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Launched my little pdf translation tool a week ago. today someone subscribed, $12/mo. first money the thing has ever made ! kinda cant believe it. how long did it take you guys to get your first paying customer? Also, it’s linglo.io for those who want to take a look !

Hi everyone, I’m Brian. I’m about to start kindergarten soon. Also, I built a SaaS that makes me $100K MRR. A few people, and even my own family, have been asking me how I built a successful business when I don’t even know how to wash my own face. I figured I shouldn’t keep it to myself and let everyone know. Mommy did say it’s bad to keep secrets. Ship in a week : What even is validation? I opened Daddy’s laptop and pressed keys. I saw some funny letters and colorful numbers. I hit t...

Let me explain how I even have this data because it sounds quite made up. I build products for founders for a living have been doing it for 8 years so I have had a weirdly specific seat…. I watch a product get born, I watch it launch and because I stay in touch with a lot of these people & I watch what happens after. Some of them win and a lot of them dont and after enough of them don’t, you stop seeing individual failures and start seeing a pattern repeat so exactly it gets uncomfortable. ...

Hello together, I have a website with some traffic. The website is online since march, does anyone know what is the limit here? I mean it is indexed fully on indexnow and google, but i have no clue why it is rising, because i did no changes, and I have like 2 backlinks. So first why this worked? Second what is the limit? Because every reddit post i see is talking about yours. And this one ist konde 3-4 months old so far, when I will reach the plateu and what will it be? submitted by &#...

After 4 months since launch, I finally got my first paying customer. It probably doesn’t sound like much, but seeing that Stripe notification genuinely made my day. The funny thing is, I never really marketed the product. No ads, no influencer posts. This customer found it completely organically, which somehow made it feel even more rewarding. I’ve actually been working on this project for months before launch, and over the last four months I’ve just kept building. Looking back at the vers...

Beginning of the year I faced a small smartphone crisis, where I was spending way too much time on my phone scrolling TikTok or insta. I used to have my routines like having a morning walk etc. which surprise surprise got swallowed by reels over time. So I build an app to solve my personal issue. After half a year in the iOS App Store with 0$ spend on the app (Of course spend time to build this, but I consider this as hobby time) I have 24 Subscribers in my app . On the one hand I should fe...

I’m looking for a tool that can help me manage my long-term goals through voice, without requiring me to manually organize tasks or notes. My ideal workflow is: I define my long-term goal (e.g., building a startup) and explain my roadmap once. Every day, I spend 2–5 minutes giving a voice update about what I completed, what’s pending, new ideas, blockers, and progress. The AI remembers everything across conversations. It automatically keeps my roadmap updated, carries unfinished work...

Hey Guys, how are you? Hope you’re having a great day. I wanted to talk a little bit about our projects, and how many people are now starting to build and bring their ideas to life. I really think AI can help a lot of people start coding, creating, and doing things they didn’t know how to do before. I’ve built a couple of projects, and I don’t have any clients yet. And that’s okay. I’m not going to stop, because I love building things. One thing I can say is this: build a community, and ...

I’m starting to realize that a painful problem can still be a bad first SaaS idea. Some problems are obviously painful. A business is losing money, something is broken, there is urgency, people are stressed. On paper, that looks like a strong signal. But then you look closer and the solution would require a lot of trust, calls, custom support, sensitive data, and probably some kind of hand-holding. That may be a real business, but maybe not the kind of self-serve SaaS a solo founder should s...

The app im working on is not my first product, infact its a second SaaS and one of the many projects i did. Before landing on this, i had built games, tried machine learning, did another SaaS products, nothing stuck long enough to actuallybe published. The problem was not with the product but the execution and marketting itself, poor marketing, demotivation and burnout led me to scrape every projects i started. i was always shy of presenting my half polished, raw app to users, thats why i ne...

Given the advancement of AI and instant coding - I’m wondering if it’s even worth studying coding to begin with applications

TL,DR - I made a plugin for people who use after effects and now I have 3 energy drinks a day and sleep 4 hours, because I got addicted to building Its feels surreal and I know the amount is not much but the face I solved a very niche problem that I faced while working as a motion designer for Saas clients and other motion designers faced is still baffling to me and making money from it is even astonishing. Also I always loved building and trying and breaking things and tweaking and someon...

Today I got my 3rd paying customer ( around 3$ ). It probably doesn’t sound like much, but after months of building, marketing, and constantly wondering if anyone would actually pay for something I made, it feels amazing. Some numbers from the last 3 months: • 2,500+ users • 1,000+ ATS score checks • 300+ resumes built • 3 paying customers I’m still nowhere near where I want to be, but every small milestone makes me believe I’m solving a real problem. Now I’m trying to figure out the nex...

Running a small SaaS team and trying to be honest about whether our AI stack is actually paying off. Everyone uses it. Eng has Cursor. GTM lives in ChatGPT. Support drafts in Notion AI. We're paying for a handful of seats and nobody is shy about it. But when I look at what actually moved last quarter, it's hard to connect the dots. Not shipping cadence. Not fewer bugs. Not faster onboarding docs. Not even less time in Slack, because half the threads are now "can someone check this AI dr...

I recently ran a very small Reddit Ads test for a niche web tool I'm building. Nothing huge: about $28 spent, 5,646 impressions, 41 clicks, and almost no meaningful conversions. At first I focused on the clicks, but that was probably the wrong metric. The weak part was not the ad getting ignored. The weak part was what happened after the click. People landed on the site, but very few seemed to understand the product enough to take the next step. My takeaway is that paid traffic does not fi...

I'm working on positioning for a B2B SaaS company, and I've noticed something that surprised me. Whenever the product is described as "an AI platform" or "an all-in-one solution," conversations become vague. Buyers start comparing it to everything. When it's described as solving one very specific operational problem, conversations become much more concrete. It feels counterintuitive because founders usually want to communicate everything the product can do. I'm curiou...

I'm building a platform where users can discover new apps, test them, and earn points by providing feedback. The long-term plan is to introduce paid testing opportunities, while early users can build their reputation through a leaderboard. I'm trying to validate the idea before investing more time into it. A few questions: Would you use a platform like this? What would convince you to keep coming back? What concerns would you have as a user or as a founder? I'd really appreciate ...

Any Indian SAAS developer, how soon you started charging & which platform you used for it ? If I have a product around stock recommendations how should I plan around it . Launched the app last Friday got more tha 250 sign ups till now. Close to 50 folks are retuning every day. Any help will be appreciated.

Last year a SaaS founder came to me with a redesign budget…. the trial to paid thing was garbage, so obviously the product needed a new UI. Everyone around him agreed. Before touching anything I asked him one question. Out of the 100 people who signed up for this how many actually used it to do what it is meant to do. For example did they create their report or send their first campaign because this is what the software is for so it is important to know. He didn’t know and infact no one knew. Th...

If I could share just one observation from the last 10 years of building different apps, it would be this: The most important thing you can get is traffic. With traffic, you can sell your product, collect feedback, grow, and still have plenty of time to improve the app along the way. In the chart above, you can see how SEO went from zero to around 17K clicks per month . Those 17K clicks are now bringing in around $2,900 in monthly sales . Before this, I was never really able to bring...

I run a few side projects on different domains and managing email for all of them was always a pain. There are free options out there. Cloudflare Email Routing, for example, lets you forward incoming mail to your personal Gmail. But that only solves half the problem. You can receive, sure, but you can't reply from your custom domain. You're still sending from your personal address. And if you want to actually send from your domain, you need to set up a completely separate service like Resend o...

Hey everyone, building in public and could use honest eyes from people who actually get this space. I'm building a white-label AI front desk that agencies resell to local businesses. I made two completely different landing pages and I genuinely can't pick: A) the classic SaaS page: https://a.konvy.ai B) a scroll story, the page plays as you scroll: https://b.konvy.ai Not selling in this post, just asking for critique: which one would make you keep reading, and where exactly d...

They're doing well over $50k MRR. LLaMaRush is not even at $500 MRR yet. I don't know if they were just curious, doing competitor research, or looking for ideas. Doesn't really matter. It just felt surreal. A year ago we were studying products like theirs. Today they're checking out ours. SaaS is hard and things like this gives bit confidence.

Hey i am Arpit the Builder, Vibecoder and trying to be marketer. and I feel like everyone who is building in public likes to build something and not do marketing and stuff, but the most important thing is to do marketing because if you build a billion-dollar SaaS but no one is using it, then it is just a SaaS, not a billion-dollar SaaS. But there comes the issue that, as a Vibe Coder, Indie Hacker, or builder, I just love building things. If I have a problem, even a little one, I will build ...

Recently I've seen lots of people have been building their SaaS's as mobile apps instead of just websites, which seems strange to me, and I was wondering if I should make my SaaS a mobile app. I know it depends on the niche and what it actually is, but overall it seems to me like mobile apps are getting far more downloads and visits than traditional SaaS's, so I was just wondering what you guys think of it all

I thought I learned something from my last failure. I've been trying SaaS since 2025 and I failed. What was my mistake? I focused too much on technical things. (I am a programmer). So this time I changed my mind and did it another way. This time. I built an SNS channel first. And I focused on content generated from my app. I chose an app that can make contents endlessly. so I can post them every day without too much effort. I thought I succeeded. Because I get 40K+ views each day ...

Note: This is for people who are just starting/people with 0 users. July 2025 I decided that I will pursue entrepreneurship. Started by making minecraft mods. only $4 made so far from it (i put almost 2 months in it. Building everyday). Realised that this won't take me anywhere. Learn't canva and began making instagram templates. Still didn't close a single client. Saw digital products and decided to sell books on amazon (kdp). Published over 15 books, worked every single day. ~$10 made from...

I've been posting build-in-public stuff on here for a while now. mostly on r/SaaS . Got lucky with a few of them. three or four hit #1, two crossed ~200 upvotes, and the last one did over 328k views. so on paper the reach is there. But here's the part that's been bugging me. that last post that did 328k views got me 3 or 4 new users. and total, across everything I've ever posted on reddit, i'm still under 100 users. So people are clearly reading and the topics land. i just have no idea ho...

Over the past few months, I’ve been building Thothium , a local-first desktop video studio designed to automate the "faceless content pipeline" end-to-end. Most tools in this space are black-box SaaS wrappers where you submit a prompt and hope for the best. I wanted something that does the heavy lifting but keeps a fully interactive, scene-first timeline Non-Linear Editor (NLE) in the loop so you actually have creative control. Give it an abstract topic and the pipeline handles: ...