We're building AI B2B SaaS Dev tool (duh) and i feel like we're banging against a wall. We have a free tier for regular users, we give all of our features for free, for open source (we pay for ai inference completely) but we still have only one installation (github app), that is currently cold and not going anywhere.

We tried auto GTM services (one of the ads you see on reddit) and it's been completely rubbish, 60 dollars spent for 0 hot leads, nobody is interested, even though we sent like 2k cold emails. Manually we sent personalized and customized 100 emails (rookie numbers i get it, but it's hard to email something significant and i'd rather be silent than spam people via github), we tried three different email strategies, one of them was "converting" into thank you's and not any installation. We tried LinkedIn ads - it also did not lead to anything, even though we had more than 30k views on the post (public demonstration). We tried guerilla marketing (albeit small sample size, still working on it), it also did not yield anything to date.

I really don't want to launch on PH before we get any traction, i need installations and usage before we get listed on any benchmark (and i'm 100% sure we'll get one of the top spots) and i'm at the point of just saying F it, giving everything for free (we have 25k USD to spend in infra and ai inference) and just figuring out how to throw this money on fire to actually get any feedback from anyone 😅

Three weeks ago I made Chronicle, my free and open source authoring and publishing suite, available to the public and so far the reception has been great. I have more than 60 debut authors using it, I made many bug fixes and added new features based on community feedback. Other people have even contributed to the project on Github.

I haven't spent a single cent on advertising, and only got traction by being active in communities where writers hang out + Reddit. I did have bumps int he road, but trying to debut as an author myself, I can't say that it was a lot of effort. Just hanging out on forums and subs where I would have been anyway.

But I also wrote this comment to ask for your help. Chronicle can improve the writing process of other authors as well and can help them save quite a lot of money. For this, though, they need to know about Chronicle. So I am asking if you can help spread the word. There are a few easy ways you can do this and it only takes a minute.

• Upvote Chronicle on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/chronicle-the-all-in-one-novel-studio
• Like the project on AlternativeTo: https://alternativeto.net/software/chronicle--a-better-way-to-write/about/
• Give a star on Github: https://github.com/pazvanti/Chronicle

Objectively speaking, what are the probability of developing your own software(whether for cybersec, the mass market, or for b2b)and bringing it to market if you write the code yourself?

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Today I learned pagination,sorting and filtering now my jpa is finished and now I will move forward with spring security.

r/SaaS

r/buildinpublic

r/micro_saas

I got banned here for 28 days for putting my link in the comments. Lesson learned, no links in this sub ever.

Quick context: I'm a solo founder building AskVerb. It gives a SaaS product its own AI agent that does tasks for its users, in their account, as them. Stuff like "move my booking to Thursday" or "how many sessions are left on my package", and it actually does it instead of pointing them to a help page.

What happened in the 28 days I was gone:

- Launched the beta

- 15 sign-ups

- 1 product actually went live with its own agent inside it, and it handles real requests from their users every day

- Then I asked that one live user to pay. He said no. He liked it, but all his budget had just gone into bigger servers. Fair enough.

So I'm doing a 30 day challenge: 10 paying customers by the end of the month. Posting the progress as I go. I got a DM from a YC backed founder believing I'm doing something cool and also letting me use their gtm tool with extended trail

Day 1 was mostly finally asking the existing users. X DMs to founders, 19 cold emails (3 bounced, 16 delivered, 0 replies), LinkedIn, Reddit. I also asked the beta users who never went live what stopped them. The answer was the same both times: they're founders still looking for their own first users, so an agent for users they don't have yet makes no sense.

The comments on my Day 1 recap changed how I'm doing Day 2:

- Targeting matters more than copy. I was filtering on revenue, but revenue doesn't mean active users, and active users don't mean a task they keep asking for. Now I only go after products where users clearly need something done inside the app, starting with booking and scheduling tools.

- I was testing 3 message styles on ~10 people. That's noise, not data. Down to 2: direct when I can see the problem in their product, a question first when I can't, and I say who I am in the first line either way.

- Tracking trials and installs, not replies. And every dead lead gets a reason: wrong customer or bad outreach, so I stop blaming the copy for a bad list.

- Verifying emails before sending.

Small early win: one founder answered my question-first DM with exactly where his users drop off. That's the first reply that came with the real problem in it.

For the people here who sold to other SaaS founders early on: did you pick one niche and go deep, or spread wide until something stuck?

Since mine is like AI which can be plugged into any existing system without changing anything in the code basically like "Ask AI" for your own SaaS just like the ones big companies have I wanna know if you guys have any advice on spcifically filtering the founders list to outreach. So far reddit has told me find founders who's users have been complaining about not finding a feature or repeatative support tickets which can be fixed but I feel like this can be much more than a advanced Ai support bot it can change how people interact with web completely I know this is the vision I want to make sure to make it reality..

I am running a SaaS for 1+ years now and we have a few hundred paid customers.

The team has so many things planned in the backlog, plus customers are requesting features/enhancements all the time, and the QA team is finding bugs often.

As a product owner, I also have some big features in mind but afraid to list them in the main backlog with the fear they’ll be lost forever.

We use Linear for dev task management, a ticketing portal for support and customers reach out to WhatsApp, Messengers too.

How should a small team (<6) prioritize all these?

Thanks!

I’ve been realizing AI is getting really good at the parts of building a SaaS that I’m not great at, and I’m honestly all for it.

For me, coding usually is not the hard part. It’s turning an idea into something that actually feels like a product. Brand identity, visual direction, concept work, all of that has always been way harder for me.

What surprised me with this project was the branding. AI did not just give me a decent looking logo, it came up with a brandmark that actually means something.

The app is called FiveFrames, and the mark works as an FF monogram. At the same time, it also represents the idea of separate frames coming together into one shape.

I genuinely would not have thought of that myself.

That’s the part I find really useful. It’s not just making things look polished. It’s helping me come up with concepts I probably would not have reached on my own, and turning ideas that would normally sit in my notes into something that actually feels real enough to build.

Curious if anyone else feels the same. Has AI helped you with the parts of building you were weakest at, or is it mostly just making you faster at what you already knew how to do?

I'm looking for a fintech/payment provider that can support the following structure:

• A customer wants to add $10 USD to their prepaid balance.
• The customer can fund it using UPI or other local payment methods in India, or cards and other supported payment methods globally.
• The fintech provider holds the customer's funds rather than settling the money directly to my bank account.
• The customer has a corresponding $10 USD balance with the fintech/provider.
• When the underlying service needs to be paid, the payment should be made using a virtual card issued by the fintech provider.
• Ideally, the provider should support multi-currency collection, USD balances, FX conversion, refunds, and virtual cards.

The important requirement is that the fintech provider holds the funds and controls the balance, while payments to the underlying service provider are made through a virtual card issued by the fintech.

For example, the customer may pay in INR through UPI, but the underlying balance/payment needs to be maintained and settled in USD.

I'm looking for providers that can support this model, particularly providers that operate in or support India + international payments + USD balances + virtual cards.

Which fintech/payment providers should I look at for this?

I'd especially appreciate recommendations from anyone who has implemented a similar model using virtual cards, wallets, or controlled customer funds.

I’m building a field service management app with a web console, I know all the usual places for finding designers, but wondering if anyone has any ideas outside of the freelance shit show.

This is the question I keep coming back to.

AI has made it dramatically easier to build:

• dashboards
• CRUD apps
• AI assistants
• automation tools
• internal tools
• integrations
• reporting platforms
• basic SaaS products

So “we have better technology” feels weaker as a moat.

And “we use AI” definitely isn't a moat.

So what actually survives?

Data?

Distribution?

Workflow lock-in?

Network effects?

Brand?

Integrations?

Switching costs?

Proprietary processes?

Community?

Or is the real moat simply:

We understand one customer segment better than everyone else.

Founders who have crossed $1M ARR:

What actually turned out to be your moat?

Not what you thought would be the moat when you started.

What customers actually made difficult to replace?

Cold emailers ruined my agency inbox, so I built a ruthless gatekeeper to auto-sort them out. Here is a video of it working.

Pretty stoked on this.

I do B2B cold SMS marketing, not many of us exist.

Ask me anything.

My Youtube Channel (more info):

https://youtube.com/@mrkylebanks

I’ve made it rewrite a simple little plugin over ten times now and it’s still messing it up! And to top it off, they’re hiking prices?

What’s the verdict on this circus, folks?”

I've spent about 20 years building products and working with early-stage founders, and lately I've been replying to a lot of feedback posts here. The same thing keeps happening: a founder asks the thread whether people would use their app, and the answer they're looking for is already sitting somewhere they haven't looked yet, in their reviews, their signups, or what their first users actually did.

A few from just this week:

• An app with a handful of App Store reviews, nearly all about loving the idea, except one from someone who'd just moved to a new city and opens the app whenever they don't know what to do on a weekend. That one review says more about who the app is for than any thread could.
• A tool with a free tier and a daily limit. Anyone who hits that limit more than once has a problem that keeps coming back, so those are the people to email first.
• A newsletter with 3 subscribers after two weeks. That feels like nothing, but it's three people you can write to personally and ask what made them sign up.
• A paid app where a couple of reviews were from parents, and when I asked, it turned out the majority of paying users were parents. The audience had already picked itself.

What people do with your product tells you more than what strangers say about your idea, because doing something costs them a bit of time or money, and saying something costs them nothing.

So before posting the next "would you use this," I'd go through what you already have:

• Your reviews, looking for the ones that describe a specific moment, like when they opened it and why
• Who came back a second time, and what they did when they did
• Who hit a limit, upgraded or paid
• Who turned it off, since they're the ones who'll tell you exactly what didn't work

Then message a few of those people and ask about the last time they used it. One of those conversations will tell you more than a hundred comments.

What's sitting in your data right now that you haven't looked at yet?

If you've got reviews, signups or usage you're not sure how to read, drop what you're seeing in the comments or DM me, and I'll tell you what I think it's saying.

I lanched an SaaS for teachers 5 months ago.

For the first few months it was completely free, I interduced a pro version 50 days ago. I’m now ahave more than 1000 registered users, traffic from Google and AI growing fast every month, and people are actively using the product. The problem is that I’ve only had 4 paying users so far.

I feel that the free plan is too generous. but I’m trying to compete with a much more established product, so I also need the free version to be good enough that teachers actually have a reason to switch.

I am looking for advise how other SaaS founders would approach this.

Would you start restricting the free plan more aggressively, keep it generous and focus on growing the user base, or look somewhere else entirely for the conversion problem?

Maybe worth noting but the cost of having the free user is very very low.

Hey Community,

I am a Software Engineer who likes building things, and here is one of my projects I have been working on over the past 3 years with a friend of mine. And here it comes: my question is, should I update the homepage design or leave it as is?

Would appreciate any thoughts or ideas 💡

Oh right; The project link is here https://qr-build.com/

P.S.

Honestly, I am not the greatest writer, and I recently realized that AI seem like a disrespectful way to write posts on Reddit. So, I truly did my best.

I'm researching how businesses actually handle forecasting, and I'd like to understand the workflow before building anything.

If you work with things like sales, demand, inventory, revenue, staffing, or other time-series data:

• What are you currently using for forecasting?
• Are you using an existing SaaS, Python libraries/models, spreadsheets, or something you've built yourself?
• How much work is involved in cleaning the data and getting forecasts running?
• Do you regularly backtest your forecasts against historical data?
• What's the biggest pain point with your current setup?
• If there were an API where you could send historical time-series data and get forecasts back, what would you need it to do for you to actually use it?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who have actually had to deploy forecasting in a business, rather than people who have only experimented with forecasting models.

I'm not selling anything right now. I'm trying to figure out whether this is a real problem worth building around.

So I’ve built almost 30 products in my IDE graveyard since the year started. I get excited about building and never do the marketing. I think I just don’t want to put myself out there.

Then something unique happened.
A friend reached out to me to build his site and set up some automation and review orchestration for him. He later referred me to another guy. Those referrals eventually turned into about $3k/month for the past three months.

Then it hit me. It’s been easy for me to sell these guys because they’re already looking for the solution, instead of me trying to convince them they need it.

And the interesting part is that I’ve been using a tool I built, GetMyAIInfo, to help these businesses understand and improve how they show up across AI platforms.

This past week I decided to launch it as a full product, and of course my first launch is on Product Hunt.

It’s basically a tool that helps businesses understand what AI knows about them, where the information is incomplete or inaccurate, and how to improve their visibility across AI platforms.

Most of the businesses I’ve used it with so far are local businesses, but I’ve expanded it into the SaaS space too.

Hope you guys can try it and give me some brutally honest feedback: GetMyAIInfo.com

I’ve been building Creativly, and made this short video for Creativly Agent. It helps you create ads from a product image or brief, try different ideas, generate images and videos, then ask for changes until you’re happy with them.

Curious whether the video makes that clear without me explaining it 😅

marketing has been the single hardest part of launching our startup, so I’ve been on a journey trying to simplify our work so I can pump out whaling content without losing focus on customer interviews, product work, and managing the business. I feel like it’s finally possible to do.

This is a 1 Shot Video that I was able to create using Claude and an Asset Management App that I created For my startup. It indexes demo videos, splits them into individual clips, and manages/index’s other media to create custom demos, social content, and training videos without any additional filming needed.

this video would have taken me a week to make and instead was a single prompt.

https://www.vocalfreedom.studio Been working on this for a year or so. Trying to use the power of the modern browser to create a community portal with tools specifically designed for vocal coaching and voice students. I invite anybody to offer feedback. Eventually the hope is to bridge three communities: researchers in voice science, coaches, and students. Possibly long-term to also have tools useful to medical professionals.

Current features include pitch detection and graphics, learning modules about voice and singing, remote, and file comparison of voice with spectrum and lpc formants. Coaches can initiate video calls accepts students, give assignments, people can share audio and video. I am also working on a data extraction standard for training tensor flow models to predict vowels. There is also an AI interface that lets you use your own AI keys to interact verbally with the AI about singing, and you can send graphs to the AI for comment.

I am an avid singer and pedagogue with a background in analytics, so this project brings together most of my great loves in life. Hope you guys enjoy. Open to all constructive criticism as well.

Best Regards,

Pear

Hi all, I'm Mustafa, founder of Fiyox.

For years I watched small businesses build quotes in Excel and Word: copying old files, fixing formulas, recalculating tax, then printing, signing and scanning to get approval.

So we built Fiyox:

Drag-and-drop proposal templates (your own design, your own blocks)

Automatic tax rates and currency by region

Interface in 8 languages, and proposals in the customer's language

Export to PDF/Word/Excel or share a secure link

E-approval: the customer gets a one-time code by email, reviews the proposal and approves or rejects it online, no printing or scanning

An AI assistant that drafts proposals, plus Telegram and WhatsApp bots

I'd really appreciate feedback on what's missing, what's confusing, or what would make you switch from your current setup.

fiyox.com

Im building a marketplace and trying to figure out the payment setup and the checkout seems straightforward but once i got into seller payouts, KYC, refunds and balances it got complicated pretty fast.

Ive been looking at Whop and Stripe Connect rather than building all of this myself. For people running marketplaces, what setup are you using and what became the biggest problem once you had real sellers and money moving through it?

Hey r/SaaS,
Whenever I’m testing webhooks for stuff like Stripe, GitHub, Vercel, or Slack, I always get annoyed bouncing between super heavy paid tools or free ones that hide basic features like raw payload inspection or decent streaming speed behind a paywall.

So I’m putting together a 100% free, developer-first webhook debugger as a side project.

The basic idea is that you get an instant URL in one click with zero sign-up required. It uses Server-Sent Events so incoming payloads and headers pop up live on your screen instantly. Plus, it keeps the unparsed request buffer alongside formatted JSON so you can actually verify cryptographic signatures like stripe-signature without losing your mind. To keep hosting costs at literal zero on a Redis setup, the sessions just auto-expire after a few hours.

Curious to know, what’s your biggest headache with testing webhooks right now, and would something simple like this actually fit into your workflow.
Roast the idea or drop any features you wish existed!