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I used to think getting users was mostly about building a great product and posting about it often enough that people would eventually find it. After building my first app, I quickly learned that this assumption was completely wrong. The hardest part wasn’t building the product. The hardest part was getting people to actually see it. I kept posting on platforms like X and Reddit, hoping that consistency alone would eventually lead to traction, but most posts got very little attention and...

Im experimenting with ways to find SaaS ideas and fully realized AI sucks in market research. If you ask your fav LLM youll usually get the following crap: fake confidence badly cited source material (claude cant even access reddit?!) cant read upvotes or other useful data hallucinated problems from 2 years ago no way to verify anything I want the opposite. eg. manually finding niche communities, clustering repeated complaints from the past week, finding the exact comments, and...

I see too many posts about founders not being able to find customers or struggling with their go-to-market plan. It made me realize that there needs to be a guide of some sorts that founders/builders could follow when starting off with building the story and distribution plan for their product. Hence, created a breakdown of the GTM plan anyone can use in their own context. I have been a product marketer and GTM specialist for the past 10 years (currently building a B2B SaaS product) and I ...

I'm having a hard time building a nice looking website for our product/business. I know, this sounds ridiculous and of all the things, I know you'll tell me this is least consequential. But, we are at that point where a basic website isn't serving us. I want something please to the eye but that also builds strong SEO/AEO for us. We are bootstrapped, so I can't go out and spend thousands with an agency. How have ya'll done this? Any good AI products that can produce clean, well-designed websi...

While I was building my startup I was happy. I always had it on my mind and it brought meaning to my life. Now I have nothing but money, literally nothing. Whoever thinks money can buy happiness, my friend you are very wrong.

I used to ask new users what they wanted to do first, and the answers were often too broad to be useful. The better question has been: “What were you doing manually right before you looked for a tool like this?” That one question usually gives a cleaner picture of the real job: the spreadsheet, Notion doc, Slack thread, or hacked together process they already have the trigger that made the old process painful enough to change the language they use for the problem before a founder tur...

Context: we sell a mid-ticket tool, deals land between $300 and $900 a month, mostly closed on a call. For a long time our sales call meant screen-sharing our pricing page and watching the prospect's eyes go straight to the biggest number. Every call turned into them defending their budget before they understood what they'd get. The pricing page made the conversation about cost first, value never. So we stopped showing the page on calls. Now we walk through a short pricing presentation, 4 slid...

I coach founders for a living and I've watched this same movie a few hundred times. Someone's stuck in the single or low double digits on customers. They're sure it's a marketing problem. They ask which channel to run. Cold email? SEO? Ads? Reddit? Wrong question. I had a client once. B2B SaaS agency. Built the product perfectly, launched to silence. He tried cold email. Then a branding agency. Then he fired people. Then he blamed marketing. Months of it. He finally picked up the phone and...

Built a local-first desktop app for semantic file search, thinks a bit like a search engine for your own machine, fully offline. No cloud, no data leaving your computer. Launched on Product Hunt yesterday and crossed $100 in paid revenue. I genuinely didn't expect that to happen this fast. Product Hunt drove almost all of it, a decent placement on launch day (4th), some comments, a few shares from people in the privacy/productivity space. Here's where I'm stuck: Sustaining momentum after ...

i remember being at $0 mrr a few months ago wondering if i would ever even get a sale now its crazy to think i have 30+ people committed to paying me nearly $1k monthly for something i built with just my laptop and a wifi connection for context my saas is a youtube automation tool for faceless channels. There's a good amount of competition but i've still been able to compete in my own way i went from hoping to ever get a sale to now projecting when mrr will be enough for me to quit my da...

I spent months polishing features before talking to potential users. When I finally launched, people wanted something completely different. It taught me that validating demand is much more important than building the "perfect" product. For those who've built (or tried to build) a SaaS: What's the biggest lesson you learned the hard way?

When I launched my side project (md2doc.com) on Product Hunt, I got a dozen messages on X about helping to inflate my launch. Nobody could promise to get me to #1 spot, but they all promised hundreds of upvotes from their farmed account. At the time I thought it was kind of lame, but in hindsight, I think that's the name of the game. Literally everyone who launches ends up bringing an army of upvotes with them; it's either that, or your product is DoA. I've deleted all the spammy X messages, ...

I used Reddit to get completely organic distribution for my software project. Here's what worked. I built an open-source framework and used Reddit to get 1.7M+ views and take it past 2.5K+ GitHub stars in a couple of weeks. No ads, no budget, no existing audience. Just Reddit, feedback, and iteration. If what you built is genuinely good, this playbook can get it seen. It will not save a bad product. But it can get a good one in front of the right people. 1. The title is 90% of the post. ...

I run communications for an AI software company. That post went semi-viral on LinkedIn. Wrong audience, great numbers. Founders, students, people learning to code. Nobody with a budget or a problem we actually solve. The next month we published something that got 400 impressions. One CTO read it, forwarded it to two people on his team, and booked a call the following week. That gap forced us to rethink everything about how we were measuring content performance. We had been optimizing for r...

I want to create a SaaS to get some money while I'm studying, but I dont know how to find and validate an idea to decide if it's good. Could you guys help me with some advice beyond the typical "find a problem and solve it"? Thanks.

Hey, i'm new at doing the whole building in public. Both excited and realistic about the journey it will be. So here goes... 😉 I decided that the goal of my first project would be to build something that can stand on its own quite quickly and keep it technically fairly simple. The main usecase is also straightforward which is why i wanted to keep it free for everyone. Made sense, its more a tool that is convenient so i wanted to keep the entry as frictionless as possible. This project is no...

I’ve been watching the AI app builder spaces like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, internal-tool builders, agent builders, etc. The promise is usually: Describe what you want, and the app gets built. But I’m starting to wonder if that framing is wrong. Most small businesses don’t wake up wanting to build a CRM, dashboard, lead follow-up tool, or workflow app. They just want fewer missed leads, faster invoices, cleaner ops, less manual follow-up, and fewer broken spreadsheets. So maybe the next big s...

Would you: Keep building? Pivot? Sell? Or find a niche Google will never focus on? What's your move?

Curious to hear from founders, developers, and business owners. What's one repetitive task in your work that still feels unnecessarily manual? Something where you constantly think: "There has to be a better way." Could be related to marketing, finance, HR, content creation, customer support, or anything else. Sometimes the best SaaS ideas come from everyday frustrations.

So here is what I have tried for the past two months: Marketing on X (Twitter). I have been engaging with people's posts and telling them what they should do and what they should fix but honestly I haven't seen a single soul reaching my website through x.com (I got my account ghost banned for engaging too much so I had to create a new one) I have also tried LinkedIn marketing where I am going to post a video or an image about how to fix your churn rate and how to improve your UX, which my...

I have been building a B2C product for past few months now. Every one in the market seems to be focused on B2B its hard to stay positive about my venture when all advice points towards not pursuing a B2C project. Fellow B2C builders do you have any advice for first time founders like me?

Hi people, just built a free to use, browser-based endless lo-fi track. All you gotta do is press play! (and give it a sec to warm up) Customise your tracks based on your mood. No two songs are the same. For those who just want the ambience, without faffing about trying to find a playlist on spotify. Give it a go, let me know what you think! P.s. The songs are ai-generated, but still great quality. There may rarely be some artifacts. [link] ...

Is it normal for conversion rate from ads to be lower than organic content and if so how much? I have started running ads in tiktok for my health and fitness app and the conversion rate has been less compared to earlier days when I had only organic content. Is that normal or am I missing something?

After posting here and watching big view counts turn into almost no real visitors, I went and looked properly. I built a human vs bot split into my own analytics. Full disclosure, it is my own tool, but that's not the point. Last 30 days: 110 page views and 83% human, 17% bots filtered out. I was fully expecting the number to be like equally split between humans and bots, but I am surprised to see a lot less. Traffic Quality screenshot. ...

Hey everyone, founder of a new devtool saas here. To give some context: i recently finished the alpha for a project called trashdb. it's an api that spins up ephemeral, throwaway databases (postgres, redis, etc) in 200ms for CI pipelines, and then auto-nukes them. Basically solving the headache of docker desktop eating your laptop's ram during local testing, or staging db collisions. The tech is working, but i'm hitting the classic technical founder wall: absolutely zero distribution. I do...

Hey nice to meet y'all. Ì've recently start cold dm for my beta and i struggling so much to find my first customer, i just want known how you find yours.

A small win that made us smile today. A few weeks ago we realized we couldn't just wait for Google to magically find our website. So we started doing the basics: Improved our SEO. Started publishing blog posts. Became more active on Reddit, X and LinkedIn. Submitted our product to a few startup directories. The screenshots show where we are today. It's still early, but it's encouraging to see that most of our Google Search impressions came during the last month. It feels like...

The revenue mainly comes from one time credit purchases, but some of the users also subscribe but the subscription model isn't that convincing so my users stay unsubsribed and just keep buying credits.

genuinely asking because i see more and more saas founders talking about hiring dedicated launch video companies and i can't tell if this is a real roi thing or just a hype like the best ones apparently guarantee millions of organic views on x and linkedin which sounds insane but i've also seen the case studies and they're hard to fake i get that distribution is the real moat here, not just the video production. but still feels like a lot for an early stage company what do you guys think ?...