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After months of working on SEO, Cardlyx finally hit 5.2k Google Search clicks in the last 28 days. I'm building in a competitive space with products like HiHello, Blinq, and Popl, so getting organic traffic wasn't easy. One thing that seems to be working is our positioning. Instead of selling "just another digital business card," we're positioning Cardlyx as a lead capture tool . Every card should help generate leads, not just share contact details. So far, those SEO vis...

2.5 weeks in - a quick progress update and a question It’s been about 2.5 weeks since we started building this project, and I wanted to share a quick update. The product is still in development, with launch planned for August, so we’re currently focused on growing the waitlist and validating acquisition channels. So far, the progress has been encouraging: 1,300+ people on the waitlist. Organic growth is fairly consistent at around 20-30 new users per day. One social platform unexpecte...

We've spent months building an AI-powered form builder, and launching felt like the finish line. It wasn't. Getting people to actually try the product has been much harder than writing code. We've experimented with Reddit, Quora, YouTube tutorials, influencer outreach, and social media, but growth is still slow. For founders who have been through this stage, what made the biggest difference in getting your first 100 real users? I'd love to hear what actually worked, not just the usual &q...

If you are running a SaaS with more than one integration, you have probably hit this wall: you want AI to help automate support, debugging, or customer tasks, but it only knows one system at a time. The standard fix is subagents: one agent for Stripe, one for your DB, one for GitHub, etc. But then you are managing agents instead of actually getting work done. I built a different approach. GCONTEXT connects all your integrations through a single MCP endpoint, so one agent can find the right i...

Distribution is hard, don’t get me wrong. But if I put as much time, creativity and effort into it as I did building my product, I would be further along. A lot of my early users came from perseverance and/or doing things other than what I was comfortable with. Like, getting out from behind my screen Sometimes not knowing what to do is actually avoidance in disguise Curious to know if it’s the same for y’all. [link] [commen...

Hey everyone,👋 We’ve been building NuvoWork, a workforce management platform designed with small businesses in mind, and we’re looking for honest feedback from people who actually manage teams. The goal behind NuvoWork is simple: help small businesses keep employee time tracking and team organization in one place without the complexity that often comes with larger enterprise systems. We’re focused on helping businesses manage things like: Employee clock-ins and clock-outs Time tracking ...

My ambition has always been to create a product. To learn the process I built and launched a browser extension for work thats nearly at 200 users. With DAU at around 150. I have around 4 powers users that reach out from time to time to ask why something isn't working the way they expected. Lately one got talking to me about other problems they have which really excited me. However, When I reach out to non power users (usually via slack)- I always get same answer "everything is ok&q...

It’s absolutely everywhere. Need a social post? Hand over all the promo shit, and someone will just feed them into an AI to spit out two sentences sacked in emojis. Need a slide deck? Here’s a 2,000-word AI-generated outline, plus a rough draft haphazardly disguised in a corporate template. A blog post? Here’s 1,300 words with zero strategy, no clear goal, and an audience of "everyone"....just fix it up however you want. An email? Here are four AI-written options for the sa...

As I mentioned before in this subreddit, I did have a sale recently, but that was for my older product. Today, another the breakthrough finally happened. I made the very first sale for my new product, the one I have been developing on for half a year. It takes 6 months of development, plus marketing since early June (including 10 YouTube videos and several blog articles), I finally made my first sale. Honestly, the road to making my first dollar has never been this long for me. I genuinely hav...

I am thinking of running paid ads on reddit .. if anyone have any experience please share your knowledge.. i wanna hit a least 800 dollars by the end of this month..

Everyone and their cat is trying to add AI to their apps, SaaS and businesses. Usually it's some sort of chat or sparkly "AI" button that's placed at the most visible spot on your site or app. It often looks very annoying, works poorly, users hate it - but the companies still push it, because if they aren't "AI-native" in 2026, they're pretty much doomed. And it makes sense it works poorly. If the company uses a powerful model, it will cost A LOT. So, either the price for t...

I've been building macros.gg in public on Twitch for the last couple months and finally got my first customer! I've been doubting myself a lot but now I'm so happy I just wanted to share

I’ve worked with a few niche SaaS/products where the founder was stuck in the same loop: product is useful market is real but small SEO keywords are low volume paid ads are either too expensive or too broad social content feels forced every marketing thread says “build in public” or “write helpful content” The mistake I kept seeing was trying to create demand from scratch. For niche products, I think that’s usually the wrong starting point. What works better is finding wher...

Founder here. Building a visual diary/planner for people juggling several things at once - divided by areas on a timeline, so you can see everything running in parallel. The concept is a diary on a whiteboard: placing sticky notes as things happen, or ahead for planning. It started with a physical whiteboard, but eventually digitalised it. The key part is keeping context - looking left and seeing a visible trail across each area, and seeing all areas at once. Lessons so far: My ICP guess...

Solo dev. Built Tideover, an app that helps you get through the moment a craving hits when you're quitting something, smoking, sugar, alcohol, gambling, whatever your thing is. Most quit apps just count days; this one's built around the actual moment the urge shows up, breathe, ride it out, log it, and it tracks your patterns over time. Launched a few weeks back with zero marketing budget, just posting genuinely useful stuff in relevant communities. It's been slow-then-sudden in the best way. ...

https://preview.redd.it/ajdu4o7otsdh1.png?width=1469&format=png&auto=webp&s=952ba636bac63c2a2d9ea06548f1fa2fb2790d91 My app is Calories counter app, I built it from 6 months it's been a journey of developing it, I started with React with Capacitor, then I build it a fresh again using Dart, Flutter, it's been more than good since then. I post organically via Tiktok and Instgram daily basis around 1 post a day, sometimes 3 posts a week! From organic we got a lot of customers but sin...

A few months ago we started looking at enterprise AI because the workload kept growing and the team was already stretched. The pitch sounded great. Faster work , lower costs, better service the usual stuff. Now I’m trying to figure out what actually holds up once it goes live. Has anyone here seen measurable ROI from enterprise AI?

The percentages themselves aren't surprising.. but where the budget is moving definitely is. Curious if this matches what everyone else is seeing. I dug deeper into the data and why SEO seems to be getting a larger share of marketing spend: Read Here https://preview.redd.it/jbxd82sa8sdh1.png?width=976&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a3c4fdfc5334da8d8a93d62e3b5b0006a5a625a

I build an analytics tool (Chion, so that's my bias up front), and I keep going back and forth on how much choice to give people at setup, so I wanted to ask folks here who have shipped onboarding. We ended up with two on-ramps that run the exact same pipeline underneath: A quick path: connect a Postgres database, upload the SQL queries the team already trusts, and start asking questions in a couple of minutes on managed cloud. A controlled path: bring your own models (any cloud or open-...

Don't just add features. Create value that is clearly differentiated from competitors.

I've been building my SaaS alone for about 3 months. Current numbers: 370 total users 31 total sales 17 active subscribers (17-4: 13 active subs) 4 cancellations $365 MRR Overall, I'm happy with the progress, but managing everything alone means I still make mistakes. For example, I recently updated my pricing but forgot to notify one existing customer. As a result, they were charged about $30 more than expected. I apologized and offered a discount on their next invoice to ...

I’m a founder who has vibe coded a website and I know it’ll need to be fixed later on. Any recommendations on where I can find engineers who can do this? Looking for someone who I can speak to on a monthly basis or so for up keep. Haven’t launched to the public yet and it’s a fairly simple website. All recommendations welcome!

Founder of a B2B SaaS here (SEO/AI visibility space). We just shipped a big batch of updates (new onboarding, new plans) and are about to turn on paid ads + SEO. So right now I'm obsessed with one question: where do people actually get stuck in the app, before I pay to send traffic into it. Yesterday I tried something I half expected to fail. I connected Claude Code to Mixpanel's MCP (you can use any other tool with MCP + Replays, like Posthog, Amplitude, etc.) and asked it to check our sessio...

Sell the outcome not the product. My revenue nearly tripled for SaaS . I did make some UI changes but that wasn't what caused the revenue to increase. I started sharing tutorials and use cases on how to use it e.g: creating tiktok slideshows and scheduling them with claude how to find content on pinterest how to use real UGC reactions to make viral posts on social media how other successful brands were promoting on TikTok all of the above were actual helpful tips for my use...

I had an old raspberry pi with an e ink display lying around (it used to be a pwnagotchi) and wanted to give it a second life. So now it sits on my desk and shows me whats happening with my SaaS. My MRR with a progress bar toward my €1k goal, plus how many users were active and signed up today. A little python script polls my analytics every 10 minutes. And when someone signs up or goes paid, it interrupts everything with a little celebration screen. Currently at €486 MRR. Watching a physic...

Two co-founders, Berlin-based, looking for a third to join as a full co-founder. CEO - 15+ years in the legal sector CTO - 15+ years in IT We've built a product in the legal-tech space, self-funded and accelerator-winning. Focus areas going forward: AI, SaaS, legal-tech. Must-haves: - Native German speaker - we're primarily targeting the German market, global market is secondary for now - Strong communicator, comfortable pitching and speaking publicly - Can commit real time, not a ...

I run a SaaS and I belong to 4-5 different Slack communities. Every day I'd open Slack and engage with the community, search for my competitor mentions and industry specific terms. This would take me around an hour each day. So I built a simple Slack connector to Mentionkit(my keyword tracking tool). Whenever someone on these Slack communities mention my keyword, I get a notification. Then all I do is go in, talk about my product, and DM said person about it. It's that simple. My cur...