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Ran the same prompt set across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity: five ways a real buyer asks "which database/storage should I use", 20 answers per company, same questions for everyone so it is comparable. The part I did not expect: the serverless newcomers are already the default. Neon got recommended first in 14 of 20, Upstash in 11, Turso in 9. So a challenger clearly can become AI's go-to, it is not locked to the incumbents. But the moment I asked about a specialized job, ...

Curious what real SaaS founders/operators think about this. Let’s say a SaaS company suddenly had an extra $100k in budget that had to be spent to improve the business (not saved or distributed). What problem would you realistically invest it in first? For example: hiring (engineering / sales / ops) product development automation / tooling infrastructure / cloud costs customer acquisition internal processes / efficiency I’m trying to understand what the highest-impact c...

I run a lead gen software with two successful tiers ($29 and $79) and 70 paying users, bringing in about 2–3 sales ($60–$90) a day. I'm debating adding a $9.99 plan, but I'd need 6–9 sales a day to match that revenue. Based on a previous test with a $14 plan, lower-paying buyers require way more customer support and have less industry knowledge, which spikes support tickets and lowers overall satisfaction. (Compare to user that takes the $29 plan) If any of you had this experience and what h...

14 months in, product is working, have real customers using it. But distribution is the thing I keep hitting a wall on and I'm running out of ideas. The buyers we're going after are small business owners in a traditional offline industry. They're not on LinkedIn. They don't read blogs or newsletters. No Slack groups, no forums, no communities. The only place they show up digitally is Instagram and WhatsApp and even there they're posting, not browsing. Every channel I try runs into the same...

Don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I'm grateful. It honestly feels so surreal. I was 100% sure this user would cancel their trial, but they didn't! To be completely honest, I've been feeling super conflicted lately. I launched this product a year ago, and sales have been pretty much non-existent until literally just now. While this sale is an amazing feeling, it's obviously not enough to live on, and I've been questioning if it's even worth continuing at this point. It's hard to keep pu...

I built a tool that turns product websites into demo videos. Mostly because I was shipping features every week and couldn't keep up with making videos for each launch. Tried hiring freelancers but they took a month per video. Agencies wanted $2000+ per video which made no sense for our pace. So I built something that generates these videos automatically. You paste your URL and it spits out a 30 to 50 second video with voiceover and music. Takes about 4 minutes. Here's where I'm stuck now....

I have a SaaS in the healthcare space. And had my first paying customer. I know is not a big deal. But now I am feeling scared that we under deliver. And how long should I let them used the app before reaching them for feedback? The app is $80/ month

Hey all, I am running an AI Companion Platform. There was good growth initially, but now things have sort of slowed down. I am trying to understand the root cause. Since it is in the adult space, my 2 reddit accounts got banned (IDK for what because I was following all the guidelines and not spamming). I had an X account as well which got suspended. I see other competitors in this space using the same channels but not being banned (I tried to follow their posting format only in order to firs...

For founders doing customer support, how much time do you personally spend going back and forth with customers to understand a single issue before it’s actionable? Every time a ticket comes in rushing to resolve it however I feel it stops me from doing other work and I spend so much time going understanding their issues rather than resolving and closing tickets fast.

Founder here. I’m building HuzAgent AI, but I want to share the workflow problem I noticed instead of just dropping a link. Most small business automation tools focus on collecting the request. But the real work starts after the request arrives. A good customer request workflow should answer: What does the customer need? Is it a lead, booking, support request, quote request, or complaint? Is it urgent? What details are missing? Who should handle it? What should the...

launched my saas around six weeks back. it's at about $1k mrr now, 500ish signups, 200 active. sharing the early bit because what ended up working wasn't really what i went in expecting. bit of context without naming it, it's a tool for growing on X. it looks at your last 100 posts and tells you what's actually landing, then pulls the posts that overperformed from accounts a step ahead of you in your niche, and helps you write your own take in your own voice. it's not posting for you and it's ...

Been working long and hard on this project, and to see users coming in, submitting music, voting, asking questions, etc. it’s like a dream come true! While it’s definitely worth celebrating, the build is just step 1. The true journey to success is building the community around the product. If it solves real world problems, the early users will become your mini marketing team, but you have to do the unscalable work of individual dm’s, IRL promotion, content strategy and the like. This work is w...

I'll start. A common mistake I see is spending too much time polishing features before talking to users. If you could go back to day one, what's one thing you'd do differently? Could be related to: Marketing Pricing Product development Hiring Tech stack Customer support Anything else Hopefully this thread can help newer founders avoid the same mistakes.

For the past three years, I've been building BlitzWare as a solo developer (on and off) alongside my studies. It started because I was building my own applications and never felt completely comfortable implementing authentication myself. I also found that every authentication provider I looked at had trade-offs I wasn't happy with. Some became very expensive as projects scaled, some weren't flexible enough, and others felt overly complex for what I needed. Instead of continuing to work aroun...

So I built my web app which is a privacy and gdpr friendly focused google analytics alternative. Ive been using it myself since June 2025 and publicly launched in February this year. Have no paying users yet, i did get a few sign ups who never completed onboarding or tried to use fake urls In terms of marketing, I haven't use any ads as I don't have the budget, posted on X about it which gained small traffic and a few other forums, spread word around family and friends etc, SEO obviously been ...

I had deployed my first saas (not adding a link as I dont want this to come across as a promo post or anything) about 2 months ago and its been really slow progress if I'm honest, just trying to post things on social media and so on to try and get the word out there. Ive not got much of a marketing budget available to promote in other ways like some might, but over the last few weeks Ive managed to get 10 users! TEN! Granted most of them are free accounts, but I'm honestly really made up to see ...

I previously split the claude max plan with two other of my mates but they backed out for some reason and I don't believe the regular £20 plan is enough for the amount of work I do because I used to using ai without limits and not worrying about resets and alll that stuff. now I want to know if I should subscribe to a tier of claude or are there any other better value for money Ais that are just as or even better than claude. I also was looking into open source AIs using ollama but not sure if t...

Curious of anyone building stuff for the stock market, data and investing tools, any success stories?

Hello founders, marketers, and sales folks I've been wondering how people actually use Reddit to get their first users or customers. Do you think Reddit is a good place to find your first customers or leads? How do you usually use Reddit for that? Or do you think some other platform works better? If not Reddit, where did your first customers come from? Would love to hear your experiences and what worked (or didn't work) for you. [li...

This year I've launched 4 products. None of them became the huge success I imagined. But they taught me something that completely changed how I'm building startups. When I started, I always did what most developers do: Come up with an idea. Spend months building. Launch. Hope people care. Turns out... that's backwards. The biggest lesson from 2026 has been that distribution matters more than code. Now, before writing a single line of code, I'm trying to answer one questio...

Audio kinda scuffed but kind of an overview of what spend looks like when you're trying to grow with paid marketing as a solo bootstrapper. 5k in just paid advertising, its just really addicting seeing line go up.

One thing we've been questioning lately is the assumption that every new lead should go through the exact same sales process. In reality, people arrive with very different levels of intent. Some are just curious. Some are comparing options. Some are ready to buy but have one unanswered question. Treating all of them the same usually means either wasting time on low-intent conversations or responding too slowly to the people who actually matter. We've been exploring whether AI can help ...

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I'm building a SAAS tool for marketers and everyday I find myself working on improving UX/UI thinking this will improve user traction, but then I see all the videos on Insta and see that everything can be done on claude. Since everything is skills and tools now and everything can be connected through MCP, do users even need a traditional dashboard anymore? Like the whole point of a dashboard was always to give you a query interface over your data, but it seems like it's easier to convince u...

There is a way in which funded startups collapse and no one talks about it much. It’s not exactly that they run out of money… though that is what it looks like from the outside. It is that they spend money on wrong things so efficiently that by the time they realize it there is nothing left to change course with. I have seen this happen more than 10 times now. I build MVPs for funded startups and the pattern is so consistent it is almost boring. A founder raises money,they have an idea and a r...