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I've just launched Draftlytic - my first SaaS project. It's an AI project planner and PRD generator aimed at vibe-coders to help with a lot of the initial prompting frustration that usually comes with starting a new vibe-coded project in tools like Claude Code and Lovable. I've just started the initial marketing phase today so hoping for the first subscription soon !

Whenever I worked on important writing, strategy documents, competitive analyses, detailed reports, or thoughtful essays, I’d lose flow. I’d jump between dozens of tabs, piecing together facts, quotes, and context. The research constantly broke the momentum of actual writing. So I decided to build a better way. I created a Chrome extension that lives inside Google Docs. As you write, it looks at your open tabs and offers helpful continuations: relevant facts, clear quotes, and properly cited...

I've noticed myself using AI search tools more often instead of traditional search engines when researching software products. Instead of opening multiple websites, I can ask a specific question and get a summarized answer quickly. For SaaS founders, marketers, and users: Have AI search tools changed how you discover new products? Do you trust AI recommendations? How do you think this will affect SEO and product discovery in the future? Curious to hear different perspectives. ...

Hey everyone, I’m a Solution Architect. I recently built a parallel batch-engine (OutCaps) that automates video localization. It translates short-form videos into 20 languages, applies brand kits, and automatically resizes captions so they never clip out of the text safe-zones.. We used it to cut the manual workload for a fitness app (40M. downloads) by 90%. We are doing our official B2B launch on LinkedIn next Tuesday, but my co-creator and I are fiercely debating the intro hook of our de...

Founder here. I’m building FaangCoder AI, a Windows-native copilot for coding interview prep and mock rounds. I’m posting this more as a SaaS positioning problem than a product launch. The category is weird to market. Candidates search for blunt phrases. Communities punish those same phrases. Competitors use language like “real-time,” “private,” “works everywhere,” and “undetectable,” but that vocabulary now reads like a scam even when the product is real. So I’ve been trying to make the p...

I'm curious how early-stage founders approach SOC 2. A few months ago, I knew almost nothing about compliance. Then we started talking to larger companies and quickly realized that security reviews and audit readiness can become important much earlier than expected. For founders who are currently going through SOC 2 (or recently completed it): What has been the most confusing or time-consuming part? Was it evidence collection, policies, auditor selection, access reviews, security questio...

So I made a SaaS, much like every other soul here, and today marks a month of its launch, and to nobody's surprise, I have 0 users. Is it a useful tool? I'd like to think so. Are people using it? No Am I giving up? No chance, if this doesn't, something else will! Just letting you guys know that I'm having a bad time, much like the lot of you!

I run a lifetime deal review site and have tracked dozens of SaaS lifetime deal launches over the past year including several that failed within 12 months. [Disclosure: I write about lifetime deals at lifetimedealtech.com] The failures are not random. They follow the same patterns every time. Biggest red flags before buying any LTD: 🚩 No public roadmap or changelog 🚩 Inactive community - no posts in 30+ days 🚩 Lifetime deal is the only revenue model 🚩 Price too low vs monthly subsc...

Not what you should do, what you actually do. I've been talking to a bunch of founders lately and the honest answers are usually: post in a feedback community, ask a friend, just assume it's a traffic problem and move on to get more traffic instead via ads/seo/geo. Curious if anyone has found something that actually works. Specifically - how do you figure out if the messaging is the problem versus something else? [link] [comm...

Hey folks! I built a budgeting app with a difference. I opened to beta last week and struggling to get beta users for feedback. Wondered if others could share what worked for them/ advice? It's a webapp currently but will be looking to get to apple and android once I've developed it a bit further after beta testing. Any advice would be appreciated. We've spent a lot of time building. If anyone has the time, check out nuumey.co.uk Cheers James

Most solo founders are working 12-hour days doing absolutely nothing that moves the needle. ​We spend weeks tweaking logos, refactoring databases, adjusting CSS colors, and shifting spreadsheets. We tell our friends we're "building a startup." ​But it's a lie. It's just safe, comfortable busywork designed to protect us from the terrifying reality of marketing, cold outreach, and market rejection. ​I wasted weeks in this exact loop. I finally forced myself to freeze my code, hit p...

Hi there. I started yesterday with my small business and currently is in progress. It’s about small tool who find what’s working and turns into original content in your voice. What is about I post link: https://public-tau-eight-21.vercel.app/ Soon I will have own domain but this is just test and demo from Vercel.

I know that 4-5 months isn’t a long time but I’m still sitting squarely at $0 (negative if you count server cost and time input) Looking for suggestions, paid ads, and where? Cold calling seems like a never ending parade of “no”. Is it worth paying for lead lists? Paid product directories? I’m competing in a saturated market which is an uphill battle but on the flip side it’s already a proven space, figured I’d have a couple users by now. What have you done that turned clicks into conversi...

I was building SaaS for last few months, and I have pretty happy about the feature set that MVP have and I have somewhat of a roadmap for what to go next "IF" that saas take off. But there are few things that always runs through my head now, that delays publicly launching it. If i get paying customers, my app should be "worth" their purchase, not have half-assed. "Is this polished enough?" I currently don't have automated testing in CI/CD. Do I need to d...

Yes, my saas failed .and i felt like a loser now. i'm gon tell you exactly what i did. dont be me. -ads. basically a money burning blackhole. client side pixels lies!!! you have to use server side. at the end we found a open sourced server side tracking repo but it was too late.😭 -affiliates. we got scammed by some affiliates cuz the clawback. it's not easy ditribution and DONT use paid saas like rewardful or tolt etc -flat Stripe sub instead of usage-based. heavy users cost more than the...

https://preview.redd.it/26ah7wvljk5h1.png?width=766&format=png&auto=webp&s=fec51fa67849674fda28188a17fab76aa43a94a5 Launched a B2B SaaS 2 days ago. Week 1 has been humbling. Numbers: Visitors: 20 Trials: 3 Paying customers: 0 Cold emails sent: 60 Reply rate: basically 0% Bounce rate: ~70% A few things I learned: 20 visitors is not data. I kept checking analytics every hour like some hidden insight was gonna appear. Reality is 20 visitors tells you almost ...

Guys I am so happy to share my story with you! On February 23, 2026, I installed Ubuntu Server on an old laptop I had lying around. Hardware: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC Intel Core i5-3230M 4 cores / 8 threads 7.6 GB RAM 931 GB HDD At that moment I had no users, no revenue, no product-market fit, and honestly no idea where this would go. What’s funny is that my backend is still running on that same laptop today. February 23, 2026 Installed Ubuntu Server and started building. ...

Hey everyone, pretty straight forward question. I’m building an app/service business using existing tools. I’m not reinventing the wheel, I’m using a custom white label UI, with the backend being existing SAAS tools. I want to make sure I’m doing this right. Where can I get a trust worthy developer to take a look at everything when done? I just need someone to sign off on security, architecture of the back end, and maybe someone I can call up on if something breaks. Guidance here wou...

A few weeks ago I was doing what most founders do: Building. Tweaking. Adding features. Refreshing analytics with 0 users. Then I started using the tool I was building. My SaaS helps find people actively talking about a problem on X, so instead of posting and hoping, I reached out to people who were already looking for a solution. One conversation led to another. Today I woke up to this: $19 MRR. Not life-changing money. But it's proof that a stranger found enough value in what I...

ever think about what actually happens when you upload your tax pdf or passport photo to some random free converter site? yeah. me too. so i made footrue.com . 280+ tools (pdf, image, video, dev) that all run right in your browser. your file never uploads, never hits a server, never leaves your laptop. you can turn off your wifi mid-task and it still works. no signup, no watermark, no ads. try it on something you'd never dare upload anywhere else.

for the past 3 months, i have been running and promoting this platform . No marketing budget, no audience, and a CTO who expects way to much with our given situation i strongly believe in the idea and really see a future for it and the demand we had with 2 months worth of marketing proves it. 900 users and although we have $110 in revenue so far which is okay, but the CTO keeps comparing it us to automation tools or any direct service tools when we are closer to a social media platform with r...

So before i begin, some background about me: Been a marketer for 7+ years and never worked in Saas before (this is my first attempt!) Experience is mostly in B2C ecommerce, SEO, and online marketing Been doing some web design side gigs here and there Just launched a saas product exactly 2 weeks ago Now, with Claude, anyone can pretty much build anything as long as they are somewhat tech savvy. So that's what I did. I built a SEO automation tool that researches, writes, schedules, a...

I come here sometimes for advice or to even give advice if I might have learnt something from my experience in starting my SaaS but have no idea what to believe there are so many fake stories like done by AI ect Why are people making so many fake success stories whats the point of it I dont understand lol

I’m a software engineer with many years of development experience, but I have almost no marketing experience. Whenever I read startup success stories, I keep seeing the same advice: “We got our first users from Reddit and X.” What I don’t understand is how that actually works in practice. Do founders simply post their product? Do they share the entire build process publicly? How often do they post? How do they avoid looking spammy? I’m looking for real examples of SaaS founders who succe...

I don’t really post stuff like this, but this one feels worth sharing. About 6 months ago, I started building my SaaS, Wax Cache . It’s an inventory management app for card collectors, dealers, and breakers. Sports cards, Pokémon, TCG, all of it. I’m a card collector, and a Software Engineer working in Supply chain, so this started because I was trying to fix my own problem. Apply my supply chain/inventory management knowledge to my card collection. Cards end up everywhere. Boxes, slabs...

Hey, Okay I'll be honest, I need an outside perspective because I'm going in circles here. Over the past few weeks I've called something like 300 companies to dig into an idea in recruitment. Recruitment agencies, IT consulting firms, staffing agencies, engineering offices, industrial SMEs... a bit of everything. My initial idea was that recruiters waste a crazy amount of time processing applications (reading CVs, writing summaries, building candidate profiles, organizing all of it), so I ...