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I built a video generator for SaaS companies. Feed it a website, it creates a demo video. Simple enough. Except the videos kept coming out wrong. The AI would scan a homepage and grab the obvious stuff. "Streamline your workflow." "Boost productivity." All the generic marketing copy that tells you nothing. But the real value? That was always hidden. A Slack integration buried in the pricing page. A customer quote about fixing their Asana problem, three clicks deep. Th...

I did it for 6 months. Only figured it out when someone outside my head finally used it. Here's what it looks like from the inside. You have a problem. A real one. You feel it daily. So you build something that solves it exactly the way you would want it solved. Every decision makes sense because you are simultaneously the builder and the ideal user. The product feels complete because it fits your brain perfectly. Then a stranger uses it. And you watch them get confused at the thing you th...

I'm 14. I built Receipts because I got accused of using AI on an essay I actually wrote and had no way to prove it. It records all your keystrokes and verifies it against 25 plus motor, rhythm and composition checks. These are mostly demonstrated by only humans and take a lot of effort to overcome. And if accused, you can just send one link to the teacher and they can see a record of all your keystrokes and a full replay of you typing. The premium tiers get more proof like a pdf exhibit and a ...

When people talk about community bots, I still think most picture moderation, support tickets, welcome messages, that kind of thing. But there are a lot of workflows inside paid communities that people are still handling across separate tools. Memberships, payments, access, analytics, automations, even transactions depending on the community. Feels like there’s room for bots that handle one valuable workflow really well and charge a monthly subscription for it. Basically micro-SaaS that lives ...

Hi r/SaaS , I’m looking for feedback on the positioning and pricing of a SaaS MVP I’ve just switched over to. The product is GridMenu: a prompt-free AI food photo editor. Users upload a real dish photo, apply controlled edits through UI options rather than text prompts, then export usable assets for menus, delivery platforms, and social media. The current MVP controls are intentionally narrow: - [Choose] Lighting - [Replace] Tabletop Surface - [Replace] Studio Backdrop - [Remove] G...

the title basically I dont know what to do here -> https://yieldtheory.app should I do things in UGC? I think its time But the thing is that if I spend time and bring clicks but users still dont convert? I want to know what is it in my offer thats preventing users from converting the landing page isnt vibe coded much right now and according to me the design is top notch I sincerely believe the product will help people to help grow their money better by giving out investment re...

Tbh I was not the most studious person but I do understand the basics of html css js, databases and very rough backend. So I tried multiple times to build my own web app from scratch without following some kinda tutorial but I always get stuck at some portion of it and get confused. I'd like to relearn everything so I have a stronger fundamental so I went to YouTube and searched full stack and web app roadmaps and whatnot. But it's so overwhelming, can someone simplify the minimum tech stack t...

Hi all, I am new to marketing my projects, your average tech guy. I decided to do organic marketing via posting on YT, IG, Tiktok exactly a week ago. On Wednesday my post went kinda viral and got 16K views and around 200 likes and comments. Comments are mostly about my comment bait. I asked them to comment "X" so I send them the playbook which has a clear CTA to my website(in fact I hosted the article on my website but didn't make it obvious it was an ad, as I am posting on a made-...

It might just be a dollar after taxes and what not but it matters so much to me as its my first time building my own product and someone buying it that it almost made me cry lol. I have been working as a SE for many past years but that's just you know your job, this is my own so it feels so different. I have been working on Splitceipt for past couple of months. And the best part of it all is, they brought like 3-4 users along them which makes it even better 😄It just came with a rush of...

I’ve been building an open-source developer tool called LongLeash. It lets someone supervise Claude Code and Codex sessions running on their own laptop from a phone. The implementation now covers approvals, replies, stop controls, model/reasoning settings, Terminal and VS Code session visibility, safe parallel Git worktrees, and reviewed agent-to-agent handoffs. The uncomfortable part is that working software is not evidence of a business. Native remote-control features already exist. Seve...

Genuinely curious how founders here think about this. For most small SaaS teams the highest ROI automation is internal, not customer facing: one support agent with the right internal tools handling 3x the tickets, or drip follow up on trial signups that never converted. What would your first automation be and why? Trying to build a practical checklist, happy to share what I've seen work.

I was insecure thinking many things I shouldn't have been thinking. I thought random bullshit "what if I was sued by the company" on getting their app based solution as automation. This and that but the automation was running smooth the problem was I didn't go online. As of today I serviced more than 800 User accounts Ran over 1000+ batches of automation job uninterrupted(3 years) I am pretty confident now that my product will sustain but looking into the play store recent happen...

Out of exactly 155 real users, almost all only try the free plan once and don’t come back. Only 2 have came back and tried it again. No one has converted. I tried emailing them all but got no reply. The SaaS has 3 months of life by now. Does this mean I should delete it and save myself the embarrassment? lol If not, what would you do?

Hi, I'm a motion designer and I've been building an AI-automated SaaS promo video maker tool. It analyzes your website, get your brand voice, writes the script, generates VO and music, and delivers you a ready-to-publish SaaS promo video. I analysed competitors, and none of them actually provide this level of quality output. However, since this is my first SaaS, I really don't know how to price it. Normally, when I worked as a freelancer, I used to charge around 1k-5k for a similar project...

I don’t think founders are thinking hard enough anymore or perhaps, we’ve gotten just too comfortable with surface solutions and wave chasing. There is a surprising amount of founders right now looking for “ideas” as if they are something you find in a book. If you are asking “how do I come up with a startup idea?,” you are likely looking for a trend to chase rather than a problem to solve. The best ideas usually find you when you experience a friction point so annoying that you can’t ignore ...

Hello everyone, I'm looking to own a SaaS business due to its global appeal and high margin model. I have a budget of around half a million and am wondering whether acquiring a solid SaaS would be a good option or whether I should hire a team to bootstrap one. In terms of my own expertise, I come from a finance background with a strong understanding of managing finances, taxes and leverage. In the past, I have acquired a local gym, accounting firm and packaging material manufacturing factory...

Anyone else dealing with people constantly creating free trial accounts to game credits? How are you guys handling this? IP checks on registration? Looking to hear from others dealing with the same thing

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on three apps that I was actually happy with, but my TikTok accounts were basically doing nothing. I kept telling myself I'd start posting consistently, but I already knew how that story would end. I'd make a few posts, get busy with the apps, stop posting, and repeat the whole thing again a month later. So instead of fixing my discipline, I decided to fix the problem. I built a small product that could take care of the TikTok workflow for me. You give it you...

I'm still in the initial stages of getting customers. But looking for advice from those who've got paying customers for your SaaS products. If you're a solo founder, how do you make sure business continuity. If you're sick or taking vacation, there needs to be someone who needs to handle support and maintenance. How did you hire someone or find a partner etc? Because for some domains customers don't want to bank on a single point of failure (the solo founder).

did this out of curiosity on the weekend. gave an agent a task like “sign up for this tool and get to the dashboard” across 10 random products from producthunt. results were rough. captchas killed 5 of them outright. 2 died in email verification because the agent obviously can’t click a link in an inbox it doesn’t have. 1 got flagged at the card step. only 2 worked end to end. what I can’t figure out is whether founders think this is fine or a problem. like if a paying customer tells chatgpt...

I build a LinkedIn outreach tool that runs on your own machine instead of in a cloud dashboard. Solo, no marketing hire, no agency. Over the last few months I moved almost the whole go-to-market to AI. Short version of the setup, then two questions I actually need answered. Killed Webflow The site is now a static Astro repo, and I build pages by describing them in Cursor. The win wasn’t « AI writes my copy » it was that the site became code, so sitemap, RSS, structured data and release notes...

For eight months my whole growth plan was "pour money into ads, fix conversion later." Conversion never got fixed because I never understood why it was broken. Here's the number that ended that era. I finally wired up basic event tracking and looked at what my last 100 signups actually did. 71 of them never once completed the core action the product exists for. They signed up, clicked around for three or four minutes, hit some wall I couldn't see, and left. I wasn't losing customers....

Soo many people on Reddit and other socials claiming they’re making $10k, $20k, sometimes even $50k+ a month from apps they built with AI tools. (A lot of the times it seems to be some ads from the vibe coded tools themselves, or at least they like to push those stories) I’m curious how common this actually is outside of the posts that go viral. Has anyone here personally built an app with Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc. that turned into a meaningful income stream? Or do you even know someone wh...

"I made an app, no idea how to do organic marketing, this is tuff". Here's how to create 2 months worth of content in half a day: Create a TikTok account Pay a UGC girl to give you 30-40 3s reaction clips (upwork/fiver or ugc platforms like socialclaw, dan's ugc, etc) Record a video of your screen showing how the app works , cut it shortly to 1-2s clips. Organize all of these footage files into folders. Ask Claude/Codex to overlay text over the UGC clips and automatic...

I built a free browser-based chemical structure editor called MolSketch. The idea is pretty simple: chemists and students can draw chemical structures, convert image, SMILES and CAS numbers into structures, and export them without installing software or creating an account. The product itself is working and it has attracted users organically, but lately growth has started to stall. So I'm trying to figure out what I should focus on next rather than just adding more features. For a niche ...

The old path was: idea → MVP → App Store → paid acquisition → subscription. Now it’s: idea → a weird interactive website built overnight → a viral post → thousands of people testing the product. Maybe we’ve been thinking about the future of software all wrong.