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Curious how people really did this, not the polished version you read after the fact. For your first 10 users where did they actually come from? Cold outreach, a network you already had, one post that happened to land, doing it manually one by one? And how long did it genuinely take to get there? Trying to figure out what actually works at the very start vs what just sounds good in hindsight.

I'm over the moon, to think that my product is so valuable that two people in the planet decided to shell out 200 dollars of their hard earned money (and monthly at that)? I'm seriously so humbled. I spend 0 on marketting. I have like 30 loyal users (at a lower tier) and it's been spreading just through word of mouth. I really wanna scale this more, I'm the sole proprietor and I'm not incorporated yet, please give me advice! [link] ...

I've had a Shopify store for years. Like everyone else, I ended up nickel-and-diming myself with a bunch of separate apps: inventory alerts, an app to show customers when their order is arriving, one for reviews, one for a chatbot... Add it up, and it was $100+/month for a pile of disconnected pieces that barely talked to each other. I have zero coding experience. None. I watched a few YouTube tutorials on Claude Code and figured, why not try it. I started by asking for small, specific things,...

Stripe isn’t available where I’m from. Is there any good payment gateway alternatives for a sass?

I keep seeing people say vibe coding is going to replace developers, but I think it mostly exposes a different problem. It's never been easier to build a working SaaS. You can go from idea to MVP in a weekend. The hard part starts after that. I've seen polished apps get almost no users, while another product with a clunky UI quietly grows to around $35k MRR. The difference wasn't the code. It was that one solved a very specific problem for a very specific audience. A lot of founders (mysel...

Between clipping, paid, content, seo/sea and cold outreach, what's actually pulled weight for you, and what did you sink time or money into and regret? Feels like every founder swears by a different one.

Maybe I’m late to this, but I’ve been noticing a weird shift. When I’m comparing tools now, I catch myself asking ChatGPT or Perplexity before I even open Google. Stuff like “what’s a good CRM for a small team?” or “which email marketing tools are actually worth trying?” Makes me wonder if this is starting to matter for SaaS discovery, or if it’s still mostly noise. Are any of you actually tracking whether your product shows up in AI answers, or is that not on your radar yet? sub...

I've been building a SaaS for IT operations over the last several months and I originally built it to solve problems I kept running into during my own shifts while working. The first part is a Chrome extension that helps operations teams quickly generate clear incident updates. Then while building that, I realized another problem while studying for my CCNA. There aren't many good ways to practice troubleshooting. It seems like majority of resources out there only teach theory. So I also star...

I read a lot about all these „I made 1 Mio MRR after 1 day being live“ stuff here on Reddit. I recently build my own first SaaS tool. It solves a problem that I had for years now. I asked friends and old colleagues and they are facing the same issue. I currently wonder how to market that product. There is no comparable product out there so there is no search volume. It’s basically a pretty new product category. I know that many of my potential B2B clients barely do solve this issue using ...

Hey everyone, wanted to share something I put together recently. I used to be a video editor and spent a lot of time trying to find channels to pitch my services to. The process was always the same: search YouTube manually, open a bunch of tabs, copy bios and links into a spreadsheet, try to remember who I already messaged. It worked but it was slow and easy to lose track of. So I built TubeScout . You pick a niche and a country, it searches YouTube and gives you back a table of matching ch...

As soon as I got my first sign ups I was hooked; refreshing my dashboards is now like an addiction. I can barely focus on my real day job anymore, all I want to do is get a new sign up or a new subscriber. It makes me feel like what I imagine a puff of a cigarette feels like to a smoker. I am super proud of what I built but I want fast, immediate growth and I'm being super impatient. Did/does anybody else feel this way? [link] &#3...

​ Genuine question. You ship a feature. Users click it. Maybe usage looks decent for the first week. How do you decide whether the feature was actually successful? I've seen teams stop at: "1,200 users used the feature." But I always find the questions after that more interesting. Did those users come back? Did their behaviour change? Did they convert better? Were they already your most engaged users anyway? Did the feature improve anything or simply gi...

Hi People. I'm curious to know about few things. If you are a founder building a saas / service business & figured out the product market fit then, How did you validate your idea? ( I'm not asking validating using LLMs ) Are there any frameworks you used for this? How did you fill the business model canvas with the right details. How did you find your 1st few (5) customers. Really curious about these things and i think it will help someone as well. So, please answer ...

We’re running Meta Ads for an AI SEO SaaS and I’m trying to understand if our budget is too low, or if our funnel/positioning is the real issue. So far we’ve spent around $2k on ads. We tested broad campaigns with different angles, creatives, and budgets. We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel either: we look closely at what competitors are doing, adapt some proven angles, and also test our own creatives. We did find a few creatives that clearly outperformed the others and started taking m...

Hey r/SaaS , 3 months into my first saas, 6 signups, 0 paying users. Starting to feel like this idea just isn't it. if i start over with something new, should i validate before building, or build a rough mvp first and validate off that? or do i need real conversations with people instead? Also for getting the first 100 users, is reddit/x posting actually enough or do i need to be doing something more than that? Anyone with experience on this, would appreciate hearing your take. &#32...

Hey everyone, I am a account executive at a B2B SaaS. I wanted to see if anyone else has also sort of gone through a similar situation as me. I am finding that my follow-ups are where a lot of deals lose momentum. I get off a strong call, then the recap doesn't go out until the next day and it's a generic 'great to connect, deck attached' note that misses half of what we actually covered. The other reps who keep deals moving somehow send something the same-day that speaks to the real next ste...

Founder here. So Wispr Flow just raised $260M at close to a $2B valuation. 2.5 million downloads, 270 Fortune 500 companies using it. All for AI voice typing you talk, it types, cleans up your words. Pretty wild numbers for what is essentially dictation software. They charge $15/mo for it. $180/year. I'm building a Chrome extension called ChromePilot and one of the features I shipped is basically the same thing. I call it Voice Keyboard. You hover over any text field on any website, a l...

our team often built with 20+ terminal tabs open each. so it was practically a nightmare trying to find the right context, especially since we're a remote team. and we definitely didn't want to schedule another meeting or do another "can you see my screen?" moment. so we built Campus. Campus gives every project its own persistent workspace. instead of jumping between apps, everything lives together on one canvas: terminals, browsers, documents, designs, files, AI agents, and your t...

Back in 2023, we wrote a Skylead alternatives blog, a standard alternatives blog ranking the options and explaining the differences between direct alternatives. Over the past month, the blog has ranked at an avg. position of #8. A few months ago, an agency in Australia had been evaluating their options for LinkedIn outbound. They searched for Skylead alternatives, found our blog, read through the comparison, and decided to reach out. They had 80 client accounts they needed to migrate ove...

Hundreds or maybe thousands of SaaS products launch every day, and half seem to be the same tool with a new logo and gradient. Is the market becoming oversaturated, or is there still enough demand for new products? Curious what founders are seeing with competition, acquisition, and churn.

I’m seriously considering quitting my software engineering job to build something of my own. I have around €100k in savings and another €100k invested in stocks. My expenses are manageable, so financially I could give myself a few years of runway without immediately needing the business to succeed. I’m not afraid of working hard. I’ve worked intensely before, and I know I can be disciplined when I care about something. What scares me is working hard on the wrong thing. I don’t want to sp...

As a founder, it's important for us to note how our competitors are performing. First, I checked the new crowd, and after analyzing them, I found that the majority are vibe coding. To be frank, anyone with an engineering or developer background can usually tell whether an app is fully vibe coded or not. I was going through the newcomers in my niche, literally using their apps to analyze whether users are going to stick with them or not. I understood that their products have a number of basic...

I recently launched a SaaS ( https://pinescriptapi.com/ ), but I’m having trouble figuring out how to get traffic. I’m unsure whether to focus on YouTube, Reddit, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, SEO, or something else. I want to grow the site without relying on paid ads. For those of you who’ve successfully grown your SaaS or website, what worked best for you in terms of organic growth? Any advice on what platforms or strategies to focus on would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance ...

I’m currently working on my own SaaS idea and I’m looking for people who have the same goal: building something from scratch, learning together, sharing ideas and helping each other. But every time I ask for advice or try to connect with other builders, someone immediately tries to sell me their SaaS, course or service 😭 I’m not looking to buy another tool. I just want to meet people who are also building their first SaaS, exchange honest feedback, talk about problems and maybe motivate each...

All I can say is, if you're building a product for small businesses that depend on your software to stay organized and compliant, don't quit. Keep your head in the game. We started with a team of four. Today we're at 25. One of the biggest changes for us was adding AI. Once we introduced AI-generated progress notes and AI agents to handle repetitive tasks, we saw a lot more customers upgrading. Our customer base is mostly people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, but we're seeing more younger bus...

Just got my first paying customer and I'm still shaking! The funny part? It didn't come from marketing, because my marketing barely exists. No ads, no launch post, no cold outreach - that funnel isn't ready yet. The only thing I've paid for so far is a 99$ directory listing that isn't even live. I showed the product to a friend. They told someone else. That person signed up and paid. I know it's just one sale. But seeing that first card charge land in Creem because a friend vouched for wha...

Context: I'm a young sysadmin, working at the same MSP company since I started 6 years ago. I already have beginner skills in C/C++ and Python, plus a French master's degree (Bac+5) in software/network project management and cloud architecture. Maybe out of greed, maybe out of boredom, I turned to building my own SaaS. I went through forums and experience reports, notably from this subreddit and others. I identified a real problem in my field and my company, which me and my colleagues confir...