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Hello, I'm launch my product today and wondered if anyone has paid for dedicated marketing. I work a full time job and having struggles marketing the app im wondering how people solved this issue. Any freelancers, companies, tools etc anyone can recommend and how the experience was and if it actually brought them customers

So i have a boutique, invite only B2B niche product for financial professionals. The problem is there are two groups of users... One is VC/F500 backed, the other are smallish businesses. One will pay four figures per seat. The other get twitchy at $120/month. The latter are easy to land, the former, difficult and prolonged. The needs of both are very similar. I can't really have two prices for the same system. One whale is worth tens of multiples of the minnows but the minnows are easy get.....

I’ve ran SaaS sales teams at early stage companies for 15 years and have always used spreadsheets to build and track commissions. I build an internal tool to track their comp and gave reps a dashboard to track their commission in real time. My current reps loved using it so much and their production went up 18.4% so I decided to make it a public product. I’m looking for sales leaders that have commission reps and are using spreadsheets so I can learn they use them. If you have commission r...

I started a 90-day experiment because I got tired of a very specific type of startup content. The story usually goes something like this: Buy a MacBook. Open Claude. Build a SaaS in a weekend. Post a few screenshots. Somehow arrive at $1M ARR. The part that always seems to be missing is the middle. How do people find it? Why would they trust it? Would they pay for it? What breaks in production? How long does billing take? How do you explain the product? What hap...

Everyone has been talking about the term vibe coding lately, and we see posts on X and LinkedIn every day of people saying that they built entire apps and made money in just a few days just by writing commands to Cursor or Claude code, and without drafting a single line of code themselves. Building an MVP this way seems easy and a good first step at first, but I'm curious and skeptical about what happens next.The reality is different when real users start logging into the system, and server co...

For the SaaS practitioners in here - How are you computing and remitting the Sales Tax? What are the guidelines in remitting the sales tax?

I've been working on a side project over the last few months after getting frustrated with how much time we were spending creating eBay listings for car parts at work. Most of our listings start with an OEM or TecDoc article number, but we were still manually copying abd researching OE numbers, compatibility, engine codes, descriptions, k-type numbers and item specifics into eBay. It wasn't difficult, just incredibly repetitive and monotonous. So I built a tool that creates complete eBay lis...

I think that we actually need to define a new but also widely adopted assumption to marketing in general. Everyone agrees that ads used to be way better and recently almost every ad you see is trash and brainrotty and makes you want to skip immediately. Remember the hilarious doritos ads? Remember the fire apple ads? Remember the cool aesthetic coke and pepsi ads, who would also throw in some funny? My point is that we're at a time where everyone's saying, and they are right, that ads are tr...

I’ve been looking at early SaaS builders over the last year, and a big issue I am finding is the business model. A lot of times, people will see your app and want to use it, but not want to commit to a monthly or yearly subscription. Unless truly will use it every single day of every single month, people are less likely to pull the trigger and sign up for that full subscription. For example, I don’t use the Bird scooters all the time, so I’d never pay for a subscription. But I do give them ...

Spent two months building and shipping three products. Felt productive as hell. Then I realized I'd spent almost all that time building and almost none learning how to get people to actually find them. Turns out building was the easy part. Distribution is the whole game, and it's the part I'm worst at. Starting over this week - same effort, but pointed at marketing instead of features. Curious how long it took others to admit this to themselves.

This article is part of the 1M ARR Solo AI Founder newsletter, handwritten by myself without any AI, sharing my experience scaling NinjaPear to 1M ARR as a solo founder and my past experiences building products and companies. I am a seasoned operator and I have sold two companies, including Proxycurl hitting ~10M ARR. Follow me on @nubela on X and subscribe to the 1M ARR Solo AI Founder newsletter! I shared an article on Reddit and someone made an allegation stating that I said I'd never ...

I'm 16 and my goal is to become an Indie Hacker before I'm 25. Right now I'm only learning HTML and CSS because I want to build a solid foundation before moving on. If you could go back to when you first started, what would be the ONE skill you wish you had learned earlier? I'm not looking for motivation or "just build." I'm looking for practical advice from people who have actually built products or make money as Indie Hackers. What would your roadmap look like if you had to s...

Just woke up to my first sale of July - $9 USD. The customer purchased a ListMySaaS submission. It's not a huge amount, but seeing someone pay for something you've built never gets old. I'm building ListMySaaS to help SaaS founders get their products listed across relevant directories and increase their visibility without doing all the manual work. Every business starts somewhere. One customer today, hopefully many more this month. Back to building. 🚀 submitted by ...

https://preview.redd.it/6likruaevnah1.png?width=2576&format=png&auto=webp&s=4616fee4f7bf2ae890114f5451da51e54c1b4edf About a month ago I submitted my second app to the Apple Store (first one didnt sell a thing) and after promoting it for several weeks in different forums and groups I finally got my first sale... for anyone doubting yourself, just keep pushing, be it a SaaS, a single payment service, etc. we can do it people! ...

Okay so part 1 blew up way more than I expected. If you missed it the short version is…. after years of building SaaS MVPs I keep seeing the same three things kill founders. They sell to everyone, their offer is a commodity, and they have no money model. A bunch of you asked me to break down the actual fixes so here we go. This time with real math. First things first…. pick a starving crowd. Everyone and their mom says niche down but not a single person actually tells you what makes a niche ...

I’m building LandingBoost, a SaaS landing page audit tool, and I’ve been dogfooding it on my own launch. The more pages I review, the more I think a lot of founders don’t have a traffic problem first. They have a leaky landing page problem. Founders spend weeks trying to get traffic from Reddit, X, directories, SEO, cold outreach, etc. But when people finally land on the page, there’s often an obvious leak: the headline sounds polished but doesn’t say who it’s for the CTA asks for ...

Hey r/SaaS , I’m a first-time founder and I've spent the last few months building Repod . It clips long videos into shorts using AI, and also makes text posts for LinkedIn and Threads. The core product works, but I’ve been stuck in a loop for weeks trying to add "one more feature." I keep putting off the launch because I feel like it isn't ready. I know the space is crowded with tools like OpusClip. My differentiator is that you can actually edit the layout and reframe the vide...

We usually think adding more makes a product better, but sometimes the opposite is true. What's something you removed that ended up improving your product? I'd love to hear what changed and whether your users noticed the difference.

Today the first sale came in.. like a lightning from a blue sky!! 🥰 Somebody purchased Monthly subscription for my SaaS desktop app!! I cant wait for someone to buy the full lifetime price 🫡

Maybe it's just me, but I feel like building a SaaS has become much easier now because of AI and vibe coding. You can build an MVP pretty quickly. The part I struggle with is getting users. I've built a few websites before, and I managed to get some of them to around 100 visitors a day through SEO. But I could never figure out how to grow them to 1,000+ daily users , and eventually I lost motivation and stopped working on them. It feels like getting from 0 to 100 users is one challenge,...

I'm gonna say something that'll definitely piss off the peeps out there in this subreddit. Your product is not your problem INFACT your product has never been your problem. Vibe coding just made that 100x more obvious. Its been my job to build SaaS MVPs for a while now… For funded startups, for solo founders maxing out credit cards, for guys who quit their jobs on a Friday and needed something live by Monday. I have seen what makes money and what dies quietly while the founder keeps tweeting &...

Hey folks, we keep framing the AI threat to SaaS as "which vertical gets eaten first." I think that's the wrong lens. The actual shift is that the unit of value is moving from the tool to the outcome, and once a non-technical person can describe an outcome and get working software back, the 15-year SaaS playbook (package a workflow, charge monthly, defend with switching costs) starts to look shaky. A few data points that changed my mind on this, not just vibes: Twice as many team...

I used to spend most of my time building because like many founders, product work always felt like the most natural and rewarding part of the journey for me. Shipping new features felt productive, fixing bugs felt like real progress, and improving the user experience gave me the feeling that I was constantly making the product better and moving closer to success. Marketing, on the other hand, always felt much messier and harder to measure, so without realizing it, I kept pushing it aside and...

Hey everyone, I’ve been quietly building RealCraft for the last 6 months, an AI tool that lets users turn voice recordings into fully illustrated videos automatically (with storyboard editing, character consistency, subtitles, etc.). The product is finally ready. The tech works. I even have the UI and onboarding looking decent. But I can’t launch. Every major payment platform I’ve tried has rejected me because I’m based in Uganda: • Stripe: Not supported • Lemon Squeezy Just replied today:...

I built a high-ticket B2B SaaS because I genuinely believed it solves a real problem. The product is ready, but now I’m stuck at the hardest part: Selling it. I understand building features, improving the product, fixing bugs, etc. But finding the right customers, reaching out, getting conversations, and converting them feels like a completely different skill. I’m curious about people who have successfully sold B2B products: How did you get your first 10 customers? Did you start ...

Hey, Looking for honest feedbacks on the platfrom. It makes the global equity market accessible as on-chain tokens. The core flows: connect, deposit, trade, withdraw, work end-to-end and are backed by 1:1 custody. This is currently in Beta so the UI can feel a little off. Functionality is live: Trade with funds you can afford to test even with adding any amount you can just get on the product test it and share the experience. Anything felt off, exciting or not getting trust to ...

I keep hearing the advice that spending 6 months building an MVP is a huge mistake because you might end up building something nobody wants. But what if you're entering an existing market? For example, I'm building an AI clipping tool for creators. There are already multiple successful products in the space, so I know there's demand for AI clipping in general. To me, it seems like the real question isn't "Do people want this?" but "Can I build something that's meaningfull...