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I did some simple email/smtp n8n automation while ago and i sent over 100 mails but none got a reply I was wondering if google or Microsoft automatically flag them as spam ?

I run a small hosted SaaS by myself. It's about five months old. These are the ones I learned from the actual work. Timing beats hard work. Keep costs low enough that you're still here when it works. One important thing per day, finished. Not started. AI can go wrong anywhere, so your job is direction. New visitors, conversion, retention. All three, every week. Early on, SEO is the number one channel. Slow pages kill you quietly. A low price beats free. A/B...

NOT PROMOTING. We're building a reward-based advertising product and I want people to try to break the idea before we scale it. Users have a small sponsored ad line on their browser, and they earn passive income from it. No popups, no annoying ads, no need to click or watch anything. We've thought about some of the obvious risks, but I want to know what we're missing. I'm not the technical person on the team, so if you have experience with adtech, fraud, bots, or similar products, please t...

Am I wrong if I think Tier 3 countries don't really use paid tools as such? Countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc, which have low-cost advertising advantages for traffic, are, in reality, a loss of time to think they will buy your stuff. Normally, if you charge them a $12 yearly subscription fee for a micro SaaS, it seems expensive to them. Forget about what kind of SaaS, even if it's a good tool. They will prefer a free tier plan or alternative. $12 per year is $1 per month, and on...

I've launched my Saas, and got like 3 clients in total, but cant outgrow it anymore...i've been stuck for weeks, i've tried reddit ads, tried on subreddit (most of them just delete the post automatically)...how can i get more clients? I'm very open minded about it, thank

Just over 3 months ago, I got my first paying customer. Today, this is what the journey looks like. Revenue: Revenue stats Growth beyond revenue: Growth stats There's nothing viral here. No hockey stick. Just a lot of small steps. 147 registered users 106 status pages created Dozens of trial starts My first paying customers Not long ago, both of these charts were completely flat. Looking back, a few things stand out: Shipping consistently compounds. ...

I’m hitting a wall, and I honestly just need some perspective from experienced founders or folks in the trenches at places like B2B , B2C products. For context: I’m a full-stack engineer with a CompE degree. I’ve published research at Harvard and Oxford, and I’ve spent a lot of time building complex fintech products and scaling startups for government projects. I deeply understand system architecture, UI/UX, product lifecycles, and the business/GTM side of SaaS. Execution is not my bottle...

TL;DR: pulled my API bill in June and it was $900 against $3k MRR. Seven percent of accounts were eating half of it. Two of them were on the cheapest plan. I will probably annoy some people here but this needs saying. The pricing debates on this sub are all about positioning and value ladders and few are checking what it costs you to serve the customer you just won. I wasnt either. Pulled our API bill in June out of habit, not suspicion. Nine hundred dollars in a month against about three gr...

I’ve been selling software and digital products since around 2022 and was using Sellpass for the longest time (after Sellix). Now that Sellpass has also shut down as of this month, I lost all my data and support said they can't even recover it for me. They wanted everyone to migrate over to Antistock, but their platform fees are crazy high (like 3% to 5% per order value), so that’s a hard pass for me. I’m looking for a new place to start fresh and am considering sellr.gg since they seem pre...

tldr; Know exactly who you’re building for. Find where they already spend time, solve a painful problem with an obvious payoff, and keep showing up. My first SaaS failed badly. Looking back, so many things went wrong. no clear ICP built what I thought was ‘cool’ no solid distribution channel For my second SaaS, I reversed the order: distribution before product. Today, it crossed $10K for July. I summarised what I think worked and didn’t. Built what I would actually u...

Hello, to fellow SaaS Creators/Owners, when you first started you SaaS, how did you market/promote your product? I know it changes from product to another, but I want to know how do you guys think? How did you decide on a certain channels(Emails, SMS, ADs)? When did you decide on using paying ads (from the start or after selling)? Do you have any decision making process for these kind of decisions? also is there an out of the box way you did promote your product that created a massive chang...

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So I've gotten quite a succesful cold email campaign going where I'm contacting creators with a custom-built preview of a website they can claim (not gonna go into a lot of detail). I'm seeing a lot of positive interest but I am having issues with getting them properly onboarded. I've created this claim flow where I just send them a follow-up email with a link where they can sign up and gain ownership of everything on my platform - and only a few of them have actually done so. Wanted to hear y...

Everyone seems to be using: - Next.js - Supabase - Stripe - Vercel I’m wondering if that’s still the go-to stack today. If you’re building a SaaS, what’s your stack and what would you recommend (or avoid)? Curious to see what the community is using in production.

saw a tweet from some guy flexing $7k MRR in like 2 months, "growth hacking reddit" or whatever. turns out the whole product is just... vote manipulation as a service? "high karma accounts, zero ban risk" and "smart upvotes to rank your comment #1" for $99/mo so the $7k MRR is literally just people paying to break reddit's rules faster. kind of wild he's out here posting it publicly like it's a normal SaaS win https://preview.redd.it/ooeu9lqz1rfh1.jpg?width...

Hey everyone, I am hitting a wall with my cold outreach and could really use some perspective from this sub. I run a creative design agency specializing in high-impact video production for tech and SaaS startups. Campaign stats I recently ran a campaign and the results are pretty brutal. I attached my funnel stats below, but here is the quick breakdown: Contacted: 555 Replies: 6 (1.1% reply rate) Positive rate: 0% Opportunities: $0 Here is what is driving me crazy a...

Every founder talks about building an MVP and launching a landing page, but I rarely see detailed discussions about what happens next. Imagine you're starting today with: A working SaaS A live landing page No audience No email list $0 marketing budget 30 days to get your first 100 users What would your plan look like? I'd love to hear the specific channels, tactics, or daily actions you'd focus on. Whether it was outbound outreach, Reddit, LinkedIn, SEO, partnerships, commu...

Every time DHH does a podcast (David Senra pod dropped yesterday) I’m reminded he has one of the best workspaces I’ve ever seen.

I've been spending weeks and weeks trying to find a right problem so I simply just looked within myself and found the perfect problem. However, to validate that it wasn't just something I was facing I validated on Reddit and Facebook as well, and found that it was not just me. I know the next step would be to just build an app, but is there another step successful SaaS founders advise before building?

Have you ever built a SaaS that had little or no customer traction for months or even years but you still believed it could genuinely help people? What kept you believing in your product and motivated you to keep going? Did you keep improving the product, experiment with different distribution channels, pivot your positioning, or do something else? And looking back, did your belief prove to be true? Did your product eventually find its users, or did you realize something needed to change...

Hey everyone, I'm currently working on a random chat mobile app called Chattify and am getting ready to launch it soon. I want to make sure the user experience is smooth and engaging before releasing it to the public. I would love to get your thoughts, suggestions, or any advice you have for launching this kind of app. What features do you think are absolutely essential for a modern random chat app? If you've launched a similar app on Google Play, what major pitfalls or console policies ...

I'm a solo founder and student building a SaaS with around 1,500 users . Current stack: Frontend: HTML/CSS/JS Hosting: Vercel Backend/DB/Auth: Supabase The app is 100% free right now, so I have no revenue yet. My main issue is that I'm consistently hitting my Supabase I/O limits. Before anyone asks, I've already spent a lot of time optimizing my code and database usage. I've removed unnecessary reads/writes, reduced queries wherever possible, and at this point I don't think th...

I spent months building a SaaS product and today I saw the first real subscriptions come in. The hardest part wasn’t coding. It was figuring out positioning, pricing, onboarding, and getting strangers to trust a completely unknown product. Here’s my first revenue screenshot. For those who’ve been through this stage, what helped you get from the first few paying customers to the first hundred?

Hey guys! My co-founder and I are in a weird spot. We launched orchardrun – a highly affordable Speech-to-Text (STT) API designed for devs and business who need bulk transcription without the enterprise price tag. We’ve managed to secure our first 10 paying customers (I'll do a post about it) and have onboarded ~1,600 users onto our free tier. It felt like a huge win initially, but now we’ve hit a brick wall. The problem: We are hemorrhaging energy trying to convert free users to paid, a...

This is something I've been wondering for a while. If you're building a biz, is it because you're broke and need the money, or because you want to build something of your own that generates wealth and gives you more freedom?

I have a SaaS model operating system which I am developing and currently finalising the prototype. Our ICP are CEO's, Chief of Transformation, Head of People etc. What methods worked for you to test market fit and get beta testers? Thanks in advance 😊

The Ai voice service called HyperVoice by Task AGI has a dark pattern that violates consumer protection laws. If you turn off auto renewal, they will terminate the service immediately, even if you still have your full term ahead of you. They do not clearly disclose this upon sign up, but they make it a big orange warning on the cancel subscription page. I live in Alberta, Canada. I signed up for a weekly plan to test the service. Immediately after signing up, I went to turn off auto re...

I recently built an open-source inventory and POS system called CAAD ERP , originally designed to solve a specific problem at my university: when managing inventory, sales, and tab debts, my student lounge had to rely on over-engineered POS systems or overly simple Excel sheets. To solve this, I built a simple yet complete system tailored specifically for these operations. The differentiator is that instead of setting up a traditional database, the system uses an Excel workbook as the sourc...