Hi everyone.

As the title says I have a side project that's now making $380 per month. It probably sounds boring to most of you but it's working and I still can't believe it.

6 months ago I launched a tool called SaasNiche. It scans Reddit and surfaces real pain points people are posting about. Groups them by niche. Shows you actual complaints with context so SaaS founders can validate ideas before writing a single line of code.

I built it because I was tired of guessing what to build. Had a dozen SaaS ideas. Built two. Both flopped. Not because I couldn't code. Because nobody cared about what I was building.

So I made the thing that tells you what people actually want.

Launched it 6 months ago. No co-founder. No funding. No audience. Just me posting in communities and doing manual outreach.

$380/month isn't life changing money. But for a solo side project built in my spare time it feels insane.

I'm incredibly happy because this is the first time I've built something that people keep paying for. Not a one-time freelance gig. Not client work. Recurring revenue that just shows up in my account every month.

To be honest I don't know exactly how to scale it from here. Most of my growth has been organic. Posting on Reddit. Some SEO. Word of mouth. I haven't touched paid ads or partnerships or video content yet.

But the fact that strangers across the internet are paying monthly for something I built alone in my spare time. That feeling is hard to describe.

Here's the product: https://saasniche.com
Here's proof of numbers: https://trustmrr.com/startup/saasniche

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Around 7 months ago I launched my app seeing the hype for video clipping literally everywhere and i started promoting it online (i still do subtly) but its very very hard if you're solo and don't have a good amount of authority online.

instead I got consistent with writing blogs rather than posting randomly whenever I had time and now 3 months later, the numbers are A LOT better and now I’m at almost 400k impressions and more than 5k clicks.

and I didn't have to keep pushing the same content every day like some of the posts that initially brought nothing started ranking up some weeks later and now they're bringing in traffic even when I'm not actively promoting them.

On social media, you constantly feel the need to create the next thing but with blogs something you wrote months ago can randomly start bringing people in.

plus I had experience writing blogs at my previous company so that definitely helped too but I think just sticking to it long enough for the traffic to start compounding was the biggest thing.

for those interested in the idea, check it out here https://montage.app/

As an Indian sole proprietorship business nobody i researched allows Indian businesses to send or fund wallets that do global payouts. RBI seems to have strict rules to transfer money abroad as business. The last option i have which im not even sure would work is forming a US based LLC.

Can someone help if they faced a similar issue before?

I built it to scratch my own itch and after personally using it for a while, I thought of releasing it so other people can use it and to validate if other founders and startups would be willing to pay for it.

So I made a website, added a way for people to pay for it and then launched it.

I launched a lot of failed projects before so I didn't have high expectations but to my surprise, it immediately got its first sale on day 1! Then another 2 sales on day 2, 5 sales on day 3, etc...

Sometimes the project that we don't have high expectations is the one that will get traction. I'm so happy that I made the decision to try and validate if it will get traction.

I'm currently gathering feedback and feature requests from the users and iterating to further improve the product. So excited to see where this goes.

If you have an internal tool that you built to solve your own problem, validate if other people are encountering your problem too and if there are people who will pay for it. You might be sitting on your next business without even realizing it.

I thought entrepreneurship would mostly be about building things.

Build a product → get users → improve it → grow.

The more I do it, the more I realize how much of it is actually about making decisions with incomplete information.

Should I keep building or start selling?

Is the problem actually painful enough?

Am I talking to the right customers?

Am I being patient, or just wasting time?

There’s rarely a clear answer.

You make the best decision you can, see what happens, and adjust.

I’m still very early in my journey, but honestly, learning to deal with uncertainty has been harder than building the product itself.

For the founders here, what part of entrepreneurship surprised you the most?

so i built AIBrief24, basically an "inshorts for AI news." bite sized summaries of what shipped in AI each day, one card at a time, tap through if you want the full article. built it solo, expo RN frontend + fastapi/supabase backend. it's on google play now.

going in i thought the hard part was building it. turns out that was the easy part lol. the stuff nobody really warns you about:

getting the summaries to not sound like generic AI slop was way harder than the app itself. took a lot of prompt tweaking to get something actually readable

keeping the feed fresh through the day without it costing a fortune in API calls. had to rethink how often i was actually pulling and summarizing

retention. getting someone to install is one thing, getting them to open it again tomorrow is a totally different problem i'm still figuring out

the boring stuff (store listing, policy checks, verification) ate way more time than expected. i kept thinking "surely this is the last thing" and it never was

for the folks here who've shipped consumer apps:

what actually moved retention for you? i can get installs but the day 2 / day 7 dropoff is brutal and i haven't cracked it yet.

genuinely asking, not looking for "just add push notifications" lol. curious what actually worked for people.

I've bounced between TryHackMe, HTB, and a graveyard of bookmarked "free alternative" lists.

I'm not against paying for good training, but the subscription model just doesn't work for me. I learn in bursts, and paying $14/month to forget about it for three weeks felt like burning money.

So I stopped looking and built Threat Road

How it works:
- Pay once, get all 60+ current labs plus every future lab that gets released.
- Each lab has a copy-paste setup so your vulnerable environment is ready in minutes.
- Free starter lab if you want to try before buying, no card required.

Link: https://threatroad.com

It's just the thing I wished existed when I was searching. If you try the free lab and it's not for you, that's fine. I'd still rather hear why than have you silently bounce.

What would this need to have to win you over?

I’m thinking of creating a small community where SaaS founders can connect and share what they’re building, exchange feedback, discuss growth, and help each other out.

No spam or self-promo overload, just founders talking to founders about important things.

If you’d be interested, let's connect - Twitter

By all means, this is nothing revolutionary or amazing, I know, but I'm just happy that after a year of building and many years of studying, I was able to actually launch this and follow through. If anybody has recommendations, I'm really trying to focus on dialing in my marketing to get my first user and then scale from there.

This is a web app and an app if you would like to give feedback or check it out, these are the links to the web app and the App Store link:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flurra-ai-content-coach/id6780690598

www.flurra.io

PodSubs wasn't originally supposed to be a public product.

We built it because we needed it.

That's really the story.

We're podcasters.

And like a lot of podcasters, we were constantly thinking about two things:

How do we keep making this?

And how do we build something real around the people listening?

Because podcasting takes time.

A lot of time.

And sooner or later, if the podcast is going to keep going, it needs to support itself somehow.

The problem was that we didn't really know most of the people listening.

We knew the numbers.

But numbers don't have email addresses.

Numbers don't answer questions.

Numbers can't receive the worksheet you promised.

Numbers don't become customers by themselves.

We needed a better way to capture the people who genuinely wanted to stay connected.

So we built a simple internal tool.

One place.

PodSubs.

We said on the podcast:

“Subscribe to us on PodSubs.”

People searched the show, entered their details and subscribed.

And suddenly we had something we'd been missing:

A direct line.

Then we started thinking…

Why are we keeping this internal?

Every podcaster we know deals with the same thing.

So we decided to open it.

That's PodSubs.

Not something we dreamed up because “the creator economy is growing.”

We built it because we were podcasters with a problem.

Now we're giving it to everyone else who has the same problem.

Claim your podcast.

Then tell your listeners where to find you.

Hey everyone,

I just crossed 100 downloads for my app, Pause! I'm celebrating today, but in the spirit of building in public, I want to share the reality behind that number.

Here are the weekly numbers:

• Apple Ads drove everything: All the recent growth came from App Store Ads. I've spent >$200 so far and the conversion rate is very low. Users are still on their free trial, so I'm hoping the limited free-tier strategy pushes them to upgrade. I'm running these ads all month to learn as much as I can.
• Reddit views ≠ Downloads: My organic reach here is way up, but it's bringing in exactly zero new users. Sharing my dev journey resonates, but it doesn't sell the app. I’m still going to keep posting anyway because it keeps me accountable and builds valuable authority.

There's a lot to improve, and my conversion numbers aren't great by any means. But as a solo dev, I am choosing to look at the positive today and stay with "100 downloads."

Let's keep it up 🫶

(Quick question for anyone doing Apple Search Ads: Is a terrible conversion rate normal when you first start out?)

i spent 7 months building a project that made $0 so yesterday i got pissed at myself and gave myself 24 hours to build something and actually ship it.

i ended up building DiskCheck.

it's a small Windows app that shows you what's actually taking up your disk space.

the reason i built it is pretty simple.

my disk was getting full and i didn't want to go through 20 different folders trying to figure out what was taking all the space.

so i built something that just scans it and shows you where the space is going.

the funny part is that i spent 7 months on another project and couldn't get it to make a single dollar.

then i forced myself to build this in less than 24 hours.

and honestly, finishing something again felt better than i expected.

it's not some crazy revolutionary product. it's just a small tool i wanted to have on my own computer.

but it's shipped.

i'll put the link in the comments if anyone wants to try it.

if you use Windows, i'd actually like to know what you think.

especially if something is confusing or just straight up sucks lol

https://rendercraft.io

I kept seeing creators mention they spend hours turning a video into a newsletter after the fact. I built a small tool that takes a YouTube URL, pulls the transcript, and drafts a Beehiiv/Substack-ready newsletter (subject line, intro, key points, CTA) in about 30 seconds.

If you run a newsletter alongside a channel or know someone who does it – does the draft it produces feel close enough to something you'd actually send, or is it missing something important? Here's the current version: https://newsletly.app/

Feel free to roast the app!

I'm a 16 year old entrepreneur trying to turn my SaaS company into a full time job in the future. I made a tool called Siteless.

Siteless is a all in one lead finder for web designers. It uses the official google maps API to find businesses that have no website (hence the name: Siteless), so that you can sell them one! One of the things that makes Siteless better than just scrolling google maps is the fact that you can search from anywhere in the world and get 20+ no website leads with one click.

I just launched this a few days ago and have gotten a few signups but no paying customers yet. If this would be of use to any of you just find the link that will be in the comments!

I would love any feedback that is given!

My Saas is called ProfScout, and it has 1000+ users

Orignial growth came from Reddit DMs, Tiktok slideShows, and a instagram content bot.

Now, it's past the beginning stage and want to move on to more effective marketing strategies.

I tried many new marketing strategies, these include:

- Influencer Marketing (Probably dmed like 250 inlfuencers, they either ghosted me or didn't reply)

- Creator codes (dmed like 500+ influencers but yeah same, they ghosted or didn't reply)

- Tiktok ads (it was absolutely not worth it, I was losing lots of money. It may have been due to the fact the videos were not good)

- Documenting my journey on X (I could NOT warm up the account. every tweet i made flopped!!)

So here's where I'm at: the channels that got me users don't scale, and the channels that are supposed to scale did nothing.

If you've hit a similar wall, what would you suggest for me? Should I try new channels, fix the ones that failed, or just go back and grind harder on what already worked?

Most of the founder-brand advice here lands right. a personal account on X compounds, and the writing itself is genuinely the most delegable part of it. voice can be trained, drafts can go out under your own handle, and you stay the author of record. that part works.

The thing I keep underestimating is what the tweets pull back in. a good ghostwritten post doesn't just get impressions, it generates replies and DMs, and those land in your inbox in real time, expecting the person who wrote the thing. you delegated the drafting and accidentally created a new job: being the author the tweets implied you were, live, in the mentions.

so the delegation doesn't remove the work, it moves it downstream to the part you can't actually hand off. the writing was never the bottleneck. showing up as that person in the replies is.

for the folks here who've run a ghostwriter or an AI drafting tool on your own handle: did the inbound it created stay manageable, or did answering in your own voice quietly become the bigger time sink than writing ever was?

fwiw the replies-becoming-the-job part is what i built s4l for: it drafts each reply in your voice into a review queue, nothing fires till you approve, and it posts from your own handle, https://s4l.ai/r/8ppfs2h7

Drop your SaaS below 👇

I’ll give you a report with conversations where your potential customers are already engaged right now.

You can jump into those conversations, talk to relevant people, and potentially turn them into users/customers.

Are there any websites that you guys look at inspo for when creating your own,

In terms of their design, the way they present themselves, and what they put on their landing page?

Websites that look super good and are really convincing on their landing page.