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They get some half-baked product idea from Chatgpt and assume people are going to happily pay $39 a month for it. Then they ask the team to build an MVP. They show it to a few leads, and the leads usually say “This doesn’t actually provide enough value.” So what do they do? They go straight back to ChatGPT and ask, “How can we create more value?” Then the whole cycle starts again. I’ve seen this happen with more than 10 useless AI slop ideas at this company. No real customer research. No...

I got tired of giving AI a design reference too and all I got was something barely similar but still very ugly and broken!! So I built Rows (mini project) Paste a website URL Rows renders the page and gives you structured HTML/CSS or converts it straight to React + TypeScript + Tailwind. Instead of getting something that only somewhat looks like clay com (your design reference), you get 90% of the actual design, with the same structure and hierarchy, but clean code clay com → Rows → Re...

Hey everyone, I need some advice. I'm from Indonesia and I've been building an AI recruitment SaaS for the last few months. It took way longer than I expected, and the product has been live for about 4 months now. The hard part? I still haven't got my first paying customer. I've talked to recruiters, changed features, and even made job posting free to attract companies. Some people signed up, but nobody has paid yet. I'm honestly wondering if I'm focusing on the wrong thing. If t...

Look, I might just be salty, but I’ve been analyzing the data on recent SaaS launches, and the traffic graphs all look exactly the same. It’s a massive, beautiful green spike on Day 1, followed by a slow, depressing slide back to a flatline by Day 30. It feels like the "launch spike" is just a loan, and 30 days later, the platform calls it back. I fell down a rabbit hole researching this and found out that founders are paying agencies anywhere from $100 to $1,000+ just to "opti...

I don’t usually make posts like this because I don’t like speaking negatively about other products. But I’m seriously considering moving from Polar to Stripe, and I’d love to hear from people who have been in a similar situation. The funny thing is that most migrations seem to go the other way. People move from Stripe to Polar because the Merchant of Record model removes a lot of headaches around taxes and compliance. That’s one of the main reasons I chose Polar in the first place. The iss...

The more organizations I observe, the less I think the issue is the number of software vendors. The real problem seems to be ownership. Nobody owns the entire lifecycle. Someone requests the software. Someone else approves the budget. Legal reviews the contract. Security signs off. IT deploys it. Finance pays the invoice. Then everyone moves on. Fast forward 12 months... The contract renews automatically. Half the licenses aren't being used. Nobody remembers who origina...

I’ll start. For years I kept hearing “build it and they will come.” I spent way too much time improving the product before talking to enough customers. Looking back, even a mediocre product with consistent sales conversations would’ve been a better strategy. Curious what advice everyone else ignored (or followed) that ended up backfiring.

Hey everyone, I'm posting here because I'm honestly feeling pretty stuck and demotivated right now, and I just need some real advice (or maybe a reality check). When I was building my product over the last few months, I was genuinely so hyped. Every single day I was hyper-focused because I was solving a pain point I ran into constantly. Existing tools out there just felt clunky or completely missed the mark on what actually needed to be solved, and I was convinced I was building something tr...

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I’m a 20-year-old accounting student and bookkeeper. For the past few months, I’ve been building an AI bookkeeping app for small business owners. The app is live, but I’m completely exhausted from trying to get users. I’ve posted content, reached out to creators, messaged hundreds of business owners, and tried different marketing strategies, but I’m still getting very little traction. I really don’t want to give up because I spent a lot of time and money building it, and I still believe the ...

I vibe-coded a tiny SaaS for about a month with basically zero software background. It works well enough that real users are poking at it, which is exactly when the fun left the room. a dev friend asked one question that ruined my evening. Can user A change an ID in a request and see user B's records. I had no answer. Claude generated a lot of the app and I nodded along becuase the UI looked right. Tenant isolation is not a UI feeling. It is route checks, database policy, ownership, and a...

A couple of months ago I thought I'd give making a saas a try, more specifically uptime monitoring, because I thought free tiers kept getting worse. First day I managed to make a simple script that pings sites with urls you put in ( as straightforward as possible ) In a week I had a dashboard and CRUD operations regarding monitors set up A month from the start I had authentication, different monitor types, marketing and general pages etc. This is where everything clicked - restrictions a...

I've been running some google ad campaigns but the first couple campaigns I ran were failures so I'm trying to see whether it's due to a lack of interest in the product or if the messaging needs to be improved. Here's the second iteration I've worked on.

How are people actually getting their first users right now with no ad budget? Looking for what's genuinely working in 2026, not the 2019 playbook. Some context so this isn't a lazy post. I've got a live product (dev/QA tool, has a free tier), and I've actually built the stuff everyone says to build: the site, the SEO, a blog, directory listings, the whole thing. Also did the cold outreach grind on LinkedIn, personalized, 50+ messages. Got one honest reply and zero users out of it. Of course, ...

He’s not a developer, so you ended up doing 100% of the work. He didn't bring anything else besides the initial (great) idea. Now the app is about to go live. How do you handle telling him? Do you give him a cut/credit, keep it entirely as your own project, or offer him a specific role going forward (like marketing/sales)?

Disclosure: I'm the founder of AppNatively, a drag-and-drop platform that turns websites into native mobile apps. Before building this product, I assumed the biggest challenge would be the technical side. It wasn't. The biggest surprise was realizing that users often describe the solution they want instead of the problem they're trying to solve. For example, many people initially said they wanted a "native app." After talking with them, what they actually wanted was one or more ...

i started to finally run ads for my saas 2 weeks ago. got 7.7k visitor. around 850 leads captured spent around 100$ got around 375 signups.... I thought running ads would bring paying users but it didnt do much.. so here is what we are doing: we are gonna start emailing them nurture and activate them 2)we are also gonna start targeting people from us uk uae to see how they react my goal is now to get CAC to know how to move forward. any suggestion from veterans would be aprec...

I know this isn't that big of a deal, but seeing how 2 years of learning and building a web solution as a part time hobby is starting to make me some money, I just can't describe the happiness it made me feel. The app is subscription based with monthly or yearly payments. Since Stripe isn't supported in my country, and I'm not a full business yet, I just went with Paddle, and selected Euro as the subscription currency since its the second most used currency in our country. Why cash and not...

Is it worth spending time to build this tool ?

I’ve been thinking about this recently. If someone builds an online software product and people actively use it, but it doesn’t generate any revenue, would you still consider it a SaaS? Or do you think a product only becomes a SaaS once it has paying customers or a subscription model? Where do you personally draw the line?

Something I only noticed when I put my landing page and my last few social posts next to each other: they looked different. The site was dark and technical, the graphics I'd made in a hurry were bright and generic, because they came out of a template that had never seen my site. Individually fine. Together, nothing held. That's the thing Sitesyn fixes. You paste your product URL, it reads the live site and picks up your colors, your tone and who you're talking to, and it builds from that. So a...

Hi folks, I'm building a web app that generates a unique link for each user. The next step is sending that link via SMS or WhatsApp to users in different countries. What's the most reliable and cost-effective solution for international delivery? Any providers or APIs you'd recommend?

I have 14 garages using my SaaS product, but none of them have converted to a paid plan. What strategies can I use to encourage them to upgrade? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Been sitting on this question for a while and figured this sub would have people who've actually been on both sides of an acquisition. I built a multi-tenant EdTech SaaS. Still pre-revenue, but the traction has genuinely surprised me. Over the last few months: 146k+ Google Search impressions, 1k+ organic clicks, 15k+ indexed pages, all through SEO with zero paid spend. Product-wise it's not an MVP either. It has 5 separate dashboards, follows a B2B2C model, and already has early users actually...

It's fascinating how fast people are shipping on Emergent. Idea to working app in a few days (not weekends like many claim) but I'm skeptical these are production-ready. I mean my friends are devs and their conversations are intense - database design, architecture, scaling, auth done properly, none of that seems like something a non-technical person gets right by accident. So before I move my thing onto it: is anyone here running an Emergent app with traffic and real users? pls share/dm ur pro...

Hi everyone, Article 50 of the EU AI Act introduces transparency requirements that will apply from 2 August 2026. This could be relevant for SaaS companies that offer AI-powered features to users in the EU, for example: AI chatbots or assistants AI-generated images, audio or video - even if you use them in the marketing Tools that generate or publish certain types of text Products that integrate generative AI into an existing workflow Not every use of AI automatically requires a ...

I’m building a company but I lack skills in marketing so the obvious thing to do is fill in my skill gap. But I don’t have the money for an actual marketing team so I outsource most task to AI as a implementation. But recently I have been having trouble finding a AI agent/tool that builds ad creatives and basically runs marketing or helps plan it.

I launched my saas a week ago and now i see how hard is to get first customer, but when I see one I won't be able to stop smiling. Its better than anything and you know it works, your first customer thatn belived in your product. I wish its gonna come soon, good luck guys!! You can check my app: https://www.loomy.work/