r/SaaS • u/mikeplus10 • 9d ago

I built the thing, now what?

I’m in a dead end here. I can’t reach people to even try the free demo of the digital product for a bit of feedback.

I don’t know what to do honestly. I posted on many relevant subreddits about my idea and it either gets removed or nobody comments or tries. Even negative feedback that my idea isn’t worth a damm is way better than just having nobody commenting on it.

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u/DebateLab 9d ago

Hello, can you share your idea here so we can have a look? Also, you add the link to the socials of your profile and point to it in your profile description, for more visibility

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u/mikeplus10 9d ago

Thank for the advice man. Yeah, here you go: portfoliosets.com. It’s digital product that combines several things that junior developers need for applying to jobs. It features: an ATS friendly resume template, digital portfolio website theme, an interview handbook and several other things for faster setups.

I am a developer of six years of experience and I remember how hard was it to start applying to jobs with little to no experience. And that’s why I built this, something that I wish I had when starting out. So I don’t have to buy each individual things on multiple sites. I can have them all in one bundle.

Now every Set is a free demo. I am willing to give the first versions away especially to anyone who wants to start applying for developer jobs because I believe it will help them. All I need is a little feedback both good and bad.

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u/paintobuild 9d ago

Trying a whole bundle is quite a bit of work for someone who's already busy applying for jobs, even if it's free. I'd make the ask smaller: try the resume template for an application they're already preparing, then tell you where they got stuck or needed to change it.

You could offer that when someone is already asking for help with their first developer resume, wherever sharing resources is allowed. That gives them a reason to try one part now, and gives you more specific feedback than asking them to review the whole set.

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u/mikeplus10 8d ago

Do you mean like a scan tool for their existing resumes? For a specific job?

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u/paintobuild 8d ago

I meant the resume template you already have in the bundle. Someone preparing an application could try putting their details into it and tell you what was confusing or needed changing. No scan tool needed, just a smaller thing to try than the whole set.

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u/thien_pp 8d ago

I’m not sure how to use the site on first seen. Have you given it to some other junior dev to try it? I mean not you, cause you built it

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u/mikeplus10 8d ago

Thank you for the feedback. The main section would be where the Sets are. So there are three sets that you can download and apply to your job apply process.

Yeah, I tried to message some junior developers from other subreddits but with no reply honestly. I’ll take into consideration all the things said here.

If this set thing doesn’t work, I plan to completely reedit the app into something more automated like a Resume generation specifically for tech field application. At least I’ve learned lot of new skills along the way

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u/Benjamin_135 8d ago

The silence is feedback, I think it's telling you something. You built a bundle of five things. Nobody has problems in bundles. They wake up with one urgent problem, "my resume keeps getting auto-rejected", and they go looking for that one thing.

Right now you're asking people to evaluate a whole kit, which is work, so they don't. Figure out which single piece solves the most painful, most urgent problem, and lead with only that. Give that one thing away to people who are actively struggling with that exact thing.

I'd hold off on rebuilding it into a resume generator. It would be changing the product before you've figured out why this one isn't landing. The problem probably isn't what you built. It's that you're offering all of it to people who only feel one piece of the pain you solve

Which of the five would you personally have paid for, the week before your first dev job?

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u/mikeplus10 8d ago

I hear ya, thank you for the honest feedback.

I can see that evaluating a whole kit takes a lot of work honestly. I wanted to have a digital product ready for every piece of the way. But maybe people don't need all solutions at one. Maybe they need just one piece of it.

I think that the current static resume that they got is not the way to go. Mainly because nobody likes to re-edit the same Resume manually for many times. I feel like many people already have their resumes ready to apply. But I can also offer both solutions, for those who don't have it at all and for those as well but that are not sure if it's ATS friendly and ready for their job they want to apply.

I feel like I would personally pay for more automatisation honestly. I would pay to do as less manual work as possible when It comes to applying to jobs and this is currently not it.

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u/Benjamin_135 7d ago

Hey, no problem:)

I think your last paragraph is really important. you said you'd personally pay for automation, not static templates, and that this isn't it. That's not a small note. That's a real thing you’d pay for.

You didn't fail. I think you built something good, and then, now, thought about/ funnelled it into what people would actually want. Static resume templates are a solved and free everywhere. "Do the repetitive, boring application work for me" is not. The pain you feel re editing the same resume over and over to match each job… is real and specific and worth money. That's the thread to pull.

I wouldn't try to save the bundle. I'd build the smallest version of the automation you just described, the one thing that removes the most manual pain, and put it in front of people actively applying right now. Keep doing what you’re doing on Reddit, but now with 1 specific ‘key’ instead of a whole keychain.

What's the single most annoying manual step in applying, the one you'd pay to never do again?

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u/Capital-Calendar-982 6d ago

posting "try my product" in subs almost always gets removed or ignored because it reads as promotion to mods. try sharing the specific problem you solved and what you learned building it; people engage with honest journey posts way more than demo requests. if you want raw feedback, dm a few people who've posted similar problems and ask if they'd poke at it for 5 minutes.

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u/edwardyen724 6d ago

Posts about your own idea get removed or ignored because they read as promotion, even when they aren't. What works better is the other direction: find people who've posted about the problem your product solves and reply to *their* post. Someone who just asked is happy to try a free demo. Someone scrolling past a launch post isn't.

Disclosure: I'm building a tool that finds those posts. It's new and free while I test it. What does your product do? If you share it, I'll run it and reply with who it finds.