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 🙏

Woke up this morning to a nice surprise: someone bought the $49.99 Lifetime subscription for my app, VaultAudit AI, on the App Store.

It’s only my second lifetime customer, but honestly these early milestones feel huge when you’re building solo. Seeing someone trust your product enough to pay for lifetime access is incredibly motivating.

Time to keep improving the app.

Big news folks, 

I just launched my first product.

No customers.
No money.
No “PMF.”
No fake MRR screenshot.
No “just hit $0 ARR ask me how.”
The only transaction I've had is from myself for a billing flow test. And yes, I refunded it.

It’s an email validation tool. Yes, those already exist. Yes, bigger ones exist. Yes, mine is not going to “disrupt the $47B deliverability industrial complex.”

I built it anyway.

Why? Because my team was lighting money on fire paying the big guys for a "sophisticated" check that costs a fraction of a cent.  Plus, I think mine is prettier. 

It’s called MailBeacon. Real-time + bulk validation. Tokens that don’t expire. 100 of them for free so you can roast it yourself.

Is it special? No.
Is it mine? Yes.
Will it print? Probably not.
Am I still posting it like I just IPO’d? Absolutely.

What's are next steps? Me trying to convince my team I am not like the other guys.

https://mailbeacon.co

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.

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 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

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!

Everyone seems to be running into the same problem with agents... agent sprawl.

Just a few years ago, companies were buying ChatGPT enterprise licenses. Now, they have a coding agent, a customer support agent, a marketing agent, and a bunch of different tools their team bought on their own credit cards.

The problem is that every single one of those agents is has no actual knowledge about your business. They don't share a memory. They don't can't work off to each other or share context.

Soon, simply buying a smarter model just won't cut it anymore. Businesses will need a shared workspace where all the agents you already use can actually talk to each other and get work done.

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 🚀

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 was recently laid off from Intuit Mailchimp and decided instead of rushing back into applying for jobs to try my hand at building a SaaS product.

It started out because I was interested in buying a business myself and after being frustrated with the many sites I needed to navigate to look for listings decided to build a scraper. It’s quickly turned into me building a full pipeline tracking application with a diligence engine to help evaluate the quality of deals before entering into a letter of intent with the seller.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

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’ve built a product that allows anyone to build a specialist ‘always on’ agent - for your regular user I’ve made the experience entirely seamless, connect to whatever app you want via one click & make your systems talk to each other, if the integration doesn’t exist, our team can build it.

I’m currently in a sales cycle with a private equity firm, 20 portcos under their belt, 8 figures in revenue but their main portcos are healthcare recruiters.

I know nothing about healthcare or recruitment, I initially wanted to sell to Sales teams but anyone can use our product.

Should I reach out to more PE firms if this sales cycle goes well or should I reach out to multiple companies in different industries at the same time and see what lands?

So I posted this below as a joke and well well few hours in we got the first user from the waitlist.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/s/JZpM2HAE24

One step closer to the next step.

I will drop my playbook so far very soon guys and help anyone who is still confused about this. I got y'all :)

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!

I'm sharing my experience of vibe coding a product when I absolutely had no options left trying to get my first customers for my product

My strategy:

Don't rely on existing communities

I got banned from a disscord and had my reddit posts never seen, so I created my own

Instead of relying on algorithms, make goal to build an "army" of followers. This community acts as the foundation for future product launches and provides essential feedback

Live streaming as the final resort

I stream on twitch & youtube for free. Being on camera will doxx my appearance/identity/privacy, but I trade that in exchange for trust of being real person

When you stream, show off your skills rather than just coding (coding is really boring, and AI does the work anyway)

Remove the awkwardness of talking to yourself

When you stream, look at yourself as you talk. Make it easier to talk and not feel awkward of being alone

Engage all senses (visuals, audio, commentary) to maintain viewer retention

Treating every viewer as a premium client

Inspired by Goldman Sachs managing director and Law School adjunct professor Jim Donovan

Be the gatekeeper

Implementing strict moderation and banning individuals to protect the community's mental health and environment

YouTube content creation

Since you cannot force followers to watch your stream, the goal is to create "good moments" during streams that are later repurposed into edited videos for those who missed the live sessions

The reality of social platforms

I ran into several hurdles with traditional platforms like X (Twitter) and Reddit that new accounts are automatically "shadow banned or shadow post". Most communities are locking down require strict karma requirements, or immediate removal of promotional content

The "old account" requirement

A recurring theme is that many platforms, including Hacker News and Reddit, heavily favor or essentially require "old" accounts to function effectively, making starting from zero almost impossible

The outcome

50+ users (9 paid) that tried the product, over 200+ followers on Twitch, subscribers that help pay for my AI usage, a niche vibecoding Youtube channel, a growing Disscord community

Final thoughts

Marketing with no money make you think out-of-the-box. You are the only person who will consistently promote your work. Build a high-quality product, provide genuine value, and have a goal to create a community

Video if you don't want to read

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!

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.

I have over 5 years of experience as an app designer and developer. Now I run a website redesign studio called Glasspage. I'll give you suggestions to help make your website more clear, useful, intuitive, and aesthetic to new users. I'll critique the first 10 websites, then I have to get back to work.

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 started a website that did 10k in revenue in the first month. i have a ton of ideas to grow it but don't really have time to do the marketing push + build what i want to. i think it can easily do 30k next year and margins are around 95%.

the company is medcoach.io, if interested in helping/acquiring lmk

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