TrendPulse

As a solo developer, I’m realizing something: Coding isn’t my biggest problem anymore. Distribution is. I can build the MVP. I can fix bugs. I can improve the UI. But then comes the question: Where are the first people who will actually pay? I’ve tried thinking about cold email, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, communities… but every channel feels different. I’m curious about other solo founders: What was the hardest part of getting your first customer? Was it: Finding the right pe...

I was not sure this was going to work. Cold outreach with video felt like a lot of effort for something that might just get ignored the same way cold emails do. We did it anyway and I am glad we did but there are things I would change if we ran it again. Here is everything. We needed a way to do outreach that did not look like outreach. Emails were getting ignored, DMs were hit or miss, and we wanted to try something that would actually stop someone and make them feel like a real person reach...

This's the number of users who trusted my platform and Sign up to it, and I'm so happy with this achievement because I gained the trust of someone to Sign up to my platform.

Back in 2021 I was really frustrated with how much of my time and energy was being sapped by my phone. I had tried all the screen time solutions at the time. Daily limits, didn't work. Deleting the apps, didn't work. Giving my screen time passcode to someone else, didn't work. All of these solutions felt too restrictive and the expectation that I wasn't going to just use up my whole daily limit in one sitting when these apps are designed to keep you endlessly scrolling was just so unrealistic ...

We're looking at expanding our sales channels to cloud marketplaces to capture committed cloud spend. Our engineering team is pushing back saying the API integrations for provisioning and billing are a nightmare and will derail our product roadmap. Did you build this in-house or outsource it?

I launched my SaaS exactly 1 year ago and have made around $60 with it. all of my users have come organically and never paid for ads (i have a pretty good SEO, but others competitors) for those of you who sell SaaS/products, did you see a big improvement after starting to make videos and posting them on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, etc.? im a bit stressed about putting my face online so I’m curious if it’s actually worth getting out of my comfort zone ?

If you've tried to build a Salesforce integration lately, you've probably hit this wall. Connected Apps are being phased out. On new orgs in Winter '26, creating them in the UI is off by default, and starting Spring '26 you can't turn that option back on unless Salesforce Support approves it. So everyone is getting pushed toward External Client Apps (ECA), and the OAuth setup around them is genuinely confusing the first time you do it. The two-account Dev Hub plus namespace dance for a packaged ...

I'm just curious whether you are deciding to buy a product that solves your problem. Would you prefer a weekly subscription or a monthly?

As client acquisition consultants for SaaS and micro-Saas for several years, we have helped major startups scale, and now we are launching a dedicated branch for micro-Saas. 1. You are struggling to attract your first users. 2. Your retention rate is zero, meaning users simply don't stick around. 3 . You want to grow and increase your revenue. 4. You build micro-Saas products and constantly switch ideas because you can't attract users. 5 . You've tried everything peopl...

Hi everyone So I have posted my product on places for user feedback. I have heard this twice so I wanted know like how do I respond to it or make my product better. I spent countless hours on the landing page and other parts of the platform and every trending idea card on there is something I check and make sure for quality that’s why the database is not super large like the ones that have 100k+ ideas or tools. Would love to know how to deal with questions like these and what I can improve...

We're in a bit of a situation right now where we have a fairly large corporation as users of our SaaS platform for over a year now, and they keep dodging meetings to go into a commercial deal, essentially using the product for free. Context: Over a year ago, we built an AI chat for industrial companies and were desperate to get LOIs (letters of intent) to raise money. The deal was mutually beneficial: we got users to test the product so we could improve it, and they got an AI they could use ...

How is my 4 days old SaaS. I just made some SEO-AEO-GEO configurations with a new app that will be announced soon here is the results: it shows on searches but there is no interactions yet. But soon when that SaaS configurations done there will be lots of subscriptions will come. You can find it when it's out with commenting this post

I was constantly dealing with spammers/competitors creating accounts just to burn through my server resources and AI credits. At first I tried blocking temporary email domains. It worked for a while, but every couple of days a new disposable email provider would pop up and I’d be back to updating my blocklist. It became a never ending game of whack a mole. Eventually I switched to a $1 trial checkout instead. The interesting part is that the payment itself wasn’t the main benefit. The check...

My site is https://hedgefun.ai As long as you have a product that WORKS, that NO ONE else has, you will make money. We haven't even advertised our app besides a few reddit posts. Do you trade SPX/SPY yourself? Covered spreads or naked options ... We have a strategy for you!

Daily problems usually get software pretty quickly. but the monthly stuff? someone still has a spreadsheet, a checklist, 4 bookmarks and an old email thread sitting around because nobody thinks it's worth building a tool for. that's actually what i've been looking for lately. small problem, low frequency, but annoying enough that people would gladly pay to make it disappear. curious if anyone here has found one of those problems in their own business. i've been testing a few ideas ar...

I'm 25, based in Brazil, and currently working as a Project Manager at a process automation company. I started my career as a Python developer, so I have both a technical and business/project background. I'm a problem solver by nature not an expert in one specific field, but I'm good at learning quickly, understanding problems, and turning ideas into practical solutions. I'm looking to connect with a few like-minded people and create a small group to brainstorm product ideas, especially micr...

calendly fans 👀 why do you use it, and what do you wish it did better? https://preview.redd.it/69o0efhgi5jh1.png?width=1254&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4c12521a511291ed3597773a1f212a67f167823

So last weekend I handed an agent one of my old shelved ideas and told it to go find out whether anyone actually wanted the thing. It wrote the positioning, put up a landing page, drafted the outreach, ran the whole loop end to end and by monday I was staring at real signal from complete strangers. My total contribution was making coffee twice and approving a headline better than the one I wrote for the same idea 2 yrs ago For anyone who don’t know RAT stands for Riskiest Assumption Test. Inst...

just launched my micro-SaaS, Query Garden . It’s a tool that helps marketers and data analysts save and version-control their SQL queries without having to learn GitHub. The problem is, because I'm a developer, I don't know where marketers hang out online. How would you guys recommend getting this in front of marketing ops people? I have a free tier set up, but I'm struggling with distribution. Any advice is appreciated! [link] [com...

Hi guys, I ve always seen this subReddit as a place of motivation for me, that someday I ll too have some numbers to post. Maybe today is that day? Context: I’ve built a WhatsApp Automation platform mainly for d2c brands across India and have couple of clients from Middle East. Not new in this field, used to sell some one else's platform for more than a year when last year thought of building my own (as the support and overall improvements in the other platform was negligible). Took matter...

I'm currently building an online business and going all-in on it from September. I'm ambitious and have no shortage of ideas, but consistency and self-discipline have always been my biggest challenge. I also realized I don't really have people around me who are trying to build something similar. So I figured: why not create that circle myself? I'm looking for 6–8 ambitious people who are actively building an online business to start a small private Discord. The idea is simple: check in regul...

they say (mostly folks in yc) that if you manage to sell 100 people your product at 100usd the idea then has a strong hold and worth pursuing what do y'all think

Five years ago, documentation was mostly for teammates and future-you. Now, a lot of people are structuring notes, codebases, and internal wikis so tools like Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT can navigate them effectively. I've noticed that things like folder structures, naming conventions, and documentation style suddenly matter for a completely different reason: not because humans can't find information, but because AI agents can't either. Has AI changed the way you organize knowledge, or are y...

Our LLM costs started getting harder to reason about once usage picked up. It's not just the model price either. Long context, retries, agent loops and unnecessary calls add up pretty quickly. We've been experimenting with sending simpler requests to cheaper models instead of having one model handle everything. What are other teams doing here?

Genuinely losing it a little. Every single post I read on getting first customers is some version of “just tap your network” and cool, cool, love that for you, but what if my network is three college friends and my mom. Sent hundreds of LinkedIn messages, dead silence. Cold emails, dead silence. Started to wonder if my emails are just going straight into a spam void somewhere never to be seen by human eyes again. Somebody out there got their first paying customer without knowing a guy. I refus...

https://preview.redd.it/yykirbh914jh1.jpg?width=1904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=963da2250f1821640b5adf94cda2861292cd6e42 2 years. thats how long it took me to reach $50 MRR but believe me, there were many times when I used to think "Maybe I should just shut this down" i built, i launched on many platforms, i kept making tiny improvements, i posted about it but nothing happened then 9 days ago i posted my story on reddit "My tiny tool just hit $50 MRR after...

So one of my collegemates, He mentioned that he had built an internal erp for a client that replaced a tool that the company was using that cost them around 5k a year and I was mindblown. Have any of you made a tool that has replaced a software? I am not asking about the basic stuff like " I rebuilt Notion" , or the scheduling tool that someone had posted here recently. Something of real value that replaced something. What did it take y'all to build. submitted by ...

Hey! My Mac app recently reached $50k of total revenue (proof - TrustMRRR ). I wanted to share the lessons I learned during this journey and what I would do differently if I started again from $0. 1. Validate Before You Build Probably the most important point: skipping validation can make you waste a lot of time. The biggest problem for products is building something that doesn’t have enough market demand or not having the skills to find users. Even if there is demand, you still have ...

Hey folks, I'm building a SaaS to find keyword gaps competitors rank for and you don't, unclaimed keywords nobody's targeting yet, and fixes for pages you already have (quick wins near page one, snippet-ready pages, CTR gaps, pages losing traffic, cannibalization, backlink gaps). Weekly batch of these, one-click draft any of them. I genuinely want your feedback: does this logic hold up, what makes you trust an AI tool like this, and should it stop at surfacing opportunities or actually write...