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What started as a hobby while at work became my passive income. A simple Telegram bot built to save, download and store videos without worrying about storage limits. A personal problem I solved and people were interested. Here's what I learned over the past year. (The things I did right and mistakes I made) 1. Start small - Look for a problem, a personal one. Something that keeps you up all night and passionate about in solving. If you have the idea, start making it slowly and how yo...

Hi everyone! AI-generated content is becoming harder and harder to distinguish from human-made content, and there's not much of an incentive for content creators to be honest about it. That's why I designed SlopWatch . Through this tool, you can express whether you feel a webpage contains AI-generated content, along with tags to specify which aspects, specifically. SlopWatch aggregates everyone's scores into a Slop Rating which others can see. You can see how it works in more detail o...

https://preview.redd.it/884t95v92b9h1.png?width=624&format=png&auto=webp&s=4db39753b7a855c0afe3997e46cde5f392721a4a Its such a surreal and happy feeling to get the first paid customer. Getting a stranger on internet actually liking your product and getting the problem solved. This is the real motivation to keep building the product and keep improving it for the consumers. I vibecoded this AI platform in 2 weeks, and started doing distribution through organic ways. Going for the ...

Crowded markets are great signal for strong demand however the hardest part is finding a positioning angle competitor are ignoring. Have you been ever had to find a positioning that competitor missed and how did you find it

Hey everyone, I’m working on a new product called MascotMint . The idea is to help app developers, SaaS founders, indie hackers, and product designers create a mascot for their product and turn it into a complete app-ready asset pack. Most AI mascot tools generate a nice image, but I wanted to solve the next problem: How do you actually use that mascot inside a real app? The workflow I’m building: Describe the mascot you want Generate a few mascot options Pick one character ...

I'm building Scrubmyo, a Job Application Intelligence platform. The idea came from my own experience applying for jobs in the UK. I ended up with folders full of CVs, supporting statements, job descriptions, interview notes, and different versions of the same information. I put up a simple landing page a few days ago because I wanted to see whether anyone else had the same problem before spending more time building the MVP. So far, 10 people have signed up. Part of me thinks that's encou...

I worked with a UK Restaurant SaaS and I think I highly undervalued my skills. I was getting paid 700GBP / month and was responsible for everything end to end: SEO, Social media, Email campaigns, CRO, landing pages creation, graphics, etc. I gave around 40hours / month and generated 400+ demo bookings over a span of 3 years from multi channels. They fired me when I asked for a raise and now I'm wondering if I was getting paid appropriately or was it too less considering the pipeline value g...

Hi there! To those who successfully launched and made money from your SaaS, how did you launch - did you launch it as a personal or business entity? I'm new to this and hoping to launch my own SaaS, but because I'm new, I'm not sure if I should spend time and money to incorporate a business first before launching, or just launch as an individual. I've seen advices online of ppl saying get validated and paid first before thinking about the legal stuff, which I udst but I'm afraid launching ...

Lately I’ve noticed a lot more people getting tired of paying monthly for every little app online, especially lightweight utility products. Do you think users are actually moving away from subscription fatigue now? Or do subscriptions still make the most sense for most software?

Spent 6 weeks on research and building. Going live next week regardless of whether it feels ready. For anyone who has been through a first launch, what's the one thing you wish you had done in the final week that you didn't?

A few years ago, every SaaS pitch felt like "save time." Now it feels like the best products are selling something completely different. They're selling visibility and founders want visibility into their pipeline. Managers want visibility into their teams. Customer success leaders want visibility into churn risk. Sales leaders want visibility into what top performers are doing differently. That's probably why tools like HubSpot, Mixpanel, Rilla, Clay, Gong, and Rippling have gained so ...

I had this idea of an Ai astrology website which was very exciting for me, so I went ahead and build it took me almost a month of work all day it was my vacation so I could go full time on it and scince the idea was exciting most times it didn't feel boring to me, and I was super confident that it was gonna work because i have experience on making instagram reels go viral and has a format in mind to market it but to my surprise it was sooo much harder than i thought i always hear ppl say marketi...

“How do I get my first users?” / “Where do I find customers?” is something I read here multiple times daily. So I am going to tell you, as someone who’s done this for nearly two decades, exactly the process I use. Building the product used to be the moat. With AI, it isn't anymore. Anyone can ship. The moat now is distribution: getting the right people to find you and trust you. The good news is you can use AI for that part, too. There's a huge amount that goes into taking a product to marke...

Hey everyone, I recently went down the rabbit hole of submitting my saas to saas directories and launch platforms. I know there are already plenty of lists out there, but I kept running into the same issues: poorly maintained sites, broken links, directories that no longer accept submissions, or websites that weren’t really directories at all, sometimes just blogs or news sites. So I built a small tool to track my own submission progress and started turning it into a curated list. The ...

I'm building a new tool to help us audit our own SaaS platform - its basically an auditing and compliance tool. While my other platforms have tiered pricing based on feature limits. So for example, if the platform was a web site builder the free tier could allow the user to create 1 page, top tier would be unlimited, etc. The new tool I am building will be an ongoing auditing and compliance checker and as it tracks user numbers I was thinking of pricing based on that; start at a very low tie...

I have a growth engine framework that I could use but right now, as I shipping my product....I am just going to be simple. We talk about MVP but what about just "minimum viable growth" (MVG). A lot of great startups get started first. Just do the bare minimum of presenting your startup that aligns with the best practices with conversion rate optimization and just talk to people. The best thing that you can do is just go out and talk to people. Honestly, I feel like a lot of S...

https://preview.redd.it/vm3gfg38989h1.png?width=1085&format=png&auto=webp&s=dbbfae9b5424bcdb1bb9338139d2116418197363 I just got approved for $1,100+ in AWS credits for my bootstrapped SaaS $1,000 from AWS Activate (valid 2 years) plus $140 AWS gives just for setting up and verifying the account. No accelerator, no VC. But I got REJECTED the first time, and figuring out WHY is the actually-useful part most guides skip. Full process for fellow founders: What you're getti...

https://preview.redd.it/1wwdocljh89h1.png?width=1366&format=png&auto=webp&s=144d6c5c8d7d4a6b9b4e9df2a267cf8762daa1e6 i launched on product hunt a while ago and it actually felt good for a minute hit number 9 for the day, ended up around 12 lifetime deals and a couple of monthly subs, almost all of it from building in public, just two or three from anywhere else then both monthly subs cancelled and after that it was just crickets, no signups, no traffic, nothing moving i've h...

With wix and OpenAi or somehow else

I used AI to write around 100 blog posts last night, and today I saw 211+ visitors to my product. This is actually insane!

​ I still remember the time I saw the Stripe dashboard fill up with rows of "Succeeded". I had almost given up on this client. For 8 weeks there was literally nothing. Then suddenly the screen was filled with 9.99 charges. They were adding up fast I could not even scroll through them. Let me go back a bit. A founder came to us with a built scheduling tool. It was for a specific niche. I do not want to name it. It was something that a few thousand small operators really neede...

Hi guys, im bit of a noob when it comes to making websites, coding and reddit. I had an idea and tried to just get something working. Would mean the world to me if I could get ANY feedback on my website https://drrecov.com/ THANKS EVERYONE

Been in this space long Been in this space long enough to see what actually moves the needle vs. what just looks good in a pitch deck. What's working - Prompt monitoring is real. Knowing which queries trigger your brand in AI responses gives you actual signal to act on. - Citation source tracking matters more than most people realize. If you know which pages AI engines pull from, you know exactly what to fix. - The SEO + AEO combo is the biggest unlock right now. Your traditional SEO f...

Hi, I do lead gen for B2B SaaS tools. The issue I'm facing is that clients are willing to pay vastly different prices, even if my output and effort are consistent. A client who $1,5000+ per seat CRM will pay far more than someone who runs a low-ticket martech site. This is innately my issue. Every client is different, and it's making onboarding a lot more complicated than it needs to be. My plan is to standardize my offer. I'm thinking 250 calls per month for X. But I don't know what X is ...

I've launched my first ever product two days ago to the wide audience and I just got my first paying custom, I still did not believe that it's real! My app is a habit tracker which allows to track not only classic "Sleep 8hr" habit but actual numbers and time of the day. So you can enter steps, wake-time etc. So far I launched in following places: TinyLaunch Peerlist Just Hunt few posts in sub-reddits related to productivity apps Speaking of traffic and conversion, I ...

I just want to know why and how after following every recommendation from people here on Reddit and using the AI, no one even visits my website to even get my first subscribers. In the past 3 months i only have 300+ impressions on search console. I tried paid ads too and I spent alot of money for nothing. Many people say do direct outreach, but how? I tried on linkedin using their Premium plan (to be able to message people) and ofc nothing. ...

Hey everyone, I built JapaneseResume.com , a Japanese Resume builder, because I went through the absolute nightmare of job hunting in Japan as a foreigner. If you’ve ever tried it, you know Western CVs get immediately tossed. Japanese employers demand two incredibly rigid, culturally specific documents (the Rirekisho and Shokumukeirekisho ). If your formatting or business Japanese is even slightly off, you're automatically out. My tool lets users upload a standard resume in any languag...

A few days ago I discovered something in one of my Express.js projects that made me uncomfortable. I was accepting image uploads using Multer and validating them based on MIME types and file extensions. At first glance it seemed secure enough, but then I started digging deeper and realized I was essentially trusting information provided by the client. The more I researched, the more I realized that file extensions can be changed and MIME types can be spoofed. A file claiming to be an image m...

I always see people talking about scaling. Does anyone actually test if there saas can handle heavy traffic without errors or do they just handle it in prod?