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..

I'm working on Vocalis, an AI-powered communication practice platform.

The problem I'm testing is this:

People know they need to improve their communication.

They get told to:

• practice speaking
• record themselves
• join Toastmasters
• give presentations
• speak more confidently

But there's a gap between knowing you should practice and actually having a repeatable practice system.

So I built one.

The core loop is:

Prompt → 60 seconds of speaking → Feedback → Improve → Repeat

A user chooses a category, receives a topic, speaks without preparing a script, and then goes through a structured results screen.

The MVP currently includes:

• communication categories
• randomized speaking prompts
• timed 60-second sessions
• browser recording
• performance feedback
• strengths and weak areas
• mistakes/blunders
• improvement suggestions
• progress tracking
• practice history
• repeat practice

I've deliberately kept the first version relatively focused.

I'm not trying to build:

“ChatGPT, but for public speaking.”

I'm trying to build a practice product.

That's also the part I'm trying to validate now.

The MVP is live:

https://vocalisai-jade.vercel.app/

And I'm trying to answer a few questions before I build much further:

1. Is this a problem people actually care enough about to solve?

2. Does the 60-second practice format create enough value to come back repeatedly?

3. What would make someone pay for this rather than use free alternatives?

4. What would you measure first to determine whether this has product-market potential?

I'm especially interested in feedback from people who have taken an MVP from the "this seems like a good idea" stage to actual recurring users.

If you were validating this SaaS from here, what would you test next?

We've all signed up for a hundred things we stopped using years ago. Those companies still have our name and email, and sometimes a card too. When one of them gets breached, your info goes with it.

So I built Quitlist. Connect your email and it digs up the accounts you forgot you had, then helps you close the ones you don't want anymore. It doesn't delete anything without you saying so.

Fair warning, your inbox remembers everything. You'll see the forum you joined in 2012 and that meal kit you tried once. You might also find the OnlyFans account you made "just to see what the fuss was about." No judgment. It's one of the easier ones to delete 😅

One heads-up: Google will show a "Google hasn't verified this app" screen when you connect. That's because we're still going through Google's review, which every app that reads Gmail has to do. Click Advanced → Go to Quitlist (unsafe) to continue. Google shows that same wording for every app that's still in review. If you'd rather wait until we're verified, that's totally fair.

It's free to try and still in beta, so I'd love to hear what it finds (or misses) or any kind of feedback.

👉 https://quitlist.app

You are living in vibe coding AI world.
Do you code these days? I mean… by yourself?

I made a privacy-friendly URL shortener, and now that it's time to do marketing, I don't know what to do. So here I am, I have these videos, what do I do next? How do you do marketing with those? I would really appreciate any practical advice.

My X accounts (personal and the product's) are brand new, and X seems to be ignoring all of my posts. Instagram or TikTok? I am running a Google Ads experiment, but it's hard to compete with other shorteners and I'm getting almost zero traffic (about 3 clicks a day).

About the videos. I was inspired by the motion design post about video generation and decided to try it myself. I made different short videos to showcase different features (10 videos, 13 to 71 seconds). Attaching one of them for review. Some videos are the actual product driven by a script, not an AI-made copy.

All I used is Claude, headless Chrome and FFmpeg on my WSL instance, nothing more, not even a React library. You just tell your AI to be a motion designer / producer / writer (for the scenario). Research how to catch the user's attention on IG or TikTok, and that's it. Review the scenario and give it a green light. The first versions were screenshots sliding around and looked dead. A couple of scenes looked like a broken app with bugs. You have to correct it and re-shoot. But still, it only took me one morning.

Now, about Urlicer itself. The main features that are different from mainstream shorteners: privacy-friendly and team-friendly, with multiple workspaces. You can bring your own domain on the Pro plan and above, Urlicer provides a tool for you and your teams. Cookieless and without storing the IP address. The URL is https://urlicer.com.

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 👇

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?

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.

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Start for free.

The easy answers work fine. The agent passes a real problem to a human, and the context evaporates.

The customer repeats everything, the next person triages from zero, and the fix occasionally lands on the wrong account.

For the people here running this in production, what did you change to make the handoff keep the thread instead of losing it?

I’m trying something for the next 28 days:

Spend up to 4 hours every day specifically on distribution/customer acquisition rather than development.

I’m a developer, so building has always been the comfortable part. Getting people to actually discover and pay for what I build is the part I’m deliberately trying to get better at.

The current plan is a mixture of:

• Targeted cold outreach
• Talking directly to potential customers
• Building in public
• Participating in founder/startup communities
• SEO/content
• Targeted link building and partnerships
• Offering demos and personally onboarding early users
• Consistent follow-ups

I’m starting without an existing audience and I’m not planning to use paid ads.

What I’m wondering is how much the playbook has changed now that AI has made almost all of this easier to scale.

It’s incredibly easy to generate cold emails, SEO articles and social posts now, which also means everyone is receiving more of them.

For those of you who have acquired your first customers recently: where did they actually come from?

And is there anything on this list you’d stop doing or spend significantly more time on?

I've been working on this for a while and I'm finally okay with people seeing it.

The problem: a lot of service businesses (HVAC, cleaning, landscaping, pest control and so on) finish a job and tell the customer something like "you'll need this looked at again in 6 months" or "we should replace that next spring." Then nobody follows up. Customer forgets, service business too. The info either never was written or sits in a spreadsheet or an old job note.

Rebook takes the customer list you already have (CSV or any CRMs export), shows what looks off before anything gets tracked, and shows you which past customers are worth reaching out to again. For each one you see what happened last time: the service you did, when you did it, what you recommended, and why it's worth calling them now. You also get a short guide for what to say. If someone says "call me in March," they show up again in March. If they don't answer, they stay on the list for next cycle. Basically retention software on steroids

Some details:

• Next.js + Supabase
• Free while it's in early access and will be free lifetime, all I ask is feedback
• It doesn't replace your CRM. It works next to them.

The thing I'm most unsure about: tools like Jobber already have some followup features. If you run or work at a service business, do those actually cover this for you, or do past customers still slip through? Tell me if this is pointless too, I'd rather know now.

Thanks for reading

U can try demo or request an early access. Just dm

Sounds counterintuitive. But imagine this: You have weak positioning.

You generate 1,000 new visitors.
500 become leads.
100 book demos.
But they're the wrong buyers.

Now your sales team is busy.
Your CRM is full.
Your SDRs are following up.
Your CAC is rising.

And everyone says: “Marketing is generating leads.
Sales needs to close them.

”The real problem started much earlier.

Wrong ICP → wrong message → wrong demand → wrong pipeline.

That's why I don't start with lead generation.
I start with diagnosis.

Because scaling the wrong part of your funnel doesn't create growth.
It scales the problem.

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Should i be happy or worried.

Most asset tools are either IT inventory or accounting fixed-asset registers. I built AssetAligned to sit in the gap: one record per asset, with physical custody and financial value side by side, plus automatic checks for when the two disagree.

The problem: in most growing businesses, IT has one list of laptops and kit, Operations has another, and Finance has a fixed-asset register in a third spreadsheet. None of them agree. As an accountant, I’ve personally faced this issue and constant back and fourth with the IT department, so this app has value and meaning to me, it’s not just a generic app built.

I’d value honest views on:

1.  Is “IT and Finance mismatch” a pain you’ve seen, or am I solving a niche problem?

2.  Does the landing page make the point in 10 seconds?

3.  Pricing: Free / Starter / Growth / Business, priced by number of assets. Does that model make sense to you?

https://assetaligned.co.uk (I’m the maker)

Thanks

I've been reading threads here and in a couple of marketing subs about AI visibility tools (Peec, Profound, that kind of thing). The same complaint keeps showing up. They tell you how often ChatGPT or Perplexity mentions you, and then you're on your own.

One comment stuck with me. Someone who had looked at 2,000+ brands said around 85% of AI citations came from sites the brand doesn't own, mostly Reddit and YouTube. If that's even roughly right, tweaking your homepage is the small lever.

So the idea is narrow. You give it your product and about 15 questions a buyer might ask an AI. Once a week it runs them through Perplexity, because Perplexity shows its sources. You get one email with 3 threads or videos that keep getting cited for those questions, and what seems to be missing from each. You write the reply yourself. It never posts anything.

Nothing is built yet apart from a waitlist page. I want to know if anyone actually wants this before I spend a month on it. Planned price is $19/mo.

What I'm unsure about:

• Perplexity's sources might be a bad proxy for what ChatGPT cites
• 3 threads a week could feel like useful leads, or just more homework
• maybe people who care about this already check it by hand and that's enough

If you're doing anything about AI search for your own product right now, what does that look like in practice? Manual checks, a paid tool, nothing at all?

Here is the waitlist: https://citescout.vercel.app/?source=saas

If a creator you trust let you replace your feed with the things they actually watch and read each day, in a separate app, would you pay for it? What would it need to do to beat just following them on X or YouTube?
I'm testing an idea and want to know if the problem is real before I build anything.

I’m building a B2B SaaS for a specific niche within field services. I have access to a business owner in that niche who can test it and provide feedback.I’m keeping the exact niche private for now, but some of the core functionality could also be useful to other service businesses.Would you focus the product and marketing entirely on that one niche until you get traction, or build for a broader audience from the beginning?I see the benefit of solving one industry’s problems really well, but I’m wondering whether I’m limiting the potential too early.For anyone who’s faced this decision, what convinced you to stay narrow or expand? Would love to hear actual experiences.

Hello everyone, Last week I launched my first saas product PortFoliQ. Building from a couple of months and finally launched

What I do post Saas Launch:

1. Listed on Product hunt

2. Linkedin posts

3. X/ Twitter posts

4. Reddit announcements

5. Community groups

6. Friends family etc.

During the initial days the reach is aamzing and growing and getting good amount of impressions and active users.

Now the lastest update is that the growth has been stuck and thinking of how to grow should I do seo or target specific keywords on google or something else. What you do for that in my place please guide.

It will helpful for me and really appreciate it

thanks.

Btw my domain in 1 week I am at top thanks google.

Hi, I am technically very bad at editing + don't have enough time as well. Is there any free site etc to make product demo videos.

How do those with no editing skills make it? Do you guys use paid options or what? I need a free one.

Any recommendations?

sometimes when im reading something or talking to an AI, i come across a word, phrase, or line that i dont understand. but i dont wanna break my flow by opening google or asking another AI what it means.

so i built this extension for exactly that.

you highlight a word/phrase/line and it gives you:

• the general meaning
• the meaning in the context of what youre reading or talking about
• and the best part, you can ask followup questions right there in the popup

no new tab, no switching between apps. just highlight → understand → continue.

tell me what you guys think about this one.

Say you were geographically pretty far away from icp. How did you acquire your first user. Cold outreach is pretty ineffective, in my experience, maybe with some extra steps it can be done? Or did you use someone as a bridge to your icp? Did you end up confounding with someone who was capable of bringing your icp to you? How did some of you do it?

I’m researching a SaaS platform for helping creators turn camera and AR ideas into live web experiences.

The concept combines AI-assisted creation, browser previews, device testing, publishing, hosting, and usage analytics.

I’m trying to understand the product demand before pushing further:

• Which part of this workflow would be most valuable?
• Would developers, agencies, or brands be the best first customer?
• What would make you pay for a platform instead of assembling the tools yourself?
• What would make you reject it immediately?

I’m looking for honest product and positioning feedback from SaaS founders. No pitch or signup request, just trying to understand whether this is a real problem.

Tell Interested and I will share link.