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i have made that mistake several times and still didnt learn my lesson i try to validate but what is the threshold or formula

4 products shipped solo. All worked. All made $0. Building was never my problem. The killer is spending months on something, launching, and finding out nobody wanted to pay always after the time's already gone. So here’s my questions Before your last build, did you check whether people would actually pay? What did you do and did it work?

A few months ago, this was just an idea. I kept seeing the same thing over and over: beautiful weddings with invitations that were basically PDFs sent over WhatsApp. So I built something different: Wedvite . Interactive wedding invitations with music, animations, RSVP, guest messages, maps, and everything in one link. It's still tiny compared to most SaaS businesses, but seeing strangers actually pay for something we built is an amazing feeling. We're now trying to figure out how to g...

Would you use an app that animates your drawing with one prompt?

It's a hard question, isn't it?

Hi everyone, I'm a software engineering student, and I want to start a small software business. My idea is to build small, useful tools or scripts that solve real problems and sell them as one-time purchases (not a subscription). I'm not sure if this business model is common or if it already has a specific name. I'm looking for advice on: Is this a viable business model? Where can I find real problems worth solving? Should I learn SaaS first, or is there another path that's better ...

Build a product that delivers all its value in the first minute. (No retention. No scalability.) Build a vitamin pill instead of a painkiller. Build for broke people. Build for a very small market. Build a solution for a problem you don't know anyone has. (not even you). Build a very vibe-coded-looking UI (low credibility, high bounce rate). Build a solution because you think it's cool. Build every feature in the world because you're a dreamer. Build without talking to clients. (...

I launched Posty two days ago. It’s basically Claude Code for X growth. It started as something I built just for myself. Then a few YC founders and investors around me asked if they could use it too, so I turned it into an actual product. Today, the first payment came in. Honestly, I’m ridiculously happy. What helped you go from your first customer to your next ten?

Please prove me I am wrong. They say the following to justify why SaaS is not dying: Workflows matter more than AI Trust and reliability are critical Compliance creates barriers to entry AI complements SaaS rather than replacing it I think this is true from the perspective of one SaaS editor competing against another SaaS editor. However, it seems to me that the main issue is the ability for customers to build their entire system with just a few prompts. They will say: “Just find...

Hey everyone I’m currently building a reselling tool (no, I’m not naming it here). I’m at the Alpha stage and I really need 3-8 "truth-tellers" to stress-test my logic and tell me if this is actually useful or if I should scrap the project Here’s my problem: I’ve spent the last week joining relevant Discord communities to find potential users, but every single one of them has strict "No DMing members" and "No Self-Promotion" rules. I’ve reached out to a few owne...

I'm a solo bootstrapper, 4 yrs. in and counting. I have a few products, one particularly-massive one I've spent a lot of time building. To this day, I still struggle with psyching myself out over-obsessing about competitors and (probably) paying too much attention to them. I've had anxiety problems for years, and solopreneurship has must definitely never helped it - but it is what it is. On the one hand, I want to keep tabs on the market and see what other products are offering to understand...

As in the title, I built something and looking for feedback. AIPTO -- a cryptographic record of when you wrote a prompt, before you ever disclose it. I built this after discovering WIPO ran an official timestamping service called WIPO PROOF until 2022, then shut it down. No private company built a replacement for AI-native IP. So I this is my attempt to fill in that gap. AIPTO hashes your prompt client-side (SHA-256, text never leaves your browser), timestamps the hash with RFC 3161, and g...

my founding CTO just split, we were a 2 person company. it wasn’t a good fit after 18 months, we launched 6 months ago. since then we’ve done 25k ish in revenue and are at 5k MRR now our pipeline has grown though to 300-400k closing within 12 months. we were on the later stages of getting our first outside investment from an angel. the understanding from the angel is we would both be quiting our full time jobs and working on the startup full time. lukcily we had a vesting agreement - but ...

I built something for my own business that's been generating solid results internally. It's reached a point where I think it could work as a standalone product for others in a similar space. Before I put more time into building it out for public launch, I want to validate there's real demand rather than just building in a vacuum. For those who've made this jump, internal tool to real SaaS, how did you test the waters without tipping your hand too early? Did you go landing page and waitlist f...

This one still makes me laugh a bit. Back in January I was sitting up past midnight in Canva, dragging text boxes around one pixel at a time, making slideshows by hand to promote a slideshow tool that honestly barely worked yet. The irony wasn't lost on me. I was doing the exact thing the product was supposed to do, badly, at 1am, to sell the thing that was supposed to do it for me. Slideys started because I got tired of that. It's a TikTok slideshow creator. You give it a topic and it build...

Six months ago I launched CostLoop, a SaaS subscription tracker for small businesses. Last week I got interviewed by SaaS Hive about why I built it, what I got wrong, and what I’ve learned as a solo founder. The biggest lesson wasn’t technical. I spent weeks polishing UI and features. Users didn’t care. They just wanted to answer one question: “What are we actually paying for?” That completely changed how I think about product development. If you’re building a SaaS, the interview m...

Built a scheduling app for trades people that takes just a few clicks to send a bunch of visit times out to customers Got a hand full of users, feedback is good. Would love to see it grow. Billing is all wired up, it’s in early access mode at the moment. I think everyone using it can have it free as a thank you. But new users should be charged. But when’s the right time to try to get paid?

Hey reddit fam Looking for some advice around talking to initial users about our hypothesis, we’ve spoken to a few smaller businesses to validate the problem and we can definitely spot the inefficiencies we’re trying to fix. We have a family business and my mum has worked around this problem for years, some background, she operates a local business which involves dealing with clients and recording interactions on manual registers and then passing on that information to operations via post it...

I'm researching an idea and would love some honest feedback. One thing that frustrates me with current AI tools is that every new chat feels like starting from zero. I have to keep reminding it: What I'm building Previous decisions Goals Files What I've already tried What worked and what failed I'm thinking about building an AI workspace that: Remembers your projects permanently (not just chat history). Understands your goals, decisions, tasks and uploaded files over time. ...

AutoSwiper, After a week for being on android and now 2 days on ios i already made my first revenue! (not including the 50 cents i made on ads lol) I sold a yearly subscription! I asked around my friends who downloaded the app and they all havent bought it (i even checked all their user ids lol) and its a random person. The subscriptions arent even the main source of revenue i plan for this app. Later on i will integrate subscriptions for dealers to list all their inventory on the app. i also ...

I've been working on launch-pad-alpha-seven.vercel.app for quite a long time now and I'm proud to say that after several months of grinding and endless nights, We're finally live. Although it might not be the most perfect one but I'm pretty sure that this is worth my time. Maybe you'll like it maybe you won't, but for me this was my first ever startup build and I'm proud of it. just wanted to share as one of my best moments of my life.

This list is for anyone who wants to get started with SEO. If you are already an SEO pro, you can probably skip this post. I’ve divided these tactics into low-effort and high-effort ones, so you can choose based on your time and bandwidth. Easy to start with: Write comparison pages for products your target audience is already evaluating, such as Product A vs Product B or Product A alternatives. Write best tools listicles in your category. Read the existing results first and find out ...

Hello everyone! A simple question: I’m mainly asking beginners / non-technical people. Have you ever wanted to build an app but never did because you didn’t really know where to start? And for those who have built an app with Claude: did you end up with something scalable? Something you could actually sell? Looking forward to reading your answers and discovering your projects!

10 days ago I've launched Rankpine (SEO articles on autopilot). They found one of my articles on Google - so SEO is clearly still a crazy good channel, at least for B2B startups! Also funny that I've used my own product to promote itself 😄 So far, I've been doing only SEO and launched it on a bunch of platforms like ProductHunt or Uneed, would appreciate any feedback on what else can I try a lot! Don't know what else to say, but I'm just very happy to see something I'm building is finall...

If I am paying a large amount of money for an app then I am more willing to vibe code my own solution for a few hundred bucks in tokens. But if I am paying very little for software, why vibe code my own? It costs more to build my own crappy vibe code version than to pay for it.

I maintain lightGallery, an open-source JS gallery library. It is free under GPL and makes money through commercial licenses. Revenue had been sliding for about a year, and I never properly looked into it because the traffic was only down 10%, and I thought AI was reducing the demand for gallery libraries. It wasn't that. A while back, I had added free tools to the site to pull developers in. One was a YouTube thumbnail downloader. It went viral in search. 1.4 million impressions on a single...