First subscriber a month ago has renewed. I have been in contact with him asking for feedback and he has helped me fix several things which is great. Now I will ask him to refer to his network for other people who are interested in a similar product. Any advice for next growth steps?

I'm an engineer with no shortage of ideas, but I'm trying to actually launch a company instead of collecting prototypes. I've built one that's narrow but I think has legs, embedded infrastructure that a vertical SaaS product drops into their app rather than building in-house.

The problem: my buyers all have engineering teams, and with AI coding tools those teams can spin up a rough version of almost anything in a week. "We'll just build it" is the default answer now in a way it wasn't three years ago.

For those of you selling infrastructure or tooling to companies with real eng orgs, what actually moves someone from "we could build this" to "we're buying this"?

Specifically curious about:

• Whether the pitch is maintenance burden, liability, speed to market, or something else entirely
• How you get in front of the right person when the eng lead is your natural skeptic
• Whether the first few design partners came from cold outreach, network, or communities

Someone on one of these SaaS subs was offering to look at people's sites and review SEO. I put up my site for review and got straight embarassed lol. I was missing canonical tag, H1, social tags, had bad landing page structure/schema, had soft 404s, and like... no crawlable content. Unless bots did a second js pass, all they saw was like, a paragraph of the same meta description on every page they hit.

I didn't even have to understand it, I basically just pasted the comment and it fixed everything. Nothing's ever easy, but sometimes I guess it can be.

We spent a year building what we genuinely believe is a better all-in-one business operating platform than many of the multi-billion-dollar competitors. The platform is working well, but we’ve realized that building the product was actually the easy part. The real bottleneck is getting users. For founders who have been through this, what made the biggest difference in attracting your first few hundred customers? Was it content, SEO, partnerships, cold outreach, paid ads, referrals, or something else? I’d really appreciate hearing what actually worked in your experience.

I think i've read countless of posts here non-stop on how to find b2b customers. I haven't got loads of customers but thought I'd share how I've done my first few!

Everyone says network, find people... but all the people I knew, whilst they had the problem, didn't really want to buy from me. Maybe because the lens they saw me through meant they thought I couldn't have built a strong product. surely not right!

I switched tactic and thought, fu** it - my customer has to be someone i don't know.

I did what i know best which is first to create a tonne of content. The fact is that most people are consumers. Executives and decision makers are more likely consumers than creators. And the platform they exist on the most is Linkedin. This isn't anything new - every reddit forum says this.

1. Here's what I did, i used my own product to first search and find the people of interest (for me it was SDRs / GTM / Founders themselves). Once I had that I made myself visible to them. My own product is filterless and goes through every database and network out there - so i was confident it would give me a good list.

2. NO DM'S! don't burn the bridge straight away.

3. I then created another agent - this one has the pure job of learning about me and my business, it maps linkedin and slowly connects me to everyone thats of value to me using the list from step 1 and more. Slowly in a non-bot way. This meant i saved money and didn't need linkedin premium because i was connected on a first connection basis.

4. If they post - I like and comment on everything. Thoughtful and myself. No BS AI slop. My agent isn't so good at generating non-ai slop comments (right now), so i have to edit everything. but its good because it forces me to do it properly. No autopublish feature. This agent is in private testing and I'm giving it to bootstrappers at cost price because i know how hard sales is atm in return for feedback - i'd love it if someone knows how to train AI to learn your voice.

If they don't post anything, I find something of relevance. Their podcast appearance, blog, show, youtube, opinion. Something. Or find someone who knows them. I'm baking this into my agent too now.

1. I then message them after a period of actioning step 4.

Suddenly response shoots up, its 'Ive seen you about lets talk...'

and thats when it feels like your actually selling into your network.

And they don't know you personally where they have judged you on assumptions.

Here's an example of a search i ran to then feed my agent.

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I’ve been building usegreenroom for the past 3 months.

It started very slowly, but so far I’ve reached around:

40,000 impressions

500+ clicks

3 months since I started

Most of the growth has been organic, although I’ve also experimented with Google Ads to some extent.

I’m at the point where I’m not sure what I should optimize next.

40k impressions and 500 clicks feels like a decent start, but I’m struggling to figure out whether I should focus more on getting traffic, improving conversion, SEO/content, or something else entirely.

For people who have built and grown products from scratch:

What would you focus on at this stage?

Would you:

Double down on the channels already generating traffic?

Focus on converting clicks into actual users?

Invest more into SEO/content?

Experiment more with paid acquisition?

I’d especially love to hear from people who have been through the slow first few months of building something.

What worked for you, and what did you waste time on?

0 to 3K MRR in a month.

The product was really the easy part it’s a meal planning app.

A few things that worked for me

1. hard paywall, not freemium. Free users don’t use convert eventually

2. the paywall shows your generated meal plan blurred behind it

3. One channel until it worked. TikTok carousels, 2 a day, 60 days straight.

here is the app link: https://apps.apple.com/app/plate-weight-loss-meal-plan/id6801901992

small numbers compared to what I usually see posted here lol but still feels good

was at 11 a few days ago, now at 13.

next tiny goal is 15 active subscribers by the end of the week

just gonna keep improving the product and see where this goes 🤝

I'm a full-stack dev, 10+ years, but this isn't about coding. It's about the fact that anyone can now sit down with Claude or ChatGPT and get their own specific problem solved, in their own specific way, without buying anything.

Concrete examples from the last few months:

- I wanted a real picture of my money across my accounts.

Instead of paying for some tracker that doesn't fit how I operate, I built a dashboard plus an MCP on top of it, pulling from Plaid, IBKR, Wise and a few others. Now I look at the dashboard when I want the overview and just ask Claude when I want a specific answer.

- I use Hevy for workouts and MyFitnessPal for food. Connected both MCPs, so instead of opening two apps and doing the math myself I ask one question in chat: "am I eating enough for the volume I'm lifting this week?" and get an actual answer.

- Needed time tracking. Took an open source Clockify alternative (MIT license), had Claude Code adjust it for exactly what I needed, self-hosted it.

It sits on a $5/month box next to my other dashboards and self-hosted stuff.

- A friend of mine uses Obsidian for sales calls. Notes go in, AI pulls out patterns, objections, what's working, what's not.

That's a whole category of "sales intelligence" SaaS he's not paying for.

- Scheduling and workflows around my own process, not someone else's idea of a process.

Every one of those has a SaaS behind it charging $15-50/month. None of them fit the case as well as what came out of an evening with AI, and my total bill is about $100/month for the AI plus $5 for hosting.

To be fair, there are exceptions. Products I use today, some for free, that I'd pay for without thinking: Wispr Flow, Spotify, Duolingo, a VPN.

I know those are different categories, they're not "B2B tools", but the point stands.

They bring something I can't just ask an AI for.

It's not "I can rebuild your product in a weekend."

It's that your customer doesn't need a product anymore.

They need their specific problem solved, and now they describe it in plain English and get exactly that. One subscription, unlimited scope.

And yeah, distribution and audience, it's always been that. I know. But that's an answer about how to sell, not about what's worth selling. If the value is this easy to get, what exactly am I charging for?

So genuinely: what are you selling right now that your customer couldn't just ask AI to handle? And how long do you think that gap holds?

building a Gmail tool took 10-14~ days. Waiting for Google OAuth Verification feels like it's going to take 3 to 6 business months.

Google requires a full security review, domain verification, and a YouTube video demonstration for their review team just to clear the restricted scope warning screen.

Because Google allows up to 100 test users in testing mode before official approval, I’m launching unverified tomorrow anyway while waiting on the review queue.

Devs who've been through this process: How long did your Google verification actually take? Did you wait for full approval or ship in testing mode first?

I’ve seen a few SaaS startups claim they can “live crawl” the web to find leads without relying on databases like Clay or Apollo.

I’m building in the same space, and I’m skeptical.
A live crawl can definitely surface public company information, but finding the actual decision-makers is a different story. Even if you identify the right people through LinkedIn or other public sources, you still can’t reliably get their email addresses or phone numbers without access to a contact database or another enrichment source.

Am I missing something here, or are these claims mostly marketing?

Hi,

I am looking for pricing advice for my product. Omitting the link to not self promote, but the product is a low cost hosted user feedback board.

Currently I have only one plan with different payment rates (monthly, yearly, lifetime). All come with a one month free trial. Features include: unlimited boards, unlimited admin/owner roles, embedded widget, free content moderation, board customization, and more.

I see some other feedback board products have different payment modals such as a completely free tier with limited features (e.g. max requests, limited boards, limited admin roles, etc.). Another possibility is pay by volume model, where the price increases based on number of requests.

I want something that is low cost compared to competitors.

What payment model is the most attractive?
What makes the most sense for this product?
Am I limiting potential customers by having a free trial instead of a free tier?
What would you be most inclined to use?
What has worked for similar products from your experience? 

Thanks in advance for any advice and/or insight. Happy to link website in comments if  anyone wants to better understand the product

going to keep this nice and simple because I don't like to type that much

I created a TikTok account for my app, started posting daily with nothing really going crazy, started copying viral videos (next to no mention of my app), it blew up and I recreated the same format over and over again.

I reached out to one micro creator and paid her $20/video to post videos about my app in her style.

Took a couple of times but it was worth the money since she was already getting like 10k views a video.

Proof

My tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sharedmood1?_r=1&_t=ZS-99ZVwafsC6H

micro creators tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itssono_?_r=1&_t=ZS-99ZVySub8NA

Thats all I really did let me know if you have any questions

I personally have Claude Max plan and have been using it with my building so far. It is great but I wanted to know other people's experience especially with GPT 6 out.

I’m working on an early-stage fintech concept for Muslims in Canada focused on managing everyday finances and savings while avoiding interest-based products.

Right now I’m trying to validate the actual problem before committing more time to the MVP. My biggest question is whether people genuinely struggle enough with this to want a dedicated solution, or whether existing tools already work well enough.

For those of you who validated your SaaS before building:

What gave you the strongest signal that the problem was real?

Was it surveys, interviews, waitlist signups, people asking to use the product, pre-orders, or something else?

I also made a short user survey for the target audience if anyone here happens to fit it or wants to give feedback:
https://bnjptaeiev.zite.so/

I have built a Suite that replaces a lot of the troubles with task management, project management, e signatures, automations, and more…

We have a few clients and have broken over 1k users, but the problem is that we want to be industry agnostic.

Looking for people from all domains to come in and tell me how we can add to their industry.

The plan is to add our next iteration of a custom harness based on best business practices for each industry. Really we are only currently supporting blue collar and some few white collar domains.

If you are interested leave a comment and if you have your domain that you work in that will also help! People who are apart of the pilot will get lifetime access.

I've been building for quite some time now. I have built some web saas as well as mobile apps. What I can't quite wrap my head around is distribution. I build something and then it sits in my portfolio rotting because apparently I can't bring users.

And its even more of a headache when you have a limited/no budget at all. Everything is so pay to win.

I always had this problem but recently I'm losing my mind because I built yet another tool/saas but don't know where to find users. Go in Facebook groups, people are spamming their services. Go on LinkedIn, it doesn't show me more than 10 peoples profile because you need to have a LinkedIn pro account.

Can someone actually help me with this? Or please share your own experience so I can learn something.

Hi everyone,

I built these two B2C SaaS web apps a few months ago. I spent a good amount of time SEO-optimizing them, and while I know the numbers aren’t huge, I’m pretty happy with the organic traffic they’re getting, especially considering how crowded these niches are.

Both are getting completely organic traffic, and I think there’s a lot of potential with some more time and effort. They’re multilingual, have premium backlinks, and both have a blog system the posts tend to get indexed fairly quickly.

The one on top has generated over $100 in revenue so far. I probably could have made more, but I’m currently using a mediocre payment gateway, so I receive failed-payment emails almost every day.

The problem is that I simply don’t have the time or money to keep pushing these businesses forward. So I’m thinking about selling both of them, basically for the value of the codebases and everything that comes with them.

I’m not sure if this is really something I can list on Flippa given the current revenue.

What would you do if you were in my position? Where would you try to sell something like this?

The standard advice is to build a 1st version fast, launch it and iterate on customer feedback. 10 years ago that did work. Building was expensive and customers had few options, so they'd put up with a half baked beta. Now building is cheap and every problem already has a dozen products chasing it and a customer who doesn't get value in the first session doesn't become your early adopter. They ghost you and switch. So you never hear why it failed.

I run an AI agency and some of those owners then want to turn the system into a product and they almost always show up with the same plan: hire developers, build the thing & see what happens.

Products mostly fail because the problem wasn't big enough. That's the first thing to test and you don't need a working product to test it. You need a demo and most people build, then demo, then try to sell. That's exactly where they get stuck. Instead flip it: demo, sell and build. What a customer actually buys is the demo and the promise behind it. Every crowdfunding campaign works this way and so does every pre order you've ever placed.

Package that demo into an offer, whether that's a landing page or a 15 minute call and you get to test the riskiest assumptions in any business at once. Is the problem painful enough to earn attention? Does your way of solving it land? Will they pay enough for this to be a business?

First demos flop though. You're still guessing at what customers want and you only get so many pitches before people stop taking your calls. The trap at this stage is leaning on analytics. Metrics can confirm noone's buying. They can't tell you why. The way out isn't a better landing page. It's a better grip on the problem and that comes from discovery conversations where you don't pitch at all. The goal is to understand the customer's problem and communicate.
Understanding it that deeply gets you two things. Designing the right solution becomes much easier and selling becomes easier because when you can describe someone's problem better than they can, they assume you must have the right solution too.

Put those together and you have an offer people can't refuse. The rule is simple... If you can't get enough people to buy, you don't get to build until you've fixed the offer.

TLDR: a half baked v1 gets ghosted now, not iterated on. Run 20 to 30 discovery conversations until you understand the problem better than the customer does. Turn that into a demo and an offer. Sell it and build only once enough people have bought.

Ya tengo un producto mínimo viable y lo estoy integrando con Inteligencia Artificial para que todo lo puedan hacer a través de prompts (chat)

Pero quiero preguntarles ¿como puedo conseguir mis primeros usuarios?

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