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Hey guys, there's absolutely no catch or hidden agenda in this post. Burner account, because I'm not sure what to do with my life now and want to stay anonymous. Happy to give advice in the comments around growing a SaaS, but I need an outlet right now. I started the biz back in June of 2024. We were a B2B SaaS in the Marketing / Social media space. It took me 3mo to hit $1K MRR, 8mo to hit $7k MRR, and about a year to reach $10K MRR, those were the fun times tbh. From there I scaled up to ...

TL;DR: OP wants to know which 1–2 SEO moves actually made a measurable difference for you, and at what stage they started to matter. up front: thanks for your time. you very likely read this before but I’m trying to get a better angle on SEO right now cuz there is so much info out there, so this is me trying to get a „personalized answer.“ I’m asking because I’m at the beginning of the SEO journey for my own startup (just launched) and a previous post here turned out way more useful than i...

How email security bots are silently inflating QR code analytics I built a QR code platform called AQRHub. A few weeks in, a customer emailed me. Her scan count looked wrong, she said. The number kept climbing, but she knew most of those couldn’t be real people scanning. At first, I thought she might be reading the data wrong. Usually, when someone says the numbers look off, it’s just a mix-up about how a feature works. I checked her logs to show her what was happening. She was right. The ...

Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/sideprojects/comments/1lq48q5/launched_vibot_the_everything_ai_assistant_your/ Quick update. It's been 1 year and Vibot has grown to 3k users. ARR is still very low at only $216 but that was because of high churn and issues with the app on launch which have now been fixed. Churn has been reducing and daily cohort retention is increasing day by day which I am quite pleased about. Will come back next year to post the next update! Feel free to reply wi...

I’m curious to hear from founders at different stages (bootstrapped, pre-seed, seed, funded). - What are you paying per month? - What services do you get? - What do you value most from your accountant? - What’s your biggest frustration with accountants? - Would you pay more for a SaaS specialist accountant who understands MRR, ARR, fundraising, R&D claims, investor reporting, etc.? I know everyone’s has a different idea of value but would be interested to hear your thoughts as I am l...

What are the early signs of a weak or poorly managed organization? I'm not asking about companies that are already failing. I'm more interested in the subtle warning signs that appear early, before things become obvious. For those who have worked in startups or larger organizations: What behaviors, processes, or leadership patterns made you realize the company was heading in the wrong direction? What signals did you miss initially but later recognized as red flags? Which indicators a...

Happy to share my store, maybe it will help somebody. I've been reading a lot about the growing popularity of prediction markets, especially Polymarket as it's available outside of the US (Kalshi is not). What I realised is that there is no real structured service that allows you to run a realistic backtest against historical market data. People are copy-trading, trying to do it manually, but essentially it's just free money for the larger players. I've build a backtesting platform that loo...

here is the post u/ Ecstatic-Tough6503 is a larper spammer, i'm sure he is even lying about his revenue just to get clients. here you can check all his old posts even the hidden ones. These spammers are the reason, we can not find anything genuine on reddit now. Marketing is supposed to create value, not spam the fuck out of a sub to earn some money. I just hope u/ spez takes some action against these kind of spammers. The whole point of us being on reddit it to communicate with real ...

I have noticing lately that those who started in vibe coding gold rush is going back to job after realising something brutal. SaaS is not easy, that is the truth. There are some outliers in the mist but majority have fallen. we believe AI is democratizing software but we don't realise the rapid progressions are also effecting other people speed. SaaS are turning into ecosystem, the era of small micro-saas are being constantly kill by big giants and the saying build small micro-saas bunch of it...

Founder here. I want to talk through a positioning problem I keep hitting, and get a reality check on whether I've actually solved it or just think i have. I built a SaaS for freelancers called Timerr. The core idea is that most freelancers earn 30-40% less per hour than they think, because the invisible work never lands on an invoice. Stuff like admin, emails, driving, and free revisions. It clicked for me when a photographer friend was sure she'd crushed a wedding shoot. Then we actually ...

after producing a bunch of saas launch videos, here's what i've found actually signals quality to a viewer: pacing - cuts that don't give you a moment to lose focus the first 2 seconds - a hook that earns the next 30 intentional motion - nothing feels like it's just filling space none of these require a $20k production budget. they require the right process and someone who knows what they're cutting for. the videos that feel cheap aren't cheap because of budget. they're cheap ...

So I create an app which guides us how to pose in real time a camera app will be live soon anyone want early access?

Been building out a content site and I keep getting paranoid that pages are quietly falling through the cracks, orphaned posts nothing links to, stuff that never got indexed, internal structure that doesn't make sense to a crawler. Search Console tells me something's off but not really what or where. For people further along than me: - How do you audit "is every page reachable and indexable" without it taking a whole afternoon? - Has a silent crawl/structure issue ever cost you traf...

I’m currently testing a new product with a few early users and I want to build strong case of testimonials for future clients. Beyond basic feedback, what are the most useful things to track during testing? For people who’ve launched products before: What metrics ended up becoming the strongest social proof? What qualitative feedback questions gave the best testimonials? What mistakes did you make during early testing? What evidence made new customers trust the product? submitted...

Genuinely - what happens to the web now that writing a whole article costs basically nothing. It feels like we’re all about to drown in noise. Even with social, videos can be mass produced for cheap now? When anyone can spin up content for their website, the only thing that actually means anything anymore is trust... and getting cited by LLMs 😂. But everyone is using AI to build content to get cited by other AI to build trust... So how do you keep things from turning into complete garbage...

I have been into graphic design and branding for 7 years. I want to help and network with SaaS founders and startup founder. I can do a quick logo design and create a brand identity for your SaaS, which can drive you to boost your visibility. Directly comment or DM. I have no hidden agenda, with limited slots you only pay as platform fees and get a premium pack that valued 270$. Thanks.

AI makes it so easy to build now that I keep shipping things nobody wanted. I want to gut-check demand earlier. Do you actually talk to potential users, or just build and see? Has anyone used AI to "validate" an idea, did you trust it, or did it just tell you what you wanted to hear? What's the cheapest way you've found to get a REAL signal before building?

Most people are paying monthly subscriptions for software that already has a free open-source alternative on GitHub. A few examples: • TradingAgents → AI-powered quantitative trading https://github.com/TauricResearch/TradingAgents • LibreChat → ChatGPT + Claude + Gemini in one UI https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat • HyperFrames → Open-source video generation https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes • Fincept Terminal → Open-source Bloomberg alternative https://github....

Not looking for tool recommendations, genuinely curious what the day to day looks like. Are you tracking it at all? Is it one big line on the bill or broken down by feature? Does anyone in your company even own it or does the invoice just show up and surprise everyone? Asking because I've been having a lot of conversations about this lately and the answers are all over the place. Some teams have no visibility whatsoever, some have built internal dashboards, some just accept it as a cost of doing...

I’ve been working with SaaS-style systems and self-hosted automation stacks recently (n8n, APIs, webhooks, AI integrations on VPS), and I keep running into the same pattern. Building the actual product or automation logic is rarely the hard part. The friction shows up when you need to scale it across multiple environments or clients. At that point, every new deployment tends to repeat the same operational steps: provisioning infrastructure setting up environments configuring domain...

One thing I've noticed after building software for founders: Most people don't fail because their idea is bad. They fail because they spend 3–6 months building features nobody asked for. A few weeks ago I was helping someone who had a long roadmap planned: authentication billing admin dashboard analytics AI features The problem? They hadn't talked to a single user yet. We stripped the idea down to the absolute minimum, built a simple version, and within days they were a...

This has been sitting with me for a few weeks and I think someone here needs to read it before it happens to them. I was poking around a small SaaS built almost entirely with [Lovable]. Real product, real users. I was clicking through, looking at one record, and I noticed the URL had the record's ID sitting right there in it. Something like /clients/104. Out of pure habit I changed it to 105. It loaded... Someone else's client. Full details. I changed it again. Another stranger. I just kept ...

Hello everyone, I'm starting my first startup. I'm at the prototype stage, have received good feedback from many potential users, and it's time to gather a few dozen people for testing. But I have a question: what if your solution is incredibly simple, but solves a real problem overlooked by the big players? Should I disclose the details publicly on Reddit or manually seek out the first people? I see everyone looking for ideas, and I'm worried that the simple logic behind solving an importan...

i keep thinking about SaaS cold start. the product might be useful once it knows the customer, but the first session is usually generic dashboards, empty states, and onboarding questions nobody wants to answer. i tried short onboarding. not enough signal. tried longer onboarding. people drop. tried waiting for usage data, but then personalization only shows up after the user already decided if they care. i’m wondering if letting users bring existing context could make day 1 feel less empty...

At my first startup (Vaadin), most of the learning happened at conferences. Investing ~ $20k many times over in expo booths got us to learn enough to find messaging and a product that started to resonate. After that, we got to 100,000+ developers using the product quite quickly. Luckily PMF was reached before the end of the runway and it all worked out. That was many many moons ago. Now we all have amazing analytics, but I still think they rarely tell us why those numbers happened. One nee...

last year i co-founded this idea with a friend; i marked and collected 414 waitlist signups in 3 weeks BUT we didn't agree, and everyone went his way. but him with the db with 414 waitlist signups on them On the 11th of March i revived that startup, and now we are sitting at 900 users after 3 months. (technically, 2 months of marketing)

Feels crazy we finally launched and it’s actually happening.

Got my first $98 MRR and I'm irrationally happy about it. If you had told me a few months ago I'd be celebrating $98/month, I would've laughed. Always wanted to create social proof widgets for website builders with super-generous free pricing, especially in this environment where godzillion new websites pop up every day. But after staring at analytics showing 0 users, fixing bugs nobody reported, and wondering whether I was wasting my evenings, this feels huge. It's the first proof that ...

What's the experience of other builders with directories? Do they bring in traffic and downloads? Also are paid directories ever worth it?

posting this in the spirit of sharing something that actually moved a number, not to pitch. context: my co founder and i run a small web analytics tool. we had a classic leak. people would sign up, verify their email, and then never install the tracking snippet, which is the moment the product becomes useful. high signup, low activation. dead in the water. https://preview.redd.it/tlnwbkjj6p5h1.png?width=2549&format=png&auto=webp&s=59c61e1d9dc39d6071f340556a3e88fb8c1e5869 what...