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I've developed a couple of products and am seeing a lot of products here on Reddit too. No product is unique as such; every category (say, content creation) has literally 100s of products. I wonder how to create value using software anymore. How to build something that puts you ahead of your competition by at least a few months? Or is distribution and marketing the only moat that is left there? What's your experience? [link] [comme...

Hi everyone, My girlfriend and I have been working on a SaaS together for the past few months, and we're about to release it. We could really use some honest feedback before we do! The idea was inspired by how messy client handovers and approvals can be. Between emails, PDFs, passwords, files, and chasing signatures, it often feels more complicated than it should. Instead of having everything scattered across different tools, our platform brings the whole client handover process into one p...

I’m validating a workflow product for professional service businesses. The user uploads a proposal before sending it. The system estimates project economics and flags risks involving pricing, scope, revisions and payment terms. The strongest potential users seem to be small agencies that send several proposals each month, plus fractional CFOs who could review proposals across multiple clients. What I have not proven is whether the agency itself will use it consistently after the initial novel...

I’m a developer and I’ve been thinking about building a small app/SaaS that I can actually sell instead of spending months building something nobody wants. I’m not trying to build the next billion-dollar startup. I’d be happy getting to my first $1,000 in revenue . I’m open to pretty much anything: SaaS / subscription Small B2B tool AI or automation Chrome extension Mobile/web app Paid API Productized service Anything else people are actually willing to pay for If you ...

Hey, I’m an aspiring creator and entrepreneur in the education and productivity space. Building an audience from scratch is an absolute grind, but fighting each other for the exact same viewers is a zero-sum game. Right now, I run a YouTube channel that summarizes college course content, and I’m building a multiplayer cooperative Pomodoro web app. I was thinking that instead of everyone trying to build their own isolated community of a few dozen people, we can pool our audiences into one unifi...

does anyone run or frequent any strong communities with real members building and not just using ChatGPT ideas? Looking to network with other like-minded chads… lmk if you could drop some links or show me de way?! i’m building an agency atm, it’s a content farm and i’ll explain more and why it’s i think it’s a great niche to be in if you ask. cheers!

Hey everyone, A few months back I caught a $45 auto-charge on my card for a design app I literally haven't opened all year. What made me mad was that I actually set a mental note to cancel it weeks before, but forgot about it once life got busy. Couldn't find a super simple tracker that actually sent reliable notifications without being a bloated mess, so I coded my own called Submindo. I'm working on this solo so I haven't done much marketing lately due to work, but it's been slowly growi...

I built my first product in 2023. It was one of the most exciting times of my life because everything was new, and I finally felt like I was making progress toward building a sustainable product. But I made two major mistakes: I launched it for free. I had no idea how to market it. On launch day, I got 2,000+ users and a lot of hype around the product. At the time, it felt like a huge success. Looking back, though, I missed a golden opportunity because I didn’t know what to do af...

Been trying to get early adopters for my product. Every other group I post to rejects it, telling me it doesn't allow promoting or self-advertisement, etc. Moreover, I have seen people/agencies advertising that they can find leads on Reddit. How do they work then? Are all of them scams? How do you guys do this (if you do this)? Or what other means to use to ask people to try my product?

Some context: we do linkedin outbound for ourselves and a few clients. Reply rates felt like they were sliding all year and I got tired of arguing about it from vibes, so last week I finally pulled the raw numbers out of our database. Every outbound DM or Inbound pitch to us. 21,589 messages once I threw out the ones too recent to judge fairly. Three things surprised me. Message length is brutal. Under 150 characters: 31.9% got a reply within a week. Over 400 characters: 13.3%. I reread ou...

Few days back, a random guy came to my website and spent some time looking at our landing page. So I messaged him and we talked for 30 mins. He didn’t need the product right now, but he really really liked it. Also suggested a few ideas to improve. Loved his ideas. Looking at the product for so long that I had completely stopped noticing some of the obvious things he pointed out. Then he came back to the site. I messaged him immediately and told him I had already implemented the things he ...

I'm building an application security SaaS and realizing that marketing it seems almost as hard as building it. Every website seems to say the same things: AI-powered Shift left Secure your code Find vulnerabilities Enterprise-grade As a buyer, it all starts blending together. For those of you who've worked in AppSec or bought security products: What actually gets your attention? What makes you trust a new security company? What kind of content would make you want to try a p...

Yep, looking to expand my portfolio in this section, that's why I'll do it for half of the usual price a marketing studio/agency would charge you. 1 minute of SaaS video with storyboarding (app screenshots & content of the app provided by the client) only for $1500. In that price you get full storyboard, frame design, animation, video edit, sound effects & music and 2 rounds of revisions. My usual day rate is $300 for other stuff. Normally it'd be around $3000 for UK/US based agenc...

I have been looking into getting our menu online.​ The options are all over the place, but I have narrowed it down to a few approaches so far:​ • Hand-code a simple page. Almost free if you know HTML, but editing the page every time a price changes gets old quickly. ​ • Use a full POS like Toast or Square. It handles almost everything, but the monthly fees and processing costs feel like a lot for a place our size right now. ​ • Use a QR code that links to a PDF. Better than nothing, but ...

After launching, I was posting every day, replying to comments, and sharing updates on X, But after few weeks, I got busy and I completely lost the habit For people who've stayed consistent for months, what's your secret? Is it just consistency, or do you have a system that makes it easier to keep showing up?

Been building EasyViral AI for the past few months its a one click AI platform that generates short form videos. We’ve reached $2k MRR with a small team by mostly figuring things out ourselves (ads, experiments, talking to users). The product is in a good place and users genuinely seem to love it. What I’m missing now is someone whos exceptional at distribution. If you’ve scaled SaaS through influencer partnerships, affiliates, creator ecosystems, organic content, SEO, communities, or any o...

Three projects. 260 hours. 148 users. $3 in lifetime revenue against $1,120 burned. Put them in the ground, figured it was the right thing to do. https://preview.redd.it/rh13uvtl77gh1.png?width=970&format=png&auto=webp&s=5cefb0f51eab93aba9436009371c304a14d87c4b

Three years, three products nobody wanted, and I nearly quit before this one. What changed wasn't my coding, it was that for the first time I built something a specific person had literally asked me for, instead of something I thought was clever. The number is small, I know a grand isn't 'made it', but after watching two builds die at zero it feels enormous, because it's proof that a stranger will pay me for something I made. The previous failures weren't wasted, they taught me the one lesson th...

any tools you guys are using? Its as important as getting users i think, we get a lot of discussions, advices on how to get users but i didn't hear a lot of people talking about this. of course if a user just simply doesnt like your product they'll cancel their subscription the best way is to have a good product but for other cases where you can take action on this

About a year ago, I started building a SaaS for local merchants in Egypt. The idea came from something I kept noticing. Most technology companies here focus on medium and large merchants. Companies like InstaShop and Breadfast have built great businesses, but they typically work with merchants that meet certain operational and commercial requirements. On top of that, they often charge commissions that can reach 15–35% of every order. That made me wonder: What about the thousands of smal...

Looking for input from others who've navigated this specific decision. My product started with a narrow, vivid use case and has since proven to work across a much broader set of contexts than originally framed. Just for the sake of the context: my SaaS helps business owners and Shopify merchants, to turns catalogues, product descriptions, articles and blog posts, into Audio, using AI text-to-speech, imported Google Docs and Google Sheets files and URLs. Why this? Because it Improve accessib...

I been doing motion design for around 6 years now and a decent part of my work has been around saas products, explainers and ui animation recently put together a showreel with some of that work one thing i keep thinking about is the difference between what designers find visually impressive and what actually helps a founder explain their product better would love some honest thoughts on this. does the motion make things easier to understand or does it ever feel like its just there to look ...

We're a 3-person startup building a monitoring platform that helps you find and fix production issues. Pretty much the first thing people asked on sales calls was to see our documentation. So we had to figure out how to do docs properly (and fast) while actually building the product. Where we landed, in the order we actually built it: - We started with a model of the platform: one manifest listing every repo and service that makes up the product, and one grounding file where product facts ...

My first Product Hunt launch taught me one important lesson: Launching too early gets you feedback. Launching later shows you whether you've actually built something people want. Over the last six months I've completely reworked the product, added paying customers, improved onboarding, and cut a lot of features that nobody used. Today is my second launch, and it feels very different from the first. For those of you who've relaunched a product: What changed the most between your first a...

Over the last few months, I've been experimenting with AI website builders, and I noticed something interesting. They do an amazing job getting you to 90% of the way there. But that last 10% is where things get messy: Broken links Placeholder text left behind Missing SEO metadata Accessibility issues Security headers Mobile responsiveness quirks None of these are huge on their own, but together they make a website feel unfinished and can hurt user trust. That's what led us ...

Today I got my first paying customer for my SaaS. It's only 1 sale . No "MRR screenshot." No "I made $10k in 30 days." No viral launch. Just one person on the internet decided my product was worth paying for. That single notification hit differently because a few weeks ago this was just an idea on my laptop. I spent countless hours: Building instead of sleeping. Fixing bugs nobody will ever know existed. Redesigning the UI over and over. Wondering if an...

I’ve realised most AI social media tools don’t actually save me any time. They’ll generate one post, then I still have to: think of ideas make the graphics resize everything schedule it rewrite captions publish to each platform So I’m building something different. You connect your business once, it learns your brand, products and tone of voice. Been using it for my other 2 saas and it’s working great I can focus on other things whilst this is running on autopilot. Every week it auto...