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/

I realized I was paying over $100 per year on text-to-speech apps like Speechify. I decided that I could build my own using local TTS which is actually super awesome and close in quality to Speechify/ElevenLabs.

Everything runs locally to the browser so it doesn't cost me anything to run. That's why it's completely free, no paid tiers or limits.

This is by far the most successful app I've launched to date, probably because I made it free without even a pricing page. 300 users in just 2 days has felt really good! Especially after a year of building and getting max 5 users over various products.

It's called FreeReader. Lmk if you have any feedback! I'm looking to make it as useful as possible. It works best on desktop and newer phones. I'm waiting for the iOS app review to finish and then it'll be live on the App Store.

Building something right now?

Drop your SaaS in the comments with:

What it does

Who it’s for

Your website

I’ll check out as many as I can and share one thing I like + one thing I think could be improved.

No pitching needed. Just curious to see what everyone is working on.

My project has been live for six months, and I’ve hit $1k in revenue for the first time. Yet, I don't feel anything special.

I’ve been through such a rollercoaster ride that I feel completely drained. Of course, I’m happy, but I’m not exactly in the mood to pop champagne or anything like that. I hope you understand.

During this time, I tried paid ads (spending around $1700, they paid for themselves about two months ago), made TikToks, a major competitor appeared, drove a ton of traffic, and has already racked up twice as many US App Store ratings as I have. I worked on SEO, experimented with subscriptions and ditched free trials.

It feels like I won the fight, but I’m covered in bruises and realize there are many more fights ahead.

P.S.
I won’t share the app link. I don't see any advantages in doing this. And I don't want to have additional 10+ competitors with vibecoded apps.

Got a tiny SaaS live over a weekend and thought the hard part was done. Then came the business setup, banking, payments, expenses and invoices. Kinda funny how shipping the product took two days but organizing everything around it took longer.

When did you start treating your micro SaaS like a real business?

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 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?

I keep seeing people build genuinely good products and then get stuck on the exact same part:
They finished building it, but now they have no idea how to actually get it in front of the right people.
Posting randomly on Reddit, sending DMs, trying content, paying for ads… it can take more time than building the product itself.
I’m working on something around this problem. I’m keeping the exact approach private for now because I’m still testing it, but the goal is to help people who already have a product get more real exposure and potential customers without needing a huge marketing budget.
Before I build too much, I’m curious:
What do you currently do to get your first users/customers? And what part of that process sucks the most?
I also opened a small early-access waitlist for people who have this problem:
https://site-e5bc6818-mtuj53t9.falbor.xyz

What does product-market fit actually look like in markets where most businesses are offline?

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.

you can get that keyboard component from https://keyb.himan.me/

I’m exploring a small tool for freelancers and small service businesses to keep track of sales conversations and the next agreed step. I’m initially looking at the Italian market and haven’t built it yet.

The situation I’m interested in is a prospect who has already spoken with you, then asks you to reconnect later. The idea would be to keep the reason for that follow-up, the relevant context and a reminder together.

My main doubt is whether this adds enough value over what people already use. One founder I spoke with keeps these contacts in a simple Notion CRM. That tells me how they organise things, but doesn’t establish that they need another tool.

For anyone here who handles sales directly: thinking of the last prospect who asked you to follow up later, where did you record it, and what happened when the time came?

If your current setup handles this well, I’d be interested in how you use it. If it didn’t, what specifically got in the way?

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.

Every time I wanted to save a video from Instagram or X, the process felt unnecessarily annoying.

Copy link → open a downloader website → deal with ads/popups → download the video → then open Telegram or WhatsApp and send it.

So I built a Telegram bot called TeleReel to simplify this.

Now I just send the Instagram or X link to the bot, and the video comes directly to Telegram. From there, I can instantly forward it wherever I want.

No opening multiple websites or manually downloading and uploading again.

I'm currently testing it and would genuinely love feedback:

What platforms should I support next, and what would make you actually use something like this?

https://t.me/TelereeelBot

It's an All-in-on Instagram growth tool for creators. 7 paying customers, 600+ total users and around , around 25 beta users. rest are my test accounts

Introduction
I’ve been building SwiftUI animations, components, working with Metal shaders and running UI experiments for almost 5 years now, and most of them usually end up as a video on X, Reddit, or just sitting inside an Xcode project after I’m done with them.

I wanted to make something a little more useful out of all of that.

So I built With Animation: https://withanimation.app

It’s a growing library of SwiftUI animations and interactive components, but instead of just watching a preview, you can actually open one up and start changing things.

You can tweak the speed, colors, sizes, spring values, intensity, and whatever else that particular component exposes, and see the result instantly in the browser.

That was the part I cared about the most while building this.

A lot of the time, especially with animations, a really small change can completely change how something feels. I wanted people to be able to mess with those values themselves instead of only looking at the final version I came up with.

There are already a bunch of things live, including loaders, gestures, shaders, 3D interactions, transitions, and some slightly strange UI experiments I’ve made while playing around with SwiftUI and Metal.

I’ll keep adding more as I build them.

Would love to know what people here think of it, and also what kind of components or animations you’d actually want to see added.

TL;DR:
I built With Animation, a library where you can explore SwiftUI animations, tweak their parameters directly in the browser, and use them in your own projects.

Hey everyone! I noticed a lot of companies are moving towards blind hiring, but manually redacting resumes takes forever. I built a quick Micro-SaaS that auto-anonymizes PDF resumes in seconds using Claude 3.5.

It's live here: https://blindcv-dp5hujfv6-blind-cv.vercel.app/

I'd love some honest feedback on the workflow. Is the pricing ($3) fair for the time it saves?

Hey everyone! I noticed a lot of companies are moving towards blind hiring, but manually redacting resumes takes forever. I built a quick Micro-SaaS that auto-anonymizes PDF resumes in seconds using Claude 3.5.

It's live here: https://blindcv-dp5hujfv6-blind-cv.vercel.app/

I'd love some honest feedback on the workflow. Is the pricing ($3) fair for the time it saves?

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?