signup, login, password reset, and invite links - Check payment/webhook code for signature verification and replay handling - Review GitHub Actions or deploy scripts for overly broad permissions - Look at package scripts before running or deploying - Make sure ad...

Been tracking backlinks for a side project. Semrush's Authority Score jumped from 2 to 5 in a few weeks, which looked like real progress. Then I actually pulled the backlink list instead of trusting the summary number. 116 referring domains, up from before. But the count of real follow links, the ones search engines actually trust as a vote of confidence, was exactly 4. Same as three weeks ago. Not one more. The AS jump came entirely from raw domain volume, mostly low quality or scraper site...

Not a big company. Not a product recommended by your team. Just some useful SaaS you found 3 minutes ago, built by one person. Would you actually subscribe? I’ve been thinking about this because we see a strange pattern while building SaaStore: People are willing to discover unknown software. They’re willing to click around. They’re willing to read about it. But asking them to leave the marketplace and pay directly on an unknown seller’s website feels like a much bigger psychological jum...

I would like to know what is the best gateway from the list below: Polar DodoPayments Lemon Squeezy Whop Or even if there any better option it would be best because I'm running payment integration in my app as Strip is not supported in my country I was reading thread in here discussing all of them and found people categorizing each of them as scams in every different thread I opened! (or they mention their account was hold) So, I would like real experience with any of them to...

I am consistently sending mails daily it’s over a month and experimenting and sending consistently but no replies and no results I am researching about my startup can somebody help with any tips like to get any result.

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Very insightful comment hear on how people bought software in the 1990s. " Microsoft Office, the company's marketing bet that combining a series of high-quality business applications into a semi-integrated suite would beat the best-of-breed approach still advocated by its competition, was paying off handsomely. WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Quatrro, Paradox, dBASE, Harvard Graphics, and other competitors were all fast retreating into irrelevancy" In Search of Stupidity , 2nd Ed, Merril...

The tool I work at was originally born out of a partnership with a marketing agency. The agency supplied the first contacts and clients, and later we split off as our own company. That's the only reason we had real, big clients for years despite never having a proper sales process, companies like GymBeam, Ringier, and others in Slovakia. The tool automates promoting organic Facebook and Instagram posts into paid ads. Some companies and teams save entire positions worth of manual work with it. ...

Good afternoon SaaS comm. This is a sort of follow up to my previous post where I introduced what I built and opened up a tad bit (sadly ended up being removed). Here is where I am in my journey since then: In my previous post I talked about this desktop app I spent 8 months building. Long story short; It was such a big vision, but also went months on end beyond the initially intended release date, I am just super burnt out overall and have little interest in committing to consistent distrib...

I've heard this advice over and over for first-time SaaS founders, but I'm struggling to make it work. When I search for problems on Reddit or other communities, I usually find only a couple of posts, and they're often 2–3 years old. It's rarely a place where people are actively complaining every day. Am I approaching this the wrong way? Is there a better method for finding these communities, or is everyone using a different strategy than just searching keywords? submitted by ...

​ Looking back, what was the earliest sign that made you think This idea might actually work Was it user interviews, a waitlist, pre-orders, people asking for the product, or something else? Curious to hear real experiences rather than theory.

Ever had someone recommend an amazing movie and you tell yourself, "I'll remember that" ... ...and then you never do? That was me. My watchlist became a complete mess. Movies from Reddit, YouTube, friends, random comments at 2 AM... all thrown together until I couldn't even remember why I saved half of them. A week ago I got frustrated and thought, "There has to be a better way." So instead of watching movies... I spent the week building a website for people like...

Someone here told me this a while ago, but I didn’t try it until now and it’s been enlightening. The fastest way to learn what software to build is to deliver that outcome manually first. Every good product has a manual counterpart. Dropbox was a usb drive or email Stripe’s was sending invoices and collecting bank transfers Calendar was the “are you free at 2pm?” If you can deliver what your customer wants manually, you’ll learn what actually matters and where they get stuck. And t...

TL;DR ~10 old iPhones (iPhone 7 to iPhone 11), all running locally from my Mac, all targeting the US while I'm physically outside it. 2-3M views/month total, 30-40 posts per day. Content costs me $40 / month for 1200 + posts (regular subscriptions for LLMs) instead of the $0.5-3 per piece that tools on the market charge. Built with Python modules and settings files. No database, no SaaS, no cloud. Total spent so far ~1K for this setup and courses. Total build time: 3 months Everything belo...

I’m currently soft-launching a simple CRM I built for independent tradespeople and small service businesses. This is my first company (project), and I keep hesitating when it comes to promoting it. I think the real fear is spending money and effort on marketing, only to find out nobody wants it. For those who have launched a product before: how did you separate legitimate business concerns from normal fear of failure? What helped you keep moving forward when the outcome was still uncertain? ...

Hello people, it's my first SaaS and currently I have no clue how to market it, the only current user is me, I have no clue and tbh not that much of money to spend on the project, I will be very thankful for any tips tricks advices, thanks in advance for reading 🙏

CSMs in high touch B2B SaaS, Have you felt like wasting your time firefighting a bad-fit/overpromised customer who were headed for an inevitable churn or a tax on the organisation’s engineering team demanding custom requirements? Aren’t we responsible for not being able to retain? But no matter what we do we can’t simply convince fish to stay on land! If anyone been through similar situation, could you help me on how to fix it? [l...

So I am a software engineer with zero marketing skills, you see the issue is that I get excited about ideas and start building them and at some point I will get to a stage where product is ready (atleast the MVP) and that's when it momentum dies. I am looking for ideas around how I can market them, I have absolute budget of $0. Any advice will be greatly appreciate (FYI this is the SaaS for which I am trying to break the cycle https://lessonops.com/ )

I've been building a minimalist logic puzzle game called ArrowMind . Every arrow can only move in the direction it's facing. This level took me much longer to solve than I expected. 😅 What's your first move? Download Now

I do client dev work and I am building my own products on the side. No ad budget, so my marketing this month was comments in other people's threads, and I logged every one of them with the views they got. Four of my Reddit comments took comparable effort: 221 views, 15, 12, 9. Same work each time. The only variable was which thread they sat in. Then I ran the same measurement on X. Four replies: 2 views, 2 views, 11 views, and 1,204. The 1,204 one was not better written. It sat under a post ...

We recently launched a SaaS product on Product Hunt and reviewed the traffic behind the campaign link. The link recorded: 431 total requests 292 likely-human requests 71 social-preview fetches 57 automated requests 11 uncertain requests approximately 244 estimated visitors The most interesting source-level result came from X: t . co produced 36 likely-human requests x . com produced 34 preview fetches Both were related to the same platform, but they represented ...

Hello everyone, this post is purely a reflective exercise, hope it helps someone in a similar position. Six months ago I started building my own video editing software to streamline my content production workflow, mainly because I was tired of paying for subscriptions I'd been stuck with for years. That's how VLStudio was born, a video editor with AI built into the workflow. Thanks to it my own production got noticeably faster and cheaper. After using it myself for a while, I figured other p...

I’m working on my first SaaS and marketing is probably the part I know the least about. For people who’ve actually launched and grown a SaaS, what worked best for getting your first users? What would you do if you had to start again from zero today? Any tips or lessons are appreciated!

I soon gonna launch my app in the App Store but the market in my niche is quit saturated. Do yall have tips on how market the app with a saturated market.

We've all heard it a million times by now. Making app easy. Selling app hard. I just want to make some money. I love programming but I'm not gonna make my life harder by coming up with an idea, validating it, implementing it, AND selling it. I'm just gonna jump straight to the "sell it" phase because that's where I need the practice. Besides, money doesn't come from ideas or products, it comes from sales. Found a cool CRM called GoHighLevel (not affiliated to them) that you can cus...

Been to hackathons hosted by small startups in SF where they don’t really care about the participants, or the actual hacking. Just using it as a way to push their product somewhere, get GitHub stars etc.