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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

İyi günler değerli reddit kullanıcıları, ben son 1 aydır bir fitness uygulaması geliştiriyorum ve uygulamam neredeyse hazır ama kafamda büyük bir soru işareti var bu uygulamayı başta site olarak mı açmalıyım yoksa play store veya app store da uygulama olarak mı yayınlamalıyım? Görüşlerinizi alabilir miyim?

Every release, a few 1-star reviews would come in ("app crashes when I tap X"), and we would spend real time figuring out: is this the Sentry crash we already know about? Did support get tickets too? Which PR likely caused it? We ended up building Seismark, which correlates reviews + crashes + tickets + commits into one ranked incident with the suspect change attached, and cites every source. Free to try on one connected source. How does your team currently connect review feedback to the actual root cause?

I built something that automatically updates clients on where their case stands, so attorneys stop getting a dozen "any update?" calls and emails every week.

Took 30 days to build it, mostly nights and weekends. Finally shipped it and put it on Product Hunt, honestly expecting at least a handful of signups out of it. Got some nice comments, a few upvotes, felt pretty good in the moment. Checked the numbers the next morning and nobody had actually visited the site. Zero signups.

I think I confused people being nice in the comments with people actually wanting the thing. Those aren't the same at all, but it sure felt like it while it was happening.

So now I'm just emailing attorneys directly, one at a time, and messaging a few on LinkedIn too. No more shortcuts left to try, just doing the slow part now.

Has anyone else had a launch get attention that never turned into a single real user?

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.

Would you believe me if I told you I am going to breach the 140k mmr mark this month?

I have created a SaaS product off of the back of a conversation with an AirCon installer in the UK, more as a side project and for the challenge than anything else.

I'd like to have a go at launching it but I have never done something like it so looking to see what others recommend?

Hello, everyone

Recently I have had the idea of creating media (images) to post on social media as jokes. My B2B SaaS is about to launch, and I think having ANY eyes, whether it is the public or potential customers, is better than none. I also had the thought that since bigger companies have used meme templates to gain public traction, I should do the same.

What are your thoughts on this? Have any of you had success in doing this?

Last month I got the call every web guy dreads. A client - small e-commerce shop, does most of his sales through Google - messages me at 9pm: "Traffic's down 60%. What did you do?"

My stomach dropped. I hadn't touched his site in three weeks.

I start digging. Rankings? Gone. Not slipped - gone. Pages that lived on page one for two years had vanished like they never existed. I'm sweating, thinking penalty, thinking hack, thinking I'm about to lose a retainer.

Then I find it. One line. robots: noindex.

A plugin update three weeks earlier had quietly flipped a setting, and Google had been busy de-indexing his best pages the entire time. One word. That's all it took to erase months of work and cost him real money - while everything looked completely fine. The site was up. It loaded. It just wasn't in Google anymore.

That night I couldn't sleep, so I did the paranoid thing and checked every other site I manage. ~40 of them. What I found honestly rattled me:

- 6 had a stray noindex sitting on a page that should've been live

- 4 were bleeding 404s site-wide after old redesigns nobody re-checked

- 3 had straight-up lost their analytics script during a rebuild - months of data, gone, and no one knew

Here's the part that stuck with me: not one of these was a disaster at the moment it happened. They were all tiny. A checkbox. A deploy. A routine update. Nobody re-checks 15 pages after a plugin bump - until the one time it quietly sets your site on fire.

So I changed how I work. Now I keep a "known-good" snapshot of every important page - title, canonical, robots meta, H1 - and I diff against it after any change. Boring. Takes discipline. But it means I find the broken thing, not the client.

Full disclosure: that 9pm phone call annoyed me enough that I eventually built a tool to watch all this automatically, so I'd never get blindsided again. Happy to link it in the comments if anyone wants it - but I don't want to turn a war story into a sales pitch, so the baseline habit works even if you do it by hand.

Anyway - tell me I'm not alone here. What's the dumbest silent break that's ever cost you rankings?

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 🙏

seven years selling industrial hardware in europe, mostly scanning equipment for warehouses and factories. you hand someone a scanner, they scan a box, it beeps, and the sale is basically over. two seconds of proof.

now i sell software. i show someone a workflow doing real work, they nod, they sign up. then they hit a screen asking them to connect their tools and quietly close the tab. no objection, no complaint. they just never got to the part where it works.

that beep was carrying more weight than i ever gave it credit for.

if you sold something physical before software, did you hit the same wall?

salut je recherche une personne qui pourrais m'aider dans toute la partie acquisition client pour mon nouveaux SaaS Assetry un outil qui aidera une grand nombre d'entre vous je cherche un co-founder pour un produit déjà construit et ou il y a déjà une validation de marcher si vous êtes intéresser ou si vous voulez juste donnez de la valeur a se poste n'hésitez pas

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!

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!

My Claude Code bought its own Claude API credits using a single use virtual card from Authoryze.

Has anyone's agent made a purchase before? If so curious what it bought and if you had any issues with it.

I run a small digital agency in Italy and build side products on the side.

One of them is SocialAI Hub, a booking app for solo professionals (barbers, beauty pros, PTs, consultants) that ties together WhatsApp, Google Calendar and some AI to handle the endless back-and-forth of scheduling.
For a long time it did basically nothing.

Then over one 3-day push it pulled 1,221 downloads. There was no single viral video and no huge ad spend. It was a stack of small channels all firing in the same window. Here’s the honest breakdown.

1. Short-form video (the biggest single driver)
I posted 201 clips across TikTok and Reels during the launch window. Most did average numbers, one hit 220k views. The format that worked was not “look at my app,” it was pain first: a professional drowning in WhatsApp messages trying to book clients by hand, then the app quietly solving it in the last 3 seconds. Problem, agitate, solve. No logo until the very end.

2. A tiny Meta Ads test
I ran 540€ total on app-install ads, killed everything except the one creative that was already performing organically, and let that scale. CPI landed around 3.45€. The ads did not create demand, they just amplified the video that was already resonating.

3. App Store listing and featuring push
Boring but it compounds. I rewrote the store listing around the keywords people actually search, redid the screenshots to show the outcome instead of the UI, and submitted a featuring nomination.

4. Direct community drops
I shared it in the exact Italian pro groups where my users already hang out (Facebook groups and WhatsApp communities for barbers and beauty pros). Not as spam, but by answering the “how do you manage bookings” question that comes up there constantly.
What I’d actually take away from it:

• One organic winner beats ten paid guesses. Find the creative that works for free, then pay to scale that single one.

• Sell the outcome, not the interface. Nobody downloads for features, they download to stop a specific pain.

• Stack channels in the same window so they  

feed each other instead of spreading them thin.

Big caveat so I’m not bullshitting anyone: 1,221 downloads is a vanity number until people activate and stick. Retention and actual bookings created are what I’m watching now, and that is a much harder fight than the install spike.
Happy to answer anything about the videos, the ad setup or the store optimization. What’s worked for the rest of you on launch spikes?