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I’m a solo technical founder in Australia building frontdesq: a voice AI receptionist for businesses. Currently at 25 paying customers and around $5k MRR. The product is horizontal by design. I’ve built the tooling and integrations so the same core platform works across hospitality, trades, clinics, legal, property management and other service businesses. I’m now trying to decide how to approach the next stage of growth. One option is to niche down hard. Pick one vertical and focus the p...

About a year ago, after 9+ failed SaaS attempts, I launched Feedvote. Within the first hour, someone bought a $150 lifetime deal. That completely messed with my expectations. I thought I had finally found “the one.” The first few months brought in around $800, and in my head I was already thinking: “A year from now this could easily be doing $5k–$10k/month.” Reality was very different. After around 4 months, I pretty much stopped marketing it. Then I left it alone for another 4...

I soft launched Openlynk around April. It's a deep linking platform I built mainly as an alternative to Firebase Dynamic Links. Initially things were actually going pretty well. I was getting users organically, got some good feedback and reached around $400 MRR without really doing much marketing (paid users are from word of mouth). But after some time the organic traffic started slowing down and so did new users. I know I've made mistakes somewhere. The problem is I don't really know what...

I've been building a tool that tries to give founders a daily view of what they should pay attention to: competitors, customer conversations, opportunities, content ideas, etc. I'm realizing there's a huge difference between “more information” and “actually useful information.” What would you genuinely want to see every morning?

Someone asked me a very great question about my product, here is his question , “If someone fixes one of the red flags your product finds, how do you decide it’s actually been addressed versus just explained away? Feels like knowing the difference between real proof and founder optimism is the hard part.” I tried to answer in this way. This is my answer , “There are many problems that in my opinion, you can explain clearly but you cannot necessarily solve, right? You keep seeing t...

I’ve built a SaaS tool and I’m planning to charge customers. My target users are small‑business owners in the US. I’m an individual developer based in China, and I don’t have a passport . That rules out many common platforms. Are there any workable payment platforms I can use in this situation? I’m looking for something that can handle subscriptions, work for B2B small‑business clients, and doesn’t require me to hold a passport or set up an overseas company. Would love to hear your real...

I created a SAAS TOOL set to replace a LinkedIn Content Creators. I tested the ideation and workflows (on the document if they would invest in a product like this) on my 100+ client base and built it with a team I partnered with. I launched it 48 hours before, got more than 240+ signups (through my LinkedIn Community), and upon seeing this, the 'tech partner' who built the tech stack bulldozed all over me. Demanded more than what was promised when signed off initially. I had to let him go (so...

I think I made the classic developer mistake. I spent months building instead of selling. The product is actually live now. Multi-tenant, payments, auth, the whole thing. It works, and I'm at the point where I can confidently say I don't really have much left to build. Except there's one problem. I have basically no users. I don't have an audience. I don't have an email list. I don't have a marketing background. And every time I search for how to get the first customers, I get th...

That was genuinely most of my afternoon. I am building a product that needs to remember what happened between lessons. Easy enough until one bit of data could be a note, memory, observation, or feedback. Every name looked stupid after ten minutes. I picked observation. I will hate it by Friday. What tiny decision wasted your day?

My friend and I run a b2b saas and have a bunch of enterprise clients who ask to pay in USDC directly. i dont want to hold crypto, i want it to accept and land as dollars in the bank, thats it. im asking specifically about stablecoin acceptance for the buyers a card wont cover, whats actually working, and does the money come through as plain dollars or are you stuck babysitting a coin.

I run Legit.Show. It is a directory of launched software, and we measure every listing the same way. After analyzing 6,574 launched web apps and SaaS products, I found that 36% execute non-essential trackers before obtaining user consent. I had expected this figure to be lower, and I believe it is a fact worth sharing widely. This isn't just about whether a site has a cookie banner; we verify whether non-essential trackers actually execute without consent. If a site doesn't set any non-essen...

I have to say, I really do enjoy turning my ideas into a working product. I genuinely love problem solving and learning new things added it comes to tech. As we ALL may already know.. tech is a huge niche of problem solving. But what about when you find a solution for a problem, but need real people to critique your product? I’ve had a few sign ups for my SaaS which is genuinely exciting. But that excitement wears off when you’re still not getting real feedback or numbers to prove it’s w...

I have made a trivia site (it was my bachelor thesis project, but im unemployed, so i keep building on it while looking for a job). https://www.trivi.gg/ I have gotten 120.622 page visits so far which feels insane. Also weird to see that people are always on the site. Second screenshot is quizzes started and users connected for the last 30 minutes. And that is basically permanently. Still not monetized yet as getting approved for google adsense seems to be a pain in the 😂 sub...

I don’t think AI will replace business banking dashboards overnight but it might change what founders expect from them. If AI is already helping with ops, invoices, vendors and payments then banking probably needs to plug into that workflow too. The account itself matters but the context around it might matter more. For SaaS founders, would AI access change how you choose banking or finance tools?

Freelance dev here (EU). A startup I was in partnership talks with came to me with an idea for a tool. Their own dev attempted a first version that was slow, buggy, and honestly barely functional. I rebuilt it from scratch in my own time, own repo, no contract, never got paid. The idea was theirs, the code is mine. Partnership fell through. I offered them a cheap non-exclusive license so they could keep using and commercializing my version. They declined and said they’d build their own. Yest...

Save the character. Save their wardrobe. Save individual clothing pieces. Save poses. Save scenes. Then reference those assets across an entire production instead of rebuilding everything shot by shot. Every. Single. Time. AI generation needs production infrastructure, which is exactly what this is. August 28. clarkesdirective.com/transora

It wasn't always because one had better technology. Some raised $3M–10M. Others quietly disappeared. The biggest difference was how quickly they answered one question: "Why should anyone care?" The winning founders didn't start with features. They started with the customer's problem. Instead of saying: "We built an AI scheduling assistant." They said: "We help recruiters reduce interview scheduling time from 3 days to 30 minutes." One ...

I’m a solo founder building a tool that helps turn spreadsheet data into dashboards, insights, and reports. After almost a year, I’m realizing the problem may not be “can we generate dashboards?” it’s figuring out who actually needs this badly enough. Analysts already have Excel, Sheets, Power BI, Gemini, Claude, etc. Business owners often have messy/unstructured spreadsheets or privacy concerns around uploading data. So I’m trying to understand the real use case: Do people still struggl...

My SaaS Famewall was stuck for a while at this MRR. Problem was on me since I was traveled to US, Georgia & Japan for vacation. As a result, though retention was solid but then growth stalled When I got back I sat down and went through all my data properly & used Claude's Fable to analyze it. Every signup answers "how did you hear about us" and 90% of my 10,000+ users had filled it. I matched those answers against stripe & web analytics using MCP and the biggest sur...

Just hit 1,000 users after ~9 months of building this . Not a crazy number by any means, but honestly, I’m pretty happy about it. There were plenty of moments where I wasn’t sure if anyone would actually use this thing, so seeing 1,000 people sign up/use it is pretty cool. Still a long way to go, but wanted to share the small win. Thanks to everyone who gave it a try 🙏 Now back to building.

I am really new to B2B SaaS business, and i want to start it as micro SaaS can anyone help or maybe give some tips? Currently i am researching that in which B2B micro SaaS business I should start?

i am a non technical founder with a validated idea. talked to about thirty potential customers and they want to see the product before committing. i need something live fast. under a month. not the full platform, just a working version that proves the core loop and collects real usage data. quotes are all over the place. one shop said twenty five thousand and three months. a freelancer said four thousand but could not guarantee a timeline. then i found agencies that promise two to four week ...

https://preview.redd.it/ff3oykmozqih1.png?width=917&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e9337d3c75209d34b031484c14dc23581c254de Last month I posted my app here and some was brutal with the comments and some actually was supper supportive and gave me good advice and I followed them and I finally made it work. The Grind is on! Thank you so much for the people who was helpful and I will always be grateful for you guys. After months of building, testing, and dealing with all the ups and downs, ...

ngl two weeks ago i was about to give up. was stuck around ~50 signups for what felt like forever while every2nd post on reddit is about "making 20k mrr in 4 days lol". im a solo dev building this project after my main job... wasted way to much time fixing random UI details that nobody gives a shit about and checking my analytics every 2 min instead of talking to actual people. woke up today and saw the waitlist counter crossed 200 finally. know it's not a lot for big teams but seein...

Last year I sold to one customer, then they left me... Then I didn't sell for a couple of months. Spiralled for a while thinking is it worth it? Is staying up until midnight worth the stress for essentially nothing? But, now I have an ARR of £5,000+ which is scaling month over month. I hope to scale to £10,000 ARR by the end of the year. Hopefully this acts as a small amount of motivation for someone going through what I went through last year! Never. Give. Up. !! subm...

Spent months building a CRM (multi-tenant, live in prod, actual paying-ready) Turns out building it was the easy part I have no idea how to get it in front of people No marketing background, no audience, no email list Just a working product and a founder who can code but can't sell For people who've been through this how did you get your first 10-50 users? Cold outreach, communities, content, ads, something else? Trying to figure out what's actually worth my time vs. what's just noise everyo...

Looking back, what’s one decision you overthought that ended up not mattering much? Or the opposite, something you barely thought about that turned out to be really important. Curious where founders actually end up wasting the most time.

Every SaaS team I talk to can tell me their churn rate to the decimal. Almost none can tell me which screen loses people. We've built a whole industry around measuring the outcome and almost nothing around understanding the cause. You know 40% of trials don't convert. Do you know what they were trying to do when they gave up? Which feature confused them? Which step they hit before they closed the tab and never came back? Session recordings sort of help, but nobody watches 400 of them. Heatma...