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For a while this was a private tool I ran to keep an eye on my own sites. Enough people asked about it that I cleaned it up and open sourced it under MIT. The reason I built it instead of using Google Analytics: I wanted to see which channels actually bring paying customers, not just traffic. It connects to Stripe, so revenue and refunds get attributed back to the source and campaign that brought the customer. Funnels and retention too. Two things people seem to like. You can see which AI re...

Hey r/SaaS , Most automated budget apps share the same glaring problem: to give you the convenience of automatic transaction tracking, they force you to hand over your intimate financial history. They read your banking SMS alerts, parse them, and upload your entire financial footprint to their cloud servers (usually to fuel a predatory backend loan funnel). The only alternative? Manual spreadsheet entry that 90% of people give up on after three weeks. I wanted to see if I could build a z...

​ For years we've tracked SEO rankings, backlinks, and keywords. But lately I've noticed customers asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity questions like: "Best CRM for small businesses" "Best project management software" "Best AI meeting assistant" The AI only recommends a handful of companies. That got me wondering... How do companies know: Whether they're even being mentioned? Whether the AI is describing them accurately? Whether compe...

Ai says that thats a win. Community says it brings bots and spams. Anyone use the strategy and see that it works out? Can you say that you absolutely must or not do it?

https://preview.redd.it/i7h3fn3wp4bh1.png?width=1207&format=png&auto=webp&s=2640cc0f3cf138a590b49b8baca08c84360d3a1e After about 6 months of development, talking to users, really long days, big highs and very low (wtf am I doing with my life) lows I'm finally submitting. Wish me luck! If anyone has any questions on the journey feel free to reach out. Cheers

I've spent the last 7 months building Vatio (vatio.dev), an API for US electricity market data. Wholesale prices, grid demand, generation mix, all seven US grid operators through one REST API. The gap I went after: this data is public but painful. It's scattered across seven operator systems with different formats and rate limits, and the commercial platforms that clean it up start around $1,000/month with a sales call. I sell it for $29/month flat, with a free tier and no card required. Whe...

I’m so proud to say this: We’re on track to hit $10bn ARR with our SaaS . In 2089. I’m beyond inspired by our team, deeply grateful to our investors, and humbled by our users. At this pace, we’re well on our way to creating generational wealth. By the next generation. Follow our journey as we build this rocketship in public.

Alright, so I know you guys are pretty sick of the sloppy toppy posts. This is sloppy, but not AI sloppy. I guess I should probably turn this one into an essay, because I need it to grow feet and run. My name is Zain, and I have spent 11 years of my adult life *finding my way*, so to speak. I have (and have been blessed with) a solid design, systems, and creative skillset that carries me forward. But my situation never required I chase that thread out of necessity. So, I tinkered here and the...

Today if you figure out what to build probably it won't take you more than a week to get it live. with agents, building feels completely effortless but being a SaaS founder that isn't enough to pay our bills, we need to distribute it and random approaches rarely produce results, it need something concrete and reliable, and that's where our self-belief shake and every other idea except the one we built starts to look lucrative, the temptation to switch to something else become strongest within fe...

Last 3 months have been insane. I've discovered and learned a 1000 new things building my own product. First a little bit of background: Over the past 8 years I've been a freelance software developer & I've worked on my own and in small teams. But one thing that I never did was building my own actual product. I've always been working on building a product for someone else. I would just get my hourly rate and that's it. Bread has to be at the table & a house has to be paid for. Now ...

You might have seen AI fix one thing and break five others. This happens because your AI does not know what else in your codebase depends on that particular method or function. I built a tool called CXGRD which fixes this problem. It tells your AI "Hey, you just changed that function, but it is used by these modules, and you changed what it returns ". Catch it before it ships and breaks in production Check it out here: https://cxgrd.com

building apps is a structured process, starting from initializing project, coding landing page, coding auth then onboarding etc. but there isn't any such unsaid rules for distribution and that makes it look hard. but then how to approach distribution without burning out in a structured way? most important of all, figure out where your audience usually hangout it is linkedin for most b2b or enterprise softwares, channels like insta/tiktok for mostly general use b2c nice to have products. leverage...

I built an AI tool for solo founders (startup ops - planning, finances, marketing, all in one place) and I'm at the "have real users, need paying customers" stage with zero marketing budget to spend. I've tried Reddit posts and cold outreach so far. For those who've been here, what actually converted for you? Curious if it was one channel that outperformed everything else, or just volume of small efforts adding up [link] [c...

I hear about Build in Public every day, so I decided to try it. It's been... humbling. I post twice a day on LinkedIn. Comments "This is great." "You're solving a real problem." DMs: "I love the idea." "How does it work?" People visit the website, click around. But almost nobody clicks Get Started . What's the missing piece between people saying "This is awesome" and actually signing up? Founders who've experienced this...

I'm curious to know your take on something- what would be more valuable: a) identifying the common yet overlooked mistakes founders make, the results of which may not become apparent for years (possibly getting some sort of audit around it) OR b) getting a thought partner to work through early stage challenges to exponentially grow revenue? The former would help you avoid what not to do, but doesn't necessarily provide a ton of resources on ways forward whereas the latter can help to wa...

Every founder I’ve talked to seems to have a different workflow: Loom Screen Studio Figma animations After Effects Hiring freelancers If you ship new features every week, what’s your current process?

A few days ago, Write2Rank was just an idea in my notebook. Today, I have my first group of real students testing it. It’s still far from perfect. There are bugs, rough edges, and features I’m improving every day. But seeing someone upload a handwritten answer and receive AI-generated examiner-style feedback within seconds is incredibly motivating. The biggest lesson so far is that building the product is only half the journey. Talking to users, collecting honest feedback, and iterating qui...

Hi everyone, Founder/Coder here. With small to medium scale SaaS companies (and beyond), a big challenge is not just the launch, but to figure out what the roadmap should be going forward. What features matter the most to customers? What bugs bother customers the most? There are expensive solutions out there such as Canny, but if you were looking for a free/open-source solution that is built the right way (I have 3 decades of industry experience, and have been writing articles on RightCodi...

I’m building an App Store screenshots tool called Launch Shots. One of the main reasons I started building it was because I was solving a problem I had myself. Almost every screenshots tool I tried locked useful features behind a subscription. I understand why. Businesses need to make money. But I also felt that subscriptions weren’t the right pricing model for a screenshots generator. Most people only create screenshots once in a while, so paying every month didn’t make much sense to me. ...

When leaders spend their time building instead of leading, they drift from the one thing they were hired to be great at. That seems counterproductive for any organization. To be clear, I’m not saying they should stop. I’m trying to understand who does the actual leading while they’re heads-down building. Titles like CEO, CFO and CISO exist because someone has to own those decisions. And if the answer is “AI will handle it,” that’s a way bigger claim than anyone’s admitting. AI can draft the ...

I’ve been thinking about SaaS validation lately, and I’m starting to trust workarounds more than complaints. A complaint can be useful, but people complain about everything. It does not always mean the problem is painful enough to pay for. The signal I find more interesting is when someone is already doing something annoying to solve it. Like keeping a spreadsheet updated every week, copy-pasting between tools, using a fragile Zapier setup, paying for a tool they dislike, or asking how other...

I just started building my first SaaS, and honestly, I have a lot of questions. I have an idea that solves a problem I personally face, but I'm not sure if enough people would actually pay for it. A few questions for founders who have been through this: How did you validate your SaaS idea before spending months building it? Are there any tools or platforms you recommend for idea validation? What's the biggest mistake first-time SaaS founders make? If you were starting from scratch ...

$0 spent on marketing, and my SEO is ass, consisting of one pass of telling Claude to "do some SEO stuff idk." I'm hitting some major milestones and hiring a few part timers this month, ending my "solo" status, so thought this was a good time to reflect and celebrate. I run a B2C service, probably best categorized as entertainment. TRO_KIK - $156,672 last 30 days | TrustMRR (not pictured is PayPal, much smaller slice and no TrustMRR integration, but puts me over the state...

I'm considering creating a founder welcome video for my own SaaS. My idea would be to display the video as Youtube shorts the moment my users sign up to my platform. What would you expect from a founder welcome video? Do you know any examples where I can find inspiration? Is it a good idea at all? Would appreciate to hear from your experience!

Has anyone here made it to the Top 5, hopefully #1 Product of the Day, or of the Week/Month? What tactics actually worked for you? Any communities, outreach, hunters, or other strategies? I'm okay spending reasonable money, but looking for something with a reliable path rather than random promotion. Any input would be helpful. Thank you. :)

I'm looking to start making apps with vibe coding. Is this still a thing to make money from. I don't really use tiktok or Instagram. I want to replace my full time job and looking to vibe code my way to self sufficiency. Is this a real thing or am I dreaming big and it's just a dream. Any advice or people who have tried and tested things looking to hear people's opinions and guidance and experiences.. is creating apps dead. [link] &...

I got into building my SaaS just recently, I saw it as a way to spend the time I already spend on my laptop usefully, and making something on the side also didn't seem so bad. My idea was to build a tool that recovers failed subscription payments via email - a churn buster of some kind. I got into doing it, but halfway through, as it's my first time, I started getting some doubts as to whether it's gonna be of any use to anybody. My question is - how do you know if people can get some use ou...

This is really an enigma for me, it seems that all these communities are just a bunch of people trying to self promote, do you think there is a chance to actuallly find someone to buy something from you?

I realized I've never used feature flags in any of my side projects, even though they're common in larger companies. For those building solo or in small teams: Do you actually use feature flags? If yes, what tool do you use? If no, why not? And if a deployment introduces a bug in one feature, what do you usually do? Roll back everything? Fix and redeploy? Something else?