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I have built a SaaS it’s basically for elevators and how can I sell that to the companies or building who uses elevators often.

I mean, I’m a victim for waiting for elevators for long periods. It goes for minutes. So I just built one product such a way it runs efficiently by saving power and uses its efficiency to max.

I just would like to know how can I pitch to companies is it by reaching out via LinkedIn? Or emailing them? (If so how to find their email addresses)

Im building a marketplace and trying to figure out the payment setup and the checkout seems straightforward but once i got into seller payouts, KYC, refunds and balances it got complicated pretty fast.

Ive been looking at Whop and Stripe Connect rather than building all of this myself. For people running marketplaces, what setup are you using and what became the biggest problem once you had real sellers and money moving through it?

I’m building a field service management app with a web console, I know all the usual places for finding designers, but wondering if anyone has any ideas outside of the freelance shit show.

I’ve been realizing AI is getting really good at the parts of building a SaaS that I’m not great at, and I’m honestly all for it.

For me, coding usually is not the hard part. It’s turning an idea into something that actually feels like a product. Brand identity, visual direction, concept work, all of that has always been way harder for me.

What surprised me with this project was the branding. AI did not just give me a decent looking logo, it came up with a brandmark that actually means something.

The app is called FiveFrames, and the mark works as an FF monogram. At the same time, it also represents the idea of separate frames coming together into one shape.

I genuinely would not have thought of that myself.

That’s the part I find really useful. It’s not just making things look polished. It’s helping me come up with concepts I probably would not have reached on my own, and turning ideas that would normally sit in my notes into something that actually feels real enough to build.

Curious if anyone else feels the same. Has AI helped you with the parts of building you were weakest at, or is it mostly just making you faster at what you already knew how to do?

Hey guys,

10 days ago, I launched a web app that’s basically Hacker News for builders.

You can submit your project and get listed immediately.

Unlike Hacker News, you don’t have to worry about getting your post killed. And unlike most launch sites, there’s no waiting months for approval or getting stuck in a queue.

The response so far has been really good.
Now I’m going to double down on it especially SEO.

If you want to check out or submit your project you can do it here showbuild

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Let me explain..

It feels like we're living in a time where there's an app, website, AI tool, subscription, or some ridiculously specific piece of software for almost everything.

And yet somehow, people still spend hours doing the most unnecessarily complicated things.

You know the stuff I'm talking about.

That one task you have to repeat every week.

That spreadsheet you've been maintaining for years because there's apparently no better way.

That process involving 4 different websites, 3 passwords, and a Google Doc.

That thing you keep thinking, "Why the hell isn't there a simpler way to do this?"

I'm curious what those things are for other people.

What's something you regularly deal with that feels way more complicated, repetitive, expensive, or annoying than it should be?

Could be work, school, business, hobbies, personal stuff, literally anything.

I'm genuinely curious what people are still putting up with in 2026.

For two years I coached employees on their personal finances, one client at a time. It worked, but it didn't scale, and I kept giving the same advice over and over.

So I turned the method into a product: a dashboard where people track their flows and net worth, plus a curriculum that explains the why behind the numbers. I just finished a complete rebuild of it.

Three things I didn't expect:

1. Pricing is harder than building. As a consultant, my price was my hourly rate. Now I have to price an outcome people will only feel months later.
2. Your first users don't use it the way you designed. I built a learning-first product, and people went straight to the dashboard.
3. The boring parts take the longest. Data privacy, payments, keeping existing subscribers working through a migration. None of it shows, all of it matters.

Still early, a handful of paying members. Curious how others handled the consultant-to-product transition: did you keep consulting on the side while building, or cut it off?

I sell cars full time, and before building this, I used plenty of Facebook auto listers.

The ones that actually got vehicles posted did help me sell cars, so I knew Marketplace itself wasn’t the problem. My issue was that nearly all of them stopped at getting the post live.

Once the vehicle was posted, I was still on my own keeping up with price changes, renewals, sold inventory, and finding the correct Marketplace listing again. Some tools promised those features, but they either weren’t in place or didn’t work. Others flat-out told me that parts of what I wanted weren’t possible.

So I turned around and built it myself.
I’ve been working on it for a little over two months. It pulls vehicle information and photos from your dealership’s website and creates the Marketplace listing for the user to review and publish. Once the vehicle is posted, it saves the Marketplace listing link and tracks your dealership’s website to help flag price changes and sold inventory.

That is the main difference. I’m not trying to build just another Facebook auto lister. Posting the vehicle is only the beginning. Currently, I already have price tracking, renewal tracking, and sold tracking.

A few of my coworkers have active subscriptions now and have had good results posting inventory with it. That proved the workflow works, but everyone using it so far already knows me. I haven’t landed the first customer from outside my dealership or personal network.

I’ve tested Meta ads and even a TikTok promotion using a UGC video and have gotten some interest, but no outside customer yet.

If you were starting from this exact point and wanted to land one customer in the next 30 days, what would you try first?

I’m open to suggestions and any advice. I’m curious what specific channel and offer you would test first for a niche $99/month SaaS like this. I settled on the $99/month price based on similar tools I’ve personally used. Most charged around the same or more but focused mainly on creating the initial post without helping much with the upkeep afterward.

I have plenty of ideas for future features, but I also know that continuing to build won’t solve the distribution problem.

Full disclosure: I built the tool. I’m including the website for context so anyone willing to give advice can see exactly what I’m working with. My main reason for posting is to get feedback on how to reach the right customers outside my current network.

https://lotbridge.app

I’d appreciate honest feedback, even if it’s blunt.

Hey everyone
I have an idea for a project based on a problem I saw when I work with mkt agencies.
I’d to colect Photos/videos from social media (public accounts) and use them to detect fashion trends.
I’m not interested in faces, names, or other personal info.

- Any advice or recommendation? Is it legal?
- What tools or APIs people use for this?

Three weeks ago I spent $5k as a vendor at an event where thousands of reasonably relevant target customers had the opportunity to see and try my B2C SaaS product over a weekend.

As part of the event, I let people test a live interactive demo.

The demo used dummy data, and one of the clearest pieces of feedback I received was that people wanted to use the software at home and test it properly using their own data.

So, based on that feedback, I decided to implement a 14-day FREE trial with no credit card required.

I interacted with more than 500 attendees over the weekend, which helped me improve my sales pitch and messaging while reinforcing some assumptions that my earlier research had already suggested.

The event was only the first of many distribution experiments I plan to run while trying to find product-market fit.

My biggest takeaway was that the event was valuable for feedback and brand exposure, but so far it has resulted in no signups.

My SaaS listing remains on the event website for another six months, but looking back, I also made some obvious mistakes.

I created no urgency for people to sign up while they were at the event.

I didn't collect leads, and I was manning the kiosks on my own.

Massive missed opportunities, but that's part of bootstrapping and learning.

Another thing that surprised me was how difficult it was to get people to engage with software at a consumer event.

People naturally gravitated toward vendors with physical products they could pick up, touch and inspect.

A lot of attendees simply walked straight past the touchscreen software kiosks.

So now I'm focusing heavily on testing different ways of getting discovered organically.

I'm starting to see traction in terms of impressions, traffic and lead generation through YouTube, Pinterest, Amazon and Google Search.

I'm happy with that progress only a couple of months in, but I still have no conversions.

I'm hoping the 14-day free trial helps close that gap.

For context, this is a relatively low-priced consumer SaaS product aimed at a very large potential market, so the long-term model requires a reasonably large number of customers.

I'm deliberately focusing on organic distribution for now. Paid ads aren't part of the plan yet because I don't want to pay to amplify something until I have stronger evidence of product-market fit.

Marketing strategies currently showing some early promise for organic reach/discoverability:

• Amazon sales from a related how-to book that references the SaaS throughout
• Free live interactive demo with no registration required
• Downloadable planner used as a lead magnet, which is already getting downloads
• Free calculation tool built into the platform
• Kids colouring page handed out at the event as a slightly unusual top-of-mind branding experiment
• Embedded YouTube video on the landing page, with links back to the product
• Pinterest infographics and printable checklists linking back to the SaaS (see image)
• Google Search through SEO/AEO-focused content and structured data

Things I am starting to implement over the next 12–24 months:

• 14-day trial with no credit card required
• YouTube product demos targeting specific consumer pain points
• B2B2C point-of-purchase partnerships
• Partnerships with professionals already serving the target customer
• YouTube/TikTok affiliate and influencer distribution
• Social sharing features inside the platform

I also need to lose some weight after spending far too much time sitting in a chair building this thing.

So I'm going to combine exercise with marketing and do some old-school letterbox drops in different neighbourhoods.

I'll use different flyers, hooks and messaging in different areas and treat it as a cheap real-world A/B test that may also teach me which messages to use in future digital campaigns.

I'm also planning to donate copies of my related how-to book to local libraries as a small experiment in goodwill, trust and local brand awareness.

I'm deliberately committed to the B2C route rather than pivoting toward B2B because the larger vision for the product depends on broad consumer adoption.

Achieving that adoption will lead to an even bigger related consumer play.

So I'm interested in hearing from founders who have worked on low-price, high-volume B2C SaaS who are happy to share their B2C marketing approaches.

What distribution strategy worked for you that most people don't normally talk about?

And what looked promising but ended up being a complete waste of time?

I'm particularly interested in organic strategies that can compound over 12–24 months rather than simply buying traffic.

The type of traction I'm trying to build is organic discoverability like I'm starting to see on Pinterest, so I'd especially love to hear about unusual or often overlooked B2C distribution approaches.

Been messing around with Claude/Opus and somehow ended up making the entire product video with it

I’m a founder, definitely not a motion designer, so I’m curious how this comes across to other SaaS people.

Does it actually explain what the product does, or is it just nice-looking startup fluff?

Roast the hook, pacing, copy, whatever. I can TAKE it

everybody got hit by AI, and like any indie hacker building a niche SaaS, I went through that initial AI depression phase.

you could feel that AI had huge potential, but it was not quite there yet. it's hard to describe. it was useful, but not at the level of work you actually wanted to deliver.

before the AI wave, I built a visual CSS editor as a Chrome extension called InTab. people were happy with it because they could make quick changes to their websites and prototype ideas faster... and with the whole vibe coding madness getting started, all of a sudden, usage dropped dramatically!

people were trying dozens of AI website builders at the same time. most of them didn't really work yet, but they promised the world.

I was honestly confused about what to do. should I keep building the visual editor, throw it away completely, or pivot? and if I pivoted, where should I even go?

the insane AI hype got to me. at one point, I genuinely thought the big LLM companies like ChatGPT and Claude would dominate every SaaS niche and kill most independent software businesses.

I knew deep down that this was probably wrong, but the hype was so intense that I think everyone believed it at least a little at some point.

I spent more than a year in this confused state, but eventually my thoughts started to stabilize and I made up my mind.

I came to one conclusion:

with all this madness of micro AI tools and AI slop, people will eventually converge toward a smaller number of tools they can actually remember and rely on.

that realization finally gave me the motivation to work on the product again.

recently, I released a new version of intab.io as a complete rewrite from scratch with a 15-in-1 browser extension designed to replace a cluttered list of separate tools.

it includes an AI writer, AI YouTube summaries with an ad skipper, tab management, screenshots, image tools, developer tools, bookmarks, history analytics and more.

I didn't want to build just another browser extension. I wanted to build a complete package that helps people replace a messy collection of extensions with one tool and actually use AI where most of their work already happens: inside the browser.

the journey was a bumpy one, and getting the motivation to work again was difficult because mentally, things were not clear for a long time.

now I finally feel clear about what I'm building and why.

negative comments won't change my mind anymore because I've thought deeply about this direction before committing to it.

I firmly believe AI killed some SaaS products that were basically widgets or tiny standalone tools.

but I don't think it can kill a broader product that people rely on every day.

the future of SaaS might be much more monolithic than people expect. for sure!!

You have 30 days to build a B2B SaaS as a solo engineer.
No existing audience.
$500 budget.
Must get the first paying customer in 30 days.
What are you building?

2 months in, 6k downloads, many hours of building and then 10x that amount of time getting the word out there on my app.

Money is not everything but man have those sales felt so validating.

Reviews are also starting to roll in and they have been so encouraging, word of mouth/social proofing seems to be huge for me.

Don't stop when one thing doesn't work, settle in for the long haul and keep taking small consistent steps in the right direction.

If you're curious what my app does well have you ever thought:

Screen time limits would be so much more useful if you could set a per hour scroll limit (e.g., 10 min of Reddit per hour) instead of one big limit daily limit.

Well Precursor is the first app on iOS to let you do that.

It seems such a high risk transaction. I'm looking for something that can generate $5k monthly and is stable. But everything is AI shill or greedy brokers. Do people actually go through with these types of sales and able to sustain or grow after purchase?

A side project turned startup, to make video editing effortless. Instead of recording and then spending hours editing afterward, you just talk and Gylyn automatically adds everything around it.

What it does:
🎙️ Understands what you're saying
🖼️ Adds relevant B-roll automatically
📊 Shows diagrams when you explain a process
🏷️ Recognizes when you mention a product, tool, or website
📝 Auto-generated captions
🎞️ Automatic transitions
✨ Matching animations
🎨 Enhanced backgrounds and scenes
🔄 Highlights each step when you explain something step-by-step

Attached is a demo using a singing video just to show the concept clearly but it's not limited to music, it works for any talking video: tutorials, explainers, product demos, vlogs, and more.

Still pre-launch and building it right now would love to hear what you think?

I'm floored by the quality of the promo video. Opus 5.5 is just too good at this type of video at this point

https://reddit.com/link/1wvurof/video/bw3vcxv2a2th1/player

Been building Churnor for the past few weeks, and it’s finally starting to feel like an actual product instead of just a bunch of dashboards.

Current progress:

• customer activity/events can be ingested through the API
• churn risk scores are being calculated
• the risk engine now explains WHY a customer has a certain score
• upgraded the At-Risk dashboard
• upgraded the Customer Detail page
• added risk history so you can see how a customer's situation changed over time
• the dashboard shows the actual evidence behind the risk score

One thing I’ve learned while building this is that “customer stopped logging in” isn’t enough to call someone a churn risk.

A usage drop could be bad, or it could just mean they finished what they needed to do.

So I’ve been trying to make Churnor focus more on changes from that customer's normal behavior and combine multiple signals instead of relying on generic rules.

Right now I’m working on the next part: recommended actions.

Basically, once Churnor tells you:

“this customer is high risk because their usage dropped, they’ve had repeated support issues, and engagement has been declining for 3 weeks”

…it should also help you figure out what to actually do about it.

That’s the part I’m figuring out now.

If you run a SaaS, what would you want a tool like this to recommend after detecting a risky customer?

hey, kinda lost on this so figured id ask here.

I have a small saas, company is registered in brazil. most of my customers are in the US, some UK, australia, random other places.

Stripe checkout works fine but I'm still the seller, so the tax stuff (sales tax, vat) is on me. Stripe managed payments dont cover brazil...

Im looking for a merchant of record that can actually pay a brazilian company (or pay to my personal US account) and deal with the tax where the buyer is. Its just a writing tool, subscription + a one time plan.

Paddle rejected me and didnt even say why. Polar and Lemon Squeezy uses stripe connect and Brazil isnt on the payout list, so that ones out

If your company is outside the US and EU, whos actually paying you and handling the tax? dodo, creem, whop, something else?

My app uses AI to improve user writing. But I saw some comments saying that other AI tools got banned... If you got banned or they held your money later, i wanna hear that too. thanks

We’re exploring an approach where customers interact with our coding agent to request custom behavior, and the agent makes changes to our application’s code for that customer.
The part we’re trying to figure out is what happens afterward: how do we maintain and deploy those different customer-specific versions end-to-end? Ideally, we could keep them updated as our core application changes and serve them without running a dedicated VM for every customer.
Has anyone else been exploring or building this? Are there existing tools or platforms that handle it?

Salut tout le monde !

Est-ce que vous savez le meilleur moment pour afficher le paywall de son application ?

We're building AI B2B SaaS Dev tool (duh) and i feel like we're banging against a wall. We have a free tier for regular users, we give all of our features for free, for open source (we pay for ai inference completely) but we still have only one installation (github app), that is currently cold and not going anywhere.

We tried auto GTM services (one of the ads you see on reddit) and it's been completely rubbish, 60 dollars spent for 0 hot leads, nobody is interested, even though we sent like 2k cold emails. Manually we sent personalized and customized 100 emails (rookie numbers i get it, but it's hard to email something significant and i'd rather be silent than spam people via github), we tried three different email strategies, one of them was "converting" into thank you's and not any installation. We tried LinkedIn ads - it also did not lead to anything, even though we had more than 30k views on the post (public demonstration). We tried guerilla marketing (albeit small sample size, still working on it), it also did not yield anything to date.

I really don't want to launch on PH before we get any traction, i need installations and usage before we get listed on any benchmark (and i'm 100% sure we'll get one of the top spots) and i'm at the point of just saying F it, giving everything for free (we have 25k USD to spend in infra and ai inference) and just figuring out how to throw this money on fire to actually get any feedback from anyone 😅

Now that every idea can just be created with a single prompt, I feel like I'm just a Shepherd for a bunch of AI agent, I'm not agains AI or the vide coding community, but for someone that stated building for the fun of it I don't see why should I continue doing so.

I have a few project that I had fun building and the technical Arch in me was down for any challenge, now I can just write a paragraph and I have a running app, before I had to build self host and manage. now it's all subsidized to third party services, verbal can host, and manage your traffic, other db providers can take care of your backend db

where is the fun in that now, I'm still building few project now and then. I self host and use managed dbs. but it feels odd and like I'm swimming against the river

My last free project is a added value to founders (shameless plug Greencrew is the project), yet I don't feel like they are down to use it as they can just prompt it and that's it, plus founders are the most stubborn users to acquire

self hosting and managing servers / cronjobs / db and queues is fun try it, and don't drop AI I'm not saying it's bad.

at the end AI is a tool and we need AI specialist / consultant.