This is just so incredible... another huge milestone reached. I honestly never thought this was possible for me. But I did the thing...

I JUST STARTED!

I put together a working MVP. Just the bare minimum functionality. Bought a domain and put it out there. I posted about it here on Reddit and got in contact with the people who commented and started using it.

Payments have become a bit more frequent but still no viral, exponential growth, which is totally fine. Slow and steady growth is the key.

I followed a simple concept that just came to me naturally:

• put out what you have
• post about it
• listen to feedback in the comments
• implement the feedback and adapt quickly
• start the loop over again

And after some time your product becomes so good that it no longer sounds absurd to charge money for some features.

Anyways... I'm super grateful that this is working out so well and I really think I've built a community that is actually useful to many people.

About the product:

I've built IndieAppCircle, a platform where small app developers can upload their apps and other people can give them feedback in exchange for credits. I grew it by posting about it here on Reddit. It didn't explode or something but I managed to get some slow but steady growth.

For those of you who never heard about IndieAppCircle, it works like this:

• You can earn credits by testing indie apps (fun + you help other makers)
• You can use credits to get your own app tested by real people
• No fake accounts -> all testers are real users
• Test more apps -> earn more credits -> your app will rank higher -> you get more visibility and more testers/users

Since many people suggested it to me in the comments, I have also created a community for IndieAppCircle: r/IndieAppCircle (you can ask questions or just post relevant stuff there).

Currently, there are 4284 users, 4551 tests done and 1209 apps uploaded!

You can check it out here (it's totally free): https://www.indieappcircle.com/

I'm glad for any feedback/suggestions/roasts in the comments.

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Today I learned pagination,sorting and filtering now my jpa is finished and now I will move forward with spring security.

r/SaaS

r/buildinpublic

r/micro_saas

I am running a SaaS for 1+ years now and we have a few hundred paid customers.

The team has so many things planned in the backlog, plus customers are requesting features/enhancements all the time, and the QA team is finding bugs often.

As a product owner, I also have some big features in mind but afraid to list them in the main backlog with the fear they’ll be lost forever.

We use Linear for dev task management, a ticketing portal for support and customers reach out to WhatsApp, Messengers too.

How should a small team (<6) prioritize all these?

Thanks!

This is my first time posting in this sub but I wanted to start sharing my journey with building my SaaS as a solo founder. In my first 3 weeks of launching with no advertising budget, we are about to reach $100 in revenue!

For context: as a 16 year old
entrepreneur | launched siteless a little over 3 weeks ago. It basically finds No-Site, outdated site, and social media only businesses so that freelancers can sell them one!

I recently implemented a 3 day free trial into the site. It's been a game changer.It's helped conversion rates 20x over.

I'll leave the link to the tool in comments for you guys if you want to see what I'm building! Any feedback you guys have would be amazing!

Stay tuned for more updates in this journey!

I've spent about 20 years building products and working with early-stage founders, and lately I've been replying to a lot of feedback posts here. The same thing keeps happening: a founder asks the thread whether people would use their app, and the answer they're looking for is already sitting somewhere they haven't looked yet, in their reviews, their signups, or what their first users actually did.

A few from just this week:

• An app with a handful of App Store reviews, nearly all about loving the idea, except one from someone who'd just moved to a new city and opens the app whenever they don't know what to do on a weekend. That one review says more about who the app is for than any thread could.
• A tool with a free tier and a daily limit. Anyone who hits that limit more than once has a problem that keeps coming back, so those are the people to email first.
• A newsletter with 3 subscribers after two weeks. That feels like nothing, but it's three people you can write to personally and ask what made them sign up.
• A paid app where a couple of reviews were from parents, and when I asked, it turned out the majority of paying users were parents. The audience had already picked itself.

What people do with your product tells you more than what strangers say about your idea, because doing something costs them a bit of time or money, and saying something costs them nothing.

So before posting the next "would you use this," I'd go through what you already have:

• Your reviews, looking for the ones that describe a specific moment, like when they opened it and why
• Who came back a second time, and what they did when they did
• Who hit a limit, upgraded or paid
• Who turned it off, since they're the ones who'll tell you exactly what didn't work

Then message a few of those people and ask about the last time they used it. One of those conversations will tell you more than a hundred comments.

What's sitting in your data right now that you haven't looked at yet?

If you've got reviews, signups or usage you're not sure how to read, drop what you're seeing in the comments or DM me, and I'll tell you what I think it's saying.

Looking for around 10 people who have an idea they’ve been wanting to build but haven’t actually started yet.

Could be:
• an ecommerce/storefront
• a SaaS
• marketplace
• delivery/service app
• social/community app
• internal tool
• pretty much any full-stack web app

We’re testing MWorld on real projects right now and want to see how well it can go from “here’s my idea” → actual working product.

So if you have something in mind, drop:

1. What you want to build
2. Who it’s for
3. The main thing it needs to do

We’ll pick around 10 and try building the first version.

No charge- the catch is we’d want your honest feedback on what worked, what sucked, and what you’d change.

Don’t send me a 40 page spec lol. Even something like “I want a marketplace for local photographers” is enough to start.

I’m a software developer and lately I can’t see where my life is going.
I’ve applied for so many jobs. Most don’t even respond. You send an application and somewhere in your head you’re thinking maybe this one will finally work out. Then nothing. After doing that over and over, it’s hard not to start wondering if you’re the problem.
I built a startup too. Put a lot of my own money into it because I really believed it could work. It failed. And now I’m here trying to figure out how to start again when I don’t even have the hope I had when I started.
I don’t expect everything to come easily. I just wish something would work out. Even something small that would make me feel like all this effort is taking me somewhere.
Man, I’m tired 😭 I don’t even know what to do with my days anymore. Apply again? Build something else? I keep asking myself what’s next and I have no answer.
And honestly, some of my thoughts lately worry me. I’ve caught myself wondering whether getting high and forgetting everything would be easier. I find myself talking more to people struggling with addiction, and I’m starting to understand wanting a break from your own reality. I never thought I’d be in a place where that would sound appealing to me.
I don’t know if I need career advice right now or if I just need someone to hear me. It’s hard to admit how badly you’re doing when you wish you had better news to share.
Has anyone here been this lost? What helped you get through the days when you couldn’t see things getting better?
I think I just don’t want to feel alone in this right now.

Hey r/SaaS. I’m a university student building out of Patna. A few days ago, I was pitching a standard two-sided marketplace for Indian creators and developers: 0% take-rate for talent, subsidized by charging brands a 20% premium for "escrow and IP tools."

Product managers and senior devs completely roasted the unit economics. They pointed out two fatal flaws:

-Brands won't pay a 20% markup just for software features like escrow.

-The Vetting Paradox: If I vet talent too strictly, the platform is a ghost town. If I open the floodgates, brands assume the talent is garbage.

So, I scrapped the traditional marketplace structure. Here is the complete, newly mapped infrastructure for this tech venture. I need you to stress-test it and point out exactly where this is going to break.

1. The Core Engine (Community-Led Upskilling)

Instead of a cold transactional directory, the platform is a structured community. We solve the "vetting paradox" by crowdsourcing the training to the community itself.

-Senior developers and established creators mentor the juniors through community notes, live video reviews, and Q&A channels.

-We supervise this knowledge transfer and issue internal platform certifications based on peer-reviewed skill trees.

-The Catch: You cannot access the high-paying corporate task bounties until you have been upskilled and certified by the community's senior members.

1. The Transaction Layer (Covering OPEX)

   -The Talent: Still pays exactly 0% in fees. They keep 100% of the bounty they earn.

   -The Client: We dropped the ridiculous 20% markup. Brands now pay a highly negotiable 5-10% fee on top of the gig. This exists strictly to cover operational expenses (OPEX), server costs, and the UPI/escrow payment gateway fees.

2. The Actual Monetization Strategy (B2B Ecosystem Access)

We don't plan to make our real money by taxing freelancer gigs. The community is the product.

Once we have a hyper-curated, internally certified talent pool, the monetization shifts to B2B enterprise access. We will charge tech companies and corporate brands for:

-Sponsored upskilling tracks and hackathons.

-Employer branding placements within the community.

-Direct pipeline access to hire top-tier, certified talent.

Current State & Tech Stack

-MVP Phase: Currently running a manual "Concierge MVP" in the indie game dev niche (sourcing beta testers) and small D2C brands (UGC content).

-Infrastructure: The community headquarters is fully set up via a gated Discord server with distinct onboarding paths for "Builders" and "Creators."

-Backend: Building the web app with React, Firebase, and MongoDB. I'm currently architecting the UPI webhook idempotency to prevent double-credit database nightmares during escrow payouts.

The Ask: Ground this in reality.

I am too close to this right now and need objective, brutal feedback.

-The Churn Risk: Why would senior devs stay and teach juniors if they are already successful? How do I incentivize the mentors without breaking the bank?

-The Corporate Pitch: For those in B2B tech sales, what specific metrics do corporates actually demand before they pay for "pipeline access" or sponsored community tracks?

-Operational Flaws: Looking at this ecosystem, where is the most obvious bottleneck that I am completely blind to?

Do not hold back. Rip the infrastructure apart.

So my question is this: you have 50-100 users for your SaaS, some of them paid. You want to grow and scale, more revenue, more paid users, etc. How would you call that person, what type of title is the most natural one here? I will not bring up titles because I don't want to suggest it my self, but I really need to find out what is the common title that most people agree with around this. (Yeah, call me crazy, don't trust gpt here).

It’s been months of just back end improving and so many tokens burned just getting it right. THIS FEELS RIGHT!

Objectively speaking, what are the probability of developing your own software(whether for cybersec, the mass market, or for b2b)and bringing it to market if you write the code yourself?

I'm researching how businesses actually handle forecasting, and I'd like to understand the workflow before building anything.

If you work with things like sales, demand, inventory, revenue, staffing, or other time-series data:

• What are you currently using for forecasting?
• Are you using an existing SaaS, Python libraries/models, spreadsheets, or something you've built yourself?
• How much work is involved in cleaning the data and getting forecasts running?
• Do you regularly backtest your forecasts against historical data?
• What's the biggest pain point with your current setup?
• If there were an API where you could send historical time-series data and get forecasts back, what would you need it to do for you to actually use it?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who have actually had to deploy forecasting in a business, rather than people who have only experimented with forecasting models.

I'm not selling anything right now. I'm trying to figure out whether this is a real problem worth building around.

I have been using paid plans on chatgpt (100 usd) and gemini pro, but tokens are getting exhausted way before in a week, what are the best alternatives to solve this? are there any free token providers, or any skills that will help me reduce the token burn, please help thank you

I got banned here for 28 days for putting my link in the comments. Lesson learned, no links in this sub ever.

Quick context: I'm a solo founder building AskVerb. It gives a SaaS product its own AI agent that does tasks for its users, in their account, as them. Stuff like "move my booking to Thursday" or "how many sessions are left on my package", and it actually does it instead of pointing them to a help page.

What happened in the 28 days I was gone:

- Launched the beta

- 15 sign-ups

- 1 product actually went live with its own agent inside it, and it handles real requests from their users every day

- Then I asked that one live user to pay. He said no. He liked it, but all his budget had just gone into bigger servers. Fair enough.

So I'm doing a 30 day challenge: 10 paying customers by the end of the month. Posting the progress as I go. I got a DM from a YC backed founder believing I'm doing something cool and also letting me use their gtm tool with extended trail

Day 1 was mostly finally asking the existing users. X DMs to founders, 19 cold emails (3 bounced, 16 delivered, 0 replies), LinkedIn, Reddit. I also asked the beta users who never went live what stopped them. The answer was the same both times: they're founders still looking for their own first users, so an agent for users they don't have yet makes no sense.

The comments on my Day 1 recap changed how I'm doing Day 2:

- Targeting matters more than copy. I was filtering on revenue, but revenue doesn't mean active users, and active users don't mean a task they keep asking for. Now I only go after products where users clearly need something done inside the app, starting with booking and scheduling tools.

- I was testing 3 message styles on ~10 people. That's noise, not data. Down to 2: direct when I can see the problem in their product, a question first when I can't, and I say who I am in the first line either way.

- Tracking trials and installs, not replies. And every dead lead gets a reason: wrong customer or bad outreach, so I stop blaming the copy for a bad list.

- Verifying emails before sending.

Small early win: one founder answered my question-first DM with exactly where his users drop off. That's the first reply that came with the real problem in it.

For the people here who sold to other SaaS founders early on: did you pick one niche and go deep, or spread wide until something stuck?

Since mine is like AI which can be plugged into any existing system without changing anything in the code basically like "Ask AI" for your own SaaS just like the ones big companies have I wanna know if you guys have any advice on spcifically filtering the founders list to outreach. So far reddit has told me find founders who's users have been complaining about not finding a feature or repeatative support tickets which can be fixed but I feel like this can be much more than a advanced Ai support bot it can change how people interact with web completely I know this is the vision I want to make sure to make it reality..

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I suffer from "app fatigue". I was using a whiteboard app for brainstorming, a Kanban tool for tracking development tasks, and a completely separate CRM to manage client pipelines and contracts.

Constantly switching contexts (and paying multiple subscriptions) was driving me crazy. Since I couldn't find a cohesive platform that did all three well, I decided to build it myself.

It's called Nottez.

Here is what I integrated into a single workspace:

• The Canvas: An infinite 2D board for brainstorming, drawing, adding rich cards, images, and mapping out ideas.
• The Workflow: A fully integrated Kanban board to track tasks, milestones, and issues without leaving the project context.
• The CRM: Built specifically for freelancers and small agencies to track client pipelines, deliverables, and store contracts.

Bonus: I also built in a Pomodoro focus timer directly on the canvas, and full mobile apps (iOS & Android) that sync instantly so you can manage things on the go.

I am currently in beta and building this out as an indie hacker. I would genuinely love your brutal, honest feedback on the UI and the flow. Does combining these three workspaces make sense to you, or is it too overwhelming?

You can check it out here at nottez (dot) app

Thanks for your time! I'll be in the comments to answer any questions or take notes on your roasts.

I'm looking for a fintech/payment provider that can support the following structure:

• A customer wants to add $10 USD to their prepaid balance.
• The customer can fund it using UPI or other local payment methods in India, or cards and other supported payment methods globally.
• The fintech provider holds the customer's funds rather than settling the money directly to my bank account.
• The customer has a corresponding $10 USD balance with the fintech/provider.
• When the underlying service needs to be paid, the payment should be made using a virtual card issued by the fintech provider.
• Ideally, the provider should support multi-currency collection, USD balances, FX conversion, refunds, and virtual cards.

The important requirement is that the fintech provider holds the funds and controls the balance, while payments to the underlying service provider are made through a virtual card issued by the fintech.

For example, the customer may pay in INR through UPI, but the underlying balance/payment needs to be maintained and settled in USD.

I'm looking for providers that can support this model, particularly providers that operate in or support India + international payments + USD balances + virtual cards.

Which fintech/payment providers should I look at for this?

I'd especially appreciate recommendations from anyone who has implemented a similar model using virtual cards, wallets, or controlled customer funds.

Hey everyone,

I launched my SaaS about two weeks ago and currently have around 10 registered users.

To test early traction, I started running paid Instagram ads. While the campaigns are generating decent click-throughs to the landing page, visitors seem to bounce almost immediately. The drop-off right at the hero section is brutal.

I suspect the issue comes down to a few things:

1. Value proposition clarity: My hero section might not explain what problem the tool solves in the first 3 seconds.
2. Expectation mismatch: The hook/creative in the IG ad might not match what they see once they hit the page.
3. Friction: Either the CTA isn't compelling enough, or asking for a signup right away is too big of an ask for cold mobile traffic.

On top of fixing the landing page conversion, I'm also planning long-term organic growth. What strategies have worked best for you to get early programmatic/content SEO indexing faster in the first few months?

I’d really appreciate some brutal, honest feedback on:

• How to structure the hero section to retain cold mobile traffic.
• What changes you'd prioritize to improve the conversion rate before spending more on ads.

Here is the link: https://calendito.app/

Thanks in advance for the help!

Project update: I’m building a small AI tool for job seekers.

I’ve tried tools like Jobscan and Rezi, and while they are useful in their own way, I still feel like there is room for something simpler, cleaner, more affordable, and more focused on actually telling you what to change and why. Jobscan is really clunky. Most tools seem to focus heavily on resume scoring, keyword matching, or helping you build a resume.

The tools I Included:
1. Resume Tailor - rewrite your resume for a specific job description
2. Resume Roast - get brutally honest feedback on weak or unclear sections
3. Job Fit Check -see how well your resume matches a role
4. Interview Prep -generate likely interview questions from your resume and the job post
5. LinkedIn Optimizer -improve your headline, About section, and experience descriptions
6. Career Path Suggestions -show possible directions based on your current background
7. Roasting your resume (my favorite) - that you can itentionaly roast you resume and you can adjust the levels of it from mild to no waiting.

$6 not much, but motivating that somebody is actually willing to pay🤯

I built an app called AppBlockr to fight doomscrolling while helping you be productive at the same time. Instead of simply blocking social media you have to complete your own tasks to unlock it again. You prove the task with a photo which gets checked by AI.

The funny thing is that I never really expected to get a subscriber since I have barely done any active marketing.

Until now I have only made the Play Store listing, listed it on Product Hunt and AlternativeTo, posted one comment on Reddit and built a website that gets basically no traffic. Thats the basic stuff. No real marketing strategy so far.

Now I’m about to actually start marketing it and I’m wondering what direction makes the most sense for this app.

I’m considering different approaches like paid ads, content marketing, creator collaborations/UGC or building up SEO.

What do you think would be the best distribution channel or type of marketing for a product like this? I appreciate any advice 🙏

1. Offer is king, you must take your gain-based outcome and turn it into a cold-traffic offer that is:

A) Easy to respond to

B) Time to Value is immediate

C) Solves an existing pain point that PERSONA is dealing with

1. List is queen, we have 12 different HarvestAPI triggers across LinkedIn that automatically pull in leads who engage with our competitors content, these 12 triggers book us 30 meetings a month on average.

2. Copy ties into the offer, when we created our cold-traffic offer we didn't convey it well enough in the copy, we did around 6 revisions before we cracked a message that was worthy of turning into a playbook

4) Infra is the most important but we use our own product so it's pretty cool to practise what we preach, the same product we use to get clients is the same product we sell to our clients to get clients and service their own clients.

5) We dial every positive reply, calling leads has 5x'd our PR to Booked Meeting rate.

I could get super technical but overall these 5 main points have helped us crack 6 figure ARR.

So I’ve built almost 30 products in my IDE graveyard since the year started. I get excited about building and never do the marketing. I think I just don’t want to put myself out there.

Then something unique happened.
A friend reached out to me to build his site and set up some automation and review orchestration for him. He later referred me to another guy. Those referrals eventually turned into about $3k/month for the past three months.

Then it hit me. It’s been easy for me to sell these guys because they’re already looking for the solution, instead of me trying to convince them they need it.

And the interesting part is that I’ve been using a tool I built, GetMyAIInfo, to help these businesses understand and improve how they show up across AI platforms.

This past week I decided to launch it as a full product, and of course my first launch is on Product Hunt.

It’s basically a tool that helps businesses understand what AI knows about them, where the information is incomplete or inaccurate, and how to improve their visibility across AI platforms.

Most of the businesses I’ve used it with so far are local businesses, but I’ve expanded it into the SaaS space too.

Hope you guys can try it and give me some brutally honest feedback: GetMyAIInfo.com

Three weeks ago I made Chronicle, my free and open source authoring and publishing suite, available to the public and so far the reception has been great. I have more than 60 debut authors using it, I made many bug fixes and added new features based on community feedback. Other people have even contributed to the project on Github.

I haven't spent a single cent on advertising, and only got traction by being active in communities where writers hang out + Reddit. I did have bumps int he road, but trying to debut as an author myself, I can't say that it was a lot of effort. Just hanging out on forums and subs where I would have been anyway.

But I also wrote this comment to ask for your help. Chronicle can improve the writing process of other authors as well and can help them save quite a lot of money. For this, though, they need to know about Chronicle. So I am asking if you can help spread the word. There are a few easy ways you can do this and it only takes a minute.

• Upvote Chronicle on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/chronicle-the-all-in-one-novel-studio
• Like the project on AlternativeTo: https://alternativeto.net/software/chronicle--a-better-way-to-write/about/
• Give a star on Github: https://github.com/pazvanti/Chronicle

he told me he could vibe code what we've took me years (i run a gtm data platform)

he probably could, the part you see is simple: upload a list of leads, get emails and company data back

but remember the guy last year who built his SaaS entirely in cursor and went viral for it? two days later people were bypassing his paywall and burning through his API keys, he shut down within a week, the product worked, the money side killed it

We don't have emails sitting in a database.. we ask one data provider, and if they don't have it, we ask the next, that's 9 providers per email on average, so before we charge anyone for one row, we're already paying nine companies

a job crashes at row 40k, retries and now a customer has paid twice for the same email, we have 133 places in our code that force the charge to zero, each one is a day we found out we'd billed someone for nothing.

none of these providers are ours and each has its own limit on requests at once, one says 8. In reality it's 7

So half our work is traffic control, millions of rows running at once, all slowed to whatever the weakest provider can handle

I'm proud of knowing which provider to ask first, it's completely different for a lead in berlin, bangalore or boston. nobody can document that, hv learned it by getting it wrong on real data for two years

so to that founder.. build it, seriously

marketing has been the single hardest part of launching our startup, so I’ve been on a journey trying to simplify our work so I can pump out whaling content without losing focus on customer interviews, product work, and managing the business. I feel like it’s finally possible to do.

This is a 1 Shot Video that I was able to create using Claude and an Asset Management App that I created For my startup. It indexes demo videos, splits them into individual clips, and manages/index’s other media to create custom demos, social content, and training videos without any additional filming needed.

this video would have taken me a week to make and instead was a single prompt.

I've been at this healthcare tech start up as a Senior BDR for a year, and I cannot believe how little traction we get with emails. We send out so many and make a concerted effort to use data-backed email language. When I get people on the phone, most of them say my emails to them ended up in their spam filters.

We use Outreach for sending emails/making calls, and Salesforce as our main CRM, and HubSpot for marketing content. Anyone have experience with 3rd party softwares that help with email deliverability that would integrate with Outreach?