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I currently run a small startup in the GovTech/InsurTech space. We're growing steadily and currently cover about 80% of Texas by population. The problem is that our revenue numbers aren't where I want them to be yet. We probably have enough data and infrastructure to start monetizing and turn a comfortable profit, but I've intentionally held off because I'd rather keep focusing on growth and market share before optimizing for revenue. The reason I'm posting is because today I got approached ...

Context: I run an AI chatbot SaaS (SiteSpeakAI). Over the last few weeks I went down the rabbit hole of why ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend some tools in my category and never mention others. I pulled our crawler/server logs and tracked which AI prompts actually name us. Sharing the honest version since I keep seeing AEO/GEO questions here. The thing that surprised me most: the biggest lever is off your own site. We showed up fine when someone asked "my brand vs competitor",...

Asking because I kept running into this myself. Wanted to reach out to customers who churned in the last 30 days, or only to active subscribers and the workflow was always: export CSV from Stripe, clean it up, paste emails somewhere, then compose. Felt like too many steps for something I do pretty regularly. Currious how others handle this, do you use a dedicated email tool like Customer.io, or do you just do it manually? Or is it not even a common thing and I’m the weird one lol subm...

Hello everyone long story short, i built a SaaS [ zingoringo.com ] - Host create quizzes in <4 mins. - Players join via QR (no signup). - Race through custom maps. - Live leaderboard, analytics, manual mode, 24 languages & more. When I finished building it I realized I had zero idea how to market it :) The worst part is that I found many competitors that are already well-known and people love and use them I tried marketing it on Reddit, but 95% of people pushed back, saying...

Hot take: AI is creating a generation of founders who know how to build products but don't know how to build businesses. Five years ago the hard part was building. Today? You can spin up an MVP in a weekend. The bottleneck moved. Now the hard part is: Distribution Positioning Customer psychology Retention Community Trust Ironically, the skills AI can't automate are becoming more valuable. I keep seeing founders celebrate: "We built our SaaS in 3 days." C...

So today I onboarded my first customer in person. I can’t really explain how I feel about it. A part of me is super relieved that I’m building something right. But another part of me is overwhelmed because for the first time in my life, I have been pushing myself to meet people and walk into offices to talk about something I built. The feeling of standing right in front of a building being stuck somewhere between being hesitant to enter and wanting to make something happen for myself. I spent...

I’ve been trying for ages to build a MRR business, but nothing ever seemed to stick. After all that trial and error, I’ve finally landed on something I think is genuinely useful, and it’s a B2B MRR business designed to fix the chaos of dental treatment planning. It lets clinics manage everything in one place: visual charts, treatment stages, visit schedules, and branded patient plans and 3D visuals. Since I only launched it a couple of days ago, I’m trying to figure out if I should keep impr...

I had a small founder moment today. I opened Stripe and realized someone had subscribed to my product a few days ago. At first, I thought it was my own test payment. Then I noticed my test payment was the refunded one. The successful payment was from an actual customer. It is only $4.99, so this is not some huge milestone, but it felt surprisingly meaningful. For the past few weeks, I have been wondering whether the product is confusing, whether the positioning is wrong, or whether I am solving ...

every habit tracker charges like $40/year. that's ₹3500 here. nobody in india is paying that for a habit app. ​ so i priced mine way lower: ₹149/mo, ₹799/yr, or ₹1999 lifetime ​ the lifetime thing is my actual bet. people hate subscriptions and a lot of them just want to pay once and be done. western apps killed lifetime deals to chase MRR. i'm betting it converts the subscription-haters and gives me cash up front since i have zero runway. ​ i'm 17, solo, just ...

I’m exploring ideas for a software/app business and wanted to hear about real problems people face. What’s something in your work or daily life that: Takes up too much time Is repetitive and annoying Is currently managed through WhatsApp, Excel sheets, phone calls, or manual follow-ups Doesn’t have a good software solution (or existing solutions are too expensive/complicated) Some examples could be: Customer follow-ups Appointment scheduling Inventory tracking Attendanc...

https://preview.redd.it/eh4acsuk3g7h1.png?width=651&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e24ee108723fb62052728ef1d9af9c52431abc8 I launched a SaaS about 2 weeks ago. I've gotten 12 sales so far at $39-$59 price points with almost no paid advertising. What would you focus on next? Reviews? Affiliate program? Email marketing? SEO? Content? Community building?

What started as a solution for myself turned into a product used by many ✅

I'm building a SaaS product and trying to understand how founders who have actually grown through SEO or AEO approach it from the beginning. ​ Most content online focuses on tactics (keywords, backlinks, AI content, etc.), but I'm more interested in the overall workflow: ​ • How did you identify opportunities? • What did your content production process look like? • How much was manual vs automated? • When did SEO/AEO start producing meaningful traffic? ...

What problem in your life should have been solved by software already, but somehow still hasn’t? I’m a developer looking to build a small SaaS/startup. Describe the problem, not the solution. The most upvoted comment becomes the startup I’ll build and launch publicly. Help me out guys and I’ll try to help you too^^

It has been too long being a silent reader in this community. Sooo I'm planning to launch my first SaaS next week after spending decade running e-commerce businesses. It's called Moza, a financial workspace app, will be available in iOS and Android as well! I know it's a crowded category, but I built it because I never found an app that matched how I actually think about money. Most finance apps seem heavily focused on budgeting and transaction categories. I was more interested in question...

Analytics can tell you what users do, but not always what they're feeling. Sometimes the biggest struggles only come out through conversations, support tickets, or feedback. What's something your users struggled with that you never would have discovered just by looking at the data?

Hi everyone, before I begin I just want to emphasize that this is not that this is not a product marketing post but rather a journey of why, what, and how it is going. So for why: S I'm a fullstack solo developer and in last few months I got chance to work on 4 different apps (that mostly have front and backend) that were super heavy on localization. So in this era of AI i started using it to translate apps that I was building. It took me by suprise how many tokens I was spending on t...

One thing I've noticed while reading founder stories is that many SaaS companies eventually hit a point where waiting for inbound traffic isn't enough. Content, SEO, referrals, and word of mouth can work, but they often take time to compound. What I'm curious about is when founders decided to actively pursue customers instead of waiting for customers to find them. Was there a specific revenue milestone, growth plateau, or realization that pushed you toward outbound? Looking back, do you thin...

Hello! ​ I did a post 1 year ago when our SaaS launched. Here is the link: ​ https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/s/SNvXm5nZ0Z ​ We hit around $17k MRR pretty quickly and stayed there. I had to figure out a way to break through that. ​ Our May just closed, and we are seeing a steady climb, but it came fron a place we did not expect (and from a place us as tech people need to be dialed in on). ​ We have a lot of AI in our tech for onboarding and...

12 years in and im starting to see something familiar. Around 2010 i made decent money fixing what offshore contractor work left behind. Founders thought they were getting the same product for a quarter of the price, then 18 months later they were paying someone like me to make it actually work We're heading into the same cycle just with AI as the cheap labor. We picked up two repos at work last month from a non-technical exec who got bored of his lovable apps. The codebases are the kind of th...

It finally happened. clakr.com just got its first paying customer and I literally jumped out of my chair!!! - For anyone who doesn't know it, Clakr is a SaaS directory CRM (The SaaS Directory CRM to Boost Your SEO & GEO): track your startup submissions across 1,057 curated directories with verified Domain Rating and build backlinks for SEO and AI visibility. - I vibecoded this whole thing, so seeing a real Stripe payment come in feels unreal. Best feeling ever. - Quick story: I poste...

When I was working as a freelancer, I saw a vlog on YouTube from Onyx, about two friends who launched something, worked hard for 3 to 4 years, and got acquired. That was the video that pulled me into this startup world. All I knew at the time was basic frontend, and I genuinely thought I could win the world with one app. My first attempt was a web based cloth customization app. Users could put photos, stickers, or text on clothes, and we would print and ship them. There was real demand for it ...

I run socials at a small consumer brand. We have Intercom set up on the website and proper email support, but probably 70% of actual customer questions and issues come through Instagram DMs or X replies. Story replies too sometimes. The team's been triaging this manually. I'm in IG/X all day anyway for my job, so I'm doubling as customer support and constantly switching apps. Things get missed. Recently a customer DMed us about a defective product and it sat for two days because I was on holid...

It seems like every SaaS product is adding AI these days. But I'm curious, how many of those features are solving a real customer problem vs. just following the trend? Have you found an AI feature that really made you stick with a product?

Building a B2B SaaS, bootstrapped. We have one paying client we’re building out the MVP for. My co-founder does sales 3-5 meetings/week but everyone’s just window-shopping. We get organic signups via SEO but zero conversions to paid. Meanwhile my whole week goes to: customizing for client one, tweaking based on prospect feedback, bugfixing. In ~2 weeks the product should be stable enough that I can also start selling as well. I constantly feel like I need to hire to move faster, but we...

What launch strategies do you use? Just post on all socials and Product Hunt? Only outreach? Only reddit? Do you have a specific order of posting, to for example get product hunt votes? What time and day of the week do you launch? Basically I am looking for a „blueprint launch strategy“ I can just copy. Any other tips for launching are appreciated aswell!

Is anyone there who faced the same problem? Like I have searched for solutions, and I got to know about unified inbox but they are way too expensive. So does anyone know any alternative solutions?

Is anyone building a boring saas because I look through all the posts with people make either seo/marketing tools or it’s some AI tool. Is anyone building boring systems like crms for salons and how is it going?

genuine question because i'm tired of two bills and two dashboards. the pitch from every "all in one" tool is that it does both. my experience is they do one well and bolt the other on. the marketing-first ones have laggy transactional. the dev-first ones treat campaigns like an afterthought. so the people who claim one tool for both, are you actually happy, or have you just accepted a weaker half? i keep going back and forth. one pipe is simpler but risks a campaign dragging my receip...