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The world doesn’t reward promise; it rewards perseverance. Before you get the praise, you’ll be the object of skepticism and ridicule and doubt. Just keep working when no one is looking. Just keep working when no one believes in you. One day, those same people will refer to your success as luck. But you’ll know better.

Hi everyone, I’m looking for advice from anyone who’s built software in the restaurant/POS ecosystem. Over the last 6 months, my co-founder and I built an AI phone agent for restaurants. The product is production-ready and can: Answer incoming restaurant calls Take orders conversationally Handle menu questions Upsell items Send SMS order confirmations Transfer calls to staff when needed Create orders directly in the POS The entire voice infrastructure is built and working. Our chal...

Maybe it's just my feed, but every day I see what feels like hundreds of new SaaS products launching. Another AI wrapper, CRM, writing tool, AI visibility tool, "all-in-one" platform and many more. After a while, I started asking myself: are there really this many unsolved problems, or are we just building because everyone else is building? I'm not saying new SaaS is a bad idea. Great software will always have a place. But sometimes it feels like founders are chasing screenshots ...

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Founder here: I’ve been building a usage-based AI SaaS for about 15 months, launched 4 months ago. It’s in the AI creator platform space, right now niched for faceless YouTubers. The bigger lesson has been how different “building a product” feels from actually getting people to pay, retain, and use it repeatedly. # CONTEXT • 100+ accounts created • MRR is still under $1,000 • Not all accounts are paying • Paid acquisition has been harder than expected • Google Ads burned money faster t...

been running linkedin ads + got listed on a few launch sites + some organic traffic too. but literally nobody clicks get started on my homepage. like 0% not even "people sign up and dont use it" im saying they dont even click the button no idea if its a trust thing since the brand is new or somethings actually wrong with the page but i cant figure out what if anyone has a min, can you check mysampark.com and tell me what makes you not wanna click further? not asking anyone to s...

What’s the hardest part after launching a product?” “Where do you discover new software?” “Do you feel Product Hunt actually brings long-term users?”

Have you launched, or are you building, a SaaS using AI tools like Cursor, Lovable, etc, but not a software engineer yourself? I'll jump on a free 30 minute zoom call with you. No sales pitch of any kind. Bring whatever questions, worries, or confusion you've got. I've been shipping production software for 20 years, so chances are I can help with whatever it is. Why am I doing this? Simple. I'm researching the vibe coding space. I want to hear first hand what challenges people are running in...

I actually can’t believe it lol, been working on my project for months. It got shared on a French tech blog completely organically, no affiliate link or begging or anything like that. and now it’s popping off 😭 Gotta celebrate wins when they happen

Hey everyone, A bit of a bittersweet one. We were part of the Google for Startups campus in Madrid, which ended up being one of the last ones before Google shut the program down globally. We're currently based in NYC, but it was good for the time being. While we were there, we were working on building out our hands-free gym app, so being around other founders at the same stage was actually super motivating, and we genuinely miss it. What it was like: A very Google-style workspace (just witho...

How many codebases are you actively maintaining right now? Just one? 2–3 products? 5+ side projects? Do you use a monorepo, or does each product have its own repository?

We bring in roughly $8-9K in new revenue every month, and for a long time I focused on that number and felt okay about it. What I wasn't looking at closely enough was what happened after. Month 1: 4% of that revenue is gone. Month 2: another 13% is gone. By month 12, only 12-13% of whatever came in that month is still paying. While a healthy SaaS should be sitting at 90%. I'd been building a second product to fix this. The thinking behind it was that customers were churning becau...

I just finished reading 'Life at the Speed of Play' by Mark Pincus, the founder of Zynga. It’s about how to build products people love. Excellent book that I highly recommend to all the builders here. One idea that really resonated with me: “Your instincts are right 95% of the time, but your idea is wrong 75% of the time.” Basically, Mark is saying that as builders, our instinct about a problem space or gap is usually directionally right. If anything, the problem is often much bigger a...

We’ve experimented with pricing quite a lot for our SaaS. One rule we followed: new pricing affects new users, not customers who had already signed. The reason is mostly trust. Customers commit based on the product, packaging, and terms they see at the time. If every pricing experiment also changes the deal for existing customers, it feels like the relationship keeps getting reset while we’re still learning the market. Curious how other founders handle this. Do you grandfather existing...

Hi all, Sorry not sure if this is a question that's frequently asked here! Apologies if it is. I have a small side hustle that in started in January, I have had a few customers but only a couple have signed for my monthly support plans. It's really dried up and I've had no new clients for the last few months. I want to start running effective ads. I've tried Facebook/Instagram but dont seem to get any results not been queried. What has worked well for people with a tight budget? Like ...

My 2 cents would be to just keep pushing, we'll all get there eventually, we all have an edge rn, SaaS isn't THAT mainstream rn (like the marketing agency and shit) It gets lonely, it gets boring sometimes, you'll probably doubt yourself and your idea, but remember this, first user is the hardest and the feeling is unreal. Sky's the limit and I hope we all get there

I'm in the community building space where we offer white-label community platform for businesses. After launching my MVP and looking at the competition; I decided the obvious thing almost every entrepreneur does: price it lower to attract customers. So I priced the software at $29/mo. I got a few customers, but they left afterwards because they couldn't invest time into community building. I figured - my software doesn't create value for solo founders. After about 3 months, the MV...

A client came to me for dev work and somewhere in between the scope calls and wireframes he told me something personal. I am not going to share what or go deep down the lane because that’s his personal stuff… but it was something like "I can't stop myself and my wired thoughts at 2am" kind of problem and it had nothing to do with tech or the dev work he hired me for. He tried the apps that were supposed to help and every single one of them wanted him to sign up or create a profile, g...

I have been a CTO and technical founding engineer at a couple startups for the last few years, mostly building other people's ideas. finally want to do my own thing but i'm stuck on something kind of embarrassing for an engineer: i can't pick what to build. the building part doesn't scare me. it's the "what" that's killing me. b2b, b2c, ai stuff, some vertical niche thing, micro saas, boring-but-profitable... they all sound fine when i think about them for five minutes and then fall ...

Anyone else had a bad experience trying to use AI tools to come up with new ideas. I’ve lost track of the number of times that I have a seemingly productive conversation with claude and we land on a cool idea, often it tells me it’s new too. Then it either turns out to be a saturated idea, something no one wants or I build it and it’s useless. I’ve walked this road so many time now. Anyone else had this happen and anyone found ways to use AI better for idea generation? submitted by &...

my saas just crossed $2k mrr. 4 months in, solo, during my studies. 2 failed businesses before this one. i want to share exactly how it happened because i wish someone had done the same for me. i started development at the end of january. before doing anything public i brought in a few beta testers and gave them 2 weeks to break the product. the feedback was brutal. i spent weeks fixing everything they flagged and by the time i launched v1 i had already solved most of the problems that wou...

so i build this little side project last year, never really expected anything from it. first paying customer came in december 2025, one guy paid me $11.99 and I was so happy i screenshot it lol. that month i made 12 dollars total. january was 30 dollars. february 230. I almost gave up few times honestly but then I figured what people actually want. then march something clicked and it went to 2.2k, april 3k, may was my best 4.2k, june little bit down to 3.4k. now its sitting around $3,400 M...

Hi, everyone! I'm a teen with autism and I just wanted to share a little milestone. I've always loved tech and got into programming a few years ago. At the time, I was just competing in programming, but now I wanted to actually take my knowledge to build something useful that could potentially take off. I can't believe I actually reached 150 users. Not a lot, but still a meaningful first step for me. Let's talk about what I've learned and how you can start also. First, the idea . A good i...

This might be a hot take, but I think every SaaS founder, or anyone building a product, needs to hear this. You can build the best app in the world, but if nobody knows it exists, it won't get users. People always ask what the best way to market a product is. Some people buy paid ads, use UGC, or even rely on SEO, or just do outreach? But personally, I think the best long term answer is to promote it yourself on social media.The reason I say this is because people don't just buy products, they b...

Something I keep seeing. AI makes it easy to go from idea to a working product in a day, and it genuinely works in the demo and for the first handful of users. Then real traffic arrives and something underneath buckles, usually a part that worked exactly as designed for the load it was originally built around. My rough theory is that working and scaling are two different problems that look identical until the moment demand shows up. Curious where people land. For those of you who shippe...

A good demo video is important for any SaaS app, this is well known. But all the existing ones are Mac-only priced absurdity high. Mainstream full-stack video editing software can be used for free unless for commercial projects. So why exactly is screen studio $60 a month, and why is there none for Windows? Can't windows users not build saas apps? Or do they not matter? Been search for one alternative to SS since morning, all are downright trash. Either less feature or buggy or both. W...

I'm a developer and I've spent the last few months building a CRM. Now that it's almost ready, I've realized I have no clue how to get it in front of the right people. The idea is pretty simple. Instead of manually updating contacts, deals, tasks and activities after every meeting, you just type something like: Met sarah from stripe, interested in Enterprise. Follow up neext thursday and it updates everything automatically. The problem I'm facing now isn't building it, it's finding p...

I have an invoice/receipt visualization service that displays graphs of users' invoices and receipts. Users forward an email to a dedicated address, and the parsed information appears on their webpage. My original pricing model gave users 5 free invoices/receipts, after which they'd pay 19 EUR/USD per year or 4 EUR/USD per month. However, a friend advised me to focus on acquiring users first and worry about a premium tier later. For example by raising the free limit to 100 invoices/receipts. ...

I have around 400 users with an activation of 52% Still 0 paying users, my app is a one time in a month “use case” It’s an ai presentation generation What can I do smh