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Tbh the app was genuinely beautiful. It had animations and a UI that was nice to scroll through every transition was well thought out. I have worked on over 30 codebases… cleaning up after founders who outgrew their build and this was easily the nicest looking one I had seen. But it stopped working properly the moment people started using it regularly. The founder had a design background so he focused a lot on the frontend and it showed. What he did not think about was what happens to an app w...

I'm planning the marketing for my business. My budget is much smaller than $10k, but I want to learn how experienced people would spend it. Where would you put your money first, and why? Curious to see how everyone would approach it.

I think a lot of solo builders, including me, hide behind “just one more feature.” One more integration. One more dashboard. One more page. One more small fix. But at some point, you’re not improving the product anymore. You’re just avoiding the uncomfortable part: putting it in front of people. For people who have launched products before: How do you decide when the product is “good enough” to start marketing properly? [link] ...

These past couple of days, I've deployed more features than ever to my apps. Added OG images, created public profiles, added MCP servers to manage them, and improved the UX in several surfaces of the apps. This would have taken me weeks to do. Now it's just an afternoon with an agent and a bunch of skills. I built Legendsverse 5 years ago, took me 2 months to ship, and got my first customers the first day. Legendsverse is an app for action figure collectors to track their collection, deals, an...

I just built this card nudge flow by hand, the card reminder sequence: wait for 7 days first reminder, to add a card, then for 5 more days, second reminder to add a card, then finally after the 14 days, trail expired and moving to the lower tier. Full disclosure, the builder is my own tool, but that is not what I am asking about. What I actually want to know: in 2026, is hand building deterministic flows like this still normal, or are people just prompting their way through? I feel like no m...

Sometimes the "boring" products end up making the most money. 🥲

Hi, I want to share my journey with you today on how i got my web app to $5k MRR within 2 months. what i tried, and what works. My app is a b2c, competing with one of the biggest apps in the industry. I am a solo founder with little to no marketing budget or experience. One thing about being a solo builder, with no team and limited budget is that you don’t have many opportunities to grow. In the past few months, i have tried many different channels to grow my app, including posting on Ti...

Over the one year since I’ve monetized my SaaS, there is one action that brings me down and makes me question everything, without fail. And that is churning users. I can’t think of a more demoralizing feeling of running a SaaS as a solo founder than this. Even on days where I gain net subscribers, a single churning user brings me down. Working so hard to find your paying users, knowing how many 7 day weeks were needed to find modest success, this feels like a kick in the gut. How are you d...

I asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the questions a buyer in my category would actually type. 15 questions, 3 engines, about 90 answers. I wanted to see who the AI recommends, and whether my own startup ever came up. It came up 0 times. Zero, out of 90. I want to say I took it like a calm, level-headed founder. I didn't. I sat there feeling pretty dumb for building a brand-visibility tool that is itself invisible. Then I stopped sulking and actually read the answers, which turned out to b...

Your early customers are the foundation of your SaaS business. If your product consistently over-delivers and solves their problems better than they expected, they'll naturally become your biggest advocates. Genuine recommendations and word of mouth will always outperform paid marketing in the long run. Build something people can't stop talking about, and they'll do all the promoting for you

Just soft-launched our product. In a nutshell, it’s run planning software. ICP: advanced self-coached runners and coaches. The challenge right now is that I’m still missing a few key wearable integrations, as these companies have been “redesigning their API processes” for several months and are not currently accepting new API requests. Without these integrations, it’s hard to fully demonstrate the value of the product and engage users. Looking for inspiration to think out of the box rn. ...

Anyone can build and launch a SaaS in a weekend. That sounds like a good thing, but it isn't always. Here’s how the software landscape looks now (my observations only): There appear to be more and more tools that look just polished enough to charge for. However, like 90% of these tools, they fall apart the moment you start actively using them. Then, it becomes obvious that the flows are unnatural and broken, some of the features do not work, and asking for a refund or at least support turns ...

This was one of the most interesting charts from Stripe’s recent report . The number of solopreneurs crossing every major revenue threshold continues to accelerate, especially at the $500k and $1M levels. My guess is it’s a combination of: AI reducing the cost of building Better developer tools Global payments becoming trivial Social media replacing traditional marketing If you’re building today, do you think we’re at the beginning of the one-person company era, or is this jus...

My app recently hit $6k over a 30-day period. Here’s my “one-night success story” 🤣 I've been building products since 2016 and launched around 20 of them. Here's the full list of everything I tried: 2016 🔴 Rielt Friend - assistant for real estate agents 2017 🔴 Quick Hire - service for job candidate search (made a few bucks) 🔴 Post Store - posting automation 🔴 Mantir - instagram ads search 🔴 Gifmake - ad gif generator (made a few bucks) 🔴 Partisano - telegram ads analytics 20...

Recently had an idea that didn't pan out like I'd hope so I was wondering what people usually do or if anyone does anything interesting after a software startup doesn't work out. I'm thinking of just open sourcing the code and having people roast how bad my code is

I'm about to open a founding-100 free launch for vevid (a tool that turns a product URL into a launch video), and getting people to try it free isn't really the issue, that part's been easy enough. I don't know the next step though. going from people willing to use it for free to people willing to pay once the free spots run out. did you charge from day one and just accept the slower signup curve, or run a free phase first and convert after? and for anyone who converted free users into paying ...

I ship a few small products by myself, and the hardest part isn't building, it's deciding where my hours go each day. Whatever I touched last tends to win, not whatever actually moves the needle. Curious how other solo founders handle this. Do you rotate on a fixed schedule, batch by product, follow the revenue, or just chase whatever's on fire that morning? Trying to find something saner than 'loudest problem wins'.

I’ve been working through some data and trying to pull it all together into a funnel running from website visits > sign ups > paid conversions > churn. Then I want to add a AI intelligence layer in between each step to understand the metrics and data and help me create plans to improve things. Problem is, I have all this data across GA, Mixpanel, Postgres DB, Stripe etc but have had no success pulling all of that into one platform without going deep and building out something custom. ...

I often notice that I lose interest and close websites that take too long to load, even if the product looks useful. From your experience, how much does slow loading impact signups, leads, and trust in a product? Or do you think other factors matter more in the early stage?

Two years ago, we bought our in-house CRM from a software vendor. Last year, we successfully cloned 100% of its features using Codex, which cut our costs by $50,000 per year.

the hard part of building software isn't the build and i'd argue it's not even the marketing either (it's just fkn volume, stop being lazy) the most painful part is constantly jumping between marketing, feedback, iteration, marketing, feedback, iterations in an endless loop until something finally clicks... Just for context, Lovable's "overnight success" took them 1.5 years of building and testing. [link] [commen...

I’m becoming more convinced that boring SaaS is where the money is.

Probably won't get another for a while 😅

I’m curious how saas operators manage SEO. Do you diy? Outsource? Or don’t do it at all?

over the last few months ive had to actually sit down and read through a bunch of enterprise AI and LLM contracts and its kind of wild how much of it is set up to bite you later. not in an obvious way. its all the stuff that never comes up in the demo and then shows up like 8 months in as a surprise bill or some thing you suddenly cant get out of. here's what i wish someone had told me to ask before signing anything: data training: can they train on your inputs and outputs. a lot of the ti...

Basically the title. What was the actual process? What happened between "I have an idea" and "I'm going to spend the next few months building this"? Curious on what really happened and how it went in the end.

I have one SaaS i built a year ago that does a little under 10k a month and its growing quite steadily but there are aspects of it that are very labour intensive which i find hard to sustain. (lots of in person meeting/conversations - which was how i got my first users. I'd like this next project to avoid in person user acquisitions). I want to move into pure SaaS but have no idea how to find users or or communities that would be interested in what i'm making. How did you find your first pool...

hey r/saas , founder here of Questlock , which is a productivity engine inspired by the duolingo model of gamification. im a longtime lurker on here and i dont tend to post on reddit either, hence my low karma for the past few years unfortunately I've been going through really severe depression. I had so many dreams however because of it (my mdd) I wasn't able to accomplish anything. however, I finally decided that I had enough, and because of that, completely solo, i launched my saas. ...

After spending the last 2 months building my SaaS, I've realized something: A lot of people online say you can build a SaaS with $0. Technically, that's true. But for most beginners, it's not realistic. Even if you don't spend money on ads, you'll still need some budget for things like: Hosting A domain name AI APIs or other third-party services Development tools and subscriptions Sure, you can use free alternatives, but in many cases the quality, performance, or scalability wo...