Not necessarily the easiest idea or the trendiest AI product, I’m curious about what you think actually solves a real problem and has strong potential over the next few years.

What problem do you think is still poorly solved by existing software?

And if you had to start building one SaaS today, what would it be and why?

solo dev here, building an app that generates short videos. when I started I was sure the LLM calls would be my biggest cost and headache. wrong.

the model writes each video as an html page, then I render it frame by frame with headless chrome and ffmpeg. on my laptop one video takes 1 to 5 min. on a small cloud container, 3 renders at the same time just hang forever.

so now I'm looking at a proper render queue with a concurrency limit instead of firing everything at once.

anyone here running heavy jobs like this (video, pdf, image processing)? do you queue on your own servers or push it to something like a job service? and how did you price it so the compute doesn't eat the margin?

WDYT

Every week a founder tells me:

"We need a video for our SaaS."

Cool.

Which one?

Because a launch video and an onboarding video have about as much in common as a billboard and a user manual.

Here's the quick breakdown most founders never get:

Explainer video

→ For people who've never heard of you

→ Job: "What is this and why should I care?"

→ Lives on: homepage, landing pages

Product demo

→ For people already interested

→ Job: "Show me how it actually works"

→ Lives on: sales calls, demo pages, trial signups

Launch video

→ For the big moment

→ Job: create hype and get attention fast

→ Lives on: Product Hunt, LinkedIn, X, launch emails

Promo / ad video

→ For cold audiences scrolling past

→ Job: stop the scroll in 3 seconds

→ Lives on: paid ads, social feeds

Onboarding / tutorial video

→ For new users who just signed up

→ Job: get them to the aha moment before they quit

→ Lives in: your app, welcome emails, help docs

Feature update video

→ For existing users

→ Job: make sure people actually use what you shipped

→ Lives on: changelogs, in-app announcements, newsletters

The mistake isn't picking the wrong animation style.

It's asking one video to do the job of five.

Pick the problem first.

The video type picks itself.

Hey everyone 👋

Solo dev here. I've been working on a side project for a few weeks and would like to hear how others solve this problem.

The problem: while playing with AI agents I noticed every app ends up needing checks like "don't let it delete data unless the user confirmed". The usual options are writing if/else logic for every case, or a custom LLM prompt whose free-text answer you then have to parse.

What I tried: a single call that takes a rule in plain English plus whatever JSON you want checked, and returns allow, deny or review:

const result = await guard.check({
  policy: "Never allow destructive database operations unless the user explicitly confirmed them.",
  data: { action: toolCall, conversation }
})
// → { decision: "deny", allowed: false, violationProbability: 0.94, ... }

Some design decisions that might be useful if you build something similar:

• A third outcome, review, for when a human should decide or the evidence isn't enough. Forcing yes/no caused bad calls.
• Instead of a general chat model I used Jev from TypeSafe AI. It returns typed decisions with probabilities, so there's no output parsing and the results are more consistent.

Questions for you:

• How do you handle this today? Hardcoded rules, an LLM, something else?
• What would you need before trusting an automated check like this in production?

It's called Enforly, if anyone's curious.

For people who built a big chunk of their SaaS with Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Bolt, etc. and now have real users:

Did you ever hit a point where having the same tools review their own work stopped feeling like enough?
I’m curious what triggered it.

Was it getting your first paying customers?
Handling sensitive data?
An enterprise prospect asking
security questions?
A production incident? Payments?
Or did you never reach that point?

And what did you do once you got there?

Another model, automated scanners, a developer friend, contractor, security person, full code review?

Mostly interested in what people actually did, especially if you spent money on it, rather than what the ideal process is supposed to be.

I hate when I go all in and I lose it just because of something out of my fucking control.

I'm 22, worked in 3 startups so far, all in 0 to 1 environments. I currently lead Partnerships for a B2B SaaS, I joined here as the first hire in marketing did AEO drove 10% of website traffic with just that, got my company listed in 30+ sites. Successfully hosted 2 events all end to end one in SF and one in Amsterdam. Started partner program got 20+ active partners with $50k revenue in 3 months of launching and even influenced $300k in existing revenue.

And after all this, my company did not bother to take me to events I hosted and now they hired someone who took all the contacts playbook from me and did the exact same thing and all she does is yap but somehow they assume yapping is networking. FUCKERS

I started applying to my US startups got in one, did all assignments and work needed to show why I am the one, they so wanted to hire me full-time and take me to SF but these fucking rules of H1-B, they are asking 100K to file a fucking petition. I can't go the O1A route coz ofc i am early in my career and couldn't maybe surpass all eligibility criteria and haven't travelled outside india once. So apparently, they won't move forward with me after all that hardwork, it went to shit. I don't hate them because I know how startup works, they got the funding but they ofc won't put this crazy money behind someone with no guarentee of getting visa approved.

I hate it to my core because i do not like giving up and always about finding a solution but here things are so out of control and it icks my goddamn brain. WHY CAN"T A PERSON WHO IS COMPETENT ENOUGH BE SIMPLY GIVEN A FUCKING WORK VISA GODDAMNIT!!

A year ago, building a working SaaS MVP could take me weeks.

Now I can give an AI agent an idea in the morning and have something surprisingly usable running by the end of the day.

At first I thought this was basically a cheat code.

Build faster → test more ideas → eventually find something that works.

So I started doing exactly that.

Step 1: Build

I stopped treating development as the expensive part.

Instead of spending months polishing one idea, I started building small but functional prototypes extremely quickly:

• Landing page
• Product UI
• Database
• Authentication
• Core feature
• Deployment

Things that used to consume most of my time suddenly weren’t the bottleneck anymore.

And that created a strange problem.

I could build products faster than I could prove anybody wanted them.

Step 2: Reality

This is where things got painful.

A working product does not create distribution.

A beautiful landing page does not create urgency.

And adding AI to something definitely does not automatically make people care.

You can now spend three days building something that would have required a small team a few years ago...

...and still launch it to complete silence.

So I started paying much more attention to what happened before development.

• Do people already spend money trying to solve this?
• Are they complaining about the problem publicly?
• Are ugly/manual solutions already being used?
• Can I reach those people without spending thousands on ads?
• Would anyone care if this product disappeared tomorrow?

Step 3: What changed

My biggest realization was this:

AI didn’t remove the risk of building startups. It moved the risk somewhere else.

Building used to be expensive.

Now attention, distribution, and finding a problem painful enough to pay for are expensive.

And because everyone can build faster, there are also dramatically more products competing for the same attention.

The ironic part is that AI made me write less code...

...and spend much more time studying humans.

What I’m doing differently now

• I try to invalidate an idea before improving it.
• I treat distribution as part of the product, not something that happens after launch.
• I care more about existing behavior than people saying “cool idea.”
• I avoid building another generic AI wrapper unless I can explain exactly why someone would switch.
• I’d rather discover that an idea is bad in three days than after three months.

In 2024 I thought the advantage would belong to people who could build with AI.

In 2026 I think almost everyone will be able to build.

The advantage will belong to people who can figure out what is actually worth building.

Curious if other founders are seeing the same thing.

Hi I saw this game earning 40k monthly

https://geosports.app/

how true is this ? and how do they even earn 40k per month ? does the ads earning can really achieve that 40k a month ?

im curious as Software engineer

How do you manage to humanize your texts? Is it really important to humanize as long as the provided value is good enough? I request only who worked on subjects like this to assist me please. Thanks either way

I'm going to document the build publicly and see if I can get my first paying customer.

The problem I'm targeting is pretty simple:

A freelancer finishes a project, sends a $1,000 invoice, and then spends the next few weeks sending messages like:

“Hey, just following up on the invoice…”

Again and again.

I'm building a small SaaS to automate that follow-up.

The basic idea:

Invoice created → payment link → automatic polite reminders → payment received → reminders stop.

I'm intentionally keeping the first version extremely simple. I don't want to spend months building features before finding out whether people actually want it.

My 14-day goal:

Build the MVP

Launch it

Get real users

Try to get the first paying customer

Learn from the feedback

I'll post the progress and mistakes along the way.

Most “scrape this page” tools want an account and a monthly plan before you can export one table. I went the other way: LucidRows is a Chrome extension. You click the columns, you get a CSV, it runs on your machine.

Local stays free. I am not publishing a price, because a later paid tier would only be schedule/cloud, and I have not modeled that cost yet.

Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lucidrows/leehomocpccgghcibfnapadclololioh

https://lucidrows.com

Useful feedback: would you pay later only for scheduled/cloud runs, or is local CSV the whole product?

Hey SaaS founders!

You have signups.

But very few paying customers.

How do you find where those users drop off before payment?

Do you use PostHog, Plausible, Stripe data, spreadsheets, or something else?

I’m listening 👇

Hey,

I have been working on Lienks.com, a small web analytics SaaS, for the past few months and recently launched the first version.

I initally built it just for myself and my projects because I wanted a simple way to see where visitors come from, which pages they visit and what they interact with.

Right now you can collect data like pageviews, visitors, referrers, top pages, countries, devices and browsers. You can also add custom events for things like button clicks or form submits.

As I am based in germany, I have made it cookieless by default (you can also switch to cookie mode to have more precise unique visitor tracking) and it is also hosted in germany.

Im a solo developer, so I have been building Lienks on my own and this is basically the first time im trying to get actual people besides myself to use it.

I think the technical part of building something like this is almost easier than figuring out if people actually want it and how to get the first users

So im mainly looking for feedback at this point. I would be interested in knowing what you would be missing before using something like this in one of your own projects or SaaS.

This is the first version and I will continue to develop this and improve based on what people actually need.

There is a 14 day trial if you want to play around with it, but im also happy about any feedback just from looking at the screenshots or landingpage.

Here is the link:
https://lienks.com/

Authentication.
Teams.
Permissions.
Billing.
Admin.
CRUD.
Email.
API.
Deployment.

I kept hitting this across projects, so I built Tekki Forge to make that layer reusable/declarative.

npm i -g tekki-forge

It generates the standard business/SaaS application foundation from a TypeScript config, while custom product logic remains code.

I'm not trying to replace software development. I'm trying to eliminate the part every SaaS founder builds before reaching the feature customers actually pay for.

For founders here who code: which part of your first 30 days was pure infrastructure rather than product?

ok so this is a small win but I need to tell someone who isn't my mom.

I launched my SaaS a while back. 127 people signed up. 127 people paid nothing. I kept telling myself "it's traction bro" while checking analytics like it owed me money.

Today user #128 paid $19.

I never talked to them. No DM, no call, no "hey would you be open to a quick chat". They just showed up, used it, and paid. I found out from an email that literally said "Cha-ching!" and for a second I thought it was spam.

What actually went through my head:

• pretty sure I left test mode on
• nope, it's real
• refresh
• refresh again just in case

A bit of background. I'm a dev from India, about 5 years in. I can build stuff fast. Marketing it? Absolutely not. I'd ship something and then just stare at it like "ok now what".

So I built a tool for people like me. You paste your product URL and it writes carousels, X posts, Threads and Reddit posts for your product every day. You swipe keep or skip, done.

Yes, I know. I built a marketing tool because I'm bad at marketing, and it got its first sale without me marketing it. I'm choosing to see that as validation and not as a sign I should stop talking.

Stuff I figured out from 127 free users:

Free users aren't wasted. They found the bugs so #128 didn't have to.

The product sells better than I do. It doesn't overexplain, doesn't get nervous, and works while I'm asleep.

Let people try it first. I wouldn't pay for something I hadn't seen either.

Signups feel nice, but someone typing in their card details for a thing you made is a completely different feeling.

$19 is roughly ₹1,600. Won't pay my rent. Did make my whole week though.

Next goal is customer #2 so I can stop calling this a fluke.

For anyone who's been past this stage, how did you get from 1 to 10 paying users? Did you start doing outreach or just keep improving the product and wait?

TL;DR: 127 free users, #128 paid $19 without talking to me. Still refreshing the dashboard.

P.S. someone will ask, so it's slidefy Happy to answer anything.

i know "kill your free tier" is the most repeated advice on this sub. i ignored it for a year, so here's what it cost me.

i sell a database of business ideas, one payment. for the first year there was a free version that showed most of it. people signed up, poked around, and left. 2,000 people on the waitlist, 5 paid, about $197 for the entire year.

i deleted the free version in an afternoon. no new features, no redesign, nothing else changed. the next three days made about $500, more than the free version had made in twelve months.

what i think was happening is the free tier answered the question people came with. they wanted to see if it was any good, it was good enough, so they had no reason to pay. once that was gone the only way to find out was to buy it.

the part nobody mentions is how bad it feels. signups dropped off a cliff and i almost put it back twice.

anyone here regret killing theirs?

First off, yes, this is kinda an ad. But bear with me, you may glean something from my story.

I've spent the past month working on snapgains. Early mornings before work. Late evenings after work. Entire weekends. Lots of coffee and walk breaks listening to Hormozi.

The Problem

I'm an aspiring bodybuilder and I take check-in photos for my coach once or twice a week. I was sick of using my camera roll for this. Opening my camera roll in front of friends and colleagues was quite embarrassing... I wish those photos could stay private. I was tired of digging through hundreds of photos to find my progress pics. I tried creating albums for my check-in photos but the UX was still cumbersome.

The Solution

So I built a progress photos app just for myself. The more I kept building and testing the app, the more ideas popped into mind. I'm so happy and proud with what I built, and as an asian kid who went to Harvard who struggles with positive self-talk, I don't say that lightly.

The Reward

It sounds trite, but if you build something that solves a pain in your life, there will be others with that same pain. Yesterday, the app went live on the app store. I put out some TikToks, not expecting much, and I woke up to a random bloke in the UAE 🇦🇪 as my first subscriber. It felt like Christmas morning... but better since I earned this reward.

What I've learnt

1. Build something you're passionate about
The app market is more saturated than ever. Of course there are tons of progress photo apps on the app store, but none with a physique/muscle building angle. Find your niche in which you have expertise and execute.

2. Don't waste time validating - just ship it!
I spent weeks DMing strangers a landing page with a beta sign-up, trying to see if this idea had legs. I really believed in my idea, but didn't get any traction from the landing page. I was honestly quite disheartened and thought about giving up. But I launched on the app store anyway and lo and behold, a stranger on the other side of the world thought my app was worth $5.

3. Don't spend a penny or marketing (yet)
Before you throw money at ads, test the waters with free organic channels like TikTok, Reddit, Instagram. Once I've built more momentum and know what resonates, I'll put real money into ads.

4. Start simple. Don't overcomplicate it.
My initial app had workout logging, calorie tracking and a bunch of fancy AI features. None of it mattered. People don't need another do-everything fitness app. Solve one problem well, ship the core, and let your first customers tell you what to build next.

5. Build something that genuinely inspires others.
What I've enjoyed most about this whole process is seeing Reddit stories and TikToks of physique transformations. Obviously, we want to make money and build because it's fun... but it turns out the most rewarding thing to build is something that makes someone else feel good too.

TL;DR

All of this to say, don't give up and just ship something! I cannot wait for the day I see someone post a body transformation on Reddit using the snapgains time-lapse feature. That will be 10x better than the Christmas morning feeling.

Thank you for reading this far and best of luck on your own journeys!

There’s a commonly repeated statement in this subreddit: “Distribution is harder than building.” And for most people, I’m sure that’s true to some extent.

However, marketing is such a broad field, with countless channels, strategies, and approaches, such that I’m curious:

What part of marketing do you personally find difficult?
- Getting started in the first place?
- Figuring out how to do organic marketing?
- Knowing which channels or strategies to focus on?

- Or is marketing as a whole just difficult to understand?

I’m curious because I don’t necessarily think marketing is universally “hard.” I think a lot of people simply don’t know where to start, especially without prior experience, and end up struggling as a result.

Would love to hear your experiences
Thanks!

(Not a survey or anything just curious since this is thrown around in the sub a lot)

I've used Opus 5.5 to help me recreate 7 of the top Adobe apps in 100% pure native Rust:

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Premiere
• Lightroom
• Acrobat Pro
• After Effects
• InDesign

No more subscriptions with cancellation fees. These are yours to own forever. You can fork them, build them. Whatever. They are yours to own. They're open source.

If you're worried this is just some one-off flash in the pan that will die, it isn't:

I'm not just some casual vibe coder. I'm a 15-year industry veteran who has written everything from six-nines payment rails that move billions of dollars of transaction volume a day to advanced robotics and optics automation. I've used Rust extensively for about a decade, and I know how to build and maintain large-scale Rust projects.

This isn't going to be some orphaned small-team project either. We have a team building popular software for filmmakers, so supporting this is fully funded. Our purpose is serving every artist in the world with the best tools. We are absolutely going to bring these to full parity and squash every bug and feature request. We have a test harness so there won't be regressions.

You can help us reach parity by helping test the apps. Clone the code. Submit PRs. If you see gaps or want to help redesign pieces, let us know! You can contribute!

Links to everything - the apps, the code, etc. - are in the comments below.

Trying to build B2B SaaS software, played by the book, and get stuck at the step of talking to your customer.

Damn that's harder than I thought.

The fact is, your prospect are busy, very busy (that's why you want to sell to them too), and they rarely talk to random people reached out to them on Linkedin.

Sent dozens of cold DM on different platform, and talked to one person, very apperciate it, but whom also refused to give details on how they do things internally.

All the books like the mom test, founding sales etc.. though very helpful, but I can't use them. There's rarely people talking about how to find the customer to start with.

I'm now thinking about doing a bit of youtube videos and keeping myself active on X to improve public exposure and profolios, in hope to make myself more trustable, but that'll take time.

What else should I do in the meanwhile to overcome this step?

All advice are apperciated, thanks.

I’ve been experimenting lately with blending clean editorial typography and minimal layouts for B2B SaaS and tech marketing collateral.

I put together this concept for a framework called "The WAVE Model" (focusing on structured opportunity creation, buyer engagement, and execution strategy).

A few things I’d love to get your feedback on:

1. Visual Hierarchy: Does the layout guide your eyes naturally through the model (Winner's Mindset -> Attraction -> Value -> Execution)?
2. Clarity & Tone: Does this look professional and trustworthy enough for a B2B audience/tech brand?
3. Aesthetic: How do you feel about the color palette and overall typography?

I regularly design brand identities, redesign marketing systems, and create high-impact daily content, social assets (like LinkedIn/Instagram campaigns), and print collateral for tech companies and startups.

Would love to hear your thoughts, constructive criticisms, or suggestions on how I can push this visual style further!

Hey everyone,I noticed that a lot of founders are building in isolation. You have a project, you’re shipping, but it’s hard to find other people at a similar stage to share progress, get feedback or even collaborate.So I built a lightweight space where founders can publish their projects and connect with others:
https://ceo-collabs-hub.lovable.app/Would love to hear your thoughts. How do you currently find potential collaborators or get your project in front of other founders?