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Built a tool that predicts how my Shopify customers will respond before I make a change. Now has a public demo, no signup needed. Got tired of "best practices" that had nothing to do with my actual store. So I built Mirra. It connects to your Shopify store, clusters your real customers into behavioral segments, and lets you ask plain English questions like "what happens if I run 20% off for customers who haven't ordered in a while." You get a prediction based on your own da...

there is a weird trap you can fall into when building AI products: the smarter you make the thing, the less people know what to do with it. A few months ago, I was building an “AI founder copilot.” I kept stacking features onto it. It scraped competitors, drafted positioning, generated roadmaps, and produced marketing ideas. every feature felt logical on its own. The demos were great. People would watch it spin up a market analysis and say it was cool, but it kept failing the “Next Monday” t...

After months of lurking and trying to come up with an idea, I finally decided to get started on an idea I have and worked on it for about 3 months and I've finally gotten to a point which I'm happy with. To be honest, It's not a groundbreaking idea, but the more I built it the more I realized the execution is what actually matters. Just hoping it turns out to be a useful tool for individuals and teams out there. It's a browser extension called Riidact. It watches for PII, API keys, and other s...

I’ve realized one of the biggest challenges of building a SaaS isn’t working harder. It’s figuring out what deserves my attention. There are always more good things to do than time available. I can spend hours improving the product, writing content, fixing technical debt, learning something new, or working on growth. They all feel productive. The hard part is identifying the one thing most likely to create meaningful progress. I’ve also noticed it’s easy to overcomplicate prioritization. I cou...

Recently we built a small product for comparing supermarket prices. The idea was simple: you search for a product and immediately see where it's cheaper, or if there's a current discount. It felt like an obviously useful thing to build. We built it inside Telegram, since it's already huge in our region. No additional apps or links to minimize friction. The UI flow was straightforward: search --> check price --> comparison and discounts, --> similar products. We also added smart...

Hey r/SaaS , Over the past few months, I’ve been analyzing customer acquisition costs across different B2B and dev-tool SaaS startups. One trend keeps popping up: early founders burning $1,000+ on Meta/Google ads with almost zero trial conversions, while others are getting 3-5x ROI using micro-creators. Since there's a lot of confusion around creator marketing pricing, I wanted to break down the actual unit economics of working with micro-creators (10k–50k followers) in technical niches. ...

Everyone has heard of the classic “let me build you a website” schtick used to make quick money, or AI-wrapper startups like productivity apps, chatbots, or trackers that do a narrowed version of what ChatGPT can do in a quick session. The old barrier to entry to SaaS before AI was that most people couldn’t code. Any app designer who understood a backend architecture could create a platform that didn’t need to be truly novel. Despite that, it was something others genuinely could not do, which...

We just hit our first month with a NRR over 115% and i'm looking for tips to keep the trend going. We are a SaaS platform targeting the SME segment and have worked hard the last couple of years to find a sweatspot for our audience. It's been brutal to see high churn for years, and i've become quite obsessed with retention tactics. How are you approaching NRR and what have worked for you? All tips are welcomed basic and advanced. [...

My outbound time last month. 3.5 hours per day on linkedin prospecting. finding leads, writing messages, following up, checking DMs. 17.5 hours a week to book maybe 2 meetings. this month i switched to an autonomous agent. same 2 meetings worth of effort now takes 20 minutes. the agent finds leads matching my ICP, writes personalized outreach based on their actual profile, runs a full sequence, and drafts replies when people respond. i just approve from one inbox. got 12 meetings booked last...

I have been working on some different software stuff for the last year or so, I am currently working on an idea I had for a SaaS last week, it basically connects to your X account and tells you waht you need to post, what works the best and what does not for your specific account. I am building this because it is something that I would genuinely use. It also tells you exactly how to launch your product on X, based on info I gave it from 10 launches that went mega viral, and even exact ideas a...

***There is no link, no sell, I'm in the same spot as you*** I see the same handful of posts: How does marketing work? Here's my solution. A lot of those solutions, in my experience, often go over the heads of the audience or are kinda built to make that person sound like a true expert. Here's the bottom line. You can reach out to people, that doesn't mean they'll respond. You can post videos, etc., doesn't mean you'll get any interaction. And none of this ultimately is what...

A lot of production traffic is structured work: Classification Entity extraction PII redaction Moderation Routing Fixed-format summarization Teams often send everything to one frontier model because it is simpler. The alternative is routing predictable tasks to smaller specialized models and escalating only the harder requests. Disclosure: I’m asking because I work with a startup called ZeroGPU that is building specialized small models to replace frontier models for some of t...

Hey everyone, I work as a project manager for a IT services company, and I took advantage of the AI boom (yeah, I know) + my app-building experience to turn a bunch of work that used to do in Excel and the like into an actual app. Nothing new, but the way of doing clearly fills a gap in my company, because I know that a certain number of my colleages have the same struggles and already tried some vibe coding. The app reconciles A. the plan (what, when, who), B. the finances (costs, allocatio...

Hi everyone! First time poster here I’ve built a few different things on base44 to varying degrees of success. The two that stick out are www.24-0.app and www.quotavi.co.uk I’m happy with where both are at but I’m now realising the limitations of the platform I’m looking for a solution that would help me migrate both the game and the SaaS away into the same stack. Monetisation for the game is going to be key - I want to get it onto the App Store with apps. It’s currently pulling arou...

I built Spenda, which is basically Spotify Wrapped for your bank. It's been something I've worked on outside of my full-time job as an 18 year old electrician, so seeing complete strangers download and use something I made has been a pretty surreal feeling. Now that it's live, I've realised building the product was actually the easy part. Getting people to discover it is a completely different challenge. Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with TikTok, reaching out to creators, m...

I am planning to get an initial set of user's to validate my idea. But I had a second thought of making the waitlist paid so that I get only people who are genuinely interested in the product, and also since it is a paid tool. Or do you think the waitlist concept itself is obsolete?

Hey everyone, I'm a software engineer and building products has always been the easy part for me. I enjoy solving technical problems, designing infrastructure, optimizing performance... I can spend weeks building something I'm genuinely proud of. But once it's time to find customers, talk to people, or ask someone to pay for it, I completely stall. I don't have an audience, I'm not naturally good at marketing, and sales honestly feels uncomfortable. If you've been in the same position:...

Let's be real for a second: as a technical founder, marketing sucks. Like If it were entirely up to me, I would just lock myself in my room, write code, and ship features all day. There is this undeniable dopamine hit you get from building. When you write a script, fix a bug, or push a new feature live, it feels like you are actually doing something . It’s tangible progress. Instant gratification. Marketing feels like the exact opposite. It feels like screaming into the void I caught myse...

I got pretty tired of seeing "just do cold email, LinkedIn ads and SEO" advice, especially for higher-ticket B2B SaaS ($20k–$100k+ ACV). So I spent some time mapping out and scoring 50+ distribution channels across 11 channel metrics (Targeting, Trust, Intent, Value, Impact, Effort, Cost, Speed, Feasibility, Scalability and Priority to make the real trade-offs clearer. The scores are meant to represent a newer high-ticket B2B SaaS company, so they definitely aren’t universal truths...

Got a pretty major presentation coming up with a ton of moving parts to cover. How does everyone practice before the big day? Pretty nervous since this one could land us a new client. Is there anything out there that actually makes the prep easier?

New SaaS sites blur together: badge, oversized centered headline, two CTAs, three-card row, grayscale logo wall, three-tier pricing with the middle plan highlighted. Build tools made it the default because they output the median of every landing page they trained on. I documented the full pattern and turned it into a drop-in rules file for your coding agent, so your page reads as a decision instead of template number 4000. It also flags the trust cliches that hurt conversion when buyers notice...

I’m curious about how early-stage startups approach analytics in practice. When you’re just starting out with limited time and resources: - Do you actively analyze customer behavior and feedback, or do you mostly rely on intuition? - What metrics do you track regularly? - How do you understand customer needs and pain points? - Do you use tools like Google Analytics, or just spreadsheets? - At what stage did you feel data analysis became essential? - Have you ever ignored analytics early ...

Not sure if it’s just me, but this happens quite often. I get a new idea, feel super excited, and start building right away. In the beginning it feels like “this could actually be something”. But after working on it for a while, the excitement slowly disappears. I start wondering: “Does anyone really need this?” “Is this actually valuable?” “Am I just building because I enjoy coding?” Then I lose motivation and feel pretty frustrated. Curious if other indie hackers/developers experie...

I keep noticing that the issues that really matter in SaaS are not the obvious ones. It’s usually things like authentication behaving differently in edge cases, APIs trusting things they shouldn’t, or data from one user leaking into another account in unexpected ways. These problems are harder to spot and often go unnoticed until they actually cause damage. Curious what people here have seen in real products.

Hey everyone! Wanted to check if anyone have standardised or automated the brd creation for their customers? Need help since there almost 5-10 customers getting onboarded every month and there is no standardised way of creating the BRDs. One fit for all cannot work since different customers opt for different features and workflows. Please let me know if anyone here also faced the same problem and how did you solve it. Feel free to DM suggestions or comment down here. submitted by &#...

Talking to users is good advice that turns into a trap if you're not careful about which users and how you weight them. The failure mode I fell into: the people who reply fastest, join the calls, and send long feature emails are not a random sample. They're your most engaged power users, and their requests pull the product toward more depth for people who already love it, and away from the boring stuff that would help the next hundred people activate. A few things that helped me keep the sig...

Every startup I've worked at installed GA4 on day one and then made approximately zero decisions from it. It tells you traffic is up. It doesn't tell you which signups turn into people who pay you twice, but without instrumentation, nobody has time for pre-PMF. What I actually wanted to know was which signups were worth chasing. Never got that out of GA4. Ended up with Stripe and one SQL query I wrote once and never touched again. What did you actually check in the most (least) early...

Different angle than the usual rant here, because I'm on the other side of it. I'm the employee who gets your tool dropped in my lap and told to make it part of my job. Every week now there's a new one. Someone prompted an app into existence over a weekend, slapped a landing page on it, and is very excited. And every week I'm the one who finds out, live, in front of my team, that the export button doesn't actually export, that it forgets my settings, that it falls over the second two of us use...

Our first app just went live on play store, Deep Focus . small team, no funding, still figuring things out so this happened today. we published our first android app, its called Deep Focus, basically a pomodoro + 21 day challenge thing to help people actually sit down and work without checking their phone every 4 minutes. which is ironic bc i spent half the build checking my phone every 4 minutes theres 3 of us. ne guy still works his full time accounting job bc somebody has to pay for the ...

Just wanted to share the small victories as they arise :) https://preview.redd.it/5uu0irphrdgh1.png?width=1241&format=png&auto=webp&s=2fbc63a31bccb1d0912e7e16f37e12cc58e0091b