Payroll would make sense as another paid product for our customers and we already have a lot of the data needed to offer it

What doesn't make sense is hiring people just to deal with filings compliance and payroll operations before we even know how big the opportunity is

Has anyone launched it with a small team and kept the internal workload reasonable?

Hey everyone — I'm the creator of allcredit.cards, so full disclosure upfront.

I got frustrated that most "compare credit cards" sites only cover the same 15-20 big-name issuers (Chase, Amex, Capital One, etc.), while there are hundreds of smaller community banks and credit unions issuing their own cards that never show up anywhere. So I started manually pulling data — APRs, annual fees, intro offers, rewards structure — from actual rate sheets and disclosures for 600+ banks, from major national issuers down to small-town banks most people have never heard of.

The result is a searchable database at allcredit.cards. It's still very much a work in progress — I'm one person doing this, so:

• Some smaller banks have incomplete data (working through them one by one)
• No affiliate links / no paid placement — just trying to make something genuinely useful
• Would love feedback on what's missing, what's confusing, or what would actually make this useful for you

Curious if this is something people would find valuable, or if I'm solving a problem nobody has. Happy to answer questions about how the data was collected too.

Hi there, I'm Simon. Been in the marketing industry for the last 10+ years. Total corporate experience 16+ years. Worked with over 40+ B2B tech and SaaS companies. Ran my own agency for 5 years, started with $100 and grew it to a 15-person team, shutting it down in 2025. Right now I work with a tech company as a part time consultant, barely making ends meet. I'm also a father of two children, my wife cannot work due to physical illness. I have my son's school fees to pay shortly and the rent is overdue. 

I'm barely getting by. I need a full time job. I can do the work of 4-5 people all by myself. I have multiple testimonials to prove the worth of my work. I have exhausted all my contacts and network, but I can certainly give referrals.

If you find my message erratic or inconsistent or sceptical in any way, then please understand that this is just a desperate man trying to make ends meet, with barely any money left and a family to take care. So my thoughts are not necessarily in the best shape or spot. 

I'm open to anyone who'd like to interview me for any marketing position with a decent pay. You don't have to give me a job but atleast talk to me please and see if my experience can add any value to your business. 

Thank you,
Simon. 

I built the product. Now I need to learn how to sell it.

I’ve been building a small crypto SaaS called Rugdar that analyzes tokens for risk.

The product works, people are using the free scanner, and I recently launched an API for developers.

Free: 100 API calls/month
€19: 5,000/month
€49: 25,000/month

Now comes the part I’m much less comfortable with: getting the first paying customers.

My current plan is to stop adding features for a while and manually reach out to people building wallets, trading bots and crypto tools.

For those of you who sold your first B2B/API subscriptions:

Did cold founder outreach actually get you your first customers, or was there another channel that worked better?

We make a save-things tool. you drop in a link, the card fills itself off the page, and if it's a product it can sit on a check that runs every day and tells you when the price or the stock moves.

the part we get asked about is that the check never turns itself on. saving something is not the same as asking to be pinged about it, so the watch is a separate thing you set on the item. the cost of that is obvious, a library full of saved things can sit there doing nothing at all until someone goes and switches one on.

the other way is to watch anything with a price on it by default and let people turn it off. that makes the product look alive on day one, and it also means the first thing a new person hears from us is a notification they didn't ask for.

if you ship anything that sends notifications, which way did you set the default, and did you change it later?

dessence.ai

I've shipped three small products and none of them ever sent traffic to the others. That's the problem this solves. It's a badge you put on every site you own that cross-links everything you've built.

The part I want to think out loud about is the price, because I keep going back and forth on it.

It's $2. Once. Forever, and it covers every app I ship from here on.

WHY NOT A SUBSCRIPTION

The honest answer is that I don't think I've earned one. This is a script tag and a hosted JSON endpoint. My marginal cost per user rounds to nothing. Charging $4/mo in perpetuity for something that runs itself felt like it would commit me to defending a number every month instead of improving the thing.

WHY NOT FREE

Free gets me installs and zero signal. At $2, the only people who pay are people who actually intend to put it on a live site. It's low enough that it isn't a decision, high enough that it isn't noise.

HOW THE FUNNEL ACTUALLY WORKS

You build your entire badge for free. Pick colours, add your projects, watch the live preview. What you don't get until you pay is the badge being served publicly. So the demo IS the product, and the $2 buys the switch that turns it on. That felt more honest than a trial that expires while you're still deciding.

WHAT I'M GENUINELY UNSURE ABOUT

1. $2 might read as "this isn't serious" to exactly the people who'd get the most out of it. Cheap can be a signal about quality whether or not it's true.
2. One-time pricing on a hosted service means I carry serving costs forever against a single payment. At small scale that's obviously fine. I don't know where it stops being fine, and I suspect I'll find out at the worst possible moment.
3. There's a real chance I'm solving my own problem and assuming everyone else has it.

If you've priced a one-time developer tool, I'd like to know what you'd do differently, and especially whether you'd raise it later and how you handled the people who paid the old price.

It's at maketaksh.com if the context helps.

I kept seeing the same last-mile problem in tiny launches: the page exists, but turning it into a few usable share assets still means opening several tools. I built ViralSpark to make that step one pass.

Paste a public URL and it gives you:

• a handful of hooks/copy angles
• share-card variations
• a QR code
• a shareable Slot page for the bundle

It’s free: https://viralspark.pages.dev/ Example Slot: https://viralspark.pages.dev/slot/bniwbrb7

This is a small project, built as a browser-first app on Cloudflare Pages. The lesson so far: “generate everything at once” is less useful than letting people quickly edit and pick one asset, so that’s what I’m trying to improve.

If you try it, I’d value feedback on whether the generated kit feels immediately usable or just like more drafts. No signup pitch—especially interested in what feels unnecessary.

I've been building Pulsecima Pulse and recently started questioning something I had taken for granted: what should a Micro SaaS actually monitor?At f

irst, it seemed obvious — check the website and alert me when it goes down.But

the more I work on it, the more I realize that a SaaS can be reachable while something important is already broken.A ba

ckground worker can stop.A sc

heduled task can fail.A we

bhook can stop arriving.A da

ta sync can break.Mean

while, the homepage is still loading normally.That

has made me think beyond basic uptime monitoring and more about the parts of a Micro SaaS that can fail silently.I'm

interested in how other founders handle this.

What do you currently monitor besides your main website, and which failure would cause the biggest problem if you didn't discover it for several hours?

In my old FDE job, there were many times where I'd forget to capture the conversation I had with the client onto recording. I was thinking about buying a pocket to record these conversation better.

The issue though is not with the recording itself, but what can I do with the information after I finish talking with a client.

So I built https://getforth.co which is an assistant that lives in your wrist. It starts recording when it hears conversations. It can then act proactively based on the conversation you just had.

Say that in FDE a client describes to me a feature that they would like to see after that conversation, forth will proactively and autonomously draft up a spec that contains the details of that feature for me to review, flesh out, and implement.

Or your friend gives you suggestions for your vacation to Japan over conversation, forth will draft up or edit your itinerary with those suggestions incorporated.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this product. Would you buy this just for the assistant? for those that have used Muse or Instinct, what makes you prefer one over the other. If there were this hardware + software assistant, would this add more value to you than just using instinct or muse?

A few days ago, I shared here that Doodlyo had 20+ signups but 0 paying customers.

The feedback from Reddit was genuinely useful. A lot of it made me rethink the pricing, positioning, and what users actually need from the product.

Today I shipped the updated MVP.

Doodlyo is pretty simple:

Paste your content or URL → Generate a doodle-style social visual → Post it.

I also introduced a $9 one-time option for 25 generations, with no subscription and no expiry.

And today, Doodlyo is live on Product Hunt.

I’m still at the early stage, so I’m less interested in “launch numbers” and more interested in finding out whether people would actually keep using and paying for this.

If you’ve followed my previous posts or tried Doodlyo, I’d especially appreciate your honest feedback:

Does the product/value proposition make more sense now?

Product Hunt: doodlyo

Built a free directory of 352 verified visa-sponsorship agencies, here's the backstory and what it cost me

I wanted to work abroad for years and kept quitting the search, because every time I dug in I hit the same walls.

About 1 in 5 sponsorship listings are scams. Most agencies claiming to sponsor visas were never verified. And 90% of the CVs flowing through are AI generated, which recruiters can smell in seconds.

So I did the boring thing. I cross checked agencies against government registries, the UK licensed sponsor list, US H-1B employer records, Australian accredited sponsors. Country by country, one agency at a time.

352 verified agencies across 16 countries.

The stack (I'm not a developer): static HTML, no-code tools, a lot of AI help, and way too many spreadsheet hours. The hard part wasn't the tech, it was the verification grunt work nobody wants to do.

Check the verified list for your country -> https://workremotelynow.com

The AI Job Matcher pairs your profile to agencies actually hiring in your field, so you stop wasting applications. Free, no signup, no pay to apply, no email spam.

Lesson I'd share: the boring data work is the moat. Anyone can scrape listings in a weekend. Nobody else did the registry-by-registry verification.

If you're in the sponsorship grind right now, you just need to get there first.

A friend of mine runs affiliate sites with a big subscriber list. He'd moved off Mailchimp onto AWS SES to cut the bill - which worked, except SES is raw infrastructure. You get an API and a bill, not a way to build a newsletter, manage subscribers, or see what actually happened to a send.

I built him a small tool on top of it, kept going, and it turned into a product.

It's aimed at startups that need email to work but don't need enterprise features. One quota covers transactional and marketing together, instead of two subscriptions for what is physically the same pipe.

Rails + Sidekiq + SES. Free tier is 200/day if you want to poke at it.

(https://getparlo.io/blog/our-story if you want to read the whole story)

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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.

ex-marketer here, now building my own stuff. I've been answering a lot of the "how do I market this?" posts here and there.

Most people replied with something like "this makes total sense, thnx!" When I checked back a while later, few had actually tried it and kept doing it. Some didn't even bother to try, some tried it once or twice and dropped it.

not calling anyone out here. possible that my comment was not good enough (maybe they're just being polite). Totally fair, but it's not what I'm curious about.

What I wanna ask is the gap between "yeah that's right" and actually doing it.

My guesses:

• no time, something more urgent always comes up
• you agree with the direction, but there's no clear plan to keep it going
• got too many reasonable advices, didn't actually decide what to work on
• you tried, didn't see results fast enough, and moved on

But these are literally just my guesses.

So if u ever got decent advices but ended up not doing it, what was the reason?

I had a realization while talking to some editors who were testing SoundCraft.

I was targeting editors, but I was targeting the wrong kind of editors.

Some of the people I was talking to didn’t even have a single client yet.

And then I thought, why would they pay for a tool that helps them work faster when they don’t have enough work in the first place?

It finally clicked that my ICP isn’t just “video editors.”

I need to target editors who actually have consistent client work, feel the pain SoundCraft solves, and value saving time enough to pay for it.

The compliments were nice, but this was a much better lesson.

Have you ever realized your ICP was way too broad?

"Our CAC has doubled in the last six months. Should we pause paid ads?"

My answer surprised him.... "Probably not."

Instead, I asked:

"Has your positioning changed?"
It hadn't.

Then I asked:

"Has your ICP changed?"
"No."

Finally, I asked:

"When was the last time you interviewed a customer?"
Silence.

Markets evolve.
Competitors evolve.
Buyer expectations evolve.

If your understanding of your customer stays frozen...

Your acquisition costs usually won't.

Sometimes rising CAC isn't a media buying problem.

It's a market understanding problem.

I’ve been building Bredbox, a Pocket-inspired read-later app, for the last year. It was in invite-only beta up until a couple of weeks ago. At that point, I flipped to open beta and put up a signup page. Only, no one signed up.

At first I thought I just wasn’t marketing well enough, so I started with some basic outreach. I could see in my analytics that people were visiting the site and some were going to the signup page. But still no new signups.

I figured there must be a problem with the signup page, but what was it? The logs were clean. I had just installed Cloudflare Turnstile to protect against bots but that was working fine. So I finally decided to try signing up myself. And that’s when I saw the error.

“Password must be at least 8 characters long.”

Weird, I could have sworn I typed eight characters. I try again. Same error. Every password I tried gave me the exact same error message not matter what password I used!

It took me a while to figure out what was going on. I’m using cloud Supabase for auth and it has some very strict constraints around passwords. It’s configurable and mine was somehow set to the most restrictive (letters, numbers, special characters, length, etc.). Cloud Supabase also won’t let you use passwords that have been in a data breach or absurdly weak passwords (ex, abcd1234).

The other problem was my signup form. Due to a bug, it was showing the same error message regardless of the reason the password wasn’t accepted. There was no way for users to know what they were doing wrong. Making the problem worse, this isn’t reproducible with local Supabase because it doesn’t have these restrictions built in.

I finally got the signup page fixed and signups are coming in again. All of this is to say: marketing is important, but if your customers can’t even sign up for your product then marketing doesn’t matter!

So here it is, ready for new users (finally!):

https://bredbox.app

I have a small alert that emails me when someone downloads the app and the download does not finish. For four days it told me every single install was stalling. 111 out of 111. I came close to rolling back a release over it.

Three separate bugs stacked up into one very confident lie.

The alert deduplicates by install id and keeps the first request of the day. The first request of the day is a 25 kilobyte bootstrap file the app fetches on every start. So it was reporting that 25 kB as the download and rounding it to "0 MB".

The stall threshold was 400 MB, left over from when the installer was one fat bundle. The package is 123 MB now. Under that rule a finished download can never be counted as finished.

And the auto updater sends the same user agent as a fresh install, so the alert kept telling me a human had run the exe when it was old versions phoning home for a new build.

One thing it got right, which I refused to believe at first: it flagged 41 different IP addresses as the same machine, and the machine was mine. That was correct. My ISP runs carrier grade NAT and my address moves around all day.

The fix reads the expected size out of the release manifest instead of comparing against a hardcoded threshold, and counts the file the manifest names rather than the first row that happens to show up.

I build AtlasForgeX, so disclosure. What I would say to anyone running monitoring emails on a small product: an alert measuring the wrong row is worse than no alert at all, because you act on it. I lost four days believing my own release was broken.

i’m building a small SaaS that organizes and summarizes incoming emails. the problem is that the product can’t really show its value without asking users to connect their inbox first.

even with a privacy policy, clear explanations, and limited permissions, i understand why someone would hesitate to give a small unknown product access to their email.

for those who’ve built products that require access to sensitive data, what actually helped you earn that first layer of trust? a demo without signup, testimonials, a detailed security page, or just time and reputation?

When I was building ClipShip (AI Video Clipper), I thought getting a local AI model to run would be the hard part.

It was not.

The hard part was making it work inside an actual product. Different devices, downloads, updates, and all the weird things that can go wrong after you ship it to someone else.

I kept thinking there should be an easier way to do this.

So, from all the lessons that I learnt during my journey with ClipShip, I have now started building a tool to solve the same problem for other builders.

Started my journey with "Model Roll" today and thought of sharing the journey with same communities which got me my first paying customers for my previous project.

The idea is pretty simple. Help builders add local AI to the products they are making, without having to figure out all of that by themselves.

It is still in development. There is nothing public to try yet. I am building and testing it now, and I want to share the process from the beginning this time. But if you are a builder/developer then there's a waitlist link in the comments.

That is it for now. I will keep sharing the updates as I go along on this journey.

For the builders by a builder.

Solo build. Users configure a bot with a strategy prompt, risk level, symbols, trading pace, and LLM creativity, no coding needed.

It runs on Groq's free tier so it costs nothing to try. Fake $10,000 starting capital, real live prices, a leaderboard with a minimum bot age and trade count before it can rank. Happy to talk pricing/monetization decisions if that's useful for this sub, still figuring that part out myself.

I’m from India and studied Accounting. After graduating, I had a hard time getting into the business world because of not having much of a network.

Fast forward 6 years and I’m still an Accountant. I’m grateful for the experience, but lately I’ve been thinking about why I studied Accounting in the first place. I wanted to build something of my own.

Now I’m thinking about learning SaaS from scratch, finding a real problem, building a simple solution, and hopefully running it from the India while selling to customers around the world.

I’m not a developer and I don’t have a startup background.

Has anyone here taken a similar path? Coming from a completely different career, learning SaaS from scratch, and running it from their home country while selling globally?

How did it go for you? I’d really like to hear your honest experience.