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PayPal merchant onboarding used to take us weeks. Not because the APIs were bad. Because we couldn't tell if the integration actually worked until something broke in production. The request would return 200. The test would pass. Then three days later a merchant would call because their webhook hadn't fired, their payout was stuck, or their dispute state was out of sync. We weren't testing the behavior. We were testing the request. Every integration has a gap between "the request succe...

There is nothing worse than having a finished SaaS product ready to go, only to get bricked by a payment processor.... ​Back on May 29th, our app was completely locked in. The code was tested, the UI was polished, and early users were waiting. All we needed was a way to process global USD payments, so we applied to Paddle. ​We expected a standard few days for review. Instead, we got 19 days of total silence. ​We sent multiple follow-up emails just trying to get a human to look at our ticke...

I'm not looking for some crazy unique startup idea or the next billion-dollar business. I'd honestly be happy building something relatively simple, as long as it solves a real problem that people are willing to pay for. For those of you who build products or run SaaS businesses, what areas do you think are still underserved or have strong demand right now?

I know that doesn't sound like much. But when you're building something from scratch, spending weeks staring at code, doubting yourself, wondering if anyone will ever pay... 7 feels huge. We're sitting at around 15 paid customers now, which still feels surreal to say out loud. Some days it feels like nobody cares. Then suddenly a few complete strangers pull out their credit card and remind you why you started. Still a very long way to go. Happy to answer any questions! https://previ...

I know that doesn't sound like much. But when you're building something from scratch, spending weeks staring at code, doubting yourself, wondering if anyone will ever pay... 3 feels huge. We're sitting at around 15 paid customers now, which still feels surreal to say out loud. Some days it feels like nobody cares. Then suddenly a few complete strangers pull out their credit card and remind you why you started. Still a very long way to go. Happy to answer any questions! submit...

Started with an EdTech project. Ended up spending years studying search.Built dozens of experimental websites. Some grew. Some crashed. All taught us something. and a few changed everything. Today that obsession has turned into 20K USD and 100+ paying customers. If you're 100% satisfied with your SEO toolkit, please don't comment or spam or bot msg. The people we built for usually aren't 😄 😄 😛 The biggest challenge is still ahead of us. ...

I'd brainstorm in a notebook or on a whiteboard, feel productive, and then never find those ideas again or spend too much time turning them into an actual plan. So I built PathScroll PathScroll combines a visual canvas for brainstorming with structured list. You can create cards on an infinite canvas, connect ideas, and add notes, links, subtasks, or to-dos to each card. Once your brainstorming session is done, one toggle can turn those cards into a structured list so your ideas don't st...

I'll start. I used to love Duolingo. Until I didn't. And as a Product Manager, I perfectly recognized their strategies. They have great retention rates and all that but they didn't retain me. I sent them customer fedback more often then I can remember, but death silence. ​ What annoys me? Well you can't actually move past certain point. Like you have learned it, perfectly, and went a step ahead, and another one, and another two. And it keeps pulling me down to the step 0. I am so sick...

Hey! Just built a landing page for my website. How do I get people to join the waitlist?

A friend and I started building a SaaS product a few months ago. The original idea was product 101. Find a problem space that looked interesting, talk to some people, see if there was something worth solving, and then use our product and engineering backgrounds to build a solution. Coming from enterprise, we thought we had a reasonable understanding of how products get built and adopted. Between us, we've spent decades building technology, working with stakeholders, running projects, and shipp...

Three years ago, three of us from a top engineering college quit our high-paying jobs to start a company and it landed flat on its face. The first idea failed. Then the second one failed. At one point we even hit #1 on Product Hunt and convinced ourselves we'd finally figured it out. We hadn't. We spent the better part of a year mostly confused, building things people thought were cool but didn't really want to pay for. Eventually we landed on Bitscale. Today we're at 200+ customers, 7-fig...

Let me be serious everyone is building something (saas) but no one is talking about the money it will take to host/run/maintain/subscription of database for my saas. Hi i am both new to saas and reddit but i am trying to build a small mvp as an coding project to learn coding and basic of saas (micro saas? ) as i am learning fullstack . Just began a week ago and i am already confused. Can anybody give me a roadmap of things/skills/tools(free one) that i should learn or understand before mov...

I'm currently building a SaaS product and, like many founders, I've discovered that building the product is only a small part of the challenge. I am still very much in the early stages, and have built around a problem i was repeatedly running into at work. now i have a web app, that essentially shows the core features of the product, and is a very early version. but i am tunnel visioned, the only feedback i have had is from myself and someone on my team at work. I've had some success getting ...

built a saas tool in february. gave it away completely free. no trial, no credit card wall, no “upgrade to continue” popup. just free. for 4 months i watched people sign up, build stuff, and use it without paying anything. 170 users across 17 countries. zero revenue. then yesterday someone upgraded to pro. 12 euros. thats it. thats the revenue. she found the tool through chatgpt 14 days ago. signed up, started using it immediately. tried to pay on day 6 but her bank blocked the 3d secure a...

Saw another one this morning. You know the format: I've been writing backend systems for a long time. Let me walk through why this stuff gets to me, and then why it's not actually about helping you at all. First, the part nobody says out loud: the post is the product That Comment "SAAS" line isn't generosity. It's a mechanic. Every comment is an engagement signal. The algorithm reads a flood of one-word replies as "people love this" and pushes the post into mo...

I think one of the strangest parts of building a SaaS today is that your product can improve faster than your market learns. You add features. Fix onboarding. Improve performance. Ship integrations. The product gets objectively better. But growth barely moves. For a long time I assumed that meant the product still wasn't good enough. Now I think a different problem exists: Customers often don't update their beliefs as fast as founders update their products. Someone might have...

Posting this hoping someone’s been where we are. We built our SaaS from the scratch and the clients we’ve landed actually stick around and pay, We’ve got a couple of state-run universities on it. So the product holds up once people are in. The issue is everyone who hasn’t tried it yet. Cold outreach just hasn’t worked. We’ve put real money behind it and have very little to show for it, which is frustrating because we know what we have is good. Right now we’re leaning toward webinars instea...

Hey everyone, I’m currently in the process of validating a saas idea, but I’ve found myself stuck in a loop of endless desk research analyzing data, mapping out competitors, and trying to figure out the market landscape. I’m passionate about the idea because I experienced the problem firsthand during my travels. However, I’m struggling to determine if this is a "real" problem worth solving or just a minor inconvenience that is being drowned out by bigger, noisier solutions. My q...

As a motion designer, getting paid on time has always been hard. Sometimes getting paid at all. Saw a thread recently where a studio asked someone to do an unpaid "test" and then hand over the final video plus the working files. It's beyond a joke. Creatives shouldn't be working for free and something needs to change. So FileFlippers sends a watermarked preview, and the clean files only unlock once payment clears. Still figuring out how that works for working files, but for final d...

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A friend and I built a small B2C SaaS (AI companion), started a public beta mid-May, and went live (paid-only, less a minimal free plan) on the 7th of June. We were so nervous, and then we had our first conversion, and then another on the 8th. Right now, we have ~10 paying users, which is huge, even though there's such a long way to go. It really is so hard, and a lot of the time I wonder if this will really be worth it...but I'm doing my best to stay strong, and the 4 signups today (most we e...

https://preview.redd.it/1gv25a638t7h1.png?width=2592&format=png&auto=webp&s=8d66d6ab0112e590507d0794d90b2fb7c693cba3 P.S: tell your network and business friend abut your idea first because 4 of these users came from my network btw

My co-founder and I spent 6 months building Michii - a Chrome extension that turns browser workflows into interactive guides. We launched last week. Here's the honest breakdown: LinkedIn: 900 impressions, 38 likes, 1 link click X: posted with demo video, still early Reddit: kept getting removed by filters HN: account too new for Show HN Users: 10 friends who are being nice What we learned in week 1: Posts don't get you users. Direct outreach does. Friends don't give hones...

Made and launched an app, it's (hopefully) great for New Zealand based tradies. ​ Problem is, plumbers and sparkies and painters etc do not like to be sold to unprovoked. All the groups for those trades on reddit, facebook, etc also ban anything that could be considered promotion. ​ How do I find people who can give my site a test drive so I know if people actually like it? ​ I'm almost ready to go hand out flyers at Bunnings.

I was planning on building an app for IOS store that relates to my personal brand on Instagram but I want to know how to validate my idea as well on how to market my own idea to social media that would allow people to sign up before launch. Like what are the ways to get people to want to sign up for your app i’m building.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Whenever someone launches a SaaS, people usually say: "Talk to customers." "Post content." "Build in public." "Do outreach." But I'm curious what actually worked in real life. Let's say you're selling to startup founders, SaaS founders, CTOs, or product teams. Where did your first meaningful conversations actually come from? Not website traffic. Not impressions. Not likes. Real conversat...

I've been working on an AI visibility tool called Krastie AI and I'm looking for honest feedback. The idea is pretty simple: companies are starting to get traffic, mentions, and recommendations from tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, but most analytics platforms don't show much about what's happening there. Krastie AI helps track how often a brand appears in AI-generated answers, which competitors are being mentioned, what sources are getting cited, and how visibility change...