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One thing I’m starting to find counterintuitive with SaaS ideas: The complaint itself is not always the best signal. A lot of people complain, but the problem becomes more interesting when there is already a boring workflow around it. Something with a name, an owner, a deadline, and a bad current process. Like dispute management, invoice reconciliation, margin tracking, access reviews, vendor reviews, renewal tracking, stuff like that. It is usually less exciting than a big “AI idea”, bu...

Recently I’ve started to have this feeling, that everybody is building something, so is it a right path to go? Because if that is true than you can’t make money anymore. It is the same as it was with the Shopify, dropshipping, so if the entrance level is low, and there are a lot of people all people can’t earn. So the best way to go is to go where no people. Do you feel the same? Do you think that is true or just me overthinking ? [link] ...

Hey everyone, I recently launched an app called Still. It’s already in production on iOS and Android, and I’m trying to figure out how to actually make it succeed. Still is a calm app for people who want to stop gambling, gamble less, or block betting/gambling apps before it becomes a bigger problem. It includes urge control tools, gambling site/app blockers, trigger tracking, progress tracking, money protected, and a 30-day recovery program. The reason I built it is because gambling i...

I'm about to start building my first SaaS and wanted to get some advice. I want to start with free hosting if possible, then move to something affordable as I get users. Where would you host the backend, database, and authentication? Also, if I decide to switch platforms after a few months, is it easy to migrate or upgrade plans everything without losing user data or running into major issues? What would you recommend if you were starting from scratch today? submitted by ...

I built a software called Countersign Countersign is an alternative to Docusign. I t is a self-hosted document e-signing engine that lets you send PDF contracts to one or more people for sequential signing. You run it on your own machine or server, and it handles the entire signing workflow from start to finish.

Quick build-in-public story with a tactic you can steal. I built rungcode.io , prep for the "Forward Deployed Engineer" interview (a niche but fast-growing AI role). Classic mistake: I overbuilt the product. Real code editor, SQL sandbox, an AI mock interviewer, 115 problems, billing, 2FA, the works. Then I launched and got ~5 visitors a day for weeks. The product was way ahead of its distribution. Instead of building another feature, I tried something different: I made original d...

something worth knowing if you run a SaaS, especially one built fast or with AI tools. The single most common API vulnerability is embarrassingly simple your app checks that a user is logged in, but never checks that the specific record they're asking for actually belongs to them. So a logged-in user changes an ID in a request (say /invoice/123 to /invoice/124) and the app hands back a stranger's data. No error, no log. It looks perfect in every demo because you only ever open your own data. It ...

I run a small alterations and tailoring shop and started building an email list maybe six months ago. Got about 340 subscribers so far, mostly from a sign-up sheet at the counter. Haven't done a single send yet because I keep getting stuck trying to figure out what platform to use without blowing money on something that's overkill for my size. Every time I research saas email marketing tools I end up down a rabbit hole of pricing pages and feature comparisons that seem designed for companies ...

I’ve been building in a very niche market, it’s took me about over 12 months (not non stop) to get to where I am I had no prior coding knowledge nor did I have any clue about the healthcare space which is what I’m building into and in that over 12 months I’ve built the software into what it is today as I was building I was validating (stupid I know) I’m aware this should have been done prior to the build but at the time what I was hearing from people and the shite ChatGPT was/is feeding me it se...

A couple of weeks ago I asked here how people were monitoring their projects. The answers were honestly all over the place. Some people check logs manually, some use UptimeRobot, some just wait until someone complains That discussion actually helped me a lot while I was building Incidently. It's basically the tool I wanted for my own projects. I wanted something that tells me when something important breaks without having to set up a whole observability stack. It's still early, so I'm su...

Desarrollé un SaaS de agentes con IA para automatizar la atención al cliente en varios rubros. El producto está bueno de verdad, pero hace 6 semanas que no logro vender. Ya probé: ads, Instagram con publicaciones, y ~5 reuniones de venta en persona. Resultado: cero. El tema es que soy dev, no vendedor. ¿Cómo consiguieron sus primeros clientes? Se agradece cualquier consejo.

Hey all, A user subscribed to my SaaS monthly plan two months ago but has never visited or used my application at all since. They just subscribed and ghosted. They have already been charged twice, and their plan renews again on 6 july. I have emailed them multiple times but haven't received a response. I don't know if I should cancel or pause their plan. Since I am new to SaaS, I am worried they might file a chargeback once they notice the subscription. What do you usually do in this case? ...

One thing that caught me off guard was that growth didn't just solve problems. It also made some parts of the business much harder. Things that felt effortless in the early days suddenly needed more people, more coordination, and more time. I expected new challenges, but I didn't expect to lose some of the advantages that came with being small. Looking back, what did growth quietly take away from your business?

One roadblock I could see when pitching to customers who are larger orgs or closer to enterprise scale is it may come off as a red flag to them if the product they are considering is run by a single person (even if done well).

Today I bought the domain for the project I’ve been building over the past few months. It may sound like a small step, but seeing my own domain instead of a free Vercel URL made it feel like this is becoming a real company, not just another side project. The project is called Xaminix . I’m building an AI-powered platform that helps students improve descriptive answer writing through examiner-style evaluation and feedback. It’s still in beta, and I’m spending most of my time fixing bugs, imp...

Finally hit $250 MRR and I’m still processing it honestly. I created a project management tool for agencies. I have 12 paying customers right now. Plus a whole lot of free users still checking things out. Total MRR $263. Not life-changing, but for someone who had $0 a few weeks ago, this feels huge. And so I think that's the part nobody talks about, honestly. So here is how I actually got those 12 people. I didn’t run ads. I joined Slack communities and Discord servers where agency owner...

My last few posts here did a couple 100k views combined and the most common question in my DMs since has been some version of "should I build a free tool to get users" In short, yes. Long answer…. almost everyone builds the wrong one. Let me explain with the oldest trick in local business. Carpet cleaners used to offer one room cleaned completely free. It probably sounds like they're giving away the product right? Well that’s wrong. Because the moment that one room is clean and spo...

Hi everyone, Over the last year, I've been building ZonForge Sentinel, an AI-native cybersecurity platform designed for startups and SMEs that don't have dedicated security teams. The original question we started with was simple: How can a startup defend itself against enterprise-grade cyber threats without hiring a full SOC team? Most existing security platforms are powerful but require: • Large budgets • Dedicated analysts • Months of training We're trying to simplify that expe...

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Most of my website visitors used to leave without a word. They had a question, didn't find the answer fast enough, and bounced. I couldn't sit on live chat all day, and the generic bots I tried knew nothing about my product, so they just annoyed people. So I built one that only answers from my own knowledge: my product details, a crawl of my site, and a FAQ I paste in. If it doesn't know, it says so and offers to connect the visitor to me. Two things made it actually useful: Every int...

Hey everyone, i had a hard time with three js so decided to make an studio where you can draw the path of the asset and it will follow. It is still in development stage and might contain errors it is open source - https://github.com/jagwalansh/threed feel free to go through the code and make contribution.

I'm researching a potential Shopify tool. Imagine a dashboard that connects Shopify and Instagram and tells you: Which products to restock Which products to promote Which products are overpriced Which products are underperforming Which Instagram content is driving sales Would something like this be useful? If not, what would make it useful enough for you to pay for it? What would you expect it to do that current tools don't? [lin...

Hey everyone, I am building HabitHeat, a habit tracker based around heatmaps, analytics and long-term visual history. One thing I noticed while building this habit tracker is that I have a strange product problem. On day one, the app is almost empty. The real results come after 30, 90 or 365 days, because it starts showing patterns. So the challenge is not just “how do I let users track a habit?” The challenge is: how do you make the first session feel valuable when the real value appe...

I’m trying to understand what could explain a drop like this in Google Search Console impressions, and I’m honestly a bit stuck. Context: - small SEO project in the TV/entertainment niche - most pages are show pages, release-date pages, and blog articles - impressions had been growing, then suddenly dropped pretty hard - I didn’t publish anything major around that time - no migration, redesign, or intentional canonical / noindex changes - no manual actions in GSC That’s why this is c...

Past failures: They were small niche products e.g a couple of them were about a year ago HairSwap AI Bald AI filter Interior AI Similar apps had success but I haven't figured out paid advertising yet. so i failed with them Why this one worked: It's a social media scheduler, like Hootsuite etc, but I made it so that it connects to AI agents such as Claude or Openclaw. then people just tell Claude "hey post this to my X" , "schedule these 100 videos for me&qu...

Done with my SaaS. It functions well, just waiting on one last step to complete and i'm ready to sell. I've built 2 other products before, a social media app for students, and a B2B tool for sales reps. The hardest part is always finding people to use your product. This time my approach is different, I will be going D2D in Los Angeles, selling to my ICP. I have sales experience, so I'm very comfortable with rejection and can keep going. I feel like this will be easier to get users, and fun...

https://preview.redd.it/qm64r3n9c4bh1.png?width=1550&format=png&auto=webp&s=aec2e5a270c268e721983601a2d57163741754d1 The traffic is entirely organic I haven't run any ads or paid promotions. The page is ranking on Google, but the click-through rate (CTR) is quite low. Do you have any suggestions on how I can improve the CTR?

If you could give a startup one unfair advantage, what would you choose? Money Distribution Incredible founding team Viral Product Speed of execution

Hey guys, I'm building an AI-native bookkeeping platform for startups. The biggest problem I found with existing AI finance tools is that they just spit out a final Profit & Loss number, and if the AI hallucinated or guessed wrong, you have no idea until your CPA yells at you. I just shipped two massive features to fix the "Black Box" problem and wanted to share how I engineered it: 1. The Transparent Review Queue I built a strict Human-in-the-Loop system. If the LLM's conf...