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I'm trying to validate a product idea and would appreciate honest feedback. The idea is simple: You describe your product (or just a feature), and it automatically generates a polished animated product walkthrough explaining how it works, without recording your screen or manually editing a demo. I'm trying to answer a few questions: Is this a problem you'd actually pay to solve? Who on a team would use it (founder, product, marketing, customer success)? What's your biggest concern ...

I’m building a desktop-first productivity app mainly for students/college kids. My thoughts were that since it's already a desktop native-first app, there's probably already substantial friction to onboarding, so I might as well do away with a freemium model and just target those with high intent. But on the other hand, freemium might also help to build trust + growth, especially in my niche and given who the target audience is. For SaaS founders in 2026: what are you seeing work better? ...

So I'm a programmer and passionate about language learning, I wanted to build a tool that could help people in this field and bring me some money with it. I'm experienced with programming but not at all with selling, launching a product, etc. This time, I started building this micro SaaS that helps teachers generate materials for their students and track their progress. I spent 3 weeks looking for beta testers and found 5 so far. The first one was a friend teaching French. I found the other ...

I have for my whole life worked at Super Big Companies that are basically Trillion Dollar Market Cap. However, I have to identify a design partner and look for smaller companies. Do I cold reach-out for small companies to be design partner? My network is full of big company people.

This is something I genuinely cant find a straight answer on anywhere. I work ops at a mid-size resort and we're evaluating a few tools right now. Everyone talks about what these systems can handle on their own, but nobody explains the handoff logic clearly. Like, what actually triggers the escalation to a real staff member? Is it keyword-based, sentiment detection, something else? And when the handoff happens, does the human agent get the full conversation context or do they start blind? Tha...

So I'm building a tool in a pretty established software category. People sign up already knowing how these tools work because they've used competitors. Problem is mine does things in a different order and that difference is literally the whole point of the product. There's a specific flow that users need to go through to get value. When they follow it they get it pretty quickly. But I'm watching session recordings from Microsoft Clarity and most people just skip straight to the parts that look...

I have an idea and have the resources+stack to build this tool that helps you build an audience on X, Substack and Threads. The only issue is that I want to know if YOU would pay for something like this if you have 100 followers and 100ish views on each post. The idea is to completely automate it in YOUR tone and for YOUR product... Optimized to the max as if you are the one posting all that content. (I know in starting, you'd have to engage with a lot of people. And I will be making it ea...

Hi all, I run a SaaS platform that’s been operating since 2013 (keeping the name out of this post, happy to share details over DM with anyone relevant). About the business Cloud-based SaaS platform providing file transfer and download management tools. Subscribers get a unified interface to manage personal file transfers from variety third-party cloud storage providers through a single account. The platform doesn’t host, store, or index third-party content, it acts as a technical interme...

A few weeks ago someone emailed me asking if my product could do one specific thing. It wasn't planned, but it sounded useful, so I spent a couple of evenings building it. When it was done, I replied with "it's live now." Nothing. Never opened the email. Never logged in again. Completely ghosted me. I was honestly annoyed because I kept thinking, "Why did I even spend time on this?" Then, maybe a week later, someone else signed up and used that feature almost immediately....

Je voulais juste partager un petit moment de bonheur avec vous ! Aujourd’hui, j’ai fait ma première vente 🎉 Honnêtement, ça peut paraître ridicule pour certains, mais pour moi ça représente énormément. Ça fait des mois, voire plus d’un an, que je teste des idées, que je lance des projets qui ne marchent pas, que je recommence. C’est mon troisième essai, et cette fois, quelqu’un a sorti sa carte bancaire pour acheter ce que j’ai créé. Je ne pense pas que j’en serais arrivé là sans Reddit. ...

Small SaaS, 2 months since launch, 40 paying customers, about $1.1k MRR. Not a success story post, just something that surprised me and I'm curious if others are seeing it. A few weeks ago we shipped a small public API because a couple of technical users asked for it. Nothing fancy, standard REST with API keys. Then the requests changed shape. People stopped asking "can I call your API" and started asking "can my agent use your product." Claude Code, Cursor, custom agents...

Still a bit stunned typing this. Three months ago I was refreshing Stripe hoping for one sale. Now there's a small but growing group of people paying every month to keep their apps from leaking. CheckVibe is a security scanner for vibecoded apps shipped fast with AI tools. You paste a URL or hook up a GitHub repo and it surfaces what's leaking: secrets in the frontend, open database rules, missing headers. Two of us, fully bootstrapped, no funding. Three months in and we've done about $7k in...

I’m working on a project/concept for a new social media app, and I want to build something people actually want to use instead of just cloning what's already out there. ​To help me out, what are your thoughts on these areas? ​The Algorithm vs. Chronological Feeds: Do you prefer seeing what's popular/recommended, or do you just want to see what your friends post in the exact order they posted it? ​Features You Hate: What is the most annoying thing about current platforms (Instagram, TikTok,...

Hey everyone, ​I've been working on a custom monolithic framework lately and I’m hitting a stage where I need to optimize the architecture for my "Fiscal Node Audit" module. ​Basically, I'm tracking real-time sub-wallet balances, tax ledger integration, and multi-asset synchronization in one layer. ​I’m struggling with balancing the database load while keeping the "Layer 1" ledger verification efficient. Has anyone here worked on similar high-density financial logging i...

Curious how people here handle the operational overhead when you're the only one. Product work is obvious you build, ship, iterate. But what about the rest? Finance, GTM, sales pipeline, OKRs, strategic planning all of it falls on you, and none of it has the same satisfying feedback loop as shipping code. I'm specifically interested in: How do you track runway without it becoming a full-time job? Do you have a system for GTM or is it reactive? How do you force yourself to work on t...

building is a thing I've been good at for so many years now, but when it comes to marketing what I've built, I'm at the bottom. Trying to utilize Claude to teach an introvert like me how to market, or better, help me in this endeavour. How are you using Claude for marketing? any advice? skills? workflows? playbook? appreciate the help.

I'm building a tool to help salespeople improve their sales communication. Recently, I was talking to a founder, and he said: "Imagine this is a self-improvement product. Most individuals won't buy it. But companies that want their employees to improve their communication will." That completely changed how I thought about my product. I shifted from targeting a large audience to a much smaller, higher-value segment. Instead of trying to convince thousands of individual users, I'm ...

Just an update. The initial build was actually for me.🤷🏼‍♀️💜 I manage 11 websites, and I wanted one place to monitor everything instead of bouncing between dashboards. What started as a personal project slowly evolved into something much bigger once I realized how useful it was. My goal is simple: build an affordable website monitoring platform for small businesses, freelancers, and creators that explains things like a human would. Not everyone is a developer, and they shouldn't need to b...

Hi there, Cold calling is working, but it's just a lot to do as a solo founder. What else can I do in my zero-to-one journey to get more clients? Thanks!

Genuine question for this group Been chewing on this one. we find out an account is leaving about two weeks before they cancel. By then it's a rescue, not a save. And our tools don't help catch it early. Product analytics only show what already happened, by the time usage actually drops, the customer has already decided to leave. The signals that come early aren't in the product at all, they are in the relationship: the champion goes quiet, same-day replies start taking a week, a stakeh...

Just launched my chrome extension and started getting spam emails within 2 days. They didn't even check what my extension is about and want to promote it with me lol. Do they really think these tactics work in 2026? And I'm sure they were not looking for similar tools on chrome extension either 😂

short version: i gated my feedback board behind login/email and reset every existing vote to zero. on purpose. for months i read anonymous upvotes like they were data. they weren't. one click, costs nothing, tells me almost nothing. i was building a roadmap on a vanity number. the tell: someone requested "require login to vote." it hit 19 upvotes. those 19 were exactly the cheap clicks the feature kills. shipped it anyway. then the scary part. i wiped every old vote. all of them ...

As a CS student I kept thinking about how many terrible cold pitches busy people get. So I built Silence as a Service — a parody SaaS that charges exactly $1.00 for "lifetime inbox immunity" from me specifically. No product, no roadmap, no dashboard. Just a dark-mode landing page, a PayPal link, and a public "Wall of Immunity" for anyone who pays. I actually emailed a fake invoice for it to a few people this morning and it's gotten a better response than any real pitch ...

Well, I'm starting to feel a bit down morally after I launched my SaaS a few weeks ago. I'm, like most founders here, struggling w/ distribution and getting potential customers. I've reached out to my inner network first for feedback and got some positive feedback from most. I even reached out my former manager who was very generous w/ his time and insights. Building the product, although was hard and took months, now seems to be the easy part. getting users to actually give a damn about what I ...

Some month ago there was a boom of comments that many SaaS would disappear. Do you know any real case of SaaS going bankrupt? Or that at least many vibecoders are building their own. I stopped using keycloack.

everyone repeats "talk to your users" like it settles the question. i did it religiously for a year and still got blindsided by churn, and it took me too long to see why. the users who answer your messages, hop on calls, leave thoughtful feedback, are by definition your most engaged people. they like you. they're invested. so all your "customer research" is a long conversation with the segment least likely to leave. you're studying the survivors and writing a strategy for e...

has anyone ever gotten a single paying customer from a “drop your startup link” thread? They get hundreds of replies, but who’s actually clicking? Are we marketing to customers or just to each other? What am I missing? Interested in your thoughts ...

I’m a solo SaaS founder. Like many of you, I’ve spent months building features nobody asked for, tweeting into the void, and refreshing my analytics dashboard like it’s a slot machine. Then last year I stumbled onto something that changed my entire approach to SaaS customer acquisition : Reddit keyword monitoring. Not the “set up an alert for your company name” kind. That’s table stakes. I’m talking about conversational intent signals – people asking for a solution you already built , bu...

I searched my own app name on the App Store today and found a second one. Almost the same name. Mine is "Loggd: Habit Tracker & Planner." His was "Loggd: Habit Tracker." I downloaded it. It opened straight into a demo account, no signup. And the account it showed me was mine. My real username, sitting there, with a bunch of other real usernames from my live app. The app is under 1MB. It's a front-end mockup. About 90% of it doesn't actually work. He copied the main sc...

2.5 years ago, I hit #1 on Product Hunt. Last week, we launched a different product with roughly the same playbook and finished #6. Same platform, very different feeling. Product Hunt used to feel like a launch engine. People browsed, clicked around, commented, and found products they'd never heard of. This time it felt more like a scoreboard. The products that came in with an audience got amplified. The ones that didn't mostly sat there. By the end of the first 4 hours, the...