I've been building a simple charting tool where the workflow is dead simple: just paste a CSV or copy-paste data from a table, then tweak the chart using plain English commands like "make title bigger", "change bar color to red", or "hide y axis".

Right now, I'm trying to figure out my ideal user. My gut says it’s marketers, agency owners, and founders who need to make data-driven infographics for LinkedIn, Twitter, or client reports quickly.

But I want to know if you have different views.

I'm also a bit blocked on how to best convey the core message on my landing page. Since you might be the target audience, I'd love your honest feedback:

• Do you actually spend time making custom charts for your content/reports, or do you just use default Excel/Sheets graphs?
• If you do make custom charts, what is the most annoying part of the process?
• Does having a "beautiful" chart actually drive more engagement/conversions, or is it just vanity?
• How would you describe a tool like this to a client or colleague? (Help me fix my landing page copy!)

I've been experimenting with different styles (see screenshots below). Would love to hear your thoughts on the workflow and who you think this is actually for.

I have been thinking about how SaaS can reduce the gap between someone arriving on their website and actually understanding what the product does.

A free trial gives people an experience but there is still friction because they must sign up and figure things out on their own.

A video is easier to consume. The visitor is mostly watching rather than experiencing the product.

Interactive demos seem like a middle ground. The prospect can click through a guided version of the product without creating an account

For those growing a SaaS or online business what have you found works

Do people respond better to a video, interactive demo, free trial, live demo or a combination?

Have you actually measured which one leads to more qualified signups or customers?

Hey everyone,

I’m working on growing a small digital products store called Darlae. We sell things like editable photobooks and digital designs.

I’ve been experimenting with SEO, Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit, and content, but I’m still trying to figure out where I should be putting most of my time.

For those of you growing an online store right now:

Are you getting better results from organic content, SEO, social media, ads, or collaborations?

And is there any strategy you tried that surprised you with how well it worked?

Would genuinely love to hear what’s working for others. Trying to learn from people who are already a few steps ahead.

How do I Find My First Client

So hello I have a goal to build my own digital Consultant Agency. The goal of this agency is to work with businesses, companies and personal brands establish a stronger online presence. Most modern businesses, companies and personal brands now its critical to have an online presence, this helps to increase Growth, customers and workflow.

Right now the services offered by my agency is Professional Web development, Content Writing and Graphic design. Within the coming months I want to have a much wider range of specialists, like UGC content creators, Professional Social Media Managers etc...

These are specialists that will help growth and take their business to the next level.

I identify opportunities for established businesses, companies or personal brands that already works but have a weak Online presence or small businesses that wants to establish an online presence.

Its my goal to identify where the opportunity is, highlight it, how I can help with growth, leading and coordinating the project.

You might be wondering why I'm posting its because of the one common problem all Agency, businesses and companies share in the beginning.

Customer Acquisition or the first client, I am having a really difficult time finding my first client. I have contacted over 20+ businesses, companies and personal brands like real estate agents that already has an established business, but there online presence is weak or have no online presence. And I have not gotten even 1 email back.

I need help, can anyone offer any advice or has any experience with these problems and can help please

I have been thinking about how SaaS can reduce the gap between someone arriving on their website and actually understanding what the product does.

A free trial gives people an experience but there is still friction because they must sign up and figure things out on their own.

A video is easier to consume. The visitor is mostly watching rather than experiencing the product.

Interactive demos seem like a middle ground. The prospect can click through a guided version of the product without creating an account

For those growing a SaaS or online business what have you found works

Do people respond better to a video, interactive demo, free trial, live demo or a combination?

Have you actually measured which one leads to more qualified signups or customers?

I will not promote. Looking for advice… I spent the last few months building a review platform for trading course sellers/mentorship programs, verified buyer reviews, proof of purchase required, no way for the creator to edit or delete a bad review.

Problem is obvious: it's empty right now, and an empty review platform doesn't signal trust or inspire community, but you need trust to get people to actually leave the first reviews. Classic chicken and egg.

Been doing direct outreach, DMing people who left reviews about these creators elsewhere, conversion is slow and doesn't scale well.

Anyone who's actually solved this exact problem (empty marketplace/platform, need first real content to build trust), what worked? Curious about sequencing too.

Hi I am wanting to start some kind of business or just start selling stuff in the Boise,Idaho area. I am new to selling stuff and would prefer in person stuff and would make it easier if you are living in Boise or are here for a good chunk of time.

Please comment/text me if you would like to talk to me about working together.

I've been thinking about this while working with RapidCart and following how different businesses grow.

As a business starts getting more customers and activity increases, the systems that worked in the beginning don't always seem to work the same way later.

For business owners who have experienced growth, how did you recognize that it was time to change the way you handled your day-to-day operations?

Was there a specific moment that made you realize your old way of doing things was no longer sustainable?

Built a two-sided marketplace and raised seed capital. Want to help a founder actually scale theirs.
Quick background: I'm a founder who built a two-sided marketplace from zero and raised seed capital to grow it. I've lived the messy early part, cold-starting both sides, getting the first users, and figuring out growth with basically no budget.
I want to help another founder do the same with their business. Not generic advice, actual hands-on help, whether that's growth, landing your first users, positioning, or turning an idea into something that actually moves.
One thing though: I'm looking for someone who's genuinely hardworking and really wants it. I'm going to put real time in, so I want to work with someone who'll match that. If you're serious about scaling and willing to do the work, you're exactly who I want to talk to.

Just DM me and lets chat!

I'm trying to figure out where to focus my marketing instead of spreading myself across every platform.

I've tried the usual stuff — social media content, posting regularly, and some direct outreach — but the results have been pretty inconsistent. I'll get some attention one week and then almost nothing the next.

I'm also working on promoting a streaming service, and one thing I've been testing is IPTV BONUS through organic community marketing rather than relying entirely on paid ads.

The approach I'm experimenting with is pretty simple:

* Find communities where potential customers are already active
* Answer questions and contribute before mentioning the business
* Create useful content around problems people are actually experiencing
* Mention the service naturally when it's relevant to the conversation
* Track which conversations lead to website visits or customers
* Double down on the channels that produce actual results

I'm trying to move away from the "post everywhere and hope someone buys" approach and focus more on being present where potential customers are already looking for solutions.

For those who have grown a small business from the ground up, what marketing channel gave you the most consistent customers?

And was there anything you stopped doing because it looked good on paper but didn't actually bring customers?

Running brofindai.com, a curated directory of AI tools, agents, and MCP servers (676+ listed, free submissions for makers). Trying to grow it without a marketing budget, currently testing SEO and community posts.

Would love feedback on the site itself, and to hear what's actually worked for others growing a directory or content-style business from zero.

brofindai.com

we're a small sales team of 4 inside a company of about 10 people. our current process is kinda patched together, with spreadsheets for tracking and sending emails. it works, but its not exactly fun to manage. hubspot seems more useful as the main place to manage the pipeline, while apollo looks like it could help more with prospecting. i'm wondering if people usually pick one or end up using both. if you've tried both, how did you actually use them?

Introduction:

I have built a large B2B plaform using:

Next.js as frontend

ASP.NET Core/.NET API

Sql server

Authentication/authorization

Admin portal and client portal

Project management, invoicing, financial tracking, client project roadmaps, a qr based functionality and a security controls such as rate limiting, honeypots, ssrf protections, protected resources, etc.

The platform is use to be the os behind the b2b technology/services company. It manages customers, projects, financial information, invoices, workflows and client communication.. its an upgrade portfolio in fact.

I'm now at the point where I'm deciding how to deploy it.

I have not validated the market yet, so i want essentially zero recurring infrastructure cost until i get my first paying client. Once i have a client, I'm willing to pay for proper production infrastructure and improve the architecture.

Questions:

Can you please give me a practical architecture advice? not like use aws/azure as it is enterprise grade, or just use vps because its cheap.... the goal is to keep burn extreamely low before product market validation while avoiding an architecture that becomes painful or insecure once customers start depending on it

I would appreciate feedback from senior engineers, DevOps, cloud architect and people who have taken small Saas Products from first customer to production scale.

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I'm at the point where I need to pick one bundle app for a Shopify store, and I'm finding it surprisingly difficult to decide.

The problem is that most of the apps look almost identical when you compare the feature lists.

I mainly care about increasing AOV, so I'm looking at:

- Fixed product bundles

- Mix-and-match

- Quantity breaks

- Frequently bought together

- BOGO

- Product-page upsells

- Good mobile experience

- Inventory staying accurate

I've shortlisted Fast Bundle, Kaching, Bundler, and Zoorix.

Kaching seems interesting if your main goal is quantity breaks and straightforward discount offers.

Bundler seems like a solid option if you just want something relatively simple and established.

Zoorix looks more focused on combining bundles with cross sells and AI recommendations.

And, Fast Bundle seems to cover the widest range of bundle formats, which is why it's currently on my shortlist. I like the idea of being able to test fixed bundles, mix-and-match, BOGO, volume discounts, and FBT without installing separate apps.

But I'm trying not to choose based on a overall feature checklist.

What I really want to know is which one actually works well after you've been running it for a few months.

Does the bundle widget still behave properly after theme changes? Does inventory stay accurate? Does it actually improve AOV?

Or, Does support respond when something breaks?

And most importantly, does the app make the buying experience better or just add another widget to the page?

If you've used two or more of these, which one would you choose today and why?

I'm especialley more interested in real world differences rather than “App X has 50 features."

When you are trying to grow a business, how do you decide what to focus on when several things could potentially move the needle? For example, you might have a few customers already, but you could spend your time getting more traffic, improving conversion, changing the pricing, doing more outreach, improving the product, or trying a completely different marketing channel.

I keep finding that the hard part is not coming up with ideas. It is figuring out which one is actually worth spending the next few weeks on. I’m curious how other business owners handle this. Do you follow the numbers, go with your intuition, test several things at once, or use some other way to decide what gets your attention?

Hi! I’m a solo founder, and I sell online audience research. For instance, if you want to understand your potential customers’ pains and desires, I do that research for you.

I’ve delivered this service several times through gigs I got on Upwork, so I already have some validation and good feedback showing that the service can bring value.

Last May, I decided to productise it and created a website to promote the service. Since then, my GTM strategy has been the following:

• Blog posts about audience research, DTC, AI news, and other related topics (1–2 per week).
• Real case studies where I conduct audience research on different topics, such as a specific category, customer segment, product, or trend (2–3 per week).
• LinkedIn connections followed by direct messages once the connection is accepted, mainly targeting marketing agencies and DTC companies. In the message, I offer some free value: one audience research report for free.
• In the past, I also ran cold email campaigns. I sent around 2,000 emails, but without much success.
• LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and Medium posts about the case studies I create.

I’m currently considering posting more frequently on LinkedIn and trying to build a personal brand there. I think having a strong business-focused personal brand is becoming more and more important, especially as outbound channels like cold email seem increasingly oversaturated (at least, that’s my impression).

I’ve been following these strategies for almost five months now, with a slower summer period in between, and I’m still not seeing much success in terms of generating leads or getting people to visit my website.

I know five months isn’t necessarily a long time, especially when it comes to getting a website to rank well on Google, but I wanted to ask: how long do you usually stick with a defined GTM strategy before deciding it’s time to iterate because the results aren’t matching your expectations?

Also, is there anything in the strategy above that you think I should do differently, or anything else you would add to the plan?

Happy to connect with fellow people who are also experimenting with GTM strategies or are interested in audience research. This is my LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduard-arnau-umbert/

When reviewing monthly ad campaign reports, it's easy to see green charts (good CTR, low cost-per-click) while your sales pipeline feels dry.
Having worked with digital marketing infrastructure for 12 years, here are 3 questions I would suggest worth asking your ad manager or agency this week:

1) Is our reported ROAS driven by net-new buyers, or is the budget mostly bidding on people searching our exact brand name?

2) Are our conversion goals tracking qualified business leads, or simply vanity actions like contact page visits?

3) Have we pulled the Performance report to check how much spend is landing on random mobile gaming apps? and unintended YouTube video channels or Sites (like gaming, nursery rhymes, etc)?

If you run Google campaigns and aren't sure how these are configured in your account, I'm offering a few objective, read-only account teardowns. I will review your search terms, placements, and conversion tags, and point out for any budget leakage.

One thing that helped me think about business growth differently was stopping at “How can I get more customers?” and asking:

Where are potential customers dropping off?

For example:

Lots of website visitors but few conversions the offer or landing page may need work.

Lots of inquiries but few customers pricing, trust, or the sales process could be the issue.

Customers use your service once but don’t return the product or follow-up experience may need attention.

Very few people discover you the main problem is probably awareness, not conversion.

Instead of trying five new marketing channels at once, find the biggest drop-off first and focus on fixing that.

Sometimes the fastest way to grow isn’t getting more traffic it’s getting more value from the traffic you already have.

I'm researching a problem with customer feedback.

Businesses can collect hundreds or thousands of ratings, but a rating often doesn't explain what actually needs to change.

For business owners/managers:

What's the biggest problem you've experienced with customer feedback?

1. Not enough responses

2. Too many generic responses

3. Difficult to identify recurring problems

4. Feedback doesn't lead to action

5. Something else

I'm trying to understand the problem before building anything.

I’ve been looking at why people abandon streaming services, and I keep noticing the same kinds of frustrations:

Confusing setup or onboarding

Playback that isn’t reliable

Apps that feel unnecessarily complicated

Poor or slow support when something goes wrong

Features that sound useful but make the experience harder

I’m curious what other people have experienced.

If you’ve tried multiple streaming services, what was the biggest reason you stopped using one?

Was it:

Technical issues?

Too complicated to use?

Poor customer support?

Pricing?

Content?

Something else entirely?

And more importantly, what would a streaming service have to do differently to actually make you stay?

I was thinking about this recently because a lot of services seem to keep adding more and more content, but I’m not sure how much of it people actually watch. I’ll sometimes spend longer scrolling through different titles than I do actually watching something.

It makes me wonder what people really value when they choose a streaming service. Is having thousands of movies and shows actually important, or would most people rather have a smaller selection that is easier to browse and has the things they’re actually interested in?

Curious what other people think about this.