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I’m a Project Manager in Australia. And somehow have built this product to its current stage. Driven purely by belief that it’ll solve the current mess we are all buried in within the industry. I’ve started and built an AI platform built specifically for the construction industry. Rather than replacing tools, the product is built with a completely different approach. It’s a new avenue and not another PM software and not a system of record. I’ve built a working MVP, had strong feedback from i...

Hey everyone, Trying to figure out early traction and noticing that advice changes like crazy depending on what you're actually building. What works for a dev tool obviously won't work for an HR platform. If you’ve already crossed that first milestone, how did you actually pull it off? Curious to know: What niche are you in? What was the exact channel that actually brought in your first users? (Cold email, Reddit, Product Hunt, etc.) Would love to hear some real stories. Cheers! ...

I've been thinking about how much the form builder space has changed over the last couple of years. AI has made it much easier to build forms, there are dozens of established competitors, and users seem to expect more than just a drag-and-drop builder now. If you were starting a form builder SaaS from scratch today, where would you focus? AI-generated forms Better integrations More templates Analytics and automation Mobile-first experience Simpler pricing Something else? ...

Running a B2B SaaS agency + kept hearing the same question from marketing leaders: " we rank on Google for our category, why are we not showing up in the AI Overview above our own listing? " So we created a benchmark report wherein we: ran 100 buyer-intent queries across 20 B2B SaaS categories captured every AI Overview citation + every top-10 organic result for the same query analyzed 1,259 AIO citations + 1,000 SERP results. The intent is to see the difference between ...

Posting this because I think I’m too close to my own product to see what’s actually stopping people from paying for it. I built FedFinder (fedfinder.net) for small and mid-sized government contractors. The problem I kept running into is that SAM.gov only shows a contract once it’s already posted, so by the time you see it, you’re finding out at the same moment as every other bidder. Same story with grants and RFPs in general, you’re always reacting instead of positioning yourself early. FedFin...

Does anyone really believe them? 10k MRR in a month, oh really!

Hey folks, I just built my first SaaS extension and I’m not very good at marketing or doing the whole “hey, check out what I made” thing. I’d really appreciate it if you could share any SaaS tools or platforms that are designed for showcasing new products to others. Thanks

Hey SaaS community, hope you're all doing good. My SaaS isn't doing well. I've run it for free over the past 2 years. Only 2 months back I completely re-did the whole thing and added pro while still keeping the free tier. But im getting very low retention. Although I've got my first subscriptions which felt very nice but I've burned alot of cash on it and im having a hard time keeping up. Should i call it? What am I doing wrong here? Any suggestions/ criticism is welcome. Thanks. The SaaS is ...

Three founders. Full time jobs. Families. No investors. Ten months ago, we started building QueryPanel. At least, that is what it does today. Our first version could generate kind of good SQL and charts. Straightforward questions made it look impressive. Then we tried harder questions and it started failing. We had convinced ourselves that our system was better than the others. Real questions proved us wrong. That hurt. But it also forced us to stop polishing the demo and rethink the pro...

Two months ago, I made the first commit to my first-ever SaaS. It didn't even start as a SaaS. It was supposed to be a little app to help my fiancée with part of her job. Then the cogs started turning... "If this saves her time, surely other people have the same problem?" Fast forward two months and somehow I'm building a B2B SaaS. Which is terrifying. I'm a Senior Software Engineer full time, so every evening and weekend has become ARQ time. I finish work, eat dinner, ope...

I 've noticed more people around me saying "I asked ChatGPT" instead of "I Googled it." If you're buying software, researching a service or comparing tools, where do you actually start that now? Google? ChatGPT? Reddit? Or Somewhere else? Just interesting whether this is just my bubble or if search habits have really changed.

We all know the feeling: we get a great SaaS idea, we spend a weekend building it...then somewhere along the way, we think maybe this idea isn't as good as I thought it was Or you make 1 Reddit post and someone leaves a mean comment saying "Who is this for ?" We doubt, we go back to the drawing board, and look for another idea, a "better" idea I submit this to you: the idea does not matter, it's besides the point entirely. The #1 indicator of success for a SaaS is marke...

After spending way too much time thinking about ideas, I’ve finally decided to stop overthinking and just build. Starting today, I’m documenting everything, from the first line of code to hopefully my first paying customer. I’ll be sharing things like: - Product decisions - Wins and failures - Marketing experiments - Revenue updates - Mistakes I make - What AI tools I’m using - Honest numbers (when there are any 😄) My goal is simple: go from $0 to my first sale , then keep growing ...

Hey everyone, like a lot of developers here, I love open source, but I know how tough it is for developers to get fairly compensated for the time they spend building and maintaining tools used by thousands. I’m working on readmead.site to give maintainers a simple, passive way to earn money without cluttering their repos or compromising user trust. For maintainers, you just add a simple markdown snippet to your README. For advertisers, it offers a way to reach developers directly where the...

Pointed question because I keep seeing it and I have been guilty of it too. Scroll this sub and half the pre-raise founders are agonizing over their investor deck. Slide order, font, whether to use the standard investor pitch deck template or make it "stand out." Weeks of effort into a document. Then talk to anyone who actually invests and they will tell you they spend two, maybe three minutes on a deck before deciding whether to take the call. They are looking for a couple of thin...

I build custom software and AI features for SaaS teams, and one pattern keeps showing up across projects: churn tooling almost always reacts to cancellations after the fact, when the real signal shows up weeks earlier. The teams I've worked with who catch it early aren't just tracking logins, they're watching usage frequency per feature. A customer can log in daily and still be quietly disengaging from the exact features that justified the price. Building usage-decay alerting into a product (i...

Hey, I have recently started working on building my own products and selling them, I frequently post about them on Reddit too but constantly get roasted. Everyone says the solution already exists, everyone knows that, if Google didn't start search engine thinking yahoo already exists, imagine the result of that, now if I have an idea and try to validate it, people say the idea already exists don't work on it, If I build something and post about it they say there's a better one with a lot more fe...

I’ve been using my own product in my daily work for around six months now, and honestly, it has helped me quite a bit. But today it caught something unusually useful. A client gave me a list of websites to add to their monitoring account. I’m also their dev/DevOps guy, so I handled the setup, even though we don’t actually manage all of the sites on the list. A little while after adding them, I got an alert that one of the websites was showing a fake Cloudflare verification page associate...

Full marketing stack across 3 SaaS products lands at ~$168/mo for me, ~$56/product. Most "SaaS marketing stack" posts push $500+/mo enterprise setups that solo founders don't need. Been running this exact stack for 4 months, honest look at what I kept, killed and skipped. Analytics ~$0-9/mo. PostHog free tier covers 1M events/month which is plenty for early SaaS, product analytics + session replays included. Plausible at $9/mo for 3 sites is my privacy-friendly web analytics choice, ...

Pitch your idea Help me understand it in few words I will be your first user

PD: The image it's on Colombian pesos. Man, I've been trying to set up an Instagram ad for Genteable with the experience I already have making ads. Did the targeting, interests, leaned on competitors, even ran interest research with some tools I know... and its crazy how before, after doing all that, I used to see conversion estimates like 10x bigger, sometimes more. I used to run ads with like $10 and get better conversion. Even Meta's estimate used to look way bigger. Honestly posting th...

https://preview.redd.it/nizwsjkqdkeh1.png?width=1448&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c1d7c7d6e64688e9a51173a55a9b835986f6e6f I’m not really equipped to audit every line of an AI-generated PR, so a green CI can feel way more convincing than it should. It looks “done” even when I have no idea what changed underneath. What I can follow is whether the tests and assertions still mean the same thing. A changed count is a signal, but a plain-English note gives me something to push back on. I t...

I made a website that connects to your email, and once you feed it your company/brand identity and tone, it responds in a personal tone to people reaching out to you via email. Rather than an automated response, you give every email instant, accurate one precisely to their needs even at 2 in the morning. What should I do now to add a payment system? And how do I start maketing it?

So it's official, we have our first ever VC meeting set up for this week. First one I've ever done as a founder and I am super, super nervous about it. Honestly it's because I don't want to screw it up. I know a lot of founders on here will say you go through a ton of these meetings and this is just one of many. But this is my first, so give me a little grace on the nerves lol. We're pre-seed. Still a really small, really early company. I already sent over our pitch deck, which has our bus...

Not looking for general advice or best practices and for mainly firsthand experiences. Specifically: - product-related videos or educational content for your ICP? - type of videos ended up working best? - Did it actually drive qualified traffic, signups, demos, or revenue? - How long did it take before you started seeing results? We’re considering investing more in YouTube as a long-term acquisition channel, and I’d love to learn from people who’ve already done it. What worked? What di...

I’ve been doing more AI consulting lately, and I realized my handoff process was honestly a disaster. I used to think the project ended when I handed over the source code and the prompt strings (yeah yeah yeah, I know it’s never truly over, but you get what I’m trying to say). But then inevitably the client would try to change one word in the system prompt to change the tone, and it would immediately blow up. I’d get frantic texts saying it is broken at 8 PM on a Tuesday. I realized I was ba...

Hi all, Just wanted to share my story, as I think it might be interesting and (maybe) even a little inspiring for other builders out there. Short version, like the title says, I'm currently at over $2,500 in revenue with my app, and I only started building back in March. The rise of AI is what finally made it possible for me to turn my ideas into something real. How it started Four months ago I set out to build something I actually wanted for myself. Around the same time, my brother ha...

I'm running a B2B SaaS solo ~$50/mo recurring, 20 paying customers, 40 more in the pipeline. Every new customer needs a live demo + hand-holding to migrate their data and get set up, which eats 1-2 hours/day, on top of ongoing support for existing customers. I'm out of hours and the pipeline is only growing. For those who've been through this: when did you stop doing 1:1 onboarding yourself, and what replaced it (self-serve flow, videos, first CS hire)? At this price point, is high-touch onb...

Hello, I have been a front-end developer for several years now but having almost no experience in SEO, and being in the process of developing an independent project, I would like to ask for help from the community regarding SEO and the important things to put in place in order to avoid having a product which ultimately becomes invisible. I'm not looking for a miracle solution but above all I'm looking for help to gradually improve the SEO my product. Thank you for your future responses. P...