Just launched my Saas getleadflow.co

I have 0 users within the first hour of launching but I have 384 people on my waitlist. Sent out emails a minute ago. Lfg.

When do I make my first dollar?

When do I book a vacation to Bali and get to work from my laptop while sipping on some coconut?

Honest answers only please 🙏

Hey SaaS community, hope you're all doing good. My SaaS isn't doing well. I've run it for free over the past 2 years. Only 2 months back I completely re-did the whole thing and added pro while still keeping the free tier. But im getting very low retention. Although I've got my first subscriptions which felt very nice but I've burned alot of cash on it and im having a hard time keeping up. Should i call it? What am I doing wrong here? Any suggestions/ criticism is welcome. Thanks.

The SaaS is stepify.tech

I’ve been building home3dplan.com, a 3D home design builder that lets you sketch floor plans and see them come to life in 3D. The idea is to make it simple enough that you don’t need to be an architect or learn some complicated CAD software just to plan a room layout or a full house.

It’s at the point where I need real people poking at it instead of just me clicking around convinced everything works. I’m looking for a handful of testers who can try building something, break stuff, and tell me what’s confusing or annoying.

You don’t need any design experience. Actually I’d love a few people who have zero experience, since that’s who this is really for. Whether you’re planning a renovation, just curious, or the kind of person who reorganizes furniture in your head at 2am, you’re exactly who I want.

In return you get free access and a direct line to me for any feature requests or bugs. I’ll actually read and act on feedback, not just collect it into a void.

If you’re up for it, drop a comment or DM me and I’ll get you set up. Happy to answer anything about the stack or the journey so far too.

Thanks for reading.

Hey SaaS community, hope you're all doing good. My SaaS is actually doing pretty well so far, but I feel like I've hit a wall with growth. i've been building Termi Protocol, a niche desktop app for developers that visualizes AI coding agents in a cozy 3D workspace. So far I've had 2,292 unique visitors, 145 registrations, and 70 purchases. I launched on Product Hunt and finished #5 Product of the Day, promoted it on Reddit and LinkedIn, and even tried Instagram and TikTok. The problem is that I don't have a marketing budget, and since it's such a niche product for developers, I'm not sure where to focus next. If you were in my position, what path would you take? How would you grow traffic for a developer focused SaaS without spending much on ads? Any suggestions or criticism are more than welcome. Thanks! I haven't managed to get a lot of views on Instagram and TikTok.

Saas is : https://termiprotocol.com

After spending way too much time thinking about ideas, I’ve finally decided to stop overthinking and just build.

Starting today, I’m documenting everything, from the first line of code to hopefully my first paying customer.

I’ll be sharing things like:
- Product decisions
- Wins and failures
- Marketing experiments
- Revenue updates
- Mistakes I make
- What AI tools I’m using
- Honest numbers (when there are any 😄)

My goal is simple: go from $0 to my first sale, then keep growing from there.

If you’re interested in following the journey, leave a follow. I’ll be posting almost everything here on Reddit, and I’d really appreciate honest feedback, criticism, and ideas along the way.
Hopefully this can help other people who are also starting from zero.

Let’s see where this goes 🚀

Hey all,

I worked tirelessly for the past few weeks updating my features, pricing and overall UI.

Just launched the new features for my content growth saas just over an hour ago...

I gained valuable feedback from the off which validated my new updates!

Its great to see users making a difference in their content through something I made.

Thought id share this small achievement as it gives momentum for further development and users.

For those thinking about shipping new features or hesitating about creating that new app or saas, JUST DO IT!

Habit trackers. Productivity apps. The single most saturated niche on earth. Every dev's first app. A graveyard.

I built one anyway. And I even lead my marketing with habit tracking, the most crowded feature I have. somehow it still makes money...

About me: dad, married, solo dev. Started building in November, launched Loggd on Dec 10. It's an all in one personal growth app. Habits, tasks, goals, focus timer, journal, all connected with gamification and a GitHub-style activity graph. Think contribution graph, but the green squares are your real life.

So it's a full system. But "another all-in-one life OS" makes people's eyes glaze over. "Habit tracker" they instantly get. So I lead with the saturated thing, get them in the door, and they discover the rest.

The actual numbers, 6 months in:

- 6,012 registered users

- 100-200 daily active

- 75 Pro subscribers

- ~€250 MRR

- €3,525 total revenue

For the first 4 months I was flat under €200. I thought I was wasting my time. Then I shipped iOS on April 1. May did +€1k. June did €1,133. The line finally started going up. Lifetime deals and the iOS launch did most of it. Just launched Android on July 20, so let's see.

Where the users come from: Threads. 70%+ of everyone. Not clever marketing, I'm bad at that. Just showing up every day and being fully transparent. Real numbers, revenue, what worked, what flopped. People connect with the person, not the app.

The growth is never a curve. One day 1 new user. Next day 2. Then a post hits and 90 sign up overnight. Then back to 5. Silence, spike, silence. The whole skill is showing up on the quiet days and posting anyway.

Saturated niche, most crowded feature up front, a dev who sucks at marketing. And it's still working, slowly. So if someone told you your niche is too crowded, maybe that's not the reason it's not working.

Happy to answer anything honestly.

I really don't know if I'm in a good situation or not. My app went live 4 months ago and I'm trying to figure out if this is normal. I feel like compared to the previous period, there are barely any downloads now. I'm 10K in debt and I have to pay it off and be done with it. I don't know if I should invest in the app so it can cover the debt (I haven't put money into the app, I only market it organically and just pay for monthly tool subscriptions). How and what would you recommend doing? I feel like I'm drowning.

BTW the debt is to my brother so no pressure but I need to finish with it

Hey all!

I've been a lurker for a number of years and I think it's finally time for me. I built a tool that I think might actually be worth something!

At its core it basically unifies every customer’s texts and emails into one shared conversation and is built for setting up AI agents to run your communications right from within the platform.

It has a lot of moving parts but I think it can genuinely be the next big platform for managing communications.

I'd love to trade beta testing services with you guys and have a bit of a feedback exchange!

https://commsync.ai

Hope to be the next success story posted about here, I've been seeing a ton of inspiring ones lately!

Looking for honest input on valuation before I list this for sale.

Numbers:

• MRR: ~$15K, declining (was higher a year ago)
• Trailing 12 months revenue: ~$327K
• Last 3 months revenue: ~$67K
• Profit margin: 40-50%
• Roughly 30-40% of the revenue came from one-time/lifetime deals; the rest is recurring
• 1,000+ active subscribers, all word of mouth + SEO acquisition.
• Runs with a small team (1 dev, 2 support)

The decline is mainly because we shifted focus and budget to a different product and stopped actively growing this one. The product itself is stable and self-serve.

I know declining MRR kills multiples, but with a 40-50% margin it still throws off decent profit. What multiple would you realistically pay: on ARR, on TTM revenue, or on profit? And does the one-time revenue mix change how you'd value it?

Appreciate any real-world data points from people who've bought or sold in this range.

Posting this because I think I’m too close to my own product to see what’s actually stopping people from paying for it.
I built FedFinder (fedfinder.net) for small and mid-sized government contractors. The problem I kept running into is that SAM.gov only shows a contract once it’s already posted, so by the time you see it, you’re finding out at the same moment as every other bidder. Same story with grants and RFPs in general, you’re always reacting instead of positioning yourself early.
FedFinder pulls forecasts, sources sought notices, and industry days ahead of time so you can see the work coming before the solicitation drops. It scores each opportunity against your NAICS codes, set asides, and past awards, and surfaces the actual contracting officers and program leads behind it. There’s also an AI operator built into the platform called the Closer that reads whatever you’re looking at and answers things like “should I bid this,” with the public source cited so you can go verify it instead of trusting a black box. It pulls from around 44 public government sources total, SAM.gov, USAspending, Grants.gov, and a bunch of agency specific ones, so it’s covering contracts, grants, and RFPs, not just one lane.
Here’s the part that actually matters for this post: the product is done, the trial is live (14 days, full access, no credit card), and I have zero paying customers. I’ve put real time into marketing it and I genuinely cannot tell anymore if the issue is pricing, trust, positioning, or that I just haven’t found the right room to stand in yet.
If you looked at fedfinder.net for two minutes, what would stop you from starting a trial? And separately, what would it actually take to get you to pay once the trial ends?

We all know the feeling: we get a great SaaS idea, we spend a weekend building it...then somewhere along the way, we think maybe this idea isn't as good as I thought it was

Or you make 1 Reddit post and someone leaves a mean comment saying "Who is this for ?"

We doubt, we go back to the drawing board, and look for another idea, a "better" idea

I submit this to you: the idea does not matter, it's besides the point entirely. The #1 indicator of success for a SaaS is marketing. Where you market it and how you market it

We've all heard about the "I am rich" app that was on the App Store in 2008. The app cost $999, it had 2 screens and did basically nothing

Wanna know the funny part ? That app was bought by 8 people

2 people in Europe and 6 in America, just in case you were saying it won't work where you're from

You have a SaaS idea, and I guarantee that compared to "I am rich", your idea is the cure to cancer. You just aren't marketing it right and for long enough

Now I know you might not be a Christian, and I'm not selling my religion to you, but Proverbs 14:23 says:

"ALL hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty"

That is what the exact verse says. You have worked hard, just get your app in front of people, any people

Here's something that has really started helping me lately: track goals. That is, install Google Analytics on your site, and rather than aim for $100,000,000 in MRR, aim for just 10 website visitors, after 10.....aim for 20, then 50, then 100

Knowing that people are actually seeing what you built will give you new strength

I'm a 19 year old from Zimbabwe who hasn't had a single sale in 4 years either, so believe me, all of this advice comes from stuff I've been though

Love you guys, please stop sabotaging yourself, just believe

I 've noticed more people around me saying "I asked ChatGPT" instead of "I Googled it."
If you're buying software, researching a service or comparing tools, where do you actually start that now?
Google?
ChatGPT?
Reddit?
Or Somewhere else?
Just interesting whether this is just my bubble or if search habits have really changed.

Hey everyone,

I’m project manager at a growing B2B SaaS company and want to invest more seriously in SEO over the next couple of quarters. Until now my team handled most things in-house or used help from freelances. I feel we’ve reached the point where we need a team that can own the strategy, technical SEO and content as well.

Usually the same names come up.

SeoProfy

WebFX

Victorious

Coalition Technologies

OuterBox

Thrive Internet Marketing.

From what I've found, the first one SeoProfy seems particularly focused on long-term revenue growth rather than just increasing traffic.

A few questions:

Which agency did you hire, and what type of SaaS business are you in?

Did they actually understand your product and ICP?

Were they proactive with technical SEO and strategy, or mostly focused on content production?

Would really appreciate any honest experiences or recommendations.

Thanks!

Where do you usually look for people to hire? Besides Upwork or Fiverr, I want to work with a freelancer in person, face to face, with no middleman. I want to hire online but its kinda hard to find people who are not scammers and actually do have experience.

Hey folks,

I just built my first SaaS extension and I’m not very good at marketing or doing the whole “hey, check out what I made” thing. I’d really appreciate it if you could share any SaaS tools or platforms that are designed for showcasing new products to others. Thanks

Hi, I'm studying coding and I'm focusing more about acquiring the skill rather than just vibe coding. Honestly in the last period my curiosity really grew in me. Where do I start learning how AI is used in coding workflows? agentic AI and all that. I feel like we are at season 4 and I have to recover all the other ones. Which videos or guides could I follow to understand the world of AI linked to coding? thanks for the help.

I can see that 99% of the issue is caused by the product cards on my website moving but whenever I try and replicate the score in devtools I get a near perfect cls score. So that made me think it's a 3rd party app that is loading through shopify but I can't identify any that could be making it shift and neither can claude code.

My assistant does quite a bit during a call. Database CRUD operations, availability checks, small calculations, API calls... basically every conversation involves multiple tool calls.

The weird part was that the LLM itself was fast (TTS | STT). It was the tool calling that kept introducing these awkward pauses.

So I did what most of us would probably do. Tweaked system prompts, Reduced prompt size, Increased timeouts, Optimized a few APIs.

It got slightly better... but the delay was still there then I noticed something embarrassingly obvious.

My backend was deployed in Asia BUT database was in Europe. My telephony provider was also routing through Europe, and so was my AI provider. I redeployed the backend to Europe so everything lived in the same region.

Literally didn't touch a single line of code and the difference was immediate. Tool calls became noticeably faster, the awkward pauses almost disappeared, and the whole assistant just felt smarter.

I feel like when people talk about Voice AI latency, the conversation is always around prompts, models, or inference speed.

But if your assistant relies heavily on tool calling, spend 5 minutes looking at where your services are actually deployed.

You might save yourself a few days of debugging like I didn't 😅

Estoy en búsqueda de un socio estratégico para lanzar plataforma web modelo SaaS, es un producto ya listo para comercializar, con web app, redes sociales e infraestructura lista para operar y facturar.

Está en el nicho empresarial / digital. Mercado objetivo Colombia y Latam. Servicio por suscripción mensual y anual.

Busco socio que pueda aportar conocimiento comercial y económico que se llegue a requerir para escalar el proyecto.

Sharing this because it's a small win but it's mine.

I'm the solo dev behind skillably, a study app where you upload your own notes or PDFs and it turns them into quizzes and flashcards, adapting based on what you actually get wrong. No team, no funding, built around a day job.

Out of curiosity I checked an ASO tool today to see where I stood against some of the bigger names in the space. Turns out skillably is currently ahead of Jungle: AI Flashcards on Google Play visibility score, 48 vs 32. Jungle has way more downloads and history than I do, so I wasn't expecting that.

Not claiming a permanent win, ASO scores shift and this could flip next week. But as a solo builder it's a good reminder that the unglamorous stuff, fixing bugs, tightening copy, actually listening to users, compounds over time.

Curious how others here track competitive positioning for their SaaS, are you mainly watching ASO/SEO tools, or more focused on direct usage metrics?

skillab.ly if anyone wants to check it out.

Hello there, fellow Reddit users. I’ve been developing a fitness app for the past month, and it’s nearly ready, but I have a major question on my mind: should I launch it as a website first, or publish it as an app on the Play Store or App Store? I’d love to hear your thoughts.