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Anyone here that’s seen success through organic growth on socials, what’s been the most successful platform, and what strategy were most successful?

Hey everyone, Now that the mods have been really cleaning house, I wanted to share something that I haven’t seen addressed on this sub recently from the perspectiveof a solo founder: Trademarks. Finding a domain name and business name is getting harder and harder. Maybe you get lucky and after the 30th try…boom. One is available. Yaay. You buy it. You register your business in your state. You start building. But….well that doesn’t mean your app or business name is protected. · Your LLC nam...

I'm building in a space where the market is proven,competitors exist and are doing well. I'm not reinventing the wheel and I know it. The classic build in public advice is usually about validating your idea publicly but my idea is already validated. The competitors did that already So what's actually the point for someone in my position? Is it still worth sharing the journey or does it just come across as "hey I'm building another one of those" with nobody really caring? Has any...

https://preview.redd.it/s5odc3vkfa6h1.png?width=1551&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f04e3cf71880520b0cfd0d07286e2a63e4d2cdc Hey everyone, I launched a small website recently and I’m struggling with traffic. It’s called WatchSpots. The idea is to help people find real-life places showing World Cup matches: cafés, restaurants, public screenings, community spaces, etc. It’s not a streaming site. It’s only about physical places where people can go watch games with other fans. The sit...

Handling all the marketing and content for our startup myself, no agency, no budget for one. Right now it's basically: - LinkedIn-first, posting organically myself - Making my own videos instead of hiring out, product demos and brand/story pieces (built with Claude Code + Remotion, AI voice) - Canva / Claude Design for the visuals Two questions for other bootstrapped folks: 1. How do you get your own videos looking polished without hiring an editor? Mine still come out homemade next to w...

Over the past few months I have spent a lot of time analyzing successful SaaS products across different industries. A few patterns kept showing up • They solve one problem extremely well before expanding • Onboarding is often simpler than founders think • The best products focus heavily on retention, not just acquisition • Most winning SaaS products aren't technically revolutionary • Distribution is usually a bigger advantage than features Ive documented the rest of my findings in a shor...

I'm a normal software engineer who has worked for decent companies in the past and had a great experience as well. However, I hated having to do everything manually, especially when searching for jobs at companies like FAANG, MAANG, etc., which wouldn't post on LinkedIn, so you had to check the career pages all day long. I hated it. Moreover, if you are like me, who doesn't like to search manually and believes in networking, then I could help ...

Sometimes I just think should I just vibecode my way into my first app but then I think I don't even know what CLI means so i literally have to handover everything to ai, so better than that learn for a few months then get into app building I kinda scared cuz everyone's saying that ai is going to close all the gaps in the market and in a year building an app will just be another rat race and you won't make any money like happened with drop shipping or day trading. What's your opinion on that ?...

Hi Guys, I am looking to SaaSsify my agency work, and after a thorough research here's what i finalized my tech stack as. Vercel - Hosting Next.js - Backend Supabase - Database Inngest - background jobs Cloudflare R2 - Storage Resend - Email Is this going to be cost effective or will the prices soar with higher demand? Are there any alternatives to this? Thanks in advance.

Founder here, building ManualVault. The idea came from my own house. I've got a cabinet stuffed with appliance manuals, and every time something breaks I'm digging through a paper pile trying to find the right one. And when I finally find it, the answer I'm after is buried 30 pages deep past the warnings in 6 languages. So I built a digital spot for all of it, organized by appliance, that you can actually search across instead of flipping through the whole book. Building it isn't the hard...

People make products and launch them but don't know how to do marketing. Get stuck at $0 MRR for so long and that starting point is so hard. It's very hard to generate revenue. How long did it take for you to go from $0 MRR to $100 MRR?

I won't even tell what it is. Just happy to have completed a project and excited to try to find my first users. Feel like building was the easy part now that I have to get into Marketing/Sales If you have any advice for rookie saas creator, send over 😄

I'm honestly feeling pretty defeated right now For few months, I was building features that nobody really wanted. Classic mistake, I built first without proper market reasearch. After talking to some potential users, I realized I was going the wrong direction. So I spent the last month doing a pretty drastic pivot. I rebuilt a large part of the product, and focused on something I genuinely believed was unique in terms of features. I looked around and couldn't find any competitor doing it the...

Hey everyone 😄 To grow my SaaS Breakcold , I used both outbound and inbound together, I call it allbound. My competitors are mostly big fat VC-backed companies so if your SaaS is in a saturated space, you might like this. This is basically all the strategies I used to grow my SaaS, it covers SEO, Youtube & other areas. You can read it here ! Hope you'll like it! PS: If you have any questions, let me know in the comments, happy to help 🫡

I’ve seen so many comments on getting the quickest mvp out there to quickly beta test and get feedback. But, what’s the average cost to get a product built and ready to ship? I’ve seen people say as low as $20 to as high as a few grand. It’s so interesting to hear so many different answers and everyone has their own way, whether they’re vibe coding or out outright building like a boss. I don’t knock down one side or the other, I guess if it works, it works.

I just added the proper keywords for SEO and expecting organic growth on the thing that i am building. What has been your guys experience with this and what advise do you have for me? i am building voice first AI assistant for mac https://preview.redd.it/lh5zmlqqy96h1.png?width=2940&format=png&auto=webp&s=a984c3f6afdabb6e8f04feea80f3f589a74a428d

Over the last couple of months, I kept noticing the same things. Founders talked a lot about collecting feedback. Reddit comments, App reviews, Feature requests, Support conversations. But I rarely saw anyone talk about how they actually decide what to build next. Everyone says: "Listen to your users." That part makes sense. The harder question is: What do you do after you've listened? How do you decide which problem deserves attention first? Which request ma...

The traditional SEO playbook is breaking. when someone asks chatgpt "best tool for X" the answer pulls from a totally different signal stack than google rankings. seeing some B2B SaaS brands that dominate google rank zero in LLM answers, and vice versa. genuinely curious how founders here are approaching this. is it on your radar yet? are you doing anything deliberate, or treating it as noise? not selling anything, working on this for a few clients and trying to figure out if its a...

it is opening your laptop at 16:55 and having no idea what mattered yesterday, because your head is already full from a whole workday with different tasks, random talks, small problems, bigger problems, messages, context switches, and things you had to remember for someone else then work ends and technically it is side hustle mode, but your brain does not just reset because you closed the work laptop even after a break, my head is still full, and the things from yesterday are somewhere in th...

I am a solo developer building a SaaS from a country and Stripe just was not a viable option for me due to regional restrictions. So I had to find another way. You read every SaaS founder playbook and they all say the same thing. Use Stripe. Set up Stripe. Stripe is the standard. Nobody mentions that for a big chunk of the world that is just not an option. So I went with Whop . Connected my payoneer for payouts and honestly the setup was surprisingly straightforward. Created a product, got a ...

Launched my first app about a month ago and wanted to share a small milestone. No ads, no influencers, no marketing budget. Just trying to build something useful and improve it over time. Current numbers: - 480+ users - 344 active users - 2 paid subscribers - $11 MRR Not huge numbers, but seeing complete strangers download and pay for something I built is a pretty cool feeling. The app is called Voremi. It lets you create reminders just by speaking naturally: "Remind me to...

I’ve been digging into pricing for AI products and one thing keeps coming up. A founder can see revenue in Stripe and model spend in OpenAI, but still not really know which feature or customer is killing the margin. For example: A user pays $49/mo. They run a PDF Q&A workflow a lot. Some runs retry. Some answers fail. Some files create huge context windows. At the end of the month the OpenAI bill is higher than expected, but it’s hard to tell what actually caused it. Tokens...

I’m validating a product idea around AI agents and SaaS APIs. The thesis: As more users work through AI agents, SaaS products may need to make their APIs “agent-ready,” not just developer-ready. Today, most SaaS companies already expose REST APIs. But if a customer wants Claude, Cursor, or a custom agent to safely take actions inside that SaaS product, a normal API is not enough. You need: - agent-friendly tools - clean schemas - auth - scoped tokens - customer/user permissions...

I’m validating an idea and noticed something. Most customers acquisition advice starts after you have already found potential customers. But how are people finding those customers in the first place? Especially if you are a solo founder without a marketing budget. Curios what works for you

Last month, a friend of mine took away everything i had built, for past month I haven't been able to track them down or anything. I understand that I was relying on them because I thought together working has higher chances of success. I would like to know what to do, do I build my life all over again all alone? Because alone i do not have that many programming skills, so I am scared.

How does your company actually find and track PII? I'm curious what the reality looks like outside of vendor marketing. If someone asks: "Show me everywhere we store emails, phone numbers, names, credit cards, national IDs, etc." How do you answer? Commercial tools? Internal scripts? Data catalog? Manual process? Hope for the best? What's worked well, and what has been painful? [link] [comments...

I've been working on a social app called StickyLoops for about a year. People post 15-second videos and other people continue the story, conversation, confession, joke, argument, or whatever they started. No followers. No influencers. No algorithm chasing. The app is built. The beta works. The website works. An empty social app is worthless. Nobody wants to post when nobody else is there. Nobody wants to be the first user. I've spent months building features and almost no time thinki...

Bootstrapped startup competing with VC-backed startups in the same category

Hello SaaSers, Today we are announcing a new rule against content dedicated to an entire Software as a Service product category on the sub: Promotional or Advertising SaaS. We as moderators and regular users have been suffering from the constant influx of promotional content, spam, ads, and all sorts of campaigns that flood this and many other subs, pushing down organic, relevant content and driving us away from our common interests and hobbies. We have identified an ever-increasing nu...