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How to sell your first SaaS app

I have created my first SaaS app for a specific niche and I want to sell it to content creator who have that specefic niche. How can I sell it to them for highest money I could get? This is my first product so I don't have any leverage so my main goal is to sell it. Any General tips that can help me in selling my first SaaS app.
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How to actually find and validate an idea ?

I am person like who is always curious about he internet money and also made some but saas is something that gives you a recurring revenue and keep you motivated i guess money is the real motivation But the main thing is i am writing is here you people are sitting like who actually the saas founders appreciate your work and love the passion you people have being a full stack developer how can i start my own saas [link] [comm...
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How to understand and fix a product with good sign-up ratio but poor conversion?

I have a SaaS product. I got around1000 people to sign-up but only 23 purchase for an AI agent product. Total visitors are 6000 over 4 months. My assumption are: Misfit audience Not many pricing upgrade trigger Onboarding issues No follow up. I have tried everything to fix this. I guess the first is a marketing problem while the remaining 3 is product or UX design problem. I want to hire someone who can fix this. What skills am I looking for? submitted by /...
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What's the most unexpected place someone discovered your SaaS?

You never really know where your next user will come from. Sometimes it's a place you never planned for or even thought about. What's the most unexpected way or place someone discovered your SaaS, and were you able to turn it into a growth opportunity?
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To the Founders who actually got their first 10 paying customers, where did they really come from?

I am definitely on a mission to build undeniable fact - Every "How to get customers" post always seem to say the same five things. Cold email Content Build in public Post here DM people I want the real version from people who actually did it. If you got your first 10 paying customers, people who actually handed over money, not free signups. Where the devil did they really come from? I would prefer not the polished story, I am looking for the specific one. Was it a...
I built a free Chrome extension to watch any video in sync with friends
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I built a free Chrome extension to watch any video in sync with friends

I made a Chrome extension called Watchbear that lets you watch any video in sync with friends, and I finally got around to making a short video showing how it works. The idea is simple. You open a video, start a room, and share the code. Everyone who joins stays on the same frame. Play, pause, and seeking stay in sync for the whole room. There's also a side panel for chat and quick reactions, and it shows the current second of whatever is playing in the active tab. I built it mostly because ...
I got my first paying customer today!!!
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I got my first paying customer today!!!

I just launched my personal project that got from me from a CGPA of 3.6 to 3.8 , it explains concepts or course using examples and analogies based on your interest(football, technology). check it out : studymate.tech
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Spent 3 weeks overthinking a decision and lost a client. How do you actually make hard calls?

So this happened last month and I'm still kicking myself. I was trying to decide on pricing for my side project. Had all the data I needed - competitor research, cost analysis, what my target customers could afford. Everything. But I couldn't pull the trigger. Kept going back and forth: "What if it's too high? What if it's too low? Should I do tiered pricing? What if competitors undercut me?" Spent literally 3 weeks in this loop. Journaling, making pros/cons lists, asking...
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I collected stories about how founders got their first paying customers

A while ago I built a small website where founders can share the story of how they got their first paying customer. I added a few stories, then completely forgot about the project. It still gets a few visitors every day, even though I haven't touched it in a long time. Now I want to bring it back and collect more stories. I think these stories are useful because everyone talks about scaling, but getting the first customer is usually the hardest part. If you have a story to share, I would l...
Abandoned my SaaS for 3 months… but it kept getting a sale every month.
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Abandoned my SaaS for 3 months… but it kept getting a sale every month.

Not a flashy story, but it surprised me so I figured I'd share. I made a tiny Mac tool earlier this year. One time $4.99, not a subscription. Did a small push when I built it, then life got busy and I basically ignored it for about three months. No posts, no updates, no marketing. I didn't even open the dashboard. Opened LemonSqueezy last week expecting nothing, and it had quietly sold roughly once a month the whole time I was gone (screenshot). Before anyone gets excited, it's $4.99, so thi...
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Built my Product but now stuck on getting customers

I have a full time job that I do in the evenings it is 9hours.. Basically every other hour that I am awake has gone into building a Product from scratch for the last couple of months. I made a PBX setup, a billing system, an Android dialer app, the thing. Some weeks I was doing sixteen to eighteen hour days between the job and this project. I lost a lot of sleep chasing bugs that made zero sense at three in the morning like SIP and NAT issues Android build failures because of leftover files mess...
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CPA with SaaS expertise looking to land monthly contract clients. What channels are actually working?

Hey everyone, I’m a CPA specializing in the SaaS and software space (handling ASC 606 revenue recognition, ASC 842 leases, debt, cash flow, and NetSuite/QBO). I’m looking to scale my monthly contract client base and want to hear directly from the business owners and founders in this group. When you are looking to outsource your financial management or upgrade from a basic bookkeeper to a specialized accountant, what actually catches your eye? - Where do you look first when you realize your...
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How do you know if your SaaS idea is actually worth building?

I've been trying to build my first SaaS, but I keep getting stuck at the same point. I come up with an idea, build a landing page, talk to a few people, get mixed feedback, and then start wondering if I'm solving a problem that's actually painful enough for people to pay for. It feels like every idea has competitors, and everyone says "validate first," but I honestly don't know what real validation looks like. How do you personally go from: Having an idea Deciding it's wo...
I quit my job to vibe code a LinkedIn Automation SaaS tool, with no Engineering background, and made ~$3.6k in the first 3 months
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I quit my job to vibe code a LinkedIn Automation SaaS tool, with no Engineering background, and made ~$3.6k in the first 3 months

Last Christmas I was at my parent’s place, pretty bored just watching TV on the couch, and realised I wasn’t really satisfied with my life. My job wasn’t going anywhere, and I felt like I really had no direction in life. I had spoken with a friend around that time, who had vibe coded his website for his business, and it looked really cool. So I spoke with ChatGPT to see what i could possibly build that could be interesting, but done in an innovative way. As I worked in sales already, it...
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Any Indian founders here selling SaaS globally? Which payment provider are you using?

I'm building my first SaaS from India and im confused in which payment platform to use. I've been reading about Stripe, Paddle and Dodo Payments, but honestly I'm getting more confused the more I read. A lot of older posts recommend Stripe, but I've also seen people say new Indian accounts are difficult to get approved. Paddle anf Dodo Payments looks interesting, For those of you actually running a SaaS from India: What are you using today? Any issues with payouts or onboarding? I...
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I think I wasted 30k of my own money on my SaaS!

To keep this concise I was working as a landlord and decided to make a rental inspection app because all the ones I tried were severely lacking. I invested around 30k of my own money to build it. Went through 2 developers because the first ones were trash. Fast forward and my app is done and I personally love it. I’ve got 3 paying users that gross about $100 per month but I’ve got a problem. The company I was working for got sold and I’m in a new roll that has nothing to do with property mana...
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Hello guys

’m new here but I just wanted to share that my start-up is eventually showing some conversion since launching in early May. But unfortunately CR2 is quite low , around 2.8%. I have already reached out to all registered users that didn’t buy my product with encouraging emails. Any advice for me how to increase the conversion rate ? Thanks.
Got my first paying customer today!!!
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Got my first paying customer today!!!

been building a booking/scheduling SaaS for small service businesses (salons, beauty studios, clinics) solo for months. Today a local beauty studio signed up for the Pro plan, my first real paying customer!! €37 won't change my life, but watching "Customers: 1" tick over on Stripe after all the unpaid late nights hits different someone actually finds it worth paying for check it out here: https://www.bookit.fyi/demo On to #2! [lin...
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To the Founders who've done it. Where did your first 10 paying customers actually come from?

I'll be honest, I really haven't fully cracked this myself yet so I want the real answers from people who have. Please, not the obvious channels (Reddit, ads, content). The specific place? The exact subreddit? The one cold email that worked? The friend who introduced you? A directory nobody mentions? I think the generic advice ("just do content marketing") hides where customers actually come from, and I'd love to map the real version. So the question is: Where did your ...
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Advice from founders who have launched on Product Hunt before

After months of building, I'm finally ready to launch on Product Hunt. One thing I've noticed is that many successful launches already have an audience behind them. As a first-time founder and someone who doesn’t have an audience, I'd greatly appreciate any advice from founders who have previously launched on Product Hunt. What was your experience like? Would you launch there again if you went back in time? What would you do differently if you launched again? What mistakes should...
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what's actually in the gap between attention and demand? i keep seeing views with no sales and i don't get the missing piece.

keep seeing the same shape of post. someone gets 11k views, 100 upvotes, tons of comments, and zero dollars. i've had a smaller version of it myself. a post did well, traffic spiked, sales did not move. everyone says "attention isn't demand" like it's an answer. it's not an answer, it's a restatement of the problem. ok, they're different. what's the actual bridge between the two? what i'm trying to understand from people who crossed it: when attention finally started turning into mon...
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I was doing outreach all wrong… until I discovered this

I thought outreach was just a numbers game. Send more emails → get more clients. But it didn’t work like that. My inbox was full of: No replies Low-quality leads Copy-paste conversations It felt like I was competing with thousands of people saying the exact same thing. Then I tried Facebook groups. And everything changed. Instead of interrupting people… I was reaching people already active in my niche. And the biggest advantage? They weren’t being spammed yet. I st...
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Founder question: what actually gets your first users?

Hey everyone, I’m a founder who recently launched my first SaaS product about a week or two ago. So far, I’ve gotten around 1,000 page views with a 34% bounce rate, which makes me feel like there’s at least some curiosity around the idea. The product solves a real-world problem that I think a lot of people deal with, but I’m quickly realizing that building the product is only half the battle. The harder part is distribution. Every time I look for marketing advice, I hear the same things: r...
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everyone keeps asking "is anyone building a boring saas." i've done it for 4 years. here's the part nobody mentions.

saw the "is anyone building boring saas" question come up again and the answers are always the upside. recession proof, low churn, no hype cycle. all true. here's the stuff that doesn't make the cheerful version. boring saas is lonely in a specific way. nobody wants to hear about it. you can't post a slick demo that gets 500 upvotes. you tell people you make billing software for a trade they've never thought about and their eyes glaze. there's no crowd cheering you on, because the th...
I built a website, launched it, and so far it has made exactly R$0
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I built a website, launched it, and so far it has made exactly R$0

I’m not sure if this is more of a rant or me asking for advice, but I figured I’d post it here because maybe someone has gone through something similar. A while ago I started building Converctor, which is basically a platform with simple converters and practical tools for everyday use. The idea was to create a place where someone could quickly solve something without opening a spreadsheet, searching through multiple websites, or doing calculations manually. I kept adding tools, improving the...