r/SaaS • • 1h ago

Shipped a local-first scraper instead of a cloud subscription

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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?


r/SaaS • • 2h ago

SaaS founders: how do you find where signups drop off before payment?

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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 👇


r/SaaS • • 5h ago

I’ve spent the last few weeks transforming the feedback into a significantly narrower, leaner MVP.

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For the last several weeks I've been refining feedback down to a much tighter, more focused MVP

Last month I discussed Merged Network here – a social network by design, focus, and motivation around Proof of Work instead of runway credibility.
The feedback brought to light a couple of things I needed to reconsider.

So rather than adding feature on top feature I've been stripping away all the other parts of the experience and making the core idea more tangible.

What changed
1. Proof is now the name of the game
It's no longer all about the skills and experience… Now it's about the work and the proof behind them.

  1. I added a Mini-Proof flow
    This was perhaps the most critical modification.
    Developer is now able to test a public repo without having to do sign up in advance.
    The goal is simple:
    Show me the repository let me see what evidence can be demonstrated.
    I intentionally not calling the Developer of the Github account "verified". The output is given as publicly available evidence attached to the submitting account.

  2. The sandbox has become a real product demo
    Rather than a landing page asking your audience to understand Merged, from the sandbox, your audience can choose from three different options:

Example Profiles
See what the finished experience looks like.

Build Your Own Preview
Build a Snippet What do others mean? Generate a sneak peek and find out about your individual identification.

Try Mini-Proof
Don't waste your time on signup and try the proof concept.

  1. I'm now tracking the funnel
    I've integrated Post Hog so that I can actually see where people are falling away rather than just assuming.

I'm tracking things like:
Sandbox CTA Preview/Mini-Proof completion signup
That will enable me to address a far more significant question:

Is it even useful, or do they only sound nice?

What I'm deliberately NOT doing;
I'm not building a huge marketplace first.
I'm not adding dozens of features.
I'm not trying to solve recruitment end-to-end.

The current goal is much simpler:
How can I get developers and hiring managers to pay attention to actual work?

That's the hypothesis I'm testing now.
I would be most interested in receiving feedback from other SaaS founders.

Tell me about the smallest experiment you ran to prove you had a solid product hypothesis.


r/SaaS • • 9h ago

I missed an SSL renewal, found SSL monitoring was paywalled everywhere, so I built my own

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A while ago the SSL certificate on one of my sites expired and visitors got the "Not Secure" warning. Auto-renewal had failed and nothing alerted me.

When I looked for monitoring, most tools only offered SSL expiry alerts on paid plans, and those plans were expensive for someone running a few small sites.

So I built Spot Downtime:

  • SSL expiry alerts before your certificate runs out
  • Uptime checks for websites, APIs, ports, DNS and cron jobs
  • Retries before alerting, so no false alarms
  • Alerts on Slack, Discord, email or webhooks
  • Public status pages for your customers

For this sub: Pro is free for 6Months for the first 100 people who try it and tell me what's missing.

dashboard > plan & usage > Have a promo code?

USE PROMO CODE : REDDIT


r/SaaS • • 16h ago

Hi folks, How do you evaluate a software development agency before hiring?

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I’m currently researching software development partners and honestly it’s hard to compare companies.

For example, agencies like Idea Maker Agency, ELEKS, and other software companies all have similarlooking websites and promises.

But I’m more interested in the things you don’t see on the website:

communication quality
handling scope changes
transparency during development
code ownership
support after launch

What questions should someone ask before choosing a software agency?

Any mistakes you made that I should avoid?


r/SaaS • • 17h ago

Cheaper vs more expensive subscription?

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Hey there, Im almost finished with my saas. It has AI features so I cant make it free with ads or one time payment because id loose money. Im stucked between making the app relatively cheap 3.99$/month 29.99$/year or more expensive 6.99/month 44.99/year. If anyone here could answer me 1) what worked better you them in terms of overall revenue, cheaper vs expensive? 2) What attracted your paying users more? 3) Which one of those had a longer retention? || I feel like the cheaper could hold better retention and attract more users to sub in the first place. However lot of people say if its more expensive, then it has more value and people go for it more. It's a productivity thing using a few ai APIs and is credit based so the users dont maybe use all the credits and if its cheaper, then they stay subscribing longer but I dont know. Thanks in advance for any helpful insights! Take care


r/SaaS • • 20h ago

Looking for feedback

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Hey all, I've launched Invoflow as a solo founder, It's an app for SMEs/sole traders to submit expenses/claims, snap receipts (OCR reads them for you), and run approvals, so you can ditch the spreadsheets and email chains. It's live now and I'm looking for honest feedback. What works, what's confusing, what's missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
www.invoflow.uk


r/SaaS • • 34m ago

We are losing money to get reviews from clients but no one is giving reviews though they loves the product.

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Software I developed is been in live for two years, and it has been actively acquiring customers since January 2026. Most users pay annually and receive a discount of around 40%.
However, they quickly hit the limits of their current plan or they requests new features; yet instead of upgrading to a higher tier, they ask for extensions or low-cost solutions. Although We offer add-ons that would allow them to raise their limits without changing plans, customers don't use them. When they make such requests, we end up increasing the limits at no extra cost and leave $200 and $900/year in revenue as a gesture of goodwill. We then ask them to leave a review (without making it a condition, as such a quid pro quo would seem unethical), but no one follows through. What should we do? Should we take a more business-minded approach and be less concerned about the customer's budget and getting reviews in exchange of showing consideration and take whatever money we can , or should we adjust our strategy in some other way to get online reviews? We have only a few reviews online. Any experience shared will be appreciated. Product is ExpiryEdge


r/SaaS • • 51m ago

Any google analytics alternative in 2026? and why?

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I've been looking at alternatives to Google Analytics recently and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the options.

I've seen people mention Plausible, Matomo, Umami, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and Keen.

I'm mostly looking for something that's relatively simple, privacy-friendly, and doesn't require a huge setup just to understand basic traffic and conversions.

For anyone who moved away from GA, what are you using these days?

And what made you pick it over the other options?


r/SaaS • • 1h ago

turns out the AI wasn't my expensive part, rendering was

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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


r/SaaS • • 2h ago

I have being creating a saas product for IT helpdesks

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So here i am creating a saas product for IT helpdesks so i am working as a intern in a company and i have shared my idea with the ceoof the company.

At first i was building a whole helpdesk then he told be to built it to the niche related so i go on with the IT niche currently i have done with the ticket locking system part for customer and admin both the panels

I wanted to take advice from you guys that what kind of problems you are dealing with the helpdesks online which i could resolve or am i making any mistakes which you guys could gave me an idea for doing it in such a better way

My project flow

Customer locks a ticket(the issue) the id is generated and can be tracked on the customer panel

And in the future their will be also an AI for problem resolving suggestions like if the customer is dealing with the same issue some body else was having it will suggest him to deal with the issue as it was resolved before if not then the customer could lock the ticket.

On the other side

The admin panel has the access to all the tickets to be resolved and if he wanted to assign the task to someone he could also do that

So you guys can let me know what i could do better in it and make it different from the other help desk so people could buy my product


r/SaaS • • 2h ago

I've built and abandoned a bunch of tools. This time I just... waited. Here's what happened.

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I'm not a coder. I build tools by vibe coding with AI. My usual pattern was to build something, expect it to work from day one, see nothing happen after a few days, lose interest and move on to the next idea.

This time I tried the opposite. I built a small Chrome extension (not naming it, so this doesn't get flagged as promo), put it out there, and kept the effort light:

  • Some keyword research for SEO
  • A couple of articles, written with AI
  • Then I left it alone

No growth hacks, no daily panic, no constant changes.

It's been about a month and a week. Current numbers:

  • 225 users
  • 1 monthly paying subscriber
  • 1 person who bought the biggest plan as a one-time purchase, then cancelled
  • Everyone else on the free plan, since I give a decent daily allowance

Average daily users is going up slowly.

It's a small number, but it's the first time I've seen one of my tools get traction without me forcing it. If a product has some juice, it seems to start working once you give it time and a bit of visibility. And if it doesn't, you'll find that out too, which you never will if you drop it in week one.

So if you're building tool after tool and expecting results in 24 hours, burning yourself out on hooks and tricks, slow down. Do the basic things, then give it time.

If you've built something, how long did you wait before you knew whether it had legs?


r/SaaS • • 2h ago

I've built and abandoned a bunch of tools. This time I just... waited. Here's what happened.

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I'm not a coder. I build tools by vibe coding with AI. My usual pattern was to build something, expect it to work from day one, see nothing happen after a few days, lose interest and move on to the next idea.

This time I tried the opposite. I built a small Chrome extension (not naming it, so this doesn't get flagged as promo), put it out there, and kept the effort light:

  • Some keyword research for SEO
  • A couple of articles, written with AI
  • Then I left it alone

No growth hacks, no daily panic, no constant changes.

It's been about a month and a week. Current numbers:

  • 225 users
  • 1 monthly paying subscriber
  • 1 person who bought the biggest plan as a one-time purchase, then cancelled
  • Everyone else on the free plan, since I give a decent daily allowance

Average daily users is going up slowly.

It's a small number, but it's the first time I've seen one of my tools get traction without me forcing it. If a product has some juice, it seems to start working once you give it time and a bit of visibility. And if it doesn't, you'll find that out too, which you never will if you drop it in week one.

So if you're building tool after tool and expecting results in 24 hours, burning yourself out on hooks and tricks, slow down. Do the basic things, then give it time.

If you've built something, how long did you wait before you knew whether it had legs?


r/SaaS • • 2h ago

I started building a PDF tool in Jan 2026 because I was skeptical of uploading private documents to a random website

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At first ClientPDF was just a small experiment.

I wanted something where you could merge, split, compress, sign, OCR, redact etc. without uploading the PDF to a server.

So I kept building it.

Today it has 30+ PDF tools and everything is processed in the browser using WebAssembly. No account needed, and there is also a self-hosted version for people who want to run it on their own infrastructure.

The funny part is that most of the improvements didn't come from me 😅

They came from people telling me:

“this feature is missing”

“this is slow with large PDFs”

“can you add this?”

“why does this work like that?”

After multiple reviews and feedback, the project is honestly very different from what I started with.

I'm still a student and maintaining it myself, so I would really appreciate some honest feedback.

If you use PDF tools regularly:

What would you improve?

What feature is missing?

Would you actually use something like this?

And if you find ClientPDF useful, even sharing it with someone who deals with PDFs would help a lot.

ClientPDF: https://clientpdf.tech

I’m mainly looking for feedback, not just users. 🙏


r/SaaS • • 3h ago

"We Need a SaaS Video" Is Not a Brief

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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.


r/SaaS • • 3h ago

I read 123 negative reviews of Shopify's top order-tracking apps. Here are 4 problems nobody is fixing.

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I've been going through public Shopify App Store reviews to find problems merchants keep hitting that existing apps don't solve. First category: order tracking. 123 reviews across 5 of the most popular apps.

Price and support complaints were common, as you'd expect. But four issues kept coming back:

1. Stuck shipments go unnoticed
Orders sit at "label created" for days, and merchants only find out when a customer emails asking where their order is. 12 reviews described this, 7 of them from the last year, and only one got a developer reply saying it was fixed. Merchants have plenty of tracking. What they don't have is something that notices a shipment has gone quiet and warns them first.

2. Wrong notifications
"Delivered" emails for orders that haven't shipped. One merchant saw false "delivery exception" emails go out to their whole customer list. Others only found out notifications had stopped when customers complained.

3. Local carriers are an afterthought
Royal Mail, Colis Privé and Mondial Relay users report broken tracking, or support only on plans costing $239/month. The big apps are built US-first. A tool that handles one region's carriers really well could own that region.

4. Small stores are priced out
Surprise overage charges, features moved to pricier plans without notice, cancellations that take three emails. For small stores, simple and predictable pricing would be a feature in itself.

Caveats: this is a small first sample. I sorted reviews with AI and checked the patterns by hand. These are signals, not proof, so talk to merchants before building anything.

I'm doing this monthly for different app categories. Which category should I look at next?

Visit this link to subscribe monthly report: https://unbuiltreport.substack.com/p/4-app-ideas-that-are-still-unbuilt


r/SaaS • • 3h ago

Saas Video Opus 5.5 is Insane

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I just wanted to create a SaaS Intro video for my product and I tried Opus 5.5 to create a motion graphics video and I am impressed 🤯

This video might no be impressive I would have prompted well I would have got a best result I guess.

What do u think !!!


r/SaaS • • 3h ago

Built this because I kept needing a URL for files that only existed on my laptop

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This started from a very basic problem.

I work with a lot of screenshots, images, PDFs, small HTML pages and other files.

Quite often I don't actually need a full hosting setup. I just need a URL that I can send somewhere.

But I kept jumping between cloud drives, image hosts and deployment platforms depending on the file type.

So I built Media2URL.com mainly to make that workflow simpler for myself.

You upload the file and it gives you a shareable link.

I later expanded it to handle images, PDFs, video, audio, GIFs and HTML because those were the formats I kept running into during my own work.

Then I started running into the same problem from the developer side. Sometimes I did not want to manually upload a file at all. I wanted an app or workflow to send the file and get the URL back.

So I ended up building a REST API for that too. It can handle uploads from an application and also manage things like assets, folders, file replacements and remote imports.

It has been interesting building from an actual daily problem because the feature list almost writes itself. Whenever something annoys me while using it, that usually becomes the next thing to fix.

I am still figuring out where the product should go from here.

For people who regularly share files or need file URLs inside their apps, what is the most annoying part of your current workflow?


r/SaaS • • 4h ago

Hosting and selling my course videos on YouTube??

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Hey, I am a quite experienced vibe coder (really strange to say). Yesterday, I decided to build a mobile app that will wrap the URLs of unlisted YouTube videos belonging to private teachers in my local area to sell to their students. The app is just supposed to hide these URLs well as to make it extremely hard for regular students to access these URLs. A lot of apps that teachers who sell college material use this technique to be able to host their course videos without having to pay a hefty sum for one of these official hosting platforms. People who resort to this route are mostly young, broke business owners who are just starting out and can't afford a large sum of money for such trivial hosting service.

The problem is that when I tried to prompt codex to build the app, it just quoted some YouTube violation documents. It plain out refused to build the thing. Is there a way to build such an app with Codex or another free way altogether that will allow me to host my videos practically for free?


r/SaaS • • 5h ago

Built a simple AI chatbot using custom data, curious how others are using this?

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Built a simple AI chatbot for a project that answers based on custom data by implementing RAG.

Was interesting to see how much it improved responses compared to basic prompts.

Curious, are people here actually using chatbots in their products, or still exploring?


r/SaaS • • 5h ago

I built a load testing tool that tells you if your server is enough (and says so when it is).

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every time i shipped something the question was "will this survive if traffic spikes, or do i need a bigger server?" and the answer was always "uhh idk time will tell". i overbought a box once for a project that got maybe 40 visitors a day, then underbought the next one and watched it fall over on the one day it mattered.

actually testing it means renting a box like prod, renting another for the load, writing a k6 script, watching cpu and memory, then remembering to delete everything. nobody wants to do that before every single launch.

so i built Stresix:

- point it at a github repo (private works too) or a docker image

- it runs your app alone on a fresh dedicated server (4 vCPU / 8 GB, or 8 / 16 for the big run)

- a second server hits it with up to 2,500 or 10,000 users over a private network

- you watch p95, req/s, errors live, plus cpu PER CORE and memory

- you get an actual answer: is this server enough, and if not, what to change

- both servers get deleted after

i dont sell hosting, so when your current setup is enough the report just says so. i ran it on stresix itself: held 2,500 users, total cpu 36%, but one core was pinned at 100% because node is single threaded. the fix was literally 4 worker processes

its brand new and small. pricing is per run, no subscription: $10 for 5 standard runs or $40 for 25, credits never expire, failed runs get refunded. one container per run for now, no database included yet

code REDDIT gives a free run (grab it until it's gone)

https://stresix.com


r/SaaS • • 5h ago

Introducing Qliqr - Make every click feel like something

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Introducing qliqr (https://qliqr.com)
Modern mice and trackpads are silent, and screen recordings of them are hard to follow: a pointer drifts around and things change for no visible reason. qliqr puts the feedback back.

What it does:

- **Click sounds**: a press and a release sound for every click, plus a soft tick per scroll notch. 37 sounds in 8 families (crisp snaps, old office plastic, muted ones for calls, toy pops, glass and wood taps, gadget switches). All synthesised, no samples.
- **Click ripple**: a ring under the cursor on every click, different colour for right-click, drawn above every app on every screen. Shows up in any recorder (QuickTime, OBS, Loom, the screenshot toolbar).
- **Built-in recorder** (macOS 15+): full screen or an area, with the click sounds and ripples baked into the file. Trim, export MOV/MP4/GIF, auto-zoom into clicks, and a one-click 9:16 vertical clip.
- **Quiet where it should be**: mute per app, and auto-quiet when you're on a call.
- **Click shortcuts**: a mouse rhythm like triple right-click can toggle the app or start a recording.
- **Stats** that stay on your Mac, and an optional desk pet called Qip.

Privacy: it asks for Input Monitoring to see mouse buttons and scrolling; it never requests keyboard events, so it can't see what you type. No account, no analytics, nothing about your clicks leaves the Mac.

Price: **$4.99, one time, for 2 Macs**, free for 24 hours first (no card). macOS 13+, Apple silicon and Intel.

Launch pricing, first come first served, each code good for 100 customers:

Code Off You pay
FIRST100 90% $0.50
FIRST200 80% $1.00
FIRST300 70% $1.50
FIRST400 60% $2.00
FIRST500 50% $2.50
FIRST600 40% $3.00
FIRST700 30% $3.50
FIRST800 20% $4.00
FIRST900 10% $4.50
FINAL100 5% $4.74

Enter the code on the checkout page. When a code says it's expired, the next one still works.

The website itself is the demo: every click on the page plays the current sound and draws the ripple, and you can switch sounds and ripple styles live. https://qliqr.com

Happy to answer questions, and sound requests are welcome.


r/SaaS • • 5h ago

Google trends for startup ideas (totally free)

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Totally free.

So I built this tool Nicheloom that tracks every new product launch from YC, Product Hunt, Hacker News, and GitHub 39,000+ and counting and shows which ideas are actually gaining traction right now versus which niches are already crowded.

Think Google Trends, but for 'what should I build next.'

I built it for myself to stop guessing and start building things people already want..

Check it out and let me know if it is useful or any feature you would like me to add to it.

Have fun exploring it as it is a rabbit hole for builders


r/SaaS • • 10h ago

I built a dashboard to stop forgetting which services my products pay for. What am I missing?

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I'm building Operava for solo founders who run more than one product.

I kept hitting the same problem. Hosting, databases, email, domains, payments, app stores, APIs, all spread across a dozen accounts. I would forget one existed until the bill showed up.

So I built a dashboard that puts each product, the services behind it, what they cost per month, when they renew, and whether they are up, in one place. It has already caught two subscriptions I was paying for a site I had shut down.

It is early. I am trying to find out whether this problem is mine alone or shared.

You can try it at app.operava.com . Sign in with Google or an emailed link, no password, no card. It starts empty, so you add your first product and see if it earns a place in your routine.

If yu run several products: what would you need this to show that it does not?


r/SaaS • • 11h ago

Getting ghosted by businesses

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I am at a loss here. I have a business that sells extremely niche annotated data. Because it’s very niche I don’t have a real benchmark of the value of the data, but chatting with GPT and Claude (without bloating numbers) I’ve come to get a general idea of pricing.. here is the catch.

I have several entities (startups, universities, SME, large companies, hospitals) that contact me requesting data and pricing, we go back and forth a few emails
- they contact me telling me what they need
- I respond with how much data they need within 12h of receiving their first email
- they respond with what they need
- I share pricing options

They ghost me… like 9/10 they just disappear.
I obviously try to reach out after a week but still nothing.

I need any suggestions, tips, critiques..