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So many people say they ditch their daily job to focus on their SaaS after they realize they have a potential. My story is quite different than that. I started working remotely as a contract-based Android dev in a Texas company via a freelance network (I signed NDAs so I can’t name the network or the company). I was charging the intermediary 8K USD per month and god knows how much they were charging the company I work in. Then the company bought me out from the network and asked me to set ...

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Been lurking here for a while. I run a small AI job marketplace and the most annoying part to build was resume parsing, basically getting clean data out of PDFs. I tried just asking an LLM for JSON and in production it was a mess. The keys would come back different between calls, nothing was validated, and I couldn't reproduce results when something broke. Then I realized the same problem hits invoices, contracts, KYC, pretty much any document. So I spent the last couple months building a sma...

I've been following this subreddit for a long time. Especially since the AI boom, I keep seeing products built for other tech people AI tools, developer tools, marketing tools, startup tools, and so on. It sometimes feels like the old saying about "selling shovels during a gold rush." I'm curious: is anyone here building software for traditional, non-tech businesses? For example, a tire shop, local distributor, wholesaler, manufacturer, accounting office, repair shop, or similar ...

I’ve noticed that most career advice online is either too generic or focused only on traditional jobs. So I’m experimenting with an AI tool that analyzes a person’s skills, interests, and experience and suggests a few realistic income or career paths they can pursue. Before I spend more time building it, I’d love to know: Would you use something like this? What information would you expect it to consider? What would make you trust its recommendations? What’s the biggest problem with existi...

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I sell a B2B service. I'm fairly new to sales itself, though I've been in this industry for over 14 years. People trust me and I have a solid reputation at work. Here's my problem. Every so often, after a client goes live, they'll insist I told them something that just isn't true. I never said it. To be clear, I don't lie. I don't bend the truth or leave things out to make myself look better. I'm honest all the time, no exceptions. My anxiety wouldn't even let me get away with being shady if...

and my SaaS solves a very specific problem. It's like nothing has ever been done before. It's called calculator (dot) com, and it has a 3x3 grid of numbers, 0, mathematical operators, and an equals button. It allows users to calculate a series of mathematical operations in a fast manner. And I made $800K MRR just yesterday, and I'm also only 20 years old. The whole thing was vibe-coded with the free tier of GPT. I coded it overnight. ...

ok so I keep going back and forth on this and want some real opinions, not just "do both lol" every single founder on my feed right now is doing the personal brand thing, twitter threads, "building in public" posts, the whole behind-the-scenes vibe. and I get why, it clearly works for some people. but it also feels like everyone's doing it at once, which makes me wonder if it's actually still effective or if it's just noise at this point. meanwhile nobody really talks abo...

Hey guys, next milestone is achieved! Over 100 customer in 30 minutes online. Feels great, but still alot to do! This journey never ends. When i started, I had this wrong thesis that you finish your app and its done, no work more to do. But is there a point when you really "finish" your saas? Because I still think I have a lot to improve and lot more to do...

i have my SAAS product ready but i need my customers to pay me monthly basic to use my service, how can i do it? help me with this, where can i get payment processors?

People forget passwords. People forget emails. Sometimes they forget both. 😅 One surprisingly common support request we kept seeing: → The forms I created are not showing up → Showing "Account doesn't exist" error → Which email did I use to sign up? So we added a small UX improvement If you've logged into FormNX before, we'll show the last account used on that device directly on the login screen ✓ Less typing ✓ Less confusion ✓ Faster access It's one of ...

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We just opened two roles, a mid-level data analyst and a customer success manager for our SaaS product, and within 72 hours we had over 400 applications on LinkedIn. Sounds great right? It is not. I spent the better part of last week screening resumes and I swear at least 60-70% of them were clearly AI generated or mass blasted with zero customization. Same generic summary, same bullet structure, same "passionate about leveraging data to drive insights" phrasing copy pasted across co...

This is a small app I originally built to solve one of my own problems. I published it on the App Store about two months ago and have done almost no marketing for it. It’s a simple checklist app that helps me deal with those moments when I start doubting my own memory and wondering whether I’ve actually done something. For example, before going to bed, I have a checklist of things I need to verify to make sure everything will be fine while I’m asleep. But as soon as I get into bed, I often s...

Need advice from other SaaS owners dealing with repeat chargebacks. Had a customer dispute a charge, I submitted evidence and won. Now he's disputing the same thing again, just under a different reason this time. Guy disputing this has used a ton of AI credits and video exports on the platform the whole time this has been going on. Feels like he can just keep filing with a new reason every time, even after losing once already. Anyone figured out a way to actually shut this down for good, or ...

I launched my app recently on Google Play and Apple Store and I'm trying to figure out the next challenge: getting the first paying customers. For those of you who have built and launched apps, how did you get your first paying users Was it Reddit, social media, SEO, Google Ads, word of mouth, partnerships, or something completely different? I'm especially interested in hearing what actually worked in the beginning when nobody knew about your app yet and you didn't have a big marketing budge...

ok so i work full time and have a 1 yo, basically zero free time, but somehow spent the last few months building a PR review tool cause i tried coderabbit and it just didnt click for me. figured how hard can it be lol turns out the building was the easy part. marketing i have NO clue. i dont wanna be the guy spamming his link everywhere but i also genuinely dont know how you get something like this in front of devs who’d actually use it. so for anyone whos launched a small dev tool or saas, w...

We turned on paid ads for the first time and got the signup bump we wanted... plus a wave of garbage. Fake form fills, throwaway emails, accounts that never come back.... So I added reCAPTCHA, and stopped reporting raw signups internally. We switched our north-star to activated signups (someone who returns and does the core action at least once). That cleaned up the dashboard, but it's a lagging fix. What I'm trying to get right is quality at the top of the funnel, before it pollutes the n...

Hi everyone, ​I’m building a SaaS that automates customer service and order creation for Instagram and Messenger merchants. The tech stack involves handling Meta Webhooks and passing conversations to an LLM. ​Currently, I’m facing a major issue with the AI's reliability: ​Hallucinations & Pricing: Even though I provide store data, the AI gets confused. It often quotes wrong prices or tells customers that a product exists when it’s completely out of stock or doesn't exist at all. ​Ord...

After almost 5 years of starting projects, abandoning ideas, procrastinating, doubting myself, and wondering whether I would ever make even $1 from something I built… Today, someone actually paid for DBC Utility. It is a small tool I started building last June because I could not find a Linux-friendly DBC editor that worked the way I wanted. Seeing that first payment notification felt completely unreal. **Cha-ching!** 💸 It may only be one sale, but to me, it means all those failed proj...

So, 2 months ago, I made a post here that I was about to give up on my saas. And you guys encouraged me to not give up and just find a job and it will all be fine to attack again. Yeh, I tried. The past 2 months ate me alive. Still broke, no stable job, barely any freelance clients. $17 in my bank account. Personal life's a mess too. Relationships, today a potential breakup. (Fck, she just texted me mid writing this. We did break up i guess. Well, i guess I'm in full stress mode for the ne...

Hi everyone, I’ve been exploring the idea of building a game that uses voice commands as a core gameplay mechanic. Examples: Moving a character with voice commands Solving puzzles using speech Voice-controlled platformers Multiplayer games that react to what players say I know games like One Hand Clapping and Phasmophobia have experimented with voice interaction, but I’m curious about the broader community. Questions: Have you ever played a voice-controlled game? What did you like or d...

I’d like an outside, no-bullshit perspective, because there’s so much noise around AI right now that I’ve lost the ability to judge my own situation. Background, kept deliberately vague on the product itself: I spent several years as a product manager on real-estate and e-commerce apps. Product is the thing I actually know scoping, prioritization, what makes something usable, how it ships in a real org with Git, QA, automated tests, CI/CD. That part isn’t new to me. What’s new: for the past ...

I come up with an idea, get excited, do some research, start building, and then I hit the same wall every single time: distribution. That's when I start asking myself: How am I supposed to get users? How do people even discover new products? What if nobody cares? What if I spend weeks building something and get zero users? Then I abandon the project and start looking for another idea. I've repeated this cycle so many times that I'm starting to think the problem isn't the ideas. The ...

so this happened a few hours ago and I still can't really focus on anything else. got an email from stripe this morning. someone paid. an actual stranger, real card. first one ever, after about 2 months of building and basically zero dollars the whole way. I think I refreshed the dashboard four times because I was sure it was a glitch. it's $19 a month so let's not get carried away, I'm not quitting my job over it. but it felt a lot bigger than $19. for context, the thing I built is called...

7 weeks ago we launched our first paid product. 280+ deals sold. 21 reviews, an average score of 4.6 stars. Of course, we might get some free users too with the launch, but the 280 deals are paid and are life time deals.

My friend and I are both developers. Naturally, when we had an idea for an app, we did what we do best: Started coding. Research with a PhD -> Done Mobile app -> Done Backend -> Done Also: Auth, streaks, onboarding, payments, analytics and more. Probably you know where Im going with this. We have a few users, but that’s pretty much it. Basically, we could give gold for free inside our app, but if nobody knows the app exists, then we have nothing. Nil. Null. Nada. The app ...

How many emails are you sending per lead during a cold outreach campaign and why? I'm trying to find the right balance without being annoying.