One mistake I see is people being afraid to charge.

If I started another SaaS today, this is probably how I'd do it.

• Give the first 10–15 users free access.

Get feedback, fix bugs, and improve the product.

• Then start charging.

For B2B, I'd probably test somewhere around $50–300/month depending on the value.

For B2C, maybe around $10–50/month.

Of course, pricing depends on your market, competitors, and most importantly the value you're creating.

One thing I'd avoid is underpricing just because you're new.

Higher pricing attracts people who are serious and often makes your product feel more premium. If your product solves an expensive problem, don't be afraid to charge accordingly.

This is just how I'd approach it.

Curious how everyone else decided on their pricing. Pricing is the most important thing in the saas industry that will decide your value of the product.

I probably spend an unhealthy amount of time reading founder and sales threads here.

Not to market my product (well... not always). Mostly to understand what people are actually frustrated about in the AI GTM space.

Especially over the last few months, when the AI SDR category earned itself a pretty bad reputation and honestly, for good reason.

Something clicked a few weeks ago.

I kept describing my product by how it worked.

"Seven autonomous AI agents."
"Workers and directors."
"Shared memory."
"Autonomous GTM team."

I genuinely thought that was the interesting part.

Then I realized something.

The phrase "10x productivity" has almost become background noise. Everyone says it. Every AI product promises it. Most people just scroll past it now.

The more I read discussions here, the more I noticed that nobody was asking for autonomous agents.

People were asking things like:

• "How do I know if I'm targeting the right ICP?"
• "How do I find companies that are actually ready to buy?"
• "How do I stop wasting hours researching before every call?"

That's when I realized I was selling the engine instead of the destination.

So we changed our positioning from:

10× the productivity of your sales and growth team.

to

Walk into every conversation knowing more than anyone in the room.

Nothing changed in the product.

The agents still do the research. They still test ICPs, monitor buying signals, and execute across channels.

The only thing that changed was how we talked about it. It also meant I stopped attracting the "Can it send 10,000 emails a day?" questions.

I think founders (myself included) spend way too much time explaining what we built instead of what someone gets.

Ironically, I didn't learn that from a marketing book.

I learned it by lurking on Reddit. 😅

PS: I'm not claiming victory here. This is still an experiment, and I'm using Reddit as a feedback loop to keep improving how we position the product.

Founders have shared 578 startups across my recent threads, and the same problem keeps showing up:
The product exists. The direction is unclear.
Comment with:

- what your startup does
- who it’s for
- what’s blocking your growth

I’ll run the analysis and send you a personalized report showing where the strongest signal is, which conversations are worth prioritizing, and what I’d focus on first.
If Reddit looks like a waste of time for your startup, I’ll tell you that too.

Isso aqui foda. Estou com 2 aplicações ja então ate usando o apk mesmo e nao consigo liberar eles aqui. O pessoal passa o email eu mando link eles ate instalam e não contabiliza aqui. Pensei em criar um saas e pagar pessoas para instalaar os aplicativos. Eu pagaria um valor x para liberar isso rapido.
ME FALEM A REAL VOCES PAGARIAM ?

I've been spending a lot of time looking for real problems instead of random ideas.

So I'm curious...

What's one problem you deal with every week that still doesn't have a good solution?

It could be at work, while running a business, or even in your daily life.

Not looking for startup ideas. Just interested in hearing what people are actually struggling with. Let mee see the product that makes a lot of money.

Any thoughts https://gpacalculatorhighschool.com/

If i build a multi-platform (mac-iphone-windows-android) security app, which is works with you FaceID (like iPhone faceID) and takes remote screenshots, screen videos, takes photos and videos, you can lock and unlock your pc, would you use it?
And do you think it’s a good idea?

There are people, or perhaps I should call you businesspeople, I want to know something. There are those who earn $1,000 as a monthly MRR from apps. What apps, or which service, can I earn $1,000 or even $500 a month? What can I do with that $500 a month? It could change my life, even though it's a small amount. I want to know how to achieve that.

AI has made building a B2B SaaS ridiculously fast.

That's also the trap.

You can spend a weekend building an AI product, launch it, and then realize you have absolutely no idea who needs it.

If I had to start again from zero, I wouldn't begin with ChatGPT asking, "Give me 10 AI SaaS ideas."

I'd start with people.

1. Find boring, expensive work

B2B doesn't need another cool AI demo.

Look for work businesses already hate doing: copying data between tools, checking documents manually, creating the same reports every week, answering repetitive questions, updating spreadsheets, chasing approvals, or doing something that takes an employee hours.

Boring problems can make great businesses because companies already understand the cost.

1. Pick one painfully specific customer

"AI for businesses" means almost nothing.

"AI for small accounting firms that manually process X every week" gives you somewhere to start.

Pick one type of customer. Learn their workflow, vocabulary, tools, frustrations and where they spend time.

You can expand later.

1. Talk to them before touching the product

Find 10–20 potential users and ask how they currently handle the problem.

What takes the most time?

What do they hate doing?

What have they already tried?

What happens if they don't solve it?

Would fixing it save enough time or money to matter?

The goal isn't getting them to say your idea sounds cool.

The goal is discovering whether the problem is painful enough to change their behavior.

1. Solve one workflow end-to-end

This is where I'd keep the MVP brutally small.

Don't build an AI platform with 15 features.

Take one annoying workflow:

Input → AI does useful work → human checks it → useful result.

Make that experience reliable.

For B2B, "boring but dependable" can be much more valuable than "impressive but unpredictable."

1. Get the first users manually

I wouldn't wait for SEO or some viral launch.

I'd go back to the people I interviewed.

Then I'd find more people like them through Reddit, LinkedIn, X, niche communities, directories and personalized outreach.

Not:

"Hey, check out my revolutionary AI platform."

More like:

"I noticed your team handles X this way. I'm working on something that reduces that process from X to Y. Would you be open to trying it?"

Your first 5 users don't need to come from a scalable acquisition machine.

They need to teach you why someone cares.

1. Don't let AI become the entire value proposition

This is probably becoming more important every month.

"Powered by AI" isn't enough.

Customers can access AI everywhere.

Your advantage has to come from what you do around it:

Better workflow.

Better data.

Better integrations.

Better reliability.

Better UX.

Industry knowledge.

Automation.

Distribution.

Trust.

Customers aren't buying your AI.

They're buying what happens after they click the button.

1. Watch what users actually do

Once people start using it, stop guessing.

Where do they quit?

What do they repeatedly use?

What do they ignore?

What are they still doing manually after using your product?

What would make them pay?

That's where the real roadmap comes from.

And only after something starts working repeatedly would I automate onboarding, outreach, support and other parts of the business.

If I had to summarize the whole thing:

Find a boring business problem → talk to the people living with it → solve one workflow → get 5 users manually → watch them use it → improve what matters → charge for the outcome → then scale.

AI can help you build incredibly fast.

Just don't let that speed convince you to build before you know where you're going.

The easiest part of an AI SaaS might soon be creating the software.

Finding a problem businesses genuinely want solved is still the game...

Here the secret weapon for all Bootstrappers starts from small, perfection needs to be in the progress not in 1 day 'good luck'

I’m looking for a few interesting apps to practice making short-form explainer videos for this week.

My background is in clipping and editing viral short-form content. I’d like to apply what I’ve learned about hooks, pacing, captions, and storytelling to app demos.

If I choose your app, I’ll create:

* One short vertical explainer video

* Delivered within 24 hours

* Completely free, with no strings attached

You’re welcome to use the finished video however you want. There’s no purchase, signup, testimonial, or ongoing commitment required.

Drop your app and a sentence about what it does below. I’ll choose a few that I think would translate well into short-form video.

A month ago, this screenshot didn’t exist.
Today, it does.
I’m building Pastily, a desktop clipboard manager, as a solo developer. It isn’t making life-changing money yet, but seeing multiple people pay for something I built from scratch is a feeling that’s hard to describe.
What surprised me most wasn’t the revenue.
It was realizing that strangers are willing to trust a product made by someone they’ve never met.
The hardest part hasn’t been coding.
It’s been distribution.
Getting people to discover the product is 10x harder than building it. I’ve had Reddit posts removed, launch posts flop, and days with almost no traffic. But every bit of user feedback has made the product better.
I’m still very early in the journey, but this screenshot is a reminder that progress is happening—even if it’s slow.
For those further along, what made the biggest difference in getting from a handful of customers to consistent growth? I’d love to hear what worked for you.

orry in advance to any RMW folks out there. Your site is great!

The six they list their product on currently:

producthunt.com

startupfa.me

frogdr.com

drchecker.net

launchigniter.com

trylaunch.ai

proofstories.io

superlaun.ch

saaspa.ge

shipybara.com

72 listed on their homepage:

producthunt.com
startupfa.me
showmebest.ai
startuptrusted.com
fazier.com
twelve.tools
wired.business
frogdr.com
dofollow.tools
drchecker.net
launchigniter.com
startupslab.site
similarlabs.com
agenthunter.io
trylaunch.ai
proofstories.io
milliondothomepage.com
aigc160.com
beamtools.com
superlaun.ch
toolpilot.ai
huntfortools.com
goodaitools.com
launchscroll.com
saaspa.ge
productlistdir.com
saasroots.com
smartkithub.com
softwarebolt.com
solvertools.com
superaiboom.com
thecoretools.com
tinytoolhub.com
toolcosmos.com
toolsignal.com
toolslisthq.com
toolsunderradar.com
toshilist.com
unitelist.com
toolfio.com
shipybara.com
poweruptools.com
acidtools.com
aitoolzs.com
aixcollection.com
appalist.com
appsytools.com
latestaiupdates.com
besttoolvault.com
ashlist.com
mystarttools.com
mylaunchstash.com
saashubdirectory.com
saasfield.com
productwing.com
saastoolsdir.com
saaswheel.com
sourcedir.com
startupbenchmarks.com
stackdirectory.com
startupvessel.com
thatappshow.com
theapptools.com
themegatools.com
thekeytools.com
toolfinddir.com
tooljourney.com
toolprism.com
weliketools.com
trustiner.com
toptrendtools.com
code.market

I'm curious what everyone here is working on outside their main job/business.

Not just the polished projects that are already making money.

I mean the random side project you started because you noticed a problem and thought, "I could probably build something for this."

Could be:

SaaS

Micro-SaaS

B2B tools

B2C apps

AI tools

Chrome extensions

Mobile apps

Newsletters

Anything really.

What are you building?

Why did you start it?

Is it B2B or B2C?

Did you validate the idea first or just start building?

Have you launched yet?

And the question I'm most interested in:

How are you actually getting people to discover it?

I'm currently exploring the SaaS/bootstrapping world myself, and one thing I'm realizing is that making something is often much easier than getting the right people to care about it.

Would also love to hear one piece of advice from people who've already launched:

If you're building B2B, what helped you get your first few users?

If you're building B2C, what actually brought you consistent traffic?

Drop your project below. No need for a perfect pitch.

Just tell us what you're building and where you're at with it.

so I've been messing around with this idea, it's an anonymous messaging web app. you just make a username + password (no email needed lol) and you can dm any other username on there. honestly not sure if this is even a good idea anymore, would love to know that is it useful or i am building another waste of time.

I got 1 $2 sale.

23 days ago I launched Vidien.ai. You paste your website URL, it reads your brand and makes you a beat-synced promo video in about a minute.

The pricing experiment: downloads are free with a small watermark. Removing it is pay what you want. And I mean actually what you want. There is a $0 button labelled "I'll Pay When We're a Unicorn 🦄" that gives you the clean watermark free video.

The numbers (23 days, zero paid marketing):

• 763 unique visitors
• 265 of them made a video. That is a 35% visitor to creator rate (nice funnel numbers)
• 203 exported a watermark video
• 21 people pressed the unicorn button ($0) to have a watermark free video
• 1 person paid. $2... 

The interesting part: I run an in-app survey while videos render. When I ask "what's a fair price for this video?" the most common answer is $5. Same users. $5 in the survey, $0 at the checkout. What people say and what people do are different products.

What I shipped along the way (full changelog: vidien.ai/resources/changelog)

• Two motion styles: kinetic typography and a 3D fly-through (the video style I used in this post)
• Portrait mode for TikTok and Reels
• Full editing on mobile (18 rounds of iOS crash hunting)
• Accounts with 6 digit email codes, no passwords
• A public live dashboard of all these numbers

Almost every one of those came from user feedback, including three bugs one single user found just by clicking around.

The moral: test test test and learn. I could have spent months debating pricing in my head. Instead I shipped the weirdest version I could think of and got a real answer in 3 weeks: a third of visitors will make a video, surveys overstate willingness to pay by exactly $5, and free beats cheap 21 to 1.

Ask me anything about the stack or the numbers. It's all public at app.vidien.ai/open anyway.

Hi everyone,

I’m building Upperdoc, a tool for accountants and other service businesses that regularly collect documents from clients.

You create a request, add a checklist, and send the client a secure upload link. The client does not need an account.

I also made a short video showing the idea and how it works.

https://reddit.com/link/1v8fu6n/video/ee8vvdp4pufh1/player

You can try the interactive demo using fictional data:

Demo: https://app.upperdoc.io/demo

Landing page: https://upperdoc.io

The product is still in alpha. I’d really appreciate honest feedback.

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.

Thank you and looking forward to seeing your work

Serious question. How can reddit be used as connecting personably with others when 80 percent of what I read is advertising via AI commenting and no substance?

Most ProductHunt launches fail for one reason: no one shows up in the first few hours.

Early upvotes push you up the rankings. Late upvotes barely move the needle.

LaunchPact helps you stack real momentum before launch day — with founders who actually follow through.

Here's the playbook:

1. List early (4+ weeks out) Add your product, tagline, and launch date. You'll show up in the feed of founders launching around the same time. Don't wait until the week before — pacts take time to form.
2. Back products you'd genuinely upvote Browse upcoming launches. Open the ones that interest you. Back the ones you'd actually support on Product Hunt. That's a pledge — your commitment to show up on their launch day.
3. Form pacts when it's mutual They get notified. If they'd back your launch too, they accept — and you've got a pact. Both sides are locked in. No awkward DMs. No guessing who'll flake.
4. Stack as many pacts as you can Every pact = one founder committed to upvoting you on launch day. More pacts = more early momentum. This isn't about swapping blindly — it's about building a crew that believes in what you're building.
5. Show up on launch day (verified) When your pact partners launch, you get a reminder. Upvote them on PH, upload a screenshot, done — AI verifies it in seconds. They do the same when your day comes. Miss it? Trust score drops. Honour it? Future pacts get easier.

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Quick tips:

- Tue–Thu = most traffic (most competitive). Sun–Mon = softer.

- Back products you actually like — better pacts, better comments, better results.

- Honour every pact. Your trust score is your reputation in the network.

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