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Hey all, developer of 8+ years here. This post is completely handwritten, no AI garbage. I'm tired of my agency tools being disconnected, and being a Shopify dev agency in general, I feel like we're slowly getting run over by AI if we don't pivot how we fulfill development tasks. Nothing today works how I envision my team working in the AI era. Even scoping open source or new upcoming tools. I want to build a new Project Management tool - without making this post too long, though I'm ha...

For the last few months I've been building an automated backlink exchange. The pitch was hands-off: connect your WordPress, Ghost or any other site through a webhook,, we write SEO articles in your brand voice, we place other members' backlinks inside them, everything runs on autopilot. The automation was the product as far as I was concerned. It's where nearly all my dev time went. Then I looked at what people were actually doing. Of 352 signups, 22 connected a CMS. The rest signed up, look...

I’m more interested in what you actually did than the polished startup advice. Where did those first 10 customers come from? Did you cold DM them, find them on Reddit, message people on LinkedIn, ask friends, offer free access, or do something completely random? And what finally made someone say “yeah, I’ll pay for this” ? Curious about the scrappy stuff that actually worked.

Seriously, who are the investors that are seeing massive value in some of these startups? If anyone is talking about an AI bubble, this is it. Random startups are building thin layers around existing AI models, slapping “AI” onto the product, and somehow convincing investors that they’ve discovered the next big thing. I’m not saying every AI wrapper is useless. Some of them genuinely solve problems and can build great businesses. But when the core technology is basically “send a prompt...

A few months ago I threw away around 3 months of work on my SaaS. The annoying part? I H AD validated the idea before building@ ..or at least I thought I had. I'm building in the SEO space, and before starting I talked with people about how they handled SEO. The same problem kept coming up... there are too many things to watch, too many tools, and most people don't really know what they should work on first. So... real problem. and naturally I went away and built the most obvious so...

I’m in an early stage startup and I had three calls today and spent almost as long cleaning up the CRM afterward as I did in the meetings. Notes, new contacts, calendar details, follow-ups, a random email thread that did not attach where I expected. It adds up fast. We use Google Calendar and email a lot, and I am trying to figure out if our setup is just messy or if its normal and every sales team is doing this much cleanup. I don’t need anything fancy, but it would be nice to stop losing con...

Disclosure: I built Zinley ( https://zinley.com ). “Personal AI assistant” made people open ChatGPT in their head. Clearer reactions when I said: 1) Cowork-style handoff for real work 2) Coding built in 3) Own phone number and email 4) Memory of you and your people 5) Covers you when you’re double-booked (as your AI) Still learning distribution. Demos > feature dumps. If you’ve sold AI that touches real humans: what phrase made people get it? Happy to answer questions. ...

i used to think marketing starts when the product is ready build the thing polish it launch it then figure out how to get people to use it i've changed my mind on this if nobody is interested in the problem before you build it then finishing the product doesn't magically create demand now i'd rather spend time: talking to people with the problem reading how they describe it posting about the problem watching what gets responses and seeing if anyone actually cares then b...

I’ve been using AI coding tools heavily for a while now (Cursor, Claude Code, that whole workflow). I can ship features and fixes way faster than before. The annoying part is everything around the actual product for users. I started paying attention to the small SaaS tools I use day to day. A lot of them either: have no public changelog at all have a “What’s new” page that hasn’t moved in months have a help center that still describes old UI or missing features When something chang...

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I just built my 1st SaaS, now Im trying to get my 1st customer Just curious, how did you guys get your 1st customer? As well how did you feel when you made your 1st income from your own product?

I have been developing a SaaS App for one year, slowly and strongly. Its been couple of times i faced with bot attacks on my app which lately i added e mail verification system with resend email sender. However, bots passed this verification wall and passed it. I want you to help me to know, learn and put on my apps the best anti-bot systems that u use or build.

Quick recap for anyone who missed the first one: ~70% of my churned users told me some version of « cool product, but i’ll build this myself with Claude in a weekend » i spent a solid month being annoyed about it. My instinct was to hide the how. i did the opposite. what i changed: • rewrote the entire site to be GEO/SEO readable. plain words, one page per problem it solves, no clever positioning nobody parses. LLMs quote you when you’re quotable. • started publishing articles and vide...

In a lot of posts lately in this community, I've seen that almost every SaaS founder (including me) have struggled in marketing at some point or another. As a solo tech co-founder with 150k+ users in my app and 4+ years of experience in building for a very niche market of event tech, here are some of my learning that could be helpful for fellow founders: There's been a growing narrative of Marketing is more important than building product - which is true for most part. But fundamentally I...

I'm curious how other indie developers handle customer support for small SaaS products or side projects. When you launch a new product, how do you usually handle things like: Contact/support forms A support email address Replying to users Keeping track of conversations Do you just use Gmail and a simple form, build something yourself, or use a service like Intercom/Zendesk/etc.? I'm especially curious whether setting up a separate support email and connecting a contact form fee...

Hey guys I just finished updating it what would you guys rate it https://getcadsight.com/

We send ourselves things to “save for later”, and then never find them again. That's why I built Keepr: https://keepr.website It's a WhatsApp number that turns your messages into a searchable memory. • Send it a link, note, voice memo, or half-formed thought • Ask for it back later in plain English • Keepr finds the right one and replies with it No app to install. No folders. No tags. It lives in a chat you already have open. Open source: https://github.com/laksh2005/keepr ...

I'm looking for a social media alert app for Reddit and X.com based on semantic search, which I thought would be trivial to find. Any recommendations? Please no PR. I checked out a few (like Prowlo or Subredditsignals) but was quite disappointed on the first pass - they didn't have X.com , and they require me to specify keywords and subreddits for Reddit. Maybe I'm missing something, but if I have the exact keywords and subreddits, I can just have Claw/Claude run this search in the browser...

I’m researching everyday problems people deal with in 2026. I’m interested in things that genuinely annoy you: - something you repeatedly check - something you constantly forget - something you copy/paste between apps - something you manually track - something you wish would happen automatically an app you use that almost solves the problem but sucks What is it, and how do you currently deal with it? If you have one, tell me the exact workflow you go through. submitted by &#...

Launching my first ad today for my little SaaS I’ve been working on for nearly 2 years (from ideation to production). I keep telling myself that because I’m an expert in the problem and very passionate about the “why” it exists, that things are going to be okay. However, I’m also a bit of a perfectionist and this process has been an endurance. Some days I feel great but others I just feel so… lightweight. I keep my willpower up by framing this all as an experiment - like I’m validating hypothese...

Hello everyone, I am currently developing an app, for it’s testing i got a vps for 1 month. But currently I am adding some features to the app and the vps is not in use. What can I do with it? I don’t like it sitting empty 😔

“Built the app in 3 days. Spent 3 years trying to convince people it exists.” That line hurts because I’ve lived a version of it. A few years ago, I built a small app that solved a problem I genuinely had. I spent nights fixing bugs, changing buttons, improving the onboarding, and obsessing over tiny details. When it finally worked, I showed it to a friend. “This is actually pretty useful,” he said. That was all the validation I needed. I launched it. Then… nothing. Day one: 11 v...

I’ve been reading more about llms.txt and I’m curious how founders are actually using it. If you’ve added one to your startup: What do you include in it? Do you write it manually or generate it? Have you noticed any difference in ChatGPT, Perplexity or other AI search visibility? Is there anything you wish you knew before adding it? Trying to understand the best practical setup, not just the theory. Would love to hear from anyone who has actually tested it. submitted ...

Drop your blog URL below. I'll take a look at your content strategy and point out one opportunity I'd prioritize if I were responsible for growing your organic traffic. Could be content gaps, search intent, BOFU opportunities, internal linking, competitor gaps, or something else entirely. No generic "write more content" advice. If I spot something, I'll tell you exactly what I'd do and why.

Really proud to share this finally. Hope you love it as much as I do! I truly believe it has the potential to save a lot of time jumping between various tasks. Problem A lot of everyday actions on a Mac live in completely different places. Opening an app or folder, searching something on a website, taking a screenshot, cleaning up copied text, accessing clipboard history, running a Shortcut, or changing a system setting. None of these are hard to get to, but constantly switching betw...

I would like some input, i run a SaaS for a digital passport for events. Been running it for about a couple of months now, but somehow the only real buyers im getting are enterprise clients even though ive done my best to make it super easy and user friendly for people to just set up their own digital passports for their events, so far ive gotten like 1 standard tier buyer and 4 enterprise clients. Enterprise is good cause they pay more, but it really needs my dedicated management support for th...

Its been like 4months since i launched this saas, and i havent advertised it or did any marketing of it so I was ok with impression and click in beginning. But from like 1 month ago my many page got indexed(30 pages) automatically maybe because of sitemap and started gotting good amount of impression, i was really happy but now i dont know why my 10 pages got deindexed automatically and my impression and clicks dropped so much too from last week, If anyone know whats happening pls help me. ...