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Heyyy Everyone !!! ​ ​ These days about 2 months I'm building a platform for freelancers where they get 100% verified job opportunities, secured vault where we ensures freelancers gets their payment, and working on other things also. ​ But before doing that my mind always hits when I think about launching it into public because I'm building the platform with almost zero investment. And for launching it, I need investment for promoting it that I don't have. &#x2...

A few years ago, I became convinced that one feature would completely change my business. I didn't get customer feedback. I didn't validate demand. I didn't ask a single user if they actually wanted it. I just assumed they did. So I spent the next 4 months planning it, designing it, building it, fixing bugs, and polishing every little detail. I was genuinely excited because I thought this was going to be the thing that would make customers love the product. The day I launched it, I e...

Two months ago I launched Renda, a small marketing SaaS to convert claude zip files into formatted PNGs, and I want to share the honest version of where I'm at, partly to ask for help, partly because the early part might be useful to someone here. Before I built anything, I used Reddit to pressure-test whether people actually had the problem I was having. I did the boring homework first so a bit of primary research (talking to potential users) and some secondary research (reading what people w...

Full disclosure: I do devrel at Prismatic, an embedded iPaaS. I'm not promoting anything, I'm just really interested in practical non-hypey thoughts about AI, which is something I'm not a doomsayer about, or a kool aid drinker. Last week we open-sourced our entire connector library under Apache-2.0. I'm relatively new to the company and the space and was at first surprised to see this happening since these connectors contain a lot of integration knowledge that someone could use to build their ...

Just closed our first enterprise customer. Still can't believe it. We're a tiny team. We compete with Leadfeeder, RB2B, and Lead Forensics, companies with sales teams bigger than our whole company. Everyone said small players don't win enterprise. We just did. Quick context: our tool puts a pixel on your site and turns anonymous traffic into real companies you can chase. That's the whole pitch. Here's how we got in, no fluff. We didn't oversell. Every competitor inflates their match ra...

genuinely curious: if there was an ai that could autonomously handle most of your marketing (finding viral content, doing market research, creating ugc ads, posting on tiktok daily, testing angles, etc.), would you actually trust it to run by itself? or would you still want to approve everything manually? what's the biggest thing stopping you from handing marketing over to an ai?

Hey guys, Standard dev story here. Spent the last few months head-down building out a web app. The tech stack is solid, everything works perfectly in production, and it's officially live. But now that the building part is over, I’m hitting a massive wall. I have absolutely zero experience with marketing or driving traffic. I’ve read a ton of generic advice about SEO, cold outreach, and launching on Product Hunt, but honestly, it all feels a bit overwhelming when you’re starting from a absolu...

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a small but incredibly motivating milestone today. After months of development, I officially processed a $13 payout from my platform into my bank account. To add to the momentum, a close friend bought a $20 tier purely as a motivational gesture to keep me moving forward. Total revenue: $33. It sounds tiny, but after months of staring at server logs, reading Apple developer docs, and debugging, seeing actual money move to the real world completely chang...

Hey folks, This is my first post, and new to Reddit. I am actually building an app to simplify the tech blog reading experience of the techies. I have beta tested it with 50+ users, and almost done finishing up polishing it as per the very good feedback I got and currently enriching the database with qualitative blog resources. Through this post, I am seeking out the support/guidance to help me market it to the right audience. I did the good market validation and through the feedback, I a...

Built a really great app. Fully featured. Tested. Put through as many trials as I could possibly put it through. But, I'm struggling getting signups. Suggestions. Limited funding for ads.

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Solo dev from Japan here. Not Tokyo, not really in any startup scene, just building from a more rural area. I launched a translation app in Oct 2025 and it recently passed $10k MRR. took around 8 months. proof: https://profile.stripe.com/nani/Ae1hNCkN No ads, no paid referral thing, no big launch. mostly just posting progress on X and people sharing it. Just writing down stuff I noticed I spent way too much time before launch wondering, “does anyone actually want this?” Most of my ...

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I recently built a resume tailoring tool. Under the hood, it's a bit different from most tools in this space because it edits the original PDF while tailoring the content. That said, I don't think customers really care about the technical implementation. From a user's perspective, it's still another resume tool in a market that already has hundreds (or thousands) of resume builders, ATS optimizers, and tailoring tools. My question is: how do you acquire users in a crowded category like thi...

Hey everyone. Over the past few months I've built StartVest, a learning app that takes users from "what even is an ETF" to being ready to set up their first investment plan. 6 stages with 6 lessons each completely in German. It also has an AI coach ("WealthBot") that answers finance questions in plain language. I built this completely solo and with the help of ai. Right now I have close to zero real users and don't really know where to focus my energy. I've tried a bit of...

Hey r/SaaS , Just hit 50 people on the waitlist of my product syftai.org in only 3 days with our new tool and I'm still kinda shocked lol. Been grinding on this with my two co-founders. Figured I'd share what actually moved the needle cause a lot of the growth advice out there just wasn't working for us. The real game changer? We set up closed-loop testing, but just inside our own small 3-founder network. Doing closed loop testing just within our own network gave us real confidence in o...

I'll be honest, I'm losing sleep over this for the past few weeks. The uncertainty is at its peak and I can't pretend it isn't affecting me. I'm someone who's got ~20 years of professional experience across domains. I've worked for corporates and also built a lifestyle startup that made money for good 10-12 years (and then something nasty happened). That's a story for another day. Now, I'm building a SaaS. I'm good at SEO, marketing and development as well. In the last year - building prod...

I have some solid saas ideas, and I'm wondering about funding what you guys are doing?

I just checked the pricing/feature list for my current CRM and it's 80% stuff I will never touch. I don't need "AI forecasting" or "automated social posting." I literally just need a way to track a lead from "Inquiry" to "Booked" without clicking through five menus. Every "startup CRM" eventually pivots to mid-market and gets bloated. Has anyone found a tool that stays in its lane? Or do I just go back to a Google Sheet and cry? submitt...

In the past few years i have been seeing way too many ads and promotions in ways i didn't even know were possible. People will comment on your post, act interested, and literally pretend to be your friend. Then in the end you find out they only interacted with you because they want to sell you their product or service. honestly you can't trust anyone anymore. Everybody has a motive to sell you something. This started happening way more after all those youtube gurus told people to use reddit ...

So I'm currently running a startup that specializes in automation on a certain social media platform, and I've recently started getting into marketing it and exploring different channels. One that caught my eye lately is directories, for anyone who doesn't know, these are sites where you can list your startup so people can discover it and click through to your site (like Product Hunt). The thing is, they seem like a genuinely great channel, but actually tracking down the good ones and submi...

this-is-panicslides-com_v2_NEW_final_LAST.gif This is it.... I'm done. For months I kept adding features. One more thing. One more improvement. One more redesign. Eventually I reached the point where every founder reaches sooner or later: I decided to sell panicslides to the first person willing to take over this mess. ... Actually no. Not yet. Instead I'm launching Early Access. panicslides is a presentation tool for people who forgot they had to present something until fiv...

Started this site 60 days ago: I asked Claude to audit and suggest changes to reach my goal of 100k impressions per day. Claude said this is one of the most sophisticated SEO builds I have seen and I can only polish: 80% of it is backlinking(I have already done that) I’ve tested my roadmap and automations on 2-3 other sites and it works but I can’t wait a month for me to keep doubling my SEO and clicks anyway to speed it up? Is anyone doing 100k impressions a day? If yes, how much time did...

Hi everyone, I'm in the early stages of starting a business and I'm struggling with customer acquisition. I don't have an existing audience, no large social media following, and no email list. It feels like every marketing advice starts with "post consistently on social media," but starting from zero is difficult. For those of you who launched a product or service without an audience: What channels worked best for your first customers? Did you use paid ads, cold outreach, loc...

Long gone are the days when using this site used to feel like a community of like-minded people participating in discussion. This subreddit to me seems to be one of the most egregious for it, which is why I’m posting this here. Yes, we are here because we are building SaaS. No, we do not want to buy your SaaS. It’s tiresome.

So, I've been slowly growing my SaaS organically and now I want to scale things fast but with precise targeting, as we don't have much budget to waste on experiments. My target platforms for ads are Facebook, Google, YouTube and Reddit. Now, I want to know from your experience, what kind of ads worked best and on what platforms? Image Ad or video ad? Or anything unique in between. For context, my SaaS could be considered B2B and B2C but most users are small website owners for their sites a...

One thing I've been curious about is how different teams define a cold lead. Some people say it's after 24 hours without a response. Others keep following up for weeks. Is there a point where you stop investing time, or does it depend entirely on the context? I'd love to hear how your team approaches it.

This is probably not a huge milestone for most people here, but it feels pretty surreal to me: a few people I don’t know are now paying for something I built. Not friends, not people I convinced in DMs, not someone I had a call with. Actual strangers. They landed on the product, created an account, understood enough of what it does, and paid. I know this sounds basic. That’s literally how SaaS is supposed to work. But after trying a bunch of things before, it feels very different. I tried e-...

During my layoff in Feb 2023, I had a hard time finding jobs through LinkedIn, indeed, and other services. The listings were old and usually had hundreds of applicants. After a few months, I landed on a super simple process that I created in Notion that got me more interviews. Over one weekend, I converted it to a free job search tool. I found an affiliate that worked well for my audience. Although I have sold a few sponsorships, my affiliate is by far the best revenue. Here's some stats: ...