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I’ve been wrestling with a homepage problem that I suspect applies to a lot of products. I was trying to explain an unusual product with increasingly good copy. The copy kept getting better and the homepage kept getting worse. Eventually I realized the problem: If the core value of the product can be experienced in ten seconds, explaining it first creates friction. So I changed the sequence from: THESIS → EXPLANATION → PRODUCT to: ACTION → RESULT → EXPLANATION My product is abo...

We’re a content distribution startup based in Arizona, building a platform for creators such as teachers, instructors, course creators, and digital product sellers. Unlike marketplaces such as Udemy or Coursera, our model is creator-first rather than marketplace-first: creators bring their own audience and distribute their content through their own academy/storefront. We’ve already validated the concept with the market and have started development with seed funding and a few investors. Our...

Hey everyone, I’m working on a B2C SaaS and the main thing I’m struggling with right now is acquisition. I can make progress on the product, but I can’t seem to find a reliable channel that consistently brings in new users. For those of you who have successfully grown a B2C SaaS: Which acquisition channels work best for you? Do you mainly use SEO, TikTok/Instagram, paid ads, influencers, affiliates, Reddit, partnerships, etc.? How did you get your first users? What helped you go from a fe...

ok so a few months ago we decided to test something new out for our saas. so many people talk about ugc and how great it is compared to ads and so on. there are many examples of apps that scaled with them. I specifically took Inspo from the founder of Jenni ai David Park in his guide you can check out the influencers posts here as well for proof to preface this, this is more of what not to do and what id do differently and will do differently now haha but here was the process: s...

Hello, I just launched a project, and yes it takes hard work to publish curated articles with real backing and not sloppy so far this is where I got, almost two months, didn't pay anything just pure research and articles. but I keep seing the ADS like everyone, am I missing something ? or I am right to be skeptical ? that it would produce nonesens AI but in mass ? would google punish me later ? 😄 😂 https://preview.redd.it/tzugtyewgejh1.png?width=3326&format=png&auto=webp&s=b553a6...

Hi All, Conflicted and need advice. "If you build it, they will come." - I have found this in fact, not to in be the case for saas's? Background - Been in software design + development since 2013, mostly in ux/product ownership. Couple years back, i realized that the Job Boards and ATS sites make a bunch of money from exploiting job hunters via the sponsored job profit model. That, and the majority of job openings are fake. But the Job Boards / ATS sites wont do anything about the...

I got 25 installs in less than a month

Does anyone else feel an impending sense of doom when it comes to building Saas/Apps in the age of AI? Feels like we are 6-12 months away from literally anyone being able to build a personal website/app for themselves, automating exactly what the SaaS company founders set out to do. They say to "focus on distribution", but won't AI/Claude wrappers make it so that the distribution of once-complex-to-build software is complete with a simple prompt?

I went through every YC-backed SaaS company failure post-mortem I could find from 2019 to 2025. found around 30+ documented cases & in most case its the same pricing problem that have killed them Pricing was not too high or too low. It was flat monthly pricing that did not scale with customer value. The problem. one SaaS company charges $99/month per account. one customer uses the product lightly and logs in twice a week, does basic tasks, gets moderate value while second customer uses t...

I'm building a product that can be used by adults and children, so it should comply with gdpr and some other EU/Spain policies. I had AI generated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for me. What is the best way to find a qualified person to read through it and confirm that it all looks good?

Classic solo technical founder problem. I can build the thing fine. Finding the handful of people who actually have the problem is the part I'm bad at, so I'm asking people who've already done it. Quick on why I'm even on this. I was PM for AI at a fintech firm. One thing we built let ops update loan records in plain English, move accounts into forbearance, change a payment status, that kind of thing. Worked most of the time. The problem was the times it didn't, it still said it did. Came bac...

Has any one sold saas to UK local government? I have completed a number of demos and getting really positive feedback and interest. The next hurdle is the procurement stage. I am looking for someone who has done this before and could maybe offer some advice?

I want to list my software and I am looking for some good SaaS directories to get started. Please help me choose from the big 4 - G2, Capterra, Software Finder & Software Advice

I'm looking to know more about how founders and directors handle the day-to-day administration and management of their startups. Specifically, I’m trying to map out which apps and software tools are actually worth using for things like project management, finance, communication, and HR. Would you be open to sharing a quick list of the core tools your team relies on? I feel like some of them are too complex for me to spend too much time trying to learn. Thanks a lot for your time and insights...

A friend asked me recently whether setting up a branded short domain was worth the effort for a small SaaS business. My initial answer was that it felt like one of those things you do after you've ‘made it.’ Nice to have, but hardly a priority when you're trying to get customers. Then we mapped out everywhere their links were showing up. Product update emails, demo follow-ups, LinkedIn posts, webinar registrations, affiliate partnerships, customer onboarding emails, event handouts and even...

I just want to share my experience. I am in this space for quite some time. I started by watching videos and wanted to build something myself. I learned NextJS, used MongoDB but later switched to Supabase. I already launched two projects but not made any money. Those were rough and sketchy. I learned a lot and got better. I actually got some traction for my second project which was basically a linktree clone. I have around 1k visitors every month all organic. This encouraged me that if I do ...

Hey guys, now we’re migrating a project to AWS, and our builds are taking around 20–25 minutes . On top of that, things keep randomly breaking/failing, so we often have to stop, fix something, and run the build again. This makes the whole process even more painful. From what we’ve seen, we could probably get the build time down to around 10–15 minutes by using a different approach, but that would also increase our AWS infrastructure costs by roughly 10–15% . Is there any way to optimiz...

Hey everybody, I just launched my first project and would love some feedback. www.trytrendline.com It's an NFL database that allows users build sports betting models, filtering games by weather, location, performance, trends, team, coach, referee, travel, rest, etc. The website shows the historical performance of the model and the current games for that week that match their model. I just launched this week and would love any feedback!

Why did you pick the SaaS / the niche that you picked? Do you have a vision of something that should exist? Did you have a personal problem that you solved for yourself and now turned into a SaaS? Did you scan the internet for a unmet pain and are building for it?

I have a big dream, but I have been procrastinating for months now, but not anymore. I guess this is an impulsive post to be honest but I want to hold myself liable by sharing my journey to the public. After a lot of research ... and I mean A LOT of research I finally found a problem that I'm genuinely excited about. there is clear demand, a specific customer, and a real gap. everything looks great till now but there is a lot of things I know nothing about so I'll still spend the day doing m...

Yep. $0.50. Try not to get jealous. I launched my first Chrome extension recently and technically I've already made money from it lol. The only problem is that the person who paid was a friend of mine who probably bought it because he felt bad for me. And to make things even better, I gave him such a massive discount that I ended up making something like 50 cents from the sale. So yeah, I guess I'm officially a profitable SaaS founder now. Jokes aside, this is the first thing I've actually bui...

Landed my first customer a bit ago after 2 months of building, and I'm starting to feel like there may be hope after all. SaaS for ecommerce, doing manual outreach + SEO + some organic marketing at the moment. Any tips to land the next 9 clients? I feel like the time spend to return is a bit too slow.

Solo founder, mostly self-taught. My biggest money leak in year one wasn't tools or ads, it was building features that made perfect sense in my head and fell apart the second a real user touched them. What changed: before I build anything now, I map the whole flow in a free flowchart maker. Every screen, every branch, what happens when the user has no data yet, what happens when they cancel, where they can get stuck. Boxes and arrows, thirty minutes. Sounds trivial, but drawing it exposes ...

I added paid plans to my side project in May, and I'm trying to decide where to spend my time next. It's a free Pomodoro timer called Pomofox . Most of the product is free, and I charge $5/month for extra customization. Right now: 3k–4k visitors/month 16 paying users $80 MRR Almost all paying users are from the US I'm also seeing that people actually use the customization quite a lot, which was one of my concerns when I made it paid. So I'm at a point where I don't really wa...

I think AI has made building SaaS easier while quietly making one part of SaaS much more dangerous It's now ridiculously easy to ask AI: “What SaaS should I build?” Then ask it to research the market. Then ask whether customers need it. Then ask it to design the product. Then have it write the product. There's one problem I've become increasingly obsessed with: The same AI is effectively grading its own homework. If the original hypothesis came from AI, the market research was ...

been thinking about this a lot lately building ai features for clients. the demo always works. the model generates the code, the endpoint responds, the happy path looks clean. that's maybe 80% of the actual job done in 20% of the time. the other 20% - the input validation, the retry logic when the model hallucinates a field, the auth edge case, the thing that breaks when 200 people hit it at once - that's where most of the real engineering time goes. nobody puts that in a demo video. i run...

Built a tool for people who post on X. It parses your old posts, shows you what actually worked (hook, format, length, timing), then writes new drafts using your own past posts as the reference instead of generic AI slop. Pricing is one time credit packs, no subscription. Starter pack is $4. New users get free credits on signup. 3 days in: 30 signups, a few hundred posts parsed, $0. I messaged about half the signups for feedback. Most of it was positive. Still nobody paid. What I already...

Im working on a taste-based discovery app for fashion and I'm stuck on monetization. The main problem is that with small brands/designers you can't search for a brand you don't know exists, so every tool out there is just a better search box, which is useless for people like me who are looking for new brands. Instead of typing a brand name, you feed it pieces and brands you already like and it finds similar pieces/styles across every marketplace, including Japanese marketplaces like Yahoo Auct...

What’s your proven workflow for creating SEO content with Claude or other AI tools? What process do you follow from keyword research to the final article? Are your AI-assisted articles ranking consistently in Google? What have you found works best, and what should be avoided? Would love to hear from people who have tested this at scale.

im not trying to sound depressing, but just trying to maximize my efforts and like not beat a dead horse, but realistically speaking, let s say u built a niche product and are marketing it right now, like let s say it got to 30+ users in a month (sign ups) active or not doesnt matter but like no purchases, nothing. at this point id guess maybe the value given isnt great enough for them to pay for a subscription, but then again its 30 users, i wouldnt consider that big enough to change the freemi...