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Every company seems to have one repetitive task nobody enjoys. Examples: customer support lead qualification scheduling reporting onboarding Which one eats up the most time for your team?

the email said the charge went through. $29. real money from a real stranger. i sat there for maybe ten seconds feeling like a genius. then it hit me. i'd spent four months on the landing page, the checkout, the stripe integration, the little success animation with the confetti. i had never built the actual thing they were paying for. the dashboard they were supposed to land on after checkout was a placeholder i made in an afternoon. so my first ever customer paid me and got redirected to ...

Hey guys, I'm currently working on a startup idea and have built a waitlist page, but I'm not sure how to find people to join the waitlist without spending money on social media ads (such as Instagram ads). I would really appreciate any advice or suggestions. Thanks!

We’re entering a strange phase where almost anyone can build a working AI product quickly. A landing page, a chatbot, a wrapper, a small automation tool, even a SaaS MVP can be built much faster than before. So I’m wondering: what is the real competitive advantage for AI products now? Is it distribution? A specific niche? Proprietary data? Lower inference cost? Better UX? Trust and brand? Integration with existing tools? Or simply being first to own a very specific user habit? Bec...

I have expanded and sold my previous applications or I am still continuing to update them. Marketing is very important on this path. It is easy to build something, but growing and scaling it is more difficult than building it. Instagram and Facebook are great platforms to get customers, you just need to know how to be creative. https://preview.redd.it/33kfqjzvxp8h1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b98e1ba957d0473df0e1a73236defeb33d665d2

I love building the core product. Getting in the zone with React, setting up FastAPI, and configuring my databases is what I signed up for. But lately, I feel like I'm doing five jobs at once and failing at all of them. I sat down this weekend to finally push a major feature, but instead, I spent hours trying to figure out marketing copy, wrestling with sales emails, and organizing finance spreadsheets. It hit me pretty hard when I realized I was entirely drained and didn't even have the energ...

​ Seriously, how do you guys deal with the total lack of support from friends or family? Whenever I share milestones, architecture updates, or design progress for my project, I mostly get blank stares, polite nods, or just straight-up indifference. It’s like if it isn't a massive corporate job or an instant million-dollar exit, people in the real world just don’t get the grind of building something from scratch. It gets lonely pretty fast when the people closest to you couldn't care...

168 visitors to my site, 107 the day before. And virtually 0 every day before that. I achieved this by creating a lead magnet. Highly recommend it as a form of marketing. Best of luck fam

I did a soft launch of my first SaaS (friends, family, network, etc) and am wondering if it's still worth launching on Product Hunt? After a bit of research it seems like it's mostly founders that check out launches on PH. Some background, the app is a personal finance tracker with Canadians as the primary target audience. The goal is to provide AI-powered insights into the user's finances to help them understand what's going on with their money without having to create a budget. With my pot...

A lot of teams immediately focus on getting more leads. But when you look closer, the biggest opportunities often exist after the lead comes in. Some common bottlenecks I've noticed: Slow or inconsistent follow ups No clear way to prioritize high-intent prospects Messaging that doesn't match what customers actually need Leads entering the pipeline but never moving forward Adding more traffic doesn't always solve those problems. If you could improve just one stage of your ...

I've been using various resources to brush up my chinese fluency since ill be going to china in 2 months (havent gone in 7 years), and one of the methods i used to familiarize myself with native speaking was watching youtube videos where people like me (ABC) only spoke chinese for 24 hours as a challenge. They put chinese characters as subtitles but no pinyin, and i wanted a way to grab it and translate them to pinyin so I could slowly say the sentence myself. The problem was since the subtitl...

I spent the last few months building my first SaaS as a solo founder. When I started, I thought the hardest part would be the coding. I was wrong. The product side was challenging, but there were clear problems and clear solutions. You fix a bug, improve the UX, optimize performance and move forward. What I underestimated was everything that comes after the product is "ready": Deciding on pricing without any customers Choosing what features should be free vs paid Setting ...

25 days ago I pushed my first commit to GitHub for my new SaaS app. Today I made my first sale of €16. I know it’s not much but after grinding away for almost a month its feels amazing that someone has actually decided to pay for what I built. Here’s how I got here: - The Idea With a high rise of people vibe coding apps and building useless things I thought what if we build something that gives people app ideas that solve problems they're actually complaining about, not just random apps...

I was also a typical SWE 9-5, used to rant with coworkers about "one day I'll start my own thing," go home, doomscroll, sleep, repeat. Classic. Then one night I had the thought every founder apparently has at 2am: founders run 3-4 companies simultaneously and somehow survive, why am I acting like I can't build something while keeping my job. So I picked telecom, since that's actually my domain, and decided to build a B2C eSIM platform for travelers and travel groups. Obviously Ai...

Hello! I'm seeking genuine advice. Over the past 1.5 years, I have spent a lot of time building a consumer app. Initially just for fun and myself, but I started sharing it with friends and it gathered interest, so I kept building and the app growing. I iterated via feedback I got from users. Today, the app is fairly complete with robust frontend and backend and has all the bells and whistles I wanted to implement and features that users have asked for. I haven't done any marketing yet wha...

Built a tool that helps small business owners reply to Google reviews faster. Spent time validating, built it fast, got it live. Been doing cold outreach for a while now. Zero customers. Zero replies from most. The tool works. The problem is real. But I can't figure out if the issue is my outreach, my messaging, my channel, or the idea itself. What did you do to get your first 10 customers? What actually worked? [link] ...

Current state of my side project. Anyone can help me to manage the influencer marketing? Means outreach, make a deal, Analyse, scale it? ​ I know exactly how everything works, it's not rocket science... but I just dont like to text with influencer and manage all that. ​ Why there is no Tool for it??? I think im gonna hire someone on onlinejobs ​

Building a SaaS is technically not that hard anymore. With AI made templates and modern tools I can turn an idea into a working product really fast. Getting someone who does not know my product to actually pay for it? That still feels just as tough. What has been the difficult part, other, than technical stuff of building your SaaS?

Verified the testing method, everything is fine. The guide by u/Nexus0412 checks out, the steps are easy, and the rewards hit without delays. The walkthrough is on his profile.

I remember when we started building our platform payroll felt pretty far outside our scope. The plan was to focus on the workflow and let customers connect whichever payroll they already used Over time more of their operations started staying inside our platform. Scheduling, worker management, onboarding and everything leading to payroll. It started feeling weird that users had to leave the product to finish one of the most important parts of the workflow The weird part is customers seem...

Lately, I've been thinking about this a lot. Whenever I try to think of startup ideas, it feels like every obvious problem has already been solved. But then I come across startups solving problems I didn't even know existed. For example, I recently saw "Sampark" on Shark Tank India - a simple QR tag for your car that lets someone contact you if you've parked incorrectly, without revealing your phone number. Such a small problem, but once you see it, it feels incredibly obvious. ...

I built this SaaS in less than 12 hours and got my first Sale on it! I am just so happy!!

I was doing it by recording my screen with obs or slack while actually working with the app and then editing the video to remove some hiccups. But that process is extremely annoying. I googled a little bit and found several services that supposedly do that, with or without AI, but after an evening of trying I was not satisfied with their results. How do you approach the demo creation? What are your favorite solutions? I mean for the demos that should look clean and fast for the subreddit l...

I'm curious how other bootstrapped SaaS founders are getting their first 10-100 paying customers. There seems to be a huge gap between "build the product" and "people actually find it." For those of you running a SaaS: What marketing channels are working best for you right now? How much traffic/customers come from SEO, Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, paid ads, partnerships, etc.? What have you tried that completely failed? If you were launching a new SaaS tomorrow...

I keep seeing the same story play out. A founder spends months building, finally launches, and then... silence. No signups, no feedback, no way to tell if the idea was wrong or if nobody just found it yet. I'm trying to actually understand this part of the journey instead of guessing, so I'm asking the people who live it. If you've started anything, I'd love to hear how you really did it (not the polished version). A few things I'm curious about: Before you built, how did you check that ...

I'm currently building a B2B SaaS and working toward my first $10K MRR milestone. As someone based in India, that level of recurring revenue with healthy SaaS margins would be quite meaningful financially. I'd love to hear from founders (especially solo founders or small teams) who have already crossed this milestone: How did reaching $10K MRR impact your life, finances, and day-to-day work? How long did it take you to get there, and what were the biggest challenges along the way? Wh...

Been a lurker here for a while. My sites finally in beta and figured I’d finally post here now that Ive released to beta. Omniicore social media multichannel automation. What makes it different is that it’s completed automated after you sign in to your socials and add some details about your product or website. Optionally you can set the tone and bad key words or phrases. For image posts, It imports images from Google Drive or a content rich url page (blogs, store product pages, image rich p...

I kept dwelling on this and realized my decision-making process was basically "gut feeling + the two loudest complaining customers." After doing some research, I saw I’m not an isolated case apparently, 68% of launched features are rarely used (Standish Group). For those who have been (or are currently) in this situation: how did you solve it? Do you use a structured feedback tool, or is it all manual/spreadsheets? Tools like Pendo look great, but the price is steep when you're just st...

**Building is the easy part.** The hard part is refreshing your Stripe dashboard 400 times a day waiting for a notification that never comes. **Your mom signing up doesn't count.** But I'm still counting it. **Validate before you build.** I didn't do this, but I've read it in enough LinkedIn posts to know it's important. So I'm passing it along as original wisdom. **Cold DMs work.** Sent 847 of them. Got 3 replies. Two said "unsubscribe." One said "who is this." T...