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Hey guys, looking for advice. I have an AI agent SaaS (saturated space, I know). I've got over 500 users on the free plan, but NOBODY has every upgraded to pro. In total, 62 people have looked at the checkout page to upgrade, but never upgraded (according to my Polar analytics). My free plan offers 100 credits. I think they are consumed fairly quickly. The pro plan is $8.99/mo and gives you 10x more, plus other nice features. Do I need to make the free plan have less features? Make the pro pla...

I built a tool to analyze a Reddit post, score it against a target subreddit, and give actionable advice to maximize engagement. Think of it as a grammar checker for Reddit culture, built to help with building SaaS and increasing MRR. For months I refined the algorithm, tested across subreddits, and gathered feedback. The responses were encouraging: creators loved the idea of tuning posts to fit community norms. I was sure it was a problem worth solving. Then Reddit revoked my API access. No...

I'm looking at starting a Business Process Improvement / Operations Optimisation business that helps small businesses save time by improving inefficient workflows, reducing admin, automating repetitive tasks and streamlining day-to-day operations. My initial thought is to niche down into a single industry (for example, independent garages, as that's the industry I know best). Instead of cold calling and trying to sell my services, I was thinking of a different client acquisition strategy. ...

Just keep going. I'm no expert but I've heard this advice repeatedly from people doing well as an entrepreneur, that it's really hard obviously, but also that we may go a long long time with uncertainty and maybe make zero dollars or have just no progress and we have to trust the process or sit with ourselves and self evaluate like why isn't this working? What am I doing wrong? That's what business is all about but there is something that makes SaaS special to me at least. It's that you ca...

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a productivity/utility app my team and I have been working on called Your BillBox . The main reason we built this was to solve that annoying dilemma at the checkout counter: you want the digital receipt for returns or expense tracking, but you absolutely don't want to give them your personal email and get bombarded with daily newsletters and "special offers." Here is how it works: When you get the app, it generates a unique, custom email addre...

So I have this app that I used in my last job and I didn't know what to do with it after I was let go. I made it more fitting for general use and then posted it on the microsoft store to validate the idea. we're now about six months after, I didn't do any marketing or ads anywhere, the only thing I have for it is a landing page on cloudflare pages and that wasn't advertised aswell. Could these downloads be bot activities ? if not is this enough proof to try and earn from the app?I'm also broke s...

Lately it feels like everyone building SaaS is using Cursor, Claude, Copilot, or something similar. Is that actually true, or are there still plenty of people building the old-fashioned way? Genuinely curious what your workflow looks like these days.

Back 14 years ago I started a SaaS business. It became mildly popular and sold in 2021 for tens of millions. Now I am back at it - building something else. I am struggling though. I’ve been trying to work out whether I could build the same way if I started today. Honestly, I don’t think I could. When we started, building software was difficult and clunky. I am a software engineer so I could build when others couldn't. Distribution was also fairly understandable. We used SEO, paid ads an...

For me, I'd start marketing a lot earlier. When we started building TurtlePic, I kept telling myself, "We'll start marketing once the product is ready." The problem is, I don't think a product is ever really finished. Every week I find something that could be improved or another feature that would make the product better. If I waited until it felt "complete," I'd probably still be waiting. What surprised me was how much harder marketing turned out to be. With developmen...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to get some brutally honest feedback because I'm starting to feel like I'm missing something fundamental. For the last 2 months, I've been trying to build a business serving MedSpas in the US. The goal is to help them get more qualified Bookings but I'm struggling to find a repeatable way to get clients to serve. Here's what I've tried so far: Sent 600+ cold DMs on Instagram. Tested 10+ different messaging styles. Tried different hooks, CTAs, and personaliz...

If you are building an app right now, read this before you submit. I've been building SaaS for years. I shipped my first mobile app almost a month ago, hit 1,500 downloads so far, and passed Apple review on the first try. Google rejected us. That rejection taught us more than the approval did. Here is everything we learned, so your launch does not slip by a month. 1)Submit your Facebook and Instagram integration FIRST. Before the app is even finished. Meta App Review can take up to thr...

Our SaaS just crossed its first million 🤯 (Well, it’s not in revenue yet 😅) But considering what it’s already bringing us, we’re getting closer every single day. ❤️ 4 weeks ago, I shared the growth curve of this same SaaS after it passed 500,000 Google impressions. In just one month, we’ve doubled that number… and doubled our clicks as well. But at the end of the day, these are just metrics. The real question is: does it generate business? And the answer is yes. Today, our SEO brings u...

Hey everyone, it's been a month that I've been building a product. I've already done a soft launch on X. It brought a little traffic and a few users tried the product. Also, I've been posting regularly about product updates on X since then. But I've realised that simply posting on X doesn't get much traction these days unless you've a huge following (or you have already made X MRR). It only fills your feed with products from other indie hackers (which isn't bad but just saying). Now, I want to...

I have created a SaaS (called snagr.sh) and tweeted about it on twitter like multiple times got a few likes and interactions but numbers never grew, how do you market your SaaS? I have heard reddit is smth to look into but not sure tho

I uploaded my app to the play store and pretty much spent a year updating it... I will say to myself "Just one more feature, the app will be so good and I can market it easily" At one point the time to do marketing did come and... I just gave up. Yesterday I opened my play console app and it turns out I had a monthly subscription user (who left after 2 months) and a year subscription user (who also cancelled) I also had 8 reviews with 7 "5 star reviews" and 1 "4 st...

I'm currently building a lead finding tool for thumbnail designers and video editors, and i have not been able to find my second paying users for a month or two now, how did you get past 5 paying active users?

I made my first $90 from my project after 3 years of grinding. Long story short, basically I started build in public to had personal brand and drive organic traffic. At first, I had no audience. I was just posting about what I was building, sharing lessons, and documenting the process. The biggest thing I learned is that building the product is only half the work. The other half is learning how to distribute it. I started studying what successful creators were doing: • What type of pos...

A client asked me for a dashboard last year and I built him a proper one with 14 filters, date ranges, export buttons and a settings page where he could choose which metrics showed up first. He runs a building supply business of decent size and he had told me that he wanted full visibility into everything… so full visibility is what I delivered and I was fairly pleased with myself on handover day. Quick background before the rest of this makes sense... I have been building products for 8 years...

Not gospel, just my read. I spent 2 years inside a structure that coached early stage startups, so I sat through a lot of pitches and watched which ones actually turned into revenue. Now I'm building my own SaaS solo, no technical background, and making my own version of these mistakes. Both sides taught me the same thing: the build was never the hard part. Don't launch an all in one tool The fastest way to know if your scope is too wide is to try writing your pricing page. Not the lan...

It was actually last month, and I wanted to share it so much, but everything went nuts. I was so happy, I can remember this morning when I came to pick up my phone, and there was the Stripe notification, first one ever. I told my husband, he said: "Wait, seriously?". Not what I expected tbh, but I was so thrilled! After that I worked 3x harder on the project improvements and tried to market it more. A month after there were no new paid users. But I was thinking, at least I hav...

I'm curious to hear from founders and engineers who've launched AI features or AI products. Looking back, what turned out to be much harder than you expected? I'm less interested in what you planned for, and more interested in the problems that only became obvious after real users started interacting with your product. Was it: - keeping AI costs under control? - understanding whether customers were actually profitable? - usage tracking? - pricing? - infrastructure? - something ...

I've been analyzing AI products, GitHub projects, and startup signals to understand where new SaaS opportunities are appearing. Some patterns I noticed: AI agents for SMBs AI workflow automation Vertical AI assistants AI developer tools AI knowledge management I'm curious what other SaaS founders are seeing: Which AI category do you think will create the most opportunities in 2026? Would love to hear your thoughts.

So my first SAAS product is almost done, but I don't have any audience to share with and I do know that using reddit, twitter, product hunt, HN, linkedin, slack, discord and niche communities to get users. But I am wondering if there's any thing i missed apart from what i mentioned and is there anything I should be careful of and not use any i mentioned? Love to hear your advice whether it is negative or positively inclined to this. I appreciate it guys.

I’m curious how experienced SaaS founders approach this. I see two very different approaches: Option A: Build the launch properly first polished landing page demo video content/social posts Product Hunt / communities / SEO preparation then drive traffic after everything is ready The idea is to maximize the value of the first wave of attention. Option B: Launch as soon as possible get a basic MVP out talk to real users see if anyone actually cares iterate based...

I reached my first 50 users before my SaaS was even live. I didn't run ads. This is basically what I did: - Started writing on Medium about problems my target users face. - Posted regularly on X and shared what I was building. - Shared helpful posts in relevant Reddit communities instead of just dropping links. - Made a simple landing page with a waitlist. - Whenever someone liked my content or asked about the product, I sent them to the waitlist. It took me around 1.5 months to ...

Hi! I’m building my own commercial product ads photos/videos SAAS (I’m a content creator. I heard that there’s sources that sells the tokens cheaper than the model itself!! Anyone knows about this? Could you give me names please! Thank youu

I know users aren't the same as paying subscribers, but if your paid conversion rate stays relatively stable, you can estimate future subscriber growth and get a rough idea of where your MRR is heading if your growth continues. My timeline: 1st user: Nov 12, 2025 10th user: Nov 21, 2025 100th user: Jan 26, 2026 1,000th user: Jul 30, 2026 By the way, almost all of my users have come from SEO. No ads. What did your timeline look like? https://preview.redd.it/atmmefj8fbgh1.png?...

Hey, I recently made a SaaS and I deployed it, but even when new users come, they just instantly leave, and I don't know if there's any problem with my SaaS and because of that, I did not even add a payment or monthly subscription thing in my SaaS that make me money, right now my SaaS is a free and i am not making any money and when i tested out SaaS myself it was ok and i did not see a problem and i still dont know why people are leaving ...

I want to see more than me. I have failed around seven SaaS. Maybe three more SaaS will be added soon. 😄 How about you? After last fail, if you got success, what did you learn from last fail?