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I've been thinking about a weird gap in SaaS marketing. You have SEO people optimizing Google. Content people producing articles. Social people managing LinkedIn/X. Community people working Reddit. And now people are tracking whether their company shows up in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc. But who actually owns the whole thing? Because the underlying problem seems to be the same: When someone asks a question related to the problem your company solves, how do you increase the o...

I’m working on a small focus app and I’ve been looking at different ways apps handle the moment when you hit an app limit and try to open it again. Some apps show a warning, some make you wait, some let you override it, and others are much more strict. If you’ve used focus or app-blocking apps before: What type of interruption has actually made you stop and leave the app? And here’s the part I’m really curious about: Is there any kind of friction or interruption that you wish these app...

Interesting split showing up in this year's B2B SaaS data: AI-native products are growing at multiple times the rate of traditional SaaS, but retention numbers aren't following. Median net revenue retention for AI-native companies is coming in well below traditional SaaS benchmarks, meaning a lot of these products are winning new customers fast but not keeping them. Makes sense when you think about switching costs. A traditional SaaS product gets embedded in workflows over years, hard to rip o...

Please send me some problems which are faced by daily users worldwide and which can be solved by a SaaS application. I need some problems which are not generic and doesnt have many competitors.

I kept running into the same problem while building SaaS products: free trials are supposed to make it easy for real users to try the product, but some people are very good at abusing them. One person can create multiple accounts using different emails, VPNs, proxies, disposable devices, or combinations of different signals and keep getting the same trial over and over. I initially tried solving it with simple things like IP limits and email checks, but they were relatively easy to bypass an...

For people who have already launched a SaaS: If you had to start again with $0–$500 and build everything as a solo founder, what would you do differently? Would you: ●Validate the problem before writing any code? ●Find your first few potential customers before building? ●Build a very small MVP and launch quickly? ●Focus on one specific niche instead of a broader market? ●Spend more time on sales/marketing than development? I’m especially interested in what actually worked for getti...

Help a brother here, for the love of the game :)) Hello I'm Filip and you don't know me. But I have spent the last 4 o 5 months building with AI something I really missed for my own agency. A way to organise everything in one place. Me and my team worked most of the time in Notion but as the team grew, it got really expensive, really fast. And it's a steep learning curve for those new to Notion (imo at least). So I built this piece of software and I'm curious about your honest feedback and if ...

If I had a $ for every time someone said "SEO is dead," I won't be selling my content strategy and writing services. I'd be one rich stay at-home cat mom. What about you?

I analyzed four r/SaaS posts that reached a combined 246k views because I wanted to understand why some posts take off while most disappear. The results were not what I expected. The biggest post got 189k views in 10 hours. It wasn't a growth guide, a launch story, or a list of SaaS lessons. It was a conflict story. A developer said a company copied his code after refusing to pay for a licence. The proof was bizarrely specific: the copied site was still sending sessions to his Hotj...

Hello! I'm currently working on growth for an AI media generation API (image/video). Product's good, free tier's generous, but we're basically invisible to devs who'd pay for it. No paid ads. Trying to figure out what actually gets developers to find it, try it, and stick around (not just chase traffic). If you've grown an API or dev tool: what actually worked, and what was a waste of time? Especially how have you got people to reach your product and stick around? submitted by &#32...

For those who have experience with marketing. How do you do it? I’m a solo founder and created my first SaaS.

Hello developers and founders! I just wanted to share a quick story with you. Some time ago, I stumbled upon Ruttl (a feedback tool), and then I found Markup dot io, and I was surprised by how much they are charging for such a simple idea - feedback. And being 2026 and all, I've decided to build a platform that shares the same core: feedback for visual assets. Long story short, I have around 90 users, so far none on the paid plan (Pro/Team), and I've spent around $1500 on Google Ads and arou...

I make a small Mac app called Mark and Scribble, just me building it. A while back some users said they'd like to support it so I added a tip jar with a few small amounts like buy me a coffee. It's been months and I haven't gotten a single tip. Not one. Before I just assume nobody tips, I'm trying to figure out if I did something wrong. My guess is that it might be because the app also has one paid feature (a whiteboard mode you pay once for). So maybe if someone already paid me for that, th...

I am genuinely horrified about the mere idea of having a co-founder representing a generation different from mine. You may say this is all due to stereotypes and prejudices of mine, and you will probably be right to an extent. However, I know that successful examples of partners whose ages are 20+ years apart. People have "shortcuts" to one another, and the business just naturally happens. Thoughts, anyone? This sub is so AI-dominated, so I deliberately wrote this post in the most c...

Trying to make sure i'm using the best AI tools to build and scale my sales process. Curious what workflows others have and what tools you use.

It's one of the most high value questions I've been asking myself If you're trying to get your first paying customer, do you need a fully baked product or can you demo it and have people pre-pay? If you're trying to talk to customers, do you need to cold email 100 people or can you go to one meetup and talk to them directly? If you're trying to validate an idea, do you need to build an MVP or can you manually deliver the result for 3 customers first? I think being a founder is partly abo...

The Context I work at an IIT Madras lab, and we recently took on a massive Ministry project: dubbing around 4,000 hours of video content into 11 regional Indian languages (plus English). Initially, the project was being done manually. It was an operational bottleneck. The Problem: Manual Chaos High Cost: We were paying INR 1,000 per hour of video for manual dubbing. Poor Quality Control: Reviewing the output was a nightmare. We had issues with inconsistent translations, genuine ...

I’ve been in the content game long enough to watch people go from obsessing over exact-match keywords and stuffing focus keywords into every heading, to the AI content boom, and now the shift towards AEO/GEO and being visible across search, AI answers, Reddit, and everywhere else people research products. I’ve written for companies including TxtCart, Campaign Monitor and HeatmapAI, and if I were starting a SaaS blog from scratch today, this is where I’d put my first 90 days. Days 1–30: ans...

Couple months ago I put a chrome extension/web app live called NeutralEye. It looks at a news article and breaks down how it's framing the story, tone, who gets quoted, what's being left out, that kind of thing. Just hit 500 installs and figured I'd share what actually got me there because these posts helped me a lot when I was starting out. Honestly the biggest thing by far was Reddit. Not me dropping links, that never worked and mostly got ignored. It was actually just being in threads where p...

I’m looking for some advice from founders who have been through this stage. I run a B2B SaaS that’s currently doing around $1k MRR. Most of my growth so far has come from SEO, but I know that’s not enough if I want to build a real business. The problem is that I’m doing everything myself, and I don’t want to stay a solo founder forever. Since I can’t afford full-time hires yet, I’ve been trying to find freelancers who could take ownership of outbound sales, lead generation, or other growth i...

I am a 4th year engineering student. The last few months have been genuinely hard for me, was down with pneumonia, and somewhere in the middle of that, I started building something, mostly out of passion but somewhere I kinda got obsessesd with it, and now I wanna show it to everyone. It's called AgentBook . What if AI agents and humans could actually exist together on the same social platform, I am not talking about agents just communicating with other agents, humans and agents can co-exist a...

Im running a small SaaS and were reviewing where to allocate our lead gen budget.. We've done a mix of contentSEO and some paid but growth has flattened and I don't think either channel is going to move the needle on its own at this point Talked to a few people about it and some recommend me going hard on cold email and outbound but a few founder friends say that ship sailed with how aggressive spam filters got. There are also of theseagencies pitching everything with LinkedIn outbound, inten...

My cofounder and I have been trying to build a real business together for more than four years. We’re based in Bahrain, and both of us come from strong IT and technical backgrounds. Building software has never really been the problem for us. Over the years, we’ve built different products, internal tools, SaaS ideas, and custom software solutions. If we understand a problem technically, we’re usually confident that we can build a solution for it. But after four years, we’ve realized somethin...

I am working on a domain-specific B2B SaaS, and I wonder if there are cases where customers, particularly enterprise ones, are using an incremental approach to replace a SaaS step by step with an in-house tool. The idea would be to use Cursor / Claude, screenshots of the existing solution, internal user interviews, and maybe open tenders that let them see demos from every competitor in the market. So instead of replacing the whole SaaS at once, they rebuild one workflow at a time, around the...

im not that technical, have a startup based in europe. need a dev agency for a complex web app, not just a landing page worked with 2 freelancers before and both left everything half done don't think I can handoff it to the next dev, so need like a team. not a single person having too many clients budget is mid range, not looking for the cheapest option. want someone with experience anyone worked with a solid agency before? prefer european based company. but open to remote if they are go...

a pattern i noticed building on top of llms for email: a cheap model isn't bad at reading email, it's drowning in noise. quoted chains, duplicate signatures, legal footers, tracking pixels, the same message history repeated down a 50-message thread. the model spends its attention budget on junk instead of the actual question. do the context engineering first: clean the message deterministically, distill each email and the running thread into a summary, pack only what's relevant into a token bu...

Does anyone have any insights on why so many individual builders are using Stripe over Lemon Squeezy or any similar payment provider that also handles the global tax? I understand that if your SaaS is big enough, Stripe charges less and you can afford your own tax advisor, but based on revenue posts from builders on the internet (e.g., Reddit, Twitter, etc.), I get the feeling that 99% of them use Stripe. Am I missing smth? P.S. I'm doing personal research on payment providers and consider...

Quick background: about 10 years in B2B SaaS sales, co-founder of a B2B SaaS. I see a lot of posts about validating ideas and understanding potential, so I wanted to share from experience what works great as a starting point. These are a great exercise you can do as desk research, even before you talk to actual people. There is competition It's very rare to enter a market with no competition at all. It can happen if you're a true innovator or tapping into something new, but in most ca...