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At all of the start ups I have worked at, (4), in the past few years, I have noticed a very consistent trend in founders The Founder has made a lot of money, they have an idea for a tech product, they get their friends involved in the idea, (usually a CEO/CTO/COO) to lead the company. And they them selves as the founder, desire to be removed from day to day ops. Whilst the CEO/CTO/COO lead the day to day Usually the CEO/CTO/COO is someone who has never founded a company before and has no ide...

I work with a startup founder who has a good development agency. They have experienced developers, a project manager and a designer. They communicate well and generally build what is asked of them. But the founder is frustrated. He expected a team that has spent years building software to bring him strong ideas and help decide what the product should do next. Instead, they keep asking him exactly what to build. From his point of view, that feels wrong. He is the industry expert, but he...

Guys, you know there's a limit to which a person can do SEO or post about his product on social platforms. Like, the point where your posts start to sound spammy, or launching on multiple platforms feels unnecessary, etc. What do you do after you have reached that limit? Do you just wait for something big to happen, or you still continue the process no matter what?

Hey guys i had a thought to work on saas although i had a bunch of ideas but deeply i felt to considerate on actual problems that’s why i’m here so that i can opinion of you guys that help me to build a great saad product

I'm a developer and have spent a bit of time building an app initially just to help me in my day to day but I have had comments from some friends and people I've worked with saying it could be useful to others, so I've packaged it up and launched an mvp. Now comes the part I have no experience in, actually getting people to use it. I know I need to start with my own network and I have 1 person so far who has agreed to test the app when they have time. I think I've nailed down a good target ...

Hey everyone! After a few months of work, I built Nexform . It's a free short-form editor for creators that saves you a lot of time while not sacrificing quality. It's free to try, and any constructive feedback on this would be much appreciated. Let's make this comments section a place where experienced founders give some advice for people who are just starting out. I'll read them all, but I'll reply to as many as I can. Thank you to those who engage with the post :) submitted b...

One thing that's been bothering me about workflow automation tools in general: most of them tell you whether something ran, but not really what happened when it did. Success/fail, maybe an error log if you're lucky. The problem is that "it ran" and "it did the right thing" are two different questions. Especially when the workflow involves sending something to a customer or taking an action that's hard to undo. What I've started looking for in tools is something closer to ...

Guys… I’m kind of … confused did lots of research and finally .. going with my instinct… I built PDF api tool which converts and web page data into pdf with api in credit based system… it’s not new to market but rather saturated I guess … not sure if it’s gonna work.. need your input on this.. any ideas how to take it further?

I thought getting paid was the hard part. It isn't. The hard part is VAT and GST in countries you have never been to. Chargebacks, and the ratio that quietly gets your account reviewed. Failed renewals, dunning, refund flows, invoices people actually need for their accounting. None of that makes your product better. It's infrastructure you now own forever. The one I underestimated most was payouts. Without a registered company most processors won't onboard you at all, and in a lot of...

The thing everyone is talking about Right now a lot of people write their resume with ChatGPT. It works like this. You copy the job ad. You paste it into ChatGPT. You ask for a resume that fits it. Two minutes later, you have one. The resume looks great. It uses the exact words the job ad used. Now think about the person reading it. They have 200 of these. All of them look great. All of them use the right words. So the shortlist isn't really a ranking of the best people anymore. It'...

I am looking to start my first SaaS business, my first idea was to do a scheduling and route planing for shift workers, for example a bus company. I already started this last year but ended up discontinuing working on it as i didnt see where it could go and reached a point in my limit to be code it, i was mostly using AI. My other more recent idea is to make a software to book appointments for barbers and have to leave a deposit so if they dont show up for the haircute then the barber doesnt loo...

Hey guys, About a month ago I launched a side project called The Stock Mind. It is a quantitative stock research terminal and paper trading tool for Indian markets. I built it mainly for myself because I was frustrated with mutual fund returns over the past couple of years and wanted a rule based system to track sector rotation and momentum. I havent spent anything on paid ads or marketing. Everything so far has been organic from reddit and word of mouth. Clarity Screenshot I attached ...

I'm wondering where the dollars are best spent. The cheaper, easier founder-recorded videos help early on. So do the screenshare tutorials. At a certain point, it helps to have something more polished, like a slick explainer video or promo video that could be used on landing pages or paid social. When does that makes the most sense to invest in?

A NYC-based SaaS founder came to us frustrated. They had a great product, decent TAM, and zero pipeline. Their team was doing manual prospecting - pulling lists from Apollo, blasting generic emails, getting 2% reply rates. We scrapped all of it and rebuilt from scratch using signal-based outbound. Here's what the system looked like: Step 1 : ICP Signal Architecture Instead of pulling a static list, we built a live signal feed. We tracked: job changes (new VP of Sales hired = active buildin...

Built our onboarding flow around a fast "aha moment," standard playbook. But pulling the churn data, the actual drop-off cluster wasn't day one, it was week two or three, right when the novelty wears off and the user decides if this becomes part of their real workflow or gets abandoned like everything else they tried once. We'd spent most of our engineering time polishing the first-run experience and had basically nothing built for that later window. Added a lightweight check-in nudg...

does anyone know how to get real users ..................................

When landing pages from new services or templates from design firms are released, my landing page feels too outdated. Of course, since it is still in the beta phase, I haven't modified it yet, but looking at the various other pages, mine looks very dated. I am curious to know what you think about pages that have almost no animations and consist only of basic elements.

I’m new to the chat and need someone to burst my bubble a bit. I feel like I created a perfect software but got my first 150 visits to my site with not 1 sub. How long did it take for everyone to get their first and why is it so hard to come by??? I feel like my marketing needs to be better but a wondering if I should hire someone or a platform for it.

Its not as easy as it seems all these bots saying 10k in few months or its finally paying off hard to tell whats real and whats fake. Takes a lot longer than a few months, you need to talk to potential customers or early users, change your messaging, distribution its a lot of learning Has anyone here ACTUALLY worked hard done the hard work taken time and started to make 5-10k a month from their SaaS?

I have an idea for a unique social media app. I'd say the market is relatively niche. But I'm torn between how to use this to generate revenue. My initial idea was to just make the entire platform free to use (like Facebook), and then if I end up generating a huge user base, I can then host ads on it. And then my other idea was make users register on the site in exchange for a small monthly or yearly fee. Which one is better? I always feel like if I choose the monthy/yearly registration ...

I tried numbers of organic channels like LinkedIn, twitter, Peerlist, grapevine, hacker news and more even reddit. For Ads I spent few money on Google ads and Meta Ads seems those didn't worked for me. And now after so much experiments I found reddit could be the place I can start with so I'm starting with reddit ads campaign. July is about to over and I'm pretty much optimistic with results. I've been using for very long and understood a bit about the reddit audience. I'm not experimentin...

Been building for a few months now and I keep seeing the same pattern kill products before they even get a shot. Someone gets an idea, gets excited, starts coding same day, ships in 3 weeks, posts here for feedback, gets crickets. Not because the code was bad. Because nobody asked if anyone actually needed this. The market right now is brutal if you're not doing the boring work first. Everyone's shipping fast with AI, which means the bar isn't "can you build it" anymore, its "do...

Hello everyone, I was working on a compliance monitoring tool for indie developers. So, I just launched that tool recently and started collecting feedback, and one day I was just scrolling on Reddit, and I saw a good post about entrepreneurship, and I think that post was from this sub (if I'm not wrong). There was a comment at the top that said, "Build products for yourself, and then sell to others" (not exact words, but the meaning was this). I don't know, but this comment hits ...

Post Body: Hey everyone 👋 I’m a technical founder and recently did a soft launch for my product. Like many dev-turned-founders, sales and marketing are definitely outside my comfort zone, and with zero revenue right now, hiring experienced growth/sales pros on salary isn't an option. I’m considering setting up commission-only / affiliate partnerships to handle early sales. Since the product is subscription-based, my thought was offering something like 20% recurring commission for the first...

I've been building SaaS products for a while now, and one thing that always stood out was how visible the results were from social. Reddit, X, communities, and building in public gave me a clear connection between what I did and what happened. Post something → people see it → users visit → feedback comes in. But SEO and AI visibility always felt different. Sometimes traffic appeared. Sometimes a page performed. Sometimes people found the product through search. But I rarely knew: Wher...

A few weeks ago I posted about my first sale of an app I published for iOS. It's now been almost a month and without doing any real marketing, people are starting to find my app in the App Store. So I thought I'd write here a little bit of what I did that I haven't seen in any Youtube podcast or channels. Don't expect anything out of this world but for those of you trying your hardest to actually get your app noticed ( remember, I just published it about 1 month ago so this might be sheer luc...

Hey guys, I need advice on tools to help with LinkedIn outreach. I've started posting organic content to help with distribution for my app and need advice on help to boost engagement so I can use it for boosting traffic to my app. Any ideas

I was looking through our books this week and realized we send payments to far more vendors than I would've guessed. Software, suppliers, contractors, rent, insurance, shipping, marketing the list keeps growing At what point did vendor management start feeling like a real operational challenge for your business? Has it stayed manageable or did you eventually have to rethink how you handled it?