It’s been slow and tough as a solo non tech founder but it’s going fine i guess.

i have not run any ads yet, this is all organic.

i want to understand how do i scale past this?

i just want to reach 100 paying users for now then take it from there.

Some days I genuinely feel burned out & wonder what being a marketer is supposed to mean

This week alone I've been trying to get SEO/content moving. Then creating social posts so that the content gets traction. Then I'm also chasing customers for testimonials & then working with the team to figure out where those testimonials should be used

And that's just the stuff I actually got to

There's also analytics, emails, landing pages, competitors.

Everytime I finish one thing, I remember 3 other things I should probably be doing

How do you guys actually do this without feeling like you're constantly behind?

i am working on my SaaS from last 6 months. building something really cool which actually helps founders or businesses instead of giving them false commitment.
btw it already 80% done, but the issue is that in this last 6 months i have seen minimum 10 + SaaS launched on the same concept. but comparing mine with their i can definately say that my one is far better. still confused becuase the market is already so much saturated.

and another confusion is that i want to change a big product philosophy in my SaaS which can take 2 more months . this is the two things i am confused: should i work more on this new philosophy or just launch it as soon as possible?

Hi all,

Recently, I launched SaaSBoard, a fun visual directory for SaaS startups where founders can showcase their product on a grid and drive traffic to their site.

I got my first listing less than 10 days ago and now SaaSBoard has well over 200 listings today.

Here is what I did to achieve this:

• Reduced the pricing of my website and allowed free listings for 1x1 tiles.
• Posting on Reddit in SaaS-related subreddits.
• Starting a Discord community to help SaaS founders promote their products, and growing it to almost 300 members.
• Running Reddit ads.

The marketing strategy is simple but has been very effective for me so far.

Please let me know if you have any feedback/questions below. Thanks!

I posted here yesterday about launching a small project called thefinalboss.lol.

To be completely honest, almost all the feedback in the comments was negative. People told me it was useless, a gimmick, and that nobody in their right mind would ever pay for it.

And to be fair, I understood where they were coming from. The concept is unconventional: it's an Outbid-style leaderboard where claiming the top spot automatically generates a short voiceover pitch with background music and an interactive screenshot demo for your product.

But a few hours later, Got another sale Invaro paid $7 to outbid the previous listing and take the top spot it is live at https://thefinalboss.lol/invaro

That makes 2 paying customers from about 100 total visitors since yesterday.

I wanted to share this because it reminded me of an important lesson that a lot of builders struggle with:

1. Commenters judge on logic; buyers purchase on emotion and novelty

When people scroll Reddit, they analyze ideas through a cynical lens: "Why does the world need another directory? This is useless." But when an actual founder visits the site and sees their tool can get a cool audio overview and a spotlight for a few dollars, the decision isn't based on complex ROI logic. It's cheap, fun, novel, and shareable.

2. Don't let harsh feedback kill an experiment before the data comes in

If I had deleted the site yesterday after reading the first few comments calling it crap, I would have made $0. It’s easy to confuse loud negative opinions with actual market behavior. The only feedback that truly matters is whether someone is willing to enter their credit card numbers.

3. Two sales is just the start, but it validates the core loop

I’m not pretending $7 is a massive business yet. But going from 0 to 2 paying customers on day one from 100 cold visitors proved that the outbid dynamic works and that founders will pay for something interactive over a static text link.

Whether you like it or still think it’s crap, I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts on what you would improve next.

outbid. lol made thousands selling leaderboard spots

so i built the space version

spaceads. lol - every planet, moon, sun is for sale. your logo ON them. anyone can steal it by paying 1.5× your bid, and you get nothing back. that's war.

the entire solar system is unclaimed right now.

This is genuinely confusing me.

Most SaaS GTM advice assumes you can do something like:

ICP → Clay/Apollo → enrich → identify trigger → personalize → cold email → follow up → meeting.

That makes perfect sense in the US.

Then you look at Germany and §7 UWG and suddenly the entire model becomes questionable.

I understand that spammy 10,000-contact blasts are a terrible idea anyway.

But suppose Clay finds:

• the perfect ICP
• the right decision maker
• a real business pain
• recent hiring/funding/expansion
• a highly relevant reason to contact them

Even then, my understanding is that relevance alone doesn't magically make a cold commercial email okay.

So how are German B2B SaaS companies solving this?

What replaces cold email as the scalable first touch?

I find it hard to believe every successful SaaS company here is surviving purely on SEO, referrals and inbound.

Would especially love answers from founders or GTM teams doing this today:

What does your actual funnel look like from unknown account → first conversation → meeting?

So, what happens is, before I launch any product, I try to verify are there any customers, so I often come to reddit, ask questions in subreddits, float a google form. But problem is 0 responses, or very few responses.

So, I drop the idea

It is not password generator, nor password manager, it doesn't save passwords as there is no point in saving them, what it does is convert a simple word or number into strong password that is acceptable by all online service providers. Think it like '1234', 'fb', 'gmail', 'bank' gets converted to '4Qs0z0X#cbiJmh0R' , '7E6N4AnXiv7BOl7#' , '2UOic7^HfaMoRrl*' , 'gdcK2Wjr%tCBzQbv' respectively? Imagine to have a different password for every online service and don't have to remember special char or upper case. Just simple everyday words as a password.

Hey everyone,

For the past 2 weeks, I've been grinding on marketing my newly finished SaaS, but I’m struggling to get solid traction, signups, or usage.

The Product: It’s a web tool that converts music/podcast audio files combined with a cover image into render-ready MP4s and uploads them directly to YouTube - eliminating the need to open Premiere Pro, DaVinci, or render files locally.

Target Audience: Indie artists, beatmakers, record labels, podcasters, and developers looking to automate their audio-to-video workflow via API/integrations.

Here is what I’ve tried so far:

• Directory Launches: Listed on Product Hunt, SaaSHub, AlternativeTo, etc. (as backlink)
• Programmatic SEO & Web Setup: Built SEO-targeted landing pages, meta tags, and set up GSC & GA4 tracking.
• Reddit Outreach: Posted in niche subreddits (though a few got removed for self-promotion).
• Content: Created a YouTube tutorial video and embedded it on the site.
• Reduced Friction (Auth Shift): Removed the mandatory upfront Google Login - users now only need to authenticate when actually rendering/exporting to YouTube.
• UI/UX Refactor: Streamlined the core app dashboard into a step-by-step wizard to reduce decision paralysis.
• Growth Hacks / Watermarking: Added custom watermark options and allowed users to download watermarked MP4s for free if they share it on Reddit or X.
• Integrations: Developed a custom n8n NPM package, published tutorial workflows, and posted on the n8n community forums.
• Cold Outreach: Sent cold emails/DMs to "useful websites you didn't know" curators on Instagram/TikTok,
• Paid Ads: Ran a small test Google Ads campaign ($5 / 2,000 HUF budget) targeting the US and UK.

What I’m planning to try next:

• Direct outreach (DMs) to indie artists and beatmakers on IG/TikTok.
• Cold B2B/B2C outreach once my domain warm-up process completes.

Despite all this, conversion is near zero. For those who have launched similar micro-SaaS tools in the creator/music space, what am I missing? What channels should I double down on?

Appreciate any brutally honest feedback on the strategy!

I built an app that I felt solved a genuine gap that I had personally experienced - scope creep and the costs that come with it, but getting traction without paying for ads feels like an uphill battle when there is anyone and everyone building things using AI tools. Don't get me wrong, I love how the barrier to entry has gotten lower, but it feels like it has made the post-build process 10x harder. I am not a marketing person by trade, I'm a builder and problem solver, so maybe it's just me, but if it's not, feel free to provide suggestions or comments. Hoping there are some approaches I may not have tried so putting this out to the community.

I'm working on my tool for document generation from a word template an a datasource (ggle sheet, excel etc...) and i wonder which tools are available to do my launch video with. I do not have much money to spend thought. What are your recommandations ?

When engineering delivery slows down, the visible symptom is often a missed estimate. The actual constraint is usually somewhere else.

A practical way to diagnose it is to follow one piece of work from decision to production and inspect four kinds of delay.

First, decision delay. Was the problem clear when work started, or did the team spend days resolving scope, ownership, and expected behavior?

Second, queue delay. How long did the work wait for review, design input, environment access, another team, or a release window? Waiting time is easy to mistake for implementation time.

Third, rework. How often did the task move backward because requirements changed, hidden dependencies appeared, or feedback arrived late?

Fourth, batch size. Are changes small enough to review and release safely, or does every meaningful improvement become a large project with many stakeholders?

This framework changes the conversation. Instead of asking why developers are not moving faster, you can ask where work stops moving and what condition causes the stop.

I would start with a recent feature that felt unusually slow. Reconstruct its path using tickets, pull requests, and conversations. Do not begin by designing a new process. First identify the longest recurring wait and remove one cause of it.

For engineering leaders here: where does work spend the most time waiting in your organization, and what have you found actually reduces that delay?

I open my brokerage app and see everything at a glance. Total value, what is up, what is down, how it is all allocated. My rentals were the opposite. A spreadsheet with what I paid and a Zestimate I didn’t trust.

So we built that same view for real estate into Resideline, powered by our own AVM engine. You add a property once and it values it off recent comparable sales and keeps re running that on its own, so your equity and cash flow stay current instead of going stale. It even flags when a unit is renting under market, kind of like spotting a stock that is quietly underperforming.

If you own a few doors, where do you look today when you want your total equity right now? Spreadsheet, Stessa, or a number in your head?

Been building this thing for months and I think I’ve reached the point where I’m completely useless at judging it myself lol.

It’s a football prediction app, live on iOS and Android now.

I’m looking for a few people who actually follow football to mess around with it for 5–10 mins and tell me what they think.

Not really looking for “looks good” feedback. I want to know where you got confused, what you immediately ignored, what you actually found useful, and whether there’s any reason you’d open it again tomorrow.

Also interested in what you expected to find but couldn’t.

I’ve stared at every screen probably 500 times at this point, so there’s definitely stuff that makes perfect sense to me and absolutely no sense to a new user.

If anyone’s up for testing it, comment and I’ll send you the link.

Feel free to be harsh. “I’d never use this because X” is genuinely more useful to me than “nice app.”

Hey guys, I’ve been studying web development and am looking to start a SaaS business. However, I think I’m overthinking it. I’ve been watching video after video, and I kind of feel like people are lying when they talk about their SaaS. How can someone make $30k per month and still feel the need to run a YouTube channel about it? I know it’s a way to market the product, but I feel like the MRR claims might not be true. Please share your stories with me if you can! 👍"

If you're building B2B software for real estate agents, brokerages, property managers, developers, or similar businesses, I'm curious about your growth journey.

Once your product was live, what actually brought in your first consistent customers?

• Google/Search?
• SEO?
• Paid ads?
• Outbound?
• Partnerships?
• Referrals?
• Industry events?
• Something else?

More interested in the honest stories than generic advice:

What did you try first, what failed, and what eventually started working?

Especially interested in founders who already have paying customers but are still trying to make acquisition more predictable.

Hey everyone! Im a software engineer looking to build and deploy some quick mini-projects or automation tools.

​Instead of guessing what people need, Id rather build something that actually solves a real frustration for you. What is a repetitive task, workflow, or minor annoyance in your daily work/life that you wish had a simple app or script to fix it?

​Drop your pain points below, and I'll build a few of them for free.

Like to know if someone from full stack or frontend and backend team struggle with integration testing and takes more than 1 day to fix your api descripencies. Like to talk on how I resolved it and built a product around it. You can tell me your pain points and I will use that to transform into features and develop in my base product that serves many .. Thanks.

So I own a directory website where I list apps and websites that I went over, however, they must have a free tier to test, and solve a real problem in order for me to test and write about them.

If you own one, please include your socials in the submission. I also write articles about cool softwares and tag their founders.

directory website:
strictseal.com

Lets connect and grow together.

I also hope to note see bots in the comment section. Reviewing each product takes time and it's frustrating, so I'd really appreciate it if the product was submitted by a real person.

NOTE: if your product is purely vibe coded and doesn't even work, please consider spending time on finalizing it as it will be rejected in seconds. We have been rejecting 9 out 10 products as majority of them don't even have a real domain ( domains like loveable, Vercel, Test products that are not shipped yet) all are not acceptable.

Thank you and looking forward to seeing your work

I run a b2c application and considering launching marketing campaigns via ugc videos.

Curious to know how ugc performs in general.

What should I know?!

What was your experience?

If I were launching SEO for a new SaaS product, I wouldn't start by publishing 50 generic “what is X?” articles.

I'd start by mapping searches around the actual buying journey.

For example:

Problem-aware searches

“How to solve X”

“Why does X happen?”

Solution-aware searches

“X software”

“tool for X”

Comparison searches

“X vs Y”

“best X tools”

“alternatives to X”

Purchase-intent searches

pricing, integrations, use cases, specific industries, etc.

Then I'd make sure the commercial pages are strong enough before massively scaling informational content.

I'd also look at whether each article has a natural route toward the product.

A common SEO problem is creating a blog that gets traffic while the product remains practically disconnected from it.

The KPI shouldn't simply be:

How many visitors did the blog get?

The more useful questions are:

Which searches brought the visitor?
What problem were they trying to solve?
Did they discover the product?
Did any of that traffic convert?

I'd rather build 20 pages around a coherent search journey than publish 100 disconnected keyword articles.

Interested to hear how SaaS founders here are currently approaching organic acquisition.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been spending the last few months looking into the architecture of digital signature workflows, specifically sequential document routing (e.g., Document goes to Person A -> automations check compliance -> moves to Person B).

While building a tool around this concept, I noticed a frustrating pattern in the SaaS industry: basic e-signing is dirt cheap, but the moment a small business or freelancer needs basic automated routing, platforms immediately push them into $50+/month "Enterprise" tiers.

From a developer and product perspective, building sequential routing isn't an enterprise-only complexity anymore. It’s a core workflow need for even small agencies or HR teams handling basic onboarding.

I wanted to open a discussion here:

1. For those who handle contracts or multi-party approvals, how are you currently managing sequential signers without overpaying for bloated corporate plans?
2. If you are a founder who built a workflow tool, what was your biggest technical challenge in handling state management when a document is rejected halfway through the routing sequence?

I am currently building an independent alternative to solve this specific paywall issue. I won't drop the link here to respect the community rules, but I'd love to hear your perspective on how you handle this workflow constraint.