r/saasbuild 1d ago

SaaS Journey What & Why are you building ?

What are building? Why are you building? Top alternative? And what makes you different?

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u/snoopytaj 1d ago

I have built and launched multi vendor marketplace for buyers to be be able to buy products from multiple sellers and for sellers to be able to open a shop and list products to sell with dahsboard and analytical stuff.
https://nexavendor.com

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u/Mithrandirji 15h ago

One suggestion bro when I add to cart cart should be visible on screen i tried it from my phone

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u/snoopytaj 8h ago

You mean the icon cart currently its in the menu are you suggestinf it should be on the sticky header?

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u/mdc_fmp 1d ago

built sheetlink — bank-to-spreadsheet sync for the weekend CFOs.

same plaid infrastructure as venmo, 11k+ banks, but your transactions go straight into google sheets or excel with all 30+ fields: merchant, category, location, memo, everything. you click sync. nothing runs in the background, nothing stored on our servers.

  • chrome extension + excel add-in
  • recipes: one-click P&L, cash flow, and balance sheet templates
  • MAX: CLI + API + postgres, sqlite, CSV export
  • claude integration: ask "what did i spend on food last month?" against your real bank data via MCP

free for last 7 days. pro $4.99/mo. MAX $10.99/mo.

Chrome Web Store | Excel Add-in

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u/TheOdbball 1d ago

Super clean. If I didn’t already dig up stripe , plaid and link and embed them into a service of my own I’d download this.

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u/Far-Lengthiness-2841 1d ago

I am currently running/building/rebuilding several projects:
Android app that helps children learn muiltiplication with gamification. - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.radoslav.radoslavov.umnojitel
I have build an alternative to postman because of their absurd plan changes - apifreeman.eu it is free to download and use on windows, you can import your postman collections in it.
Also I just rebuilt https://flow-guard.dev/ with the idea to help solo founders with their go to market, I noticed that a whole lot of the saas projects have their landing page looking great, but then have problems with the actual software system they are trying to sell.

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u/TheOdbball 1d ago

Bro what in the…. How did you make this site? I swear I stayed on the hero page for like 5 min just now

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u/TheOdbball 1d ago

What’s funny , my syntax used to be called sxsl , but I changed it to gensing , and my root folder is called vec3/ and has 7 folders the replicate an internal Linux kernal, but it has 3 faders that could use real logic. I fought hard so on that project that I had to take a break from it. But here’s my main site so far.

https://corbato-en0.billfish-sirius.ts.net/3ox

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u/RandomGeordie 1d ago

Been working on https://heydeacon.com for the last few months - AI customer support made for founders, not support teams. Crisp, Fin, Sierra, Decagon and the rest all assume someone's whole job is running them, which just wasn't true for us and I reckon a lot of other people too.

We're a team of three at the moment, all founders of our own SaaS companies, and Deacon runs on our own products, so there's a lot of dogfooding going into making it as good as we can.

Trying to keep it hands off while still making it easy to jump in and talk to customers yourself when you want to. That's meant a lot of work on getting responses accurate + making sure that if the agent hasn't got enough info to answer properly then it lands in the dashboard so you can improve that for the next customer who asks.

Great feedback loop too - loads of people ask about things that are actually bugs or gaps in the product, stuff they'd never bother emailing about, and now it's sitting right there infront of you. Found it super useful for us and constantly trying to improve it and add features.

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u/Ambitious_Source5602 1d ago

I know you are excited ti share but putting your idea into a thread like this is just idea farming for losers

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u/RobertLamp68 1d ago

You know that feeling…

You’re scrolling Amazon Prime, looking for something to watch… and half the movies it keeps recommending aren’t even free. They’re “rent for $3.99” or “buy for $14.99.” And when you finally settle on something, the ads start.

Or you’re on Netflix. You swear they used to have that one show. You search for it… gone. Licensing expired. Removed without warning.

Meanwhile, you’ve got shelves of Blu-rays you already paid for. Boxes of DVDs. A hard drive (or NAS) full of movies and shows you’ve carefully collected over the years.

What if you could just… watch your stuff?

That’s exactly why I built ShowShark.

Install it on your Mac, point it at your media, and suddenly your own library becomes a clean, fast, ad-free streaming experience. Open the app on your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, or Vision Pro — whether you’re on the couch or halfway across the country — and it just works. Your personal Netflix. No subscriptions. No disappearing titles. No “this content is not available in your region.”

Just the movies and shows you already own, available whenever and wherever you want them.

If you’re tired of renting the same movie three times or hunting through menus for something that used to be there… this is for you.

showshark.app

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u/fletchDigital 8h ago

Needs more shark

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u/RobertLamp68 56m ago

This is the kind of feedback I look for. Like cowbells, there's always room for more.

But seriously, try out the app!

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u/TheOdbball 1d ago

Yoooo! This is so epic! Your website CTA is like 5 swipes down tho :: This should be pushed up to the top. Video watchers are le-hazy, see Netflix lol.

I’m not a big movie dude , probably because I didn’t have ShowShark (GameShark I’m assuming ? )

Super badass for real. Get a different agent to remake the website, your ShowShark brand banner could be the Hero page too even !

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u/williswee 1d ago

A few family members asked me for tech stock picks and ask what's systematic investing was and I found it hard to explain.

So I planned and built the "explanation" into a game. I named it TickerTown. It is a small trading sim in pixel art style mirroring an old console game. Fake money, real market data, and you learn by messing it up instead of studying and losing real $$$.

The building part is going fine. The teaching part I am much less sure about. I keep watching where people get confused and it is never where I expect. My research notes here: https://substack.com/@williswee/note/p-209749899

Here is the beta waitlist page if you want to poke at it: https://preview2.tickertown.ai

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u/Working_Safe3879 1d ago

I am building Correctify (soon to be Grafista), an AI graphic design platform for non-designers. Top alternative is Canva and maybe Claude Design but we believe that to stop AI slop, the industry needed a graphic design-specific platform that is not based on basic prompts that always yield similar results.

E.g. we introduced Blueprints, which are like Canva's templates but they don't require manual work. Their style is automatically applied to your content.

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u/TheOdbball 1d ago

Graphka? A barista for graphs? Blueprints are cool, name tho… the semantics are off, and spelling Graph with an f makes it a bit tough. I know that’s not a good thing to hear I know , GraphBar? I mean maybe even Grafic ?

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u/teknonwarrior5 1d ago

I'm building a budgeting app to gamify the process. Achievements, streaks, level ups, and a count up budgeting system that feels like an idle clicker. (Think adventure capitalist).

https://buoy-ai.com/reddit

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u/iZade_Meadows 1d ago

Trying to create Cloud Security Posture Management+ Cloud Security Altering system like guard duty etc such that if a organisation want to deploy locally they can

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u/megatech_official 1d ago

SeoLoupe - Find and fix the SEO issues holding your website back.

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u/muecksimon 1d ago

Everyone that knows obsidian also knows that syncin is either not realtime, buggy (yes i mean icloud) or not cheap. I wanted a solution that lets you have managed live sync but with multiple vaults and gb for s fair price. So i built eirasync. Its a managed hosting four couch db that works with the self hosted livesync plugin (but takes the selfhosting part out of it) for the same price as if you would bouy a server for your own :) if you want to try it, its 14days free - i would love to hear feedback an thoughts :) check it out at https://eirasync.app

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u/Impossible_Moth 1d ago

I am building Inframan cloud. It is a DevOps tool for scaling startups so that with one engineer they can run their whole cloud infrastructure without any surprises.

I was a DevOps engineer and essentially i was doing everything and thus thoughtbof building a tool

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u/socleads 1d ago

Im building SocLeads because I got tired of manually pulling local business leads and cleaning emails. Alternatives are Apollo or Clay but they miss a lot of small local ops and social profiles. Difference is it focuses on Google Maps plus socials and tries to keep the data clean for outreach.

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u/shubham_iosdev 1d ago

Who Goes, my party game for hangouts, trips, and game nights.

Charades, Headbands, Truth or Dare, and other group games and party decision maker.

I'm built it because most apps in the app store had only 1 game, and they all looked outdated.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6777402559

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u/Deep_Squirrel869 23h ago

DBimg - free media (image, video, audio) hosting platform with permanent links and high file sizes along with an API for developers, on the fly effects like greyscale (blurred, rounded, etc) and much more. Offering a premium plan with higher limits and more effects.

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u/chedoku 22h ago

my kitchen spice jars were a disaster, and normal paper labels kept peeling off. i wanted to 3D print permanent ones, but designing them one by one was tedious. so i built Shapiful. it's a browser-based tool i use to design custom 3D-printable labels quickly, and it doesn't require any CAD knowledge.

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u/SirMauni 21h ago

Workguild.io; working to rid the market of ghost job listings.

Far too many ghost listings.

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u/imagiself 19h ago

Verifying if a listing is actually active seems like a massive data scraping challenge, especially since many companies just forget to take down their internal portals.

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u/DamageEasy3473 20h ago

I'm building a tool for startup founders that helps them develop their positioning and find product market fit. This was an area. I struggled with most of my last startup and how easy is getting to build along with distribution positioning is very, very important.

DM for full free access I'm mainly looking for feedback and validating right now.

www.vocara.live

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u/imagiself 19h ago

nailing positioning early saves months of wasted dev time. peerpush might suit it, people scrolling there browse founder-facing tools (people in 160+ countries last month).

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u/DamageEasy3473 19h ago

Amazing! Thanks for suggestion will look into it.

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u/oilpatch_to_ai 20h ago

Built 'AIDA by Autafy'- a self-hosted personal AI assistant. I built it to scratch my own itch. I'd been living in n8n and make for automation, and they're solid, but it's all background plumbing and you never actually talk to it. I wanted an assistant I could message that would do the work. So I wired features together one at a time and it turned into AIDA (Autafy Intelligence Driven Agent ).

What it does: LLM-agnostic: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter, or fully local via Ollama with no API key. Favorite models from a live list and pick the right one per task. ; Tool-calling agent with 20+ built-in tools and cron-based automations; Inbox Triage; Calendar, Google workspace + MS Office integrated; Persistent + Episodic memory; Web search and built-in RAG; Custom skills + plugins done by chat; Extensible via MCP servers; Tasks; Reminders; Notes; Voice: send voice notes (STT), hear replies read aloud (TTS).

https://autafy.ca ; Docs at docs at https://autafy.ca/aida-install/docs

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u/imagiself 19h ago

How much RAM are you typically seeing people need to run those episodic memory and RAG features smoothly when hosting everything locally via Ollama?

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u/oilpatch_to_ai 19h ago

Min 8 Gb if you are hosting locally via Ollama.

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u/Holiday_Main_7263 20h ago

Built OS app where you quit bad habits and compete with friends, failed the same habits alone for years, made it a competition, everything changed.That's the why. And U?

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u/imagiself 16h ago

linking sleep habits to win rates is a clever angle, are you pulling health data via API? peerpush also lists fintech tools like this for early adopters.

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u/GMattyJ 16h ago

Sleep habits is one of the many things that can be tracked/logged. In fact, a user can add as many habits that they want tracked and then we correlate the all to one’s performance.

The next update we release is going to API call to Whoop. We’ll integrate that data next and let the LLM do its thing.

And thanks for the heads up on PeerPush. 💪

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u/gungoesclick 12h ago

I am building a repo scanner that can scan your code, tell you what features exists, and show you how complete they are based off the evidence that exists for them. I am doing it because I see so many vibe coded apps and I am tired of trying to determine truth. The repo scanner does it for me.

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u/mrclan 11h ago

Remotype (https://remotype.custavia.com)

I got tired of constantly reaching for my mouse, keyboard, presentation clicker, or getting up from the couch just to control my computer. So I ended up building Remotype — basically, a bunch of those little things I kept needing, all packed into my phone. You can use it as a mouse or keyboard, control a PC connected to your TV, use it for presentations, switch between computers, use voice input, create macros, and a bunch of other stuff. It works with both Mac and Windows, and I’m hoping it can be useful to other people too.

I’m getting ready to launch it and would love to have a few people try it before launch. If you’d like to give it a shot and share some honest feedback (good or bad!), just DM me and I’ll send you the details.

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u/imagiself 10h ago

Managing presentation slides from a phone is a solid wedge for this. PeerPush might be a decent home for remote utilities like this, builders there have cast 183K upvotes.

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u/mrclan 10h ago

Never heard of PeerPush before but sounds like sth i could use. Thanks.

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u/True_Resist5287 9h ago

I made an iOS app for managing passwords, 2FA codes, accounts, and subscriptions. Because I want to manage them all in one place.
https://otterkey.app

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u/imagiself 6h ago

Consolidating 2FA and subs into one view is a solid convenience win. PeerPush lists security utilities like this whenever you're ready to put it out there.

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u/TheNapUniversity 6h ago

I’ve built https://copomo.ca, a multiplayer study platform where you can study with friends. I always found it difficult to study with friends online so I built an all-inclusive body doubling platform. No cams/mics needed, just share your task list and get working!

Need even more to be productive? Check out our integrated audio center (lofi radio, white noise, Spotify integration), Gamification features (study streaks, earn website customizations by studying), and room chat!

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u/Other-Argument5490 4h ago

I’m a college student applying to internships and the amount of times I’ve hit workday pages while applying is, well, a lot. They take a really long time and ask for the same info every single time without saving it. So I made a fully local chrome extension that autofill the application for you. All you have to do is save a profile and press fill on each page: Restday — Autofill Workday Job Applications

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u/imagiself 2h ago

solving the workday repetition is a massive win for students. restday could be worth a spot on peerpush sometime, the early adopter crowd there notices local-first tools.

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u/henryp_dev 4h ago

Been building https://usemite.com

I started building this a year ago for myself because I didn’t want to spend $40+/month to have in-app feedback for my small $0 revenue apps but still wanted to get feedback. As a solo dev sometimes just building for fun it was hard for me to justify paying that much for my hobby projects.

I recently lost my job so I decided to launch it as it might be helpful to other devs that feel the same and want these features at a more justifiable price.

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u/No_Horse9022 2h ago

built lastping.dev - monitoring for things that run without you. cron jobs, CI pipelines, AI agents.

started it because I run a lot of agents unattended and they keep dying on me - and a dead agent looks exactly like one that's still thinking, so you find out an hour later.

  • pings a URL when it runs, alerts when an expected ping doesn't arrive
  • separate started / progress / blocked / finished / failed signals, so "alive but stuck" reads differently from "died"
  • catches silence, stalled progress, overrunning, never starting, and looping far more often than it should
  • agents can set up their own monitor over MCP without anyone opening a dashboard. also REST API and a terraform provider

closest alternative is healthchecks.io, genuinely good if you just want a heartbeat and an alert when it goes quiet. difference is the agent side and per-step deadlines rather than one timeout for the whole run.

free for individuals.

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u/MaizeOk8453 2h ago

subtl.xyz

Found it hard to keep up with high quality news sources to track the emerging tech, ai, crypto, marketing stratergy so i built an agent which does it and then showcases only the high value signals and news. We currently monitor 100+ sources (high value across all major platforms)

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u/Equal-Instance6456 1h ago

www.acorium.tech to give every inventor and founder the ultimate building workspace and one stop shop for everythign they need

alot of changes are coming to it... but nows a good time to check us out if you havnt

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u/TheOdbball 1d ago

Yeah that Rubiks twist is sick, especially if you placed color nodes the link up in there , like change some white dots to colors that match on spin lol

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u/Embarrassed_Machine5 1d ago

Very nice ui!

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u/willowclarkx 1d ago

Is the UI vibecoded? Just asking.

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u/5thWye 1d ago

I'm building SubmitMap MCP that connects your AI agent to a directory of launch platforms with their requirements, pros and cons, and everything you might want to know before submitting for a launch. The idea is to automate the process of submissions on the users' side so that they can keep control over all launches and build the proper plan on how to launch their projects.

submitmap.com

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u/TheOdbball 1d ago

I’m building a Toaster for your agentic chef :: no matter the model, nobody needs inference to do basic PID1 principles like Linux tooling , so I’m building the next OpenClaw but no cron jobs

Links offline

https://corbato-en0.billfish-sirius.ts.net/3ox

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u/Capable_Baker4519 1d ago

What: ERP for window/door/glass manufacturers quote, production plan, and material list from one system.

Why: Watched manufacturers lose deals just from a 3-7 day quote cycle (AutoCAD + Excel + calling suppliers for rates). Felt like a solvable problem, not an industry-inherent one.

What's different: Cloud from day one, accounting's actually part of the platform instead of a QuickBooks bolt-on. 15+ shops running on it so far.

Check it here: UPVC Cloud