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I launched my B2C iOS app two days ago, and I’m trying to sanity-check my early distribution plan with people who have actually done this before. I’m not looking to promote the app here, and I’m not looking to buy anything. I’m looking for direction. A bit of context: I have 17 years of experience as a software developer and around 6 years in engineering leadership, most recently as an engineering manager at Amazon. I recently decided to leave and pursue building something of my own. Befor...

After launching my first SaaS (LangSpeak) and sharing it on founder communities, here are the results from the first 7 days: • 77 visitors • 71 first-time visitors • 13 signups • Users from multiple countries • Several bug reports and feature suggestions The most interesting part: Getting people to visit wasn't the hardest part. Getting the right people to visit was. Most of my traffic came from founder communities. They were curious and gave valuable feedback, but they're not ...

So, I have built this SaaS for calling bot with CRM. I have started cold emailing campaign in targeted niche Social Media postings & All. I am just waiting for 1st customer before I go advertising mode on Google & Meta. Questions, How much time does it take to get first customer? What you guys do in the Waiting time? Is it a good idea to start another project? The reason of these question is I might not have enough patient in me to just wait and waste time. The world is f...

I'm not trying to go head to head with Premiere or Resolve. Those are great at full editing and I'd lose that fight. V8eo does a smaller set of specific things that are weirdly painful in the big editors, and it does them free in the browser. The feature people react to most is placing text behind a person or object in your video. It masks the subject automatically, frame by frame, so no rotoscoping and no green screen. You just click whatever you want the text to sit behind and it figures out...

Hi, I’m from Iraq and I’ve been working on an idea for a desktop app. I’m using Visual Studio and ChatGPT to build it, and while the app works , it doesn’t look anywhere near as professional as I want. Right now, I just describe my ideas and ChatGPT gives me code sometimes full files, sometimes pieces to replace and I’m slowly learning. But when it comes to UI design, everything I make looks… well, like something a caveman would put together. Definitely not like the polished apps you see in t...

The graveyard of failed SaaS products is full of tools that got great feedback in customer interviews. Here is why that keeps happening. ​ When you interview someone about a problem, you are not measuring whether they will pay. You are measuring how they feel about the problem in a low stakes conversation where agreeing with you costs them nothing. ​ Those are completely different things. ​ The moment that actually matters is when someone has to open their wall...

Hey everyone, I recently came up with an idea that seems like a solid solution in my head. But honestly, I'm stuck in the classic loop: Is this an actual burning pain point for people, or am I just overthinking and trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist? Before I jump in, spend my weekends on this, and write a single line of code, I want to be absolutely sure that people actually want this. For those who have built and launched projects, what is your go-to framework for valida...

I’m posting this because I want to help people like you. Let me know. Always happy to help anyone who needs it. I understand as there was a time I needed help and didn’t know where to turn.

A question for those building links to get ahead in SEO and AI Search. What's a good starting budget and what to expect from it?

Been running coding agents a lot lately for a side project and had a realization I can't shake. The question I kept asking was "is this thing good at writing code." But that's not the one that protects me. The one that matters is "what will it refuse to do without asking." Because I'm not reading every change it makes, the stuff it won't do on its own is basically my safety net. Claude Code just added a refusal list for destructive commands, which made me realize I'd neve...

This demo video paid off over $13k after publishing. My client was impressed by the result. #demovideo #demo #explainer

And how did u monetize it ?

A few months ago, I launched a simple SaaS focused on helping small teams manage recurring operational tasks. No venture funding. No large audience. No paid ads. What worked: Talking directly to users Posting useful content in niche communities Shipping features quickly based on feedback What didn't work: Building features nobody requested Trying to target everyone Spending too much time on branding early Still a long way to go, but getting those first paying custom...

When your building an app, and researching names for it. Do you often find your competition more that way? Do you get discouraged trying to find something? Seems like everything is taken at this point lol

I don’t have any premium or subscription model on my iOS app, pretty much just put a donation jar. Which I suppose makes it even sweeter that someone wanted to give me a buck just to say thanks!

Every company rolling out "credits" right now is doing the same thing: charging you per use and betting you won't notice. It's usage-based pricing with a fog machine. And the annoying part is that it works. Start with the psychology, because that's the whole trick. The second someone pre-buys credits, the money stops being money. It turns into arcade tokens. Nobody agonizes over spending a token. They've already paid, the cash is gone, so now they actually use the product instead of ...

Im exploring an idea to solve a specific pain point for people who work in Excel daily. Before I start building, I’m curious: Would you actually use a dedicated Excel-focused micro SaaS tool? What’s the most annoying or repetitive thing you do in Excel that you wish was automated? Also, if you're an Excel power user, would you be interested in trying something like this?

I work with small companies on their AI projects and I keep running into the same thing: people throw around “agent,” “RAG,” and “MCP” like they’re interchangeable, and nobody’s really on the same page. The comparison that works best when I explain it to non-technical folks is the human body. The LLM is the brain. RAG hands it books to read so it answers from your actual documents. MCP is how it plugs into your tools and data. An agent gives it hands, so it can do things instead of just talkin...

How do you all handle responding to negative Google reviews? I run a small business and it takes me 20-30 minutes to write one reply without sounding defensive or unprofessional. Is there a system anyone uses

The idea is a lead notification platform for websites. When someone submits a contact form, businesses instantly receive notifications through WhatsApp The goal is to make setup extremely simple (one script or plugin) My question is: As a first-time founder, is this a reasonable SaaS to build, or would you recommend starting with something simpler?

Hey everyone, I'm currently validating a SaaS idea and trying to figure out the best way to approach the early stages. Before I spend months building something, I'd like to understand how other founders validated their ideas and got their first users. A few questions: How did you get your first 10 users? Did you start acquiring users before the product was built? What channels worked best for you (Reddit, SEO, cold outreach, communities, X, LinkedIn, etc.)? How did you know your ...

Not here to promote or go into product details; maybe this is just a rant & resonates with a lot of people, but I would like some human feedback/advice… I can’t keep speaking to ChatGPT all day lol. I’ve been working full-time on my startup for 12+ months, £0 revenue, product not live/MVP-able (had a TCF, but he chickened out and left); had to scrap the platform together via Replit; thankfully found a new TCF (great guy!), came onboard start of 2026, and quickly found out the product is wa...

I help build Clipy, a free screen recorder. Sharing this as the maker, with Search Console screenshots, because the thing that actually worked wasn't a launch, an ad campaign, or a clever growth hack, and the graph genuinely surprised me. Six months ago the site was doing 58 organic clicks a month . The latest month in Search Console shows 8,018. Last 28 days: 7,891 clicks, ~147k impressions, 5.3% CTR, avg position 9.1. Same tiny team, zero ad spend, no funding round. Here's the curve: ...

Short story: We have a B2B SaaS which digitizes travel agencies. 1.5 years of dev very limited resources the team: 2 devs and a Codex subscription, 1 experienced travel agent We decided to target the safari niche to start and last September we spent 2 weeks in Africa getting feedback from on-the ground potential users and launched first production version. This feedback dictated the next 6 months. Spent 1k in February to attend a small 400 attendees exhibition for the 'launch' we got 50...

Currently I am building my SaaS products, but I have not idea how I should share it with people. I am sure that the tools that I am building will make people's live easier, but first step is to find the right audience for this tools. Overall, I am building a marketplace, where I am creating different SaaS platform for different purposes. I have a product that help you to learn a new language, track your income and spendings, track subscriptions that you have and so on. I know that I will pro...

PitchStage is live video for founder pitches. Two modes: 1:1: get matched with another founder, you pitch, they pitch, then skip to the next. No signup, just allow your camera: PitchStage Large session: everyone gets 60 seconds on a shared stage, the room reacts and votes. First one is next Saturday, June 27, 6pm ET. Stack is Next.js + Supabase + LiveKit. Built and shipped solo. Would love for a few people here to jump into the 1:1 and tell me if it feels useful. And if you’re ...

I regularly post on TikTok about apps and AI apps that helps people that are building a business or brand solo. Looking to discover some new apps and post about them. Let me know what you are building. Share link to your website if possible

Hi everyone. We just launched our Agentic AI startup, and now are pondering over different marketing channels. We have cold email marketing setup, but that roughly books 1 client call per week. Google ads is getting us sign ups, but is very expensive. We tried running linkedin ads, but got zero signups from it. We are posting on youtube, and got a few signups, but that too for the free tier. Tried launching on producthunt, got 3 signups, and 3 upvotes, because the paid marketed products hog t...