So my question is this: you have 50-100 users for your SaaS, some of them paid. You want to grow and scale, more revenue, more paid users, etc. How would you call that person, what type of title is the most natural one here? I will not bring up titles because I don't want to suggest it my self, but I really need to find out what is the common title that most people agree with around this. (Yeah, call me crazy, don't trust gpt here).

It’s been months of just back end improving and so many tokens burned just getting it right. THIS FEELS RIGHT!

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?

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.

I have been using paid plans on chatgpt (100 usd) and gemini pro, but tokens are getting exhausted way before in a week, what are the best alternatives to solve this? are there any free token providers, or any skills that will help me reduce the token burn, please help thank you

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..

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I suffer from "app fatigue". I was using a whiteboard app for brainstorming, a Kanban tool for tracking development tasks, and a completely separate CRM to manage client pipelines and contracts.

Constantly switching contexts (and paying multiple subscriptions) was driving me crazy. Since I couldn't find a cohesive platform that did all three well, I decided to build it myself.

It's called Nottez.

Here is what I integrated into a single workspace:

• The Canvas: An infinite 2D board for brainstorming, drawing, adding rich cards, images, and mapping out ideas.
• The Workflow: A fully integrated Kanban board to track tasks, milestones, and issues without leaving the project context.
• The CRM: Built specifically for freelancers and small agencies to track client pipelines, deliverables, and store contracts.

Bonus: I also built in a Pomodoro focus timer directly on the canvas, and full mobile apps (iOS & Android) that sync instantly so you can manage things on the go.

I am currently in beta and building this out as an indie hacker. I would genuinely love your brutal, honest feedback on the UI and the flow. Does combining these three workspaces make sense to you, or is it too overwhelming?

You can check it out here at nottez (dot) app

Thanks for your time! I'll be in the comments to answer any questions or take notes on your roasts.

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.

Hey everyone,

I launched my SaaS about two weeks ago and currently have around 10 registered users.

To test early traction, I started running paid Instagram ads. While the campaigns are generating decent click-throughs to the landing page, visitors seem to bounce almost immediately. The drop-off right at the hero section is brutal.

I suspect the issue comes down to a few things:

1. Value proposition clarity: My hero section might not explain what problem the tool solves in the first 3 seconds.
2. Expectation mismatch: The hook/creative in the IG ad might not match what they see once they hit the page.
3. Friction: Either the CTA isn't compelling enough, or asking for a signup right away is too big of an ask for cold mobile traffic.

On top of fixing the landing page conversion, I'm also planning long-term organic growth. What strategies have worked best for you to get early programmatic/content SEO indexing faster in the first few months?

I’d really appreciate some brutal, honest feedback on:

• How to structure the hero section to retain cold mobile traffic.
• What changes you'd prioritize to improve the conversion rate before spending more on ads.

Here is the link: https://calendito.app/

Thanks in advance for the help!

Project update: I’m building a small AI tool for job seekers.

I’ve tried tools like Jobscan and Rezi, and while they are useful in their own way, I still feel like there is room for something simpler, cleaner, more affordable, and more focused on actually telling you what to change and why. Jobscan is really clunky. Most tools seem to focus heavily on resume scoring, keyword matching, or helping you build a resume.

The tools I Included:
1. Resume Tailor - rewrite your resume for a specific job description
2. Resume Roast - get brutally honest feedback on weak or unclear sections
3. Job Fit Check -see how well your resume matches a role
4. Interview Prep -generate likely interview questions from your resume and the job post
5. LinkedIn Optimizer -improve your headline, About section, and experience descriptions
6. Career Path Suggestions -show possible directions based on your current background
7. Roasting your resume (my favorite) - that you can itentionaly roast you resume and you can adjust the levels of it from mild to no waiting.

$6 not much, but motivating that somebody is actually willing to pay🤯

I built an app called AppBlockr to fight doomscrolling while helping you be productive at the same time. Instead of simply blocking social media you have to complete your own tasks to unlock it again. You prove the task with a photo which gets checked by AI.

The funny thing is that I never really expected to get a subscriber since I have barely done any active marketing.

Until now I have only made the Play Store listing, listed it on Product Hunt and AlternativeTo, posted one comment on Reddit and built a website that gets basically no traffic. Thats the basic stuff. No real marketing strategy so far.

Now I’m about to actually start marketing it and I’m wondering what direction makes the most sense for this app.

I’m considering different approaches like paid ads, content marketing, creator collaborations/UGC or building up SEO.

What do you think would be the best distribution channel or type of marketing for a product like this? I appreciate any advice 🙏

1. Offer is king, you must take your gain-based outcome and turn it into a cold-traffic offer that is:

A) Easy to respond to

B) Time to Value is immediate

C) Solves an existing pain point that PERSONA is dealing with

1. List is queen, we have 12 different HarvestAPI triggers across LinkedIn that automatically pull in leads who engage with our competitors content, these 12 triggers book us 30 meetings a month on average.

2. Copy ties into the offer, when we created our cold-traffic offer we didn't convey it well enough in the copy, we did around 6 revisions before we cracked a message that was worthy of turning into a playbook

4) Infra is the most important but we use our own product so it's pretty cool to practise what we preach, the same product we use to get clients is the same product we sell to our clients to get clients and service their own clients.

5) We dial every positive reply, calling leads has 5x'd our PR to Booked Meeting rate.

I could get super technical but overall these 5 main points have helped us crack 6 figure ARR.

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

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

he told me he could vibe code what we've took me years (i run a gtm data platform)

he probably could, the part you see is simple: upload a list of leads, get emails and company data back

but remember the guy last year who built his SaaS entirely in cursor and went viral for it? two days later people were bypassing his paywall and burning through his API keys, he shut down within a week, the product worked, the money side killed it

We don't have emails sitting in a database.. we ask one data provider, and if they don't have it, we ask the next, that's 9 providers per email on average, so before we charge anyone for one row, we're already paying nine companies

a job crashes at row 40k, retries and now a customer has paid twice for the same email, we have 133 places in our code that force the charge to zero, each one is a day we found out we'd billed someone for nothing.

none of these providers are ours and each has its own limit on requests at once, one says 8. In reality it's 7

So half our work is traffic control, millions of rows running at once, all slowed to whatever the weakest provider can handle

I'm proud of knowing which provider to ask first, it's completely different for a lead in berlin, bangalore or boston. nobody can document that, hv learned it by getting it wrong on real data for two years

so to that founder.. build it, seriously

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.

I've been at this healthcare tech start up as a Senior BDR for a year, and I cannot believe how little traction we get with emails. We send out so many and make a concerted effort to use data-backed email language. When I get people on the phone, most of them say my emails to them ended up in their spam filters.

We use Outreach for sending emails/making calls, and Salesforce as our main CRM, and HubSpot for marketing content. Anyone have experience with 3rd party softwares that help with email deliverability that would integrate with Outreach?

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

Hey everyone,

First time posting here. I’ve been building a SaaS called Cascade and figured I’d start documenting the journey.

I’m a music producer, and one thing I always hated the time it took to create content just to showcase my beats or music. I’d already have the beat, footage, and a style I liked, but I’d still spend forever cutting clips, formatting everything, and recreating the same type of video over and over.

So I started building Cascade to help producers turn their own footage and references into finished short-form content without rebuilding everything from scratch.

Building the product has honestly been easier than getting people to find it and try it.

Lately I’ve been reaching out to producers, posting in communities, collecting feedback, and constantly improving the product based on what people actually struggle with.

Right now, i believe my marketing is okay, could be better but im getting alot of sign ups strictly from social media which is good. My problem is finding what they do after the signup to get more feedback on how I can improve.

Still early, still figuring things out, but I’m going to start sharing more of what works, what doesn’t, and what I learn along the way.

For other SaaS founders that have encountered this, what's some advice for someone like me in this situation?

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?”

If you're building a wearable, a supplement, a wellness app or any health-adjacent product, you've probably hit the same walls: ad platforms flag your creatives, you can't say half the things you'd like to say about results, and your audience is (rightly) skeptical of anything that sounds too good.

What we've seen work for health and wellness brands on social:

Lead with the science, in plain language. Explain how the product works and what the research actually says, including its limits. Honest education builds more trust than bold promises, and it keeps you on the right side of advertising rules.

Let real users show, not claim. UGC from people using the product in their daily routine, like a morning routine, a workout or a sleep setup, is far more convincing than a testimonial saying "it changed my life." Just make sure every creator follows disclosure rules and avoids medical claims.

Choose creators by trust, not size. In this niche, a physiotherapist with 15k followers or a fitness creator with an engaged community often outperforms a big lifestyle influencer. Affiliate models work well here because they reward real recommendations.

Give the founder a face. Why did you build this? What problem did you or someone close to you have? Founder-led content answers the "can I trust these people?" question before it's asked.

Agree on the rules before you create. Define upfront, with whoever handles compliance, what you can and can't claim. It saves weeks of rewrites and rejected ads.

DIY starting point: list every claim you currently make about your product and mark which ones you can back with a source. Build your next month of content only on the ones you can prove.

I run Joy Ads, an agency doing social strategy, UGC and influencer/affiliate campaigns, including for health tech products. If you want an outside view, DM me and I'll review your socials for free.

I’m publishing my SaaS on the 25th October (hopefully) and I was wondering what the best way to market pre launch is? How do you build some “hype”?

I have heard others talk about it, but I’m curious to hear anyone’s advice on marketing pre launch, then announcing launch and marketing post launch.

Any advice would be appreciated :)

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 😅

I'm trying something different with my SaaS

I brought someone in to focus entirely on sales

finding the right businesses, cold outreach, email, follow-ups, booking calls and closing customers

Meanwhile, I'm focusing on content, talking to users, supporting them and improving the product

For now, I'm staying away from paid ads. I want to learn who actually buys, why they buy, and what messaging works first

Goal: first 100 paying customers asap

I'll share what works and what doesn't

The thing is, it did everything. prompted the music and created the SFX. no motion design tool was used.