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No passwords to forget, google auth setup, and no "reset password" support tickets. User enters email → gets a magic link → logs in. Part of me thinks it's the cleanest onboarding possible. The other part thinks people might see "check your email" and instantly bounce. Who all are running a SaaS with email-link-only auth? Did users love the simplicity or complain about the extra step?

I’m building a conversational SaaS for local businesses. Instead of selling directly to every customer, I’m considering a partner-based model where agencies pay a monthly platform fee and manage their own clients. The idea is: • Agencies onboard and manage their own customers. • Each agency gets its own workspace and can only access its customers. • Agencies handle sales and first-line support. • We provide the infrastructure, product updates, and technical support when needed. In t...

I feel like coming up with ideas is the easy part. The hard part is figuring out whether people actually want it. Every time I get excited about an idea, I end up asking myself: - Is this a real problem? - Would anyone pay for it? - Am I solving something people actually care about? - How do I even validate this without spending months building it? I'm curious how other founders handle this. What's your validation process, and how do you know when an idea is worth pursuing? &#3...

Hello All. I've been reading a lot about SaaS growth, and one thing I'm always curious about is how founders got their first paying customer. I'm interested in hearing real stories and what worked for you.

We're a bootstrapped SaaS and are growing nicely. Right now, we're at a stage where support tickets are starting to pile up. In our case, most tickets aren't due to bugs or outages (those are pretty rare). But the majority of the tickets are around setup, features, or "how do I do X". We have support docs, but people don't seem to use them much (which I guess is pretty common?). For folks who have been through this, What has actually helped you reduce support tickets? Is i...

NOT LOOKING FOR ANY SYMPATHY, JUST TRYING TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR ANYONE WHO WOULD BE IN THE SAME BOAT I launched my SaaS last year, lot of code issues, but we decided to launch with a waitlist. Got 100s of waitlist numbers so it did help validate the concept a little. The problem was, code wasn't ready. Took us 4-5 months to fix it, but when I launched it again, and emailed people who signed up, the conversion was less than 10% I didn't really have too much money to launch campaigns on it. J...

TL;DR: OP built a bookkeeping intake tool that handles messy client documents, but the real problem isn’t product quality; it’s getting tired, app-skeptical bookkeepers to care enough to try another tool, especially when they hear “AI” and assume hallucinations. you guys heard this before so maybe you have a few suggestions, i appreciate it all. here it goes. i have accepted that grinding it out for 18mths+ was the easy part. so straight to the hard part of getting one tired, app-fatigued...

I'm curious about the assumption that costs founders the most time. Before your first paying customer, what did you believe that later turned out to be false? Examples: People had the problem People would switch from their current solution People would pay Marketing would be easy The product was the hard part If I built it, people would find it What was the assumption? And more importantly: What evidence finally proved it wrong? I'm less interested in advice and mor...

There's a story going round this week, off the back of a TechCrunch piece, that the SaaS world is heading for a reckoning. Devs at big companies refusing to ship without AI in the loop. Amazon quietly killing an internal leaderboard after staff gamed it for token usage. A researcher pointing out that if your team writes code twice as fast, you'd better have halved your maintenance costs, because otherwise the bill is just deferred. The implied ending is always the same. The codebases will rot, t...

I'm thinking about launching soon and i have no clue what I should do. I don't have a big personal brand, so I can't just make a tweet and get upvoted from that. any tips?

I run https://allscreenshots.com , a screenshot API, since the beginning of this year. Even before launching the product, I obsessed over the usual playbook: the landing page copy, pricing tiers, social media posts, waiting for the magical $ 10k MRR would happen. Instead of an overnight success, it trickled. We got a a signup here, a trial there, but none of the 10k overnight stories you read about (and, which aren't always 100% accurate). The thing that actually gave us growth was the opp...

Been running a mid-sized restaurant group for about 8 years now and keep hearing about AI everywhere but honestly can't tell what's actually worth investing in vs what's just hype. We're dealing with the usual stuff - staff scheduling nightmares, inconsistent guest service when we're slammed, inventory management that's still mostly spreadsheets, and our reservation system doesn't talk to anything else we use. Labor costs are killing us and we're constantly putting out fires instead of actual...

Hii... I just get my first paid user on my startup. Well, I lost $96 before this first $24 sale . Here is how - I integrated Razorpay for Payment to accept international payment so before this first sale 4 user wanted to pay but did not able to pay because razorpay was not accepting there cards. So, technically I could have 5 paid user in first month of my startup but never mind I lost $96 and earned $24 this prove market want my product and I should go on with it. It's a small market valid...

Hey guys, I’ve been developing a macOS app that can record simulator or real device for app demo Right now I am experiment with 3d environment perspective and wanted to hear your feedbacks Is it something cool or ugly? Will you use something like this for your app demo?

Bit of background so this isnt just theory. I was a dev for about ten years before i moved into SEO. These days i run technical SEO for SaaS companies. Smallest one was a seed stage startup, biggest was a 3.4B company. Honestly the size doesnt matter. Same handful of problems show up every time and none of them are even that complicated which is the annoying bit. Reason im posting is most technical SEO advice on here is either someone dumping a 200 line Screaming Frog export, or its just &...

What's the biggest assumption you've ever made about a startup idea? Mine was thinking: "If people say it's a good idea, they'll probably pay for it." Turns out those are very different things. The more founder stories I read, the more I notice that startup failures often trace back to assumptions that were never tested: Customers have this problem The problem is painful They'll switch from their current solution They'll pay The market is large enough The hard p...

Hi everyone, I am a SaaS developer, around 2 months back i made my website live, I was expecting payment overseas, naturally wanted a MoR to mitigate any tax issues. I chose paddle, because it seemed perfect, there were no bad reviews and good documentation. I generated around 200$ revenue in last 2 months, today suddenly out of nowhere, I received a mail that my account is suspended. I have raised a request to payout this 200$ into my payoneer account and they have removed my account withou...

Last week, I posted a simple question on this subreddit and another one: "What's your MRR and how long have you been building?" To my surprise, there were 200+ comments, 50,000+ views, and 50+ founders who shared their real numbers from $4.99 to $510,000. Some posted publicly, and some DM'd me privately. The thread was genuinely helpful**,** and I learned a lot of things I never expected. So I decided to put everything together in one place. Here's the breakdown: The media...

About 2 years ago I posted here that I was stuck at $5K MRR . 60K+ free users, 150-200 signups a day, and barely any conversions. A lot of you gave me real suggestions, and I want to come back and tell you what happened. We stopped everything. I told my brother: let's pause and actually try every single competitor ourselves. So we did. We tested all the tools out there and honestly? They were better than us in almost every aspect. Hard to admit, but it was true. So we had to work like cra...

I built a fitness AI app in April 2025 and Spent 8 months marketing it. I used Mainly instagram and posted 350 reels across 3 Instagram accounts. I use to upload almost 2-3 reels per day. My all day was spent in marketing and learning how to market app. In the end I had 16 downloads. It's really hard when you realize the problem was never the marketing. I built something nobody actually needed and then spent 8 months trying to convince people they did. No amount of reels can fix a bad id...

I officially launched my app earlier this week and have been focusing on marketing. A few of my friends signed up (one even got a one month subscription!) but apart from that, no-one seems to be signing up 🫤. People visit my landing page and some even install my chrome extension (which is useless if you do not have an account registered to use it) but no-one is actually making an account and using my product yet. My product does have a free tier so it’s not that it is locking users behind a pay wall. I repeat, I only launched this a few days ago so maybe I am being incredibly impatient but… how long did it take you guys to start making actual money? Is my product the issue? How can I determine that? And if so, how would I fix it? For context, my app is a fluid job application app that has a chrome extension that allows users to custom tailor resumes to a specific job posting in a single click. It has a built in ATS score scanner, It also has a tailored cover letter feature, mock interview feature, a job application tracker, semi-autonomous recruiter outreach feature, and overall just an efficient job application tool.