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I'm a founder and for the last year or so I ran an AI photoshoot business for ecommerce. Basically we used AI to make product photos for clothing brands, mostly big Indian companies. Got it to around 250k ARR with 8 major clients before I started having real doubts about the whole space. Not selling anything, won't name the company, just wanted to write down what actually happened because I see a lot of people chasing the "AI replaces an expensive job" thing right now and it's messier ...

Built a Chrome extension, sell it for $29 one-time. Crossed $20k since January. Also have a small monthly pro upsell at $6.99/mo. MRR isn't huge but it's growing. This journey has changed my life. Not necessarily the amount of money, just unlocking what possibilities exist out there if you try. Solo operator with no funding and basically no overhead. Happy to answer any questions.

When I first started building products, I thought success would mostly come down to: building something useful getting users improving the product Now it feels like the job description has changed completely. A founder today is expected to: build market create content grow an audience engage communities learn distribution I've seen great products struggle because nobody knew they existed. And I've seen average products get traction because the founder became e...

I ask this question because, as you know, everyone can build apps with AI, tech and non-tech people alike, and we seea lot of generic designs, I want to know if I should brand my MVP so I can stand out from my competitors and build trust in my product

I have a lead magnet pdf I want to send to people that come to my website and enter their email. I want to collect emails in case I ever start sending bulk emails to people on the list. I would probably send less than 6 emails per year. I don't mind getting an address from Viabox to comply with laws. Is there a service that automates what I'm looking for that also handles unsubscribes, duplicate emails, and has good customer support? Also, can email lists be transferred to different services if ...

Hello founders! I've been building some products and at this point I kinda got stuck with the whether I should implement free trials or no? On one hand free trials is a way to get early feedback about your product and improve from there. (If a person even gives feedback) One the other hand usually (I might be wrong it's just assumption) people who do free trials are not really motivated buyers and almost all of them after playing with free trial just give up on the product. Is it so? Or ...

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Was archiving dead client folders last month and ended up reading old scoping docs for like three hours instead of doing actual work. We're a small dev shop. 26 MVPs shipped since we started, I counted. 8 of those founders went on to raise. Most of the rest are gone, a couple are profitable lifestyle businesses which honestly might be the best outcome of all. Anyway I started noticing something in the old docs and it annoyed me enough to make a spreadsheet. The projects that raised had way sho...

Hi all, I have no doubt that within 2-5 years anybody will be able to generate any SaaS at the snap of their fingers. Just look at how fast Claude is moving already compared to 1 year ago. I want to see what everyone else is doing to survive the AI wave where customers are eg mid 20s - 40s, and have a semi understanding of AI to build their own SaaS. For our SaaS, we collect vast amounts of data, added progress trackers, gamified the experience more. But that's only half of it. We also ope...

I think a lot of apps lose users much earlier than the team realizes. Spent months building features. Users opened the app, saw the signup flow, and said: “Actually, I’m good.” I think this happens more often than people admit. It looks like users are just “not converting.” But actually they never even reach the useful part of the product. And unless you track the steps between install - signup - activation, you’re basically guessing where they disappeared. Curious if others have seen this ...

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Built beatsee.app , a browser tool that turns your music into beat-reactive 3D visuals you can export for YouTube/TikTok/Reels. No install, no After Effects, no $50 Fiverr guy. After months (actually 3 years 🤬) of building, I'm sitting at a glorious 72 € MRR . Not quitting my job. Possibly never quitting my job. But people are actually PAYING!!! , which still feels unreal. Stuff I'm happy to be honest about: how I got the first paying users why I priced it at ~6 €/mo and whether...

For anyone who launched through an app marketplace, how did you get your first 10 legitimate reviews? I have a Shopify app with a small group of happy early users, but organic discovery is painfully slow. Maybe one signup every week or two. I’m not looking for fake reviews, review swaps, or spammy tactics. Just trying to figure out the cleanest way to get more real users to the point where they’ve had enough value to leave an honest review. The hard part is that most non-paid marketing cha...

Hi! Am wondering where I can find subreddits that are not limited to SAAS ideas, love what I’m seeing here on rSAAS but im curious about other models as well

To those who’ve had some success, do you mind sharing what you would do if you had to start over? I’ve build some prototypes but have 0 idea what to do next, nor do i have any idea for distribution

I've been doom scrolling on LinkedIn for months now. Trying to find what's working and what not. Every 2nd post I see is: Claude replacing SDRs Claude creating AI warm leads Claude helping in reach with 300 times increase n viewership Openclaw replacing $10k per month teams This is the same trend I saw when everyone used to post about cold emailing & it's saturation (still do, but percentage is less) This seems like a monopoly at times, and also an increase in self-branding to an ...

Hello everyone, 👋 This is my first time sharing a video showcase of my SaaS. I would love to get your honest feedback.🙏

Hey everyone, I've been a software engineer for a while, but I’m completely new to the SaaS side of things. I’m good at building software, but I’m realising building the product is probably the easy part. Getting users, marketing, distribution and figuring out if people will actually pay for something seems like the real challenge. A few weeks ago I built a Chrome extension. The idea is simple: A website blocker that helps people stay focused by blocking distracting websites. At the mo...

I'm at pains on how to get my first clients. All avenues suggest giving free trials for the first 3 months. Is this a wise move? What if they don't convert after 3 months?

I'm Not Promoting. I've recently created a 3 month free trial for my website/app however I'm not getting many users really signing up for it. I was told by another user that they would prefer a lifetime subscription instead, does anyone have experience doing something like this and is it worth it? Like I'm afraid I'll lose money in the long run if I do this. Any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments...

For the past two years I have followed that sub. I stopped running cold email campaigns for clients about 1 year ago so I mainly just stayed on top of it to track the posts and see what tools everyone was shilling in the off chance there might be something decent or genuine. Just this morning the top post was a phony post about another SaaS tool that the guy "came up with to help with personalization" He just finished it and he used it for so long he is sure this will be the game chang...

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I am a first time founder and have been hard at work building my product for the past 7 months and Now i am facing the reality that distribution is really tough in B2B SAAS and the way to make it goes through warm intros via network or via your VC. But i do not really feel like raising a round at this point. To all the experienced players out there. How did you get your first couple of users without any connection. I tried reaching out to users but i have not been successful, No responses or rep...

Hello everyone! I'm 21 and currently working on my first SaaS/Micro-SaaS venture. I've tried exploring ideas through AI tools, articles, and startup directories, but I'm finding it difficult to identify opportunities that are actually backed by real user problems rather than sounding good on paper. I'd love to hear from people who have built or validated products before like Where do you usually find ideas worth pursuing? What communities, platforms, or spaces do you monitor for problems? ...

Wanna know from other Founders here, on how were you guys able to get signups or enterprise clients for your SaaS? I am trying the organic reach, but surely is slow. Cold Emailing, everyone keeps saying, it's done & ineffective?

Nowadays, there are a lot of people complaining about the AI slop which is rising continuously on LinkedIn. People hate the AI sounding posts and rant about it here and other places. I build a tool to cater this demand. But, now, I am thinking of whether people actually want it or not? The thing is, people posting on LinkedIn will be using generators whether people like it or not, but using the generic ones will make them edit the post heavily. What do you think? Just a genuine discussion? ...

Hey folks, Lately, I have been thinking about AI agent monitoring and governance problem and wanted to put it out there to a wider audience to see what you all think about it. How about we use this thread as sharing your opinion/advice on this idea. I am genuinely trying to get some early feedback and trying to reach as many people as possible. The problem: I have seen this first hand that companies and employees are using AI agents more and more, often without proper IT authorizations, and ...

I’m curious if I’m the only one who does this. Every morning I open Shopify and Meta Ads Manager hoping the numbers look better than yesterday. Then I spend another $20-50 thinking “today might be the day it turns around.” A week later I’ve spent hundreds more without realizing how much runway I actually had left. I’m thinking about building a very simple tool that only answers questions like: How many days of cash do I have left? At my current ad spend, when do I hit zero? How many o...