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Long story short: I built a way for small businesses to see where their money's going, track unnecessary spending, and find out what to actually do about it. You drop in a bank or card statement (CSV, Excel, or a PDF), and it gives you a plain-English rundown of where money's quietly leaking, and what to do about it. I’ve sent over 200 cold emails and done about 30 cold calls to what (I think) is my target market: small, local business owners that are probably losing track of spending. The p...

last week I launched my first ever vibe coded app. a little marketing game where people fight for ad space. and two people have now paid to play. total revenue: $2.62 a little shocked because you can play the game for free… but im feeling very grateful to whoever my first 2 customers were 🫡 this is your sign to just keep shipping 🚢

A few months ago we were selling motion videos one by one. Manual work, good margins, but it didn't scale and it wasn't a product. It was us. So we made a hard call and started rebuilding from scratch as an actual product. The idea: I nstead of producing one video at a time, build the system that produces the content for you. The way we're scoping it: You set your brand up once. From there, one agent plans the content calendar, and channel-specific agents create and publish the post...

I'm a developer and building software is not the problem, my problem is the distribution, give me some advice to get my first 100 paid customers

My app is aimed at helping those with various disabilities (like myself) to manage their days, so I'm going to leaflet drop in places where I know people like that often hang out: the local library, certain cafes, charity shops, churches. I'm also going to see if I can leave some in the local doctor office and pharmacy too. I'll let you know how it goes!

I'm completely stuck at this stage: I keep building or improving the product and can't make the leap into advertising. I can't keep this up much longer. Without earnings, what do you recommend?

A few days ago I posted here about the weird feeling of having strangers pay for something I built. First, thanks for all the replies. I honestly didn’t expect that many people to care about such a small milestone, but it helped a lot. Some comments were just congratulations, some were actual advice, and a few people asked how I got the first users. So small update because things moved a bit since then. I posted the product in a few places like Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, PeerPush, some S...

As SaaS products move upmarket, security conversations seem to become increasingly important. Features like granular permissions, audit trails, secure document sharing, compliance reporting, and controlled user access often come up during enterprise sales discussions. For those selling to larger organizations, what security requirements do prospects ask about most frequently before signing a contract?

Getting my first customer was thrilling/ I'd finally gotten someone to pay for what I've built but deep down I always thought he would cancel after the first month. A week ago, his subscription renewed!

A while back, I posted in another sub about my brother fixing a content plateau on my SaaS by deleting 40% of our SEO content. And because of that, our clicks had gone from 4,000 to 12,000 within 90 days. But what I never shared is what happened after. Late 2023, I’d hired a new marketing team and gave them a SaaS SEO SOP that my brother had built himself. That SOP is what took us from 12,000 clicks to a sustained 20,000 a month through most of 2024. We still use it for our SEO today. ...

I've been evaluating payroll providers and most of them can run payroll. What I'm struggling with is customer experience If users have to leave my platform learn another workflow and contact another support team is that part of my product anymore? How do you think about this because I feel like everyone focuses on features while I'm worrying about ownership of the experience

My app, Memox, allows users to simply select text from anywhere on Mac and then click the Memox button to store it as memory. It only takes one step, and AI automatically analyzes the text and summarizes it. It also allows users to directly set a reminder, open a location on maps, etc... It focuses on the simplicity and accuracy to ensure users memories are correctly stored while minimizing their work. Basically an extra storage for your brain. What do you think? Would you use it? subm...

For people that already have some users on their SaaS, how do you do to have a first user base? Do you use meta/google ads? Do you use things like Product hunt? What do you use?

I’ve been building a niche AI app in the architecture and design space. Most of my growth has come organically through social media, where I have roughly 700,000 followers. Here’s where things stand: 750 people have signed up. 85 have become paying customers. About 130 people signed up but never activated. I’m wondering whether onboarding emails landed in spam or whether they simply got distracted. The remaining users either maxed out their free trial credits and didn’t convert or never fu...

I have been building SaaS products for two years now. I have worked with something around 40 clients at stages of growth. Normally I do not pay attention to trends… but this one I am pretty confident about because I'm watching it happen in real time. The group of vibe-coded MVPs that got funded in 2024 and through 2025 is now hitting a wall. I have had 6 or 7 founders come to me since January with the same story. They built their products quickly, raised between $800K and $2M and hired two or ...

Hi! I’m from Snoika. We’re in the AI visibility / GEO space, basically helping brands understand and improve how they appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI search experiences. I posted here recently when we launched our SaaS after running Snoika as more of an agency/service business for about a year. The launch itself was exciting, but now we’re dealing with the part that feels much harder: figuring out how to properly transition from an agency model into a SaaS model without cre...

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One of the hardest lessons I've learned as a founder: Users don't experience your product the way you do. As founders, we obsess over: architecture features edge cases technical improvements Meanwhile users often care about something much simpler: "Can this solve my problem quickly?" I've spent days building features I thought people would love. And then watched users completely ignore them. On the other hand, some of the smallest improvements ended up getting...

Think about it like this, you have been going to both a mcdonalds in your city & a local burger food truck in your city for about 2 years If mcdonalds raised their prices or started messing up their orders more, you would feel a stronger emotion of anger and probably not go anymore But if the food truck started that, you would have bit more understanding and probably even talk about it with the owner while ordering. Why is that? One word: Connection People MUST feel connected to y...

I got to the point where I felt like i had better features than any other competitor, but I was stuck just building them. I literally spent zero time on marketing or SEO or GEO or whatever you wanna call it. my background is software engineering, not marketing so I was dreading it but I had the confidence to do it because again I truly believed I had a more complete service than any other geolocation spoofers. And honestly if I had to give any advice based on my modest but still exciting res...

too many tools disconnected workflow no centralized context not knowing who is doing what whats the progress of that particular task manually scheduling calendar what to do !??!?!?!

Over the last week I've been building a SaaS product and recently launched the first working version. After launching, I started reaching out to potential users for feedback. So far I've sent around 50 emails and got almost no responses. One person tested the product and said it was useful, but that's about it. Now I'm starting to realize that building the product was actually the easy part. Getting people to care about it is much harder. For those of you who have already gone throug...

I’ve been completely stuck for a few months now and I can't seem to finish anything. I start projects, but I always end up dropping them because I don't see the potential or the idea just stops making sense. I see that the standard advice for building a SaaS is to look into your own problems, but that doesn't work for me. I can't validate it with my own experience because I honestly DO NOT HAVE problems painful enough to build a SaaS around them, or there are already businesses out there solvi...

Built a social media data API (SocialCrawl) and I’ve been getting hammered by fake signups burning through free credits. The screenshot is a snippet of what the fake bot accounts look like, all the same disposable email domain. The user in the image created 100 fake accounts and had another user creating 30 fake accounts. https://preview.redd.it/8c9hjsd7pz8h1.png?width=441&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c822ff3e2f415f5e59fd1dc607c4145497c9857 I want to keep the free tier be...

Just wanted to share with anyone who is on their own SAAS journey, or specifically as a solo founder. It felt like an uphill battle at times trying to get organic traffic and signups to my SAAS but the ball finally feels like it's rolling; without paying anything for paid ads or marketing. For context I have been dropshipping on Ebay for the past 2 years and have been living in SE Asia for the past 8 months. I built this software to genuinely compound my own results and didn't want to mark...

Blitzit Stripe + RevenueCat Desktop: MRR: $4114.91 ARR: $49378.92 Churn: 9.6% Mobile: MRR: $69 Active Subs: 11 Revenue(last 28 days): $41 Not much changed on the revenue side this week, but after several weeks of decline, things are starting to feel more stable. Churn continues to trend in the right direction, which is encouraging. This week my focus is getting the next mobile release out. Some of the bigger items include: Android and iOS home screen widgets Japanese,...

Hey guys, I was looking for a browser extension to track my screen time and block distracting websites, but the options on the store are pretty frustrating: Tools like StayFree or Webtime Tracker are great for showing charts, but they do not have a strong blocker or a built-in focus timer. Blocker extensions like BlockSite are heavily paywalled, limiting you to blocking only 6 websites before demanding a monthly subscription, and they track your browsing history. Older tools like StayF...

Every year or so, I come back to paid ads.... I get sucked into the BS that Google sells and think, "I'll give it one more go", and every F**KING time Google wastes my money on BS traffic. In any other industry, what they do would be illegal. You can't walk into a restaurant and say " I want the steak please" and then they send out steak sauce, chips, a stake, and an albino turtle and then be expected to pay for it. I DIDN'T ORDER AN ALBINO F**KING TURTLE, YOU CROOKS. ...