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I'm super pumped and grateful! The most validating thing is building something that someone else finds useful enough that they are willing to put their hard earned money behind it. (it's a time tracking/quoting/invoicing app)

Hello everyone! I found a problem that many people are facing, and I want to build a SaaS to solve it. However, I don't have any money to start. I want to create a simple MVP to generate some revenue in dollars, then reinvest that money to improve the product until it becomes a reliable solution that works well for everyone without issues. If you have experience with building or growing SaaS products, I'd really appreciate your advice. What do you think I should do? submitted by ...

Hi! I have been working for 9 years as a founding engineer and have built multiple complex products. Building product is not the issue, it’s the other things that haunt me. It would be really helpful if someone who has already done it can help me understand the primitives of upselling, managing finances while building the product. I’m operating from bangalore, india right now. I have left my job 6 months back, since then i have been doing some freelance, but my end goal was also to run my own pr...

I've built a small accounting tool for indian freelancers. It got 312 visitors in 9 days, but 0 paid signups. The pricing is ₹299 / ₹599 / ₹999, feels reasonable for the market, but maybe I'm wrong. What else do y'all think is broken? I'll fix the top comment within 48 hours and post the conversion update. (ready to be humbled.)

Back in February when discord announced that they were going to mandate IDs, me and a couple of friends were talking about how sucky it is and if there was any good alternatives and at the time there really wasn't, so me coming off the high of making a really good and complex discord bot though why not, let's make it happen. Now I know why not, the complexity that goes into making a modern chatting app, is insane, but nonetheless I managed to make something really nice for its size, it's still...

Just experienced the brutal emotional rollercoaster of indie hacking. A few days ago, a user downloaded my B2C app and instantly upgraded to the premium tier. It was my first ever sale for this app. No hesitation. I was over the moon, thinking the value proposition was crystal clear. Then the analytics updated. I logged in to see a sharp drop: -$17 in daily proceeds. They actually used the app, and then requested a refund. It definitely hurts a bit. Going from the excitement of your first ...

Hello folkss ! A month ago, I stared at my screen in disbelief because a few strangers paid for my product (I shared the journey here previously)... Today, we just crossed $1.3K in revenue 🥹 When I first built AskMeety, the goal was simple, which is to create a privacy first, fully local AI meeting assistant for macOS. Essentially, a completely offline, private alternative to Granola. No conversations leaving your Mac, no cloud data leaks, just seamless on-device transcription and summaries...

I didn’t see anything in the community rules preventing this so if it violates anything, please let me know. My co-founder and I started a B2B (enterprise focus) SaaS a few years ago. We were lucky enough to be grandfathered into the Microsoft Founders program before they forced you to have VC backing to get in. We’ve been fairly happy with it so far. Since it’s been free, we have been pretty laissez faire about what we stand up but now they’re coming to an end. Currently we are on track to ...

So, when most people say SaaS is dying we just smile and tell them to go bother someone else, but when it is the economist you kinda have to pay attention. The article literally begins with: "While typing away at a WeWork in San Francisco recently, your correspondent spied a plane flying across the skyline trailing a banner. “saas is dead”, it declared in huge letters. The software developers with whom he was sharing the co-working space also noticed. “Thanks for reminding us,” one groa...

Say you wanna post to your linkedin, FB and X pages, do you just manually copy paste? Or do you use some tool that let's you connect to the pages and post from one source?

Its a complete AI powered workspace to help freelancers and content creators. Its still under development. You can try it out although there will be some bugs.... 😅 What does it have? AI SEO Package AI Voiceover AI Cold DM genertor AI Cold Email Generator (with BULK mode- Prepare CSV of all your clients and give to Outpitch it will write personalised email for all of them one by one) AI Bio genetor AI portfolio maker AI proposal writer AI pricing assitant ( Upload your work and experie...

https://preview.redd.it/isyl1iykdt6h1.png?width=1483&format=png&auto=webp&s=dd0954f3af7557b419e4fbbb98171c2638f45f22 When the first few paying customers came in I convinced myself SEO was a long game I could not afford to play right now I had customers coming from Reddit that felt more immediate so I quietly deprioritised everything content and search related and doubled down on what was working Three months later I checked my Search Console properly for the first time in we...

I’m thinking about building something in the early-stage SaaS, and I keep hitting the same question getting the first users is often way harder than building the product itself. I’d love to hear from people who’ve actually gone through this stage. - Where did your first users actually come from ? - What was the biggest bottleneck: finding them, reaching them, or converting them ? - How much time did you realistically spend per week on acquisition early on ? I’m trying to unders...

Hi I have some question + some confusion. I have been recently experimenting with ai coding builders like emergent and rocket etc. I have made small tools and quick prototypes. Like i would say they are toys right now. And checking out twitter, I saw this guy made ~$500 of revenue, I am really curious seeing all this, is it really possible to make production ready apps and actually make money through these app builders? what are the prompts you all are using? Any initial push would help ...

Hey there, I'm curious to know how much is the average spending to crack the distribution of SaaS. Although I know this is not a pay to win game:p Still, I would love to know how much you have spent on the distribution (marketing, ads, promotion etc.) so far and is that worth it?

I've worked with builders who had great LinkedIn profiles and impressive claims, but when work started, execution was completely different. For those who have worked with online collaborators: What signals do you actually trust? GitHub? Previous projects? References? Something else? Curious how others evaluate people before committing time.

You launched. Got silence. Assumed no one wanted it. Wrong diagnosis. Here's what's actually happening: your customer has the problem, but they haven't hit their trigger moment yet. The trigger is the specific event that makes someone stop tolerating a problem and start solving it. A bad quarter. A lost client. A competitor shipping something they can't ignore. Without the trigger, no pitch works. With it, even a bad pitch works. This is why the same product gets ignored by 100 people ...

Thanks to all the people on reddit who gave me feedback when I needed someone to criticise my project. After months on working on the site as the biginner in this space i finally found my first paying customer who subscribed to my monthly Ai CV tailor for R29($1.7) it is not a lot of money i know but it was my first dollar on the Internet😅 hopefully i will reach big MRR in future it might not be from this project but I'm praying to get there as time goes on. Now my mission is clear push for more...

I see a lot of people saying reddit is the best place to get first paying users. However, how can you market something on reddit in general, not this subreddit specifically, if most communities ban self promotion posts? Started engaging, posting often, and trying different things but none have worked so far and most get flagged? Any tips you can share? For me and fellow first product creators

I'm working on a SaaS with limited budget actually I dont know what the budget even is the product is 80% ready and I havent spent a single dollar yet. I guess the whole product will be ready with $0 budget but then I'll have to spend some on getting a good domain and hosting. I use firebase rn as the product is not yet complete. But I am a builder I dont know anything about marketing and stuff. How do I get my first paying customer? Can you share how you guys did it? I have no clarity regarding...

Fellow entrepreneurs, I salute you and was maybe hoping that the community here could provide me with new perspectives on my current situation 🫡 As the title says. I feel like I’m stuck - things are just not progressing the way I planned for. Don’t get me wrong - I’m really thankful for the fact that we have customers paying for our solution (yay, some validation!). Unfortunately, $1200 MRR is not enough to sustain my lifestyle (which is quite frugal already). I really don’t know what I sho...

What up everyone, since my last post about my monumental $0,000 MRR success blew up, I've decided to actually try to learn from my mistakes and start sharing my journey to redemption with you guys. For reference, I'm currently working on shunbox, a SaaS that automatically sorts your emails into custom folders and gives you AI insights on how to respond. I lowkey get hella second hand embarrassment when I see other people promoting their products and now I'm doing the exact same thing, so I'm j...

Every AI project I see eventually reaches the same point: "We need data from a website." Then suddenly you're maintaining: Playwright scrapers anti-bot workarounds extraction logic site-specific fixes instead of building your actual product. If there was a service that converted websites into clean structured data for AI agents, would you use it? Would you pay for it? Or is this not actually a painful enough problem?

When a new product launches, there are bound to be some rough edges and minor bugs. I’m curious to hear your honest thoughts on what actually drives you away from using a new service. If you're testing a new SaaS tool, what makes you click that "cancel" or "close tab" button the fastest? Bugs/Stability issues: The product just doesn't work as advertised. Poor documentation: You can't figure out how to set things up. Unresponsive support: You’re stuck, and there...

Here's what we found after 3 months of tracking 11 million real crawler logs across 34 websites. It's quite fun how each AI bots have personalities, like people. GPTBot: Crawls relentlessly, all day every day and barely checks the rules. It's like a guest walking into your house without saying hi and goes straight into every room. In 280k crawls across 23 sites, it pulled up robots.txt only 9 times. The most interesting part for me is that while it ignores robots.txt completely, it request...

When I started building SaaS products, I thought the hardest part would be coding. I was wrong. Building the product is hard, but it's predictable. You write code. You fix bugs. You ship features. The real challenge starts after that. Getting the first customer. Getting someone to trust a product they've never heard of. Getting feedback when nobody uses it. Staying motivated when growth is slow. I've spent hours fixing tiny UI details that nobody mentioned. Meanwhile, a 15-...

I'm getting tired of adding another provider every time we want to expand the product New contracts New compliance reviews New support teams New integrations We're looking at payroll now and one thing I'm paying attention to is how much operational overhead comes with the decision. Can I get some help with this?