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

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!

A lot of people told me you cant luach without, but it's really hard to build momentum on it,
any advice?

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.

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.

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

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 😅

Does anyone really believe them?

10k MRR in a month, oh really!

When you have a SAAS, that already have active clients, with subscription per seat model,

how to introduce AI feature pricing, especially when some users dont use it and others consume alot of tokens

I've been thinking about how much the form builder space has changed over the last couple of years.

AI has made it much easier to build forms, there are dozens of established competitors, and users seem to expect more than just a drag-and-drop builder now.

If you were starting a form builder SaaS from scratch today, where would you focus?

• AI-generated forms
• Better integrations
• More templates
• Analytics and automation
• Mobile-first experience
• Simpler pricing
• Something else?

More importantly, what do you think is still missing in this market?

I would love to hear from founders who've built SaaS products or from anyone who creates forms regularly using different tools. Real experiences are much more valuable than feature wishlists.

Hey, I have recently started working on building my own products and selling them, I frequently post about them on Reddit too but constantly get roasted. Everyone says the solution already exists, everyone knows that, if Google didn't start search engine thinking yahoo already exists, imagine the result of that, now if I have an idea and try to validate it, people say the idea already exists don't work on it, If I build something and post about it they say there's a better one with a lot more feature than yours no one will use it. I know there's a better solution than mine in every field but while starting I can't compete with the companies improving their product for decades, now the main problem is seeing those comments, the people who would be interested in my product will start using my competitors because of those comments, how do you founders find actual clients avoiding these problems? On top of that I'm from a third world country, I don't have any problem in that because I'm from a good family but other people don't have purchasing power to buy my products so my only option is go international for which first option that comes to my mind is Reddit,X or linkedin x and linkedin are shit compared to Reddit but Reddit has it's own set of problems, how to deal with it?

I spent years working in software support, and one problem kept showing up everywhere: small teams usually do not struggle because they do not care about customers. They struggle because support starts taking over the entire day.

You launch a product, get a few customers, and suddenly you are answering the same questions repeatedly, searching through old emails for context, updating help articles, and replying late at night instead of improving the product.

Most support platforms felt either too expensive for a small SaaS or too focused on letting AI reply automatically without enough oversight.

So I built AppsResolve.

It brings email support, a customizable website widget, and a knowledge base into one place. AI uses the company’s documentation and previous tickets to draft responses, but a person can review and edit everything before it is sent.

The goal is not to replace customer support. It is to help a solo founder or small team respond faster without losing the human judgment that customers still need.

It is still early, and I am looking for honest feedback from founders who currently handle support themselves.

Would you trust AI to draft your customer replies if nothing was sent without your approval?

Every other business feels locked already.

Want to sell stuff? Amazon.

Want to build a social app? Good luck competing with Meta or TikTok.

Search? Google.
Hotels? Airbnb and Booking.
Food delivery? Uber Eats.

Feels like every big market already belongs to someone with billions.
Even on the internet it's getting harder.

SEO is a mess. Ads cost more every year. App stores are full of copycats. Most ideas have already been built 10 times.

But SaaS still feels... different.

Some random guy can build a small tool over a few weekends, post it online, and suddenly people start paying $10 or $20 a month.

No office.

No employees.

No investors.

Just solving one annoying problem.
Will 99% fail?
Yeah.

But I don't really see many other businesses where a normal person can still compete.

Maybe AI changes everything again.

Or maybe SaaS is the last window before everything gets owned by a handful of giant companies too.

Curious what other people think.

Thoughts from another universe

I'm a full-stack developer building AI SaaS products quickly. Looking for someone obsessed with sales who wants to own GTM while I build. Revenue share/equity only. Looking for long-term partner.

Message me.

Hello dear community

i have just created myjibi.com which a website for now, makes you track money, like how much you spent this month, tracking your goal, debts with friends and splitting your month budget

i know this idea is already has many apps, but i have added some features and willing to

you can test it, create your account there, test and i am open to any advice, criticism and anything ))

the mobile app will be released soon, the website is just a simple test for now

Thank youuu

Founder disclosure: I’m building QualiLoop.

One cost of running an AI product surprised us: it wasn’t inference. It was the recurring human work required to determine whether the product was still safe and reliable.

Most teams begin with a spreadsheet or script containing manually written prompts and expected answers. That works for an early demo. Then the product gains tools, policies, retrieval, multiple workflows and longer conversations.

Every model or prompt change creates the same questions:

• Did an existing workflow break?
• Did the agent start calling the wrong tool?
• Can external content inject new instructions?
• Does it expose restricted information?
• Does it behave consistently across different users?
• What important scenario did nobody think to test?

Adding more hand-written cases doesn’t solve the underlying problem because coverage still depends on someone imagining every failure.

We built QualiLoop to generate the testing program directly from an agent’s prompt and configuration. It creates reliability, red-team and bias scenarios, runs simulated conversations, schedules regressions and can block a release when a critical flow becomes weaker.

The important part isn’t merely producing a pass/fail score. Each failure is connected to the exact response, tool call or decision that caused it, so the team can see what changed and why.

Initial setup takes around 30 minutes, and the full program can be generated and running in hours. Based on the staffing and manual work it replaces, we estimate the QA cost can be roughly 90% lower. Sensitive deployments can also run on-premises.

Product for context: https://www.qualiloop.com/

For founders who have shipped an AI feature: who currently owns the release decision when the prompt or model changes-engineering, QA, product, or nobody?

The mission I've set for myself is to build a kids learning app for parents that hate kids learning apps (like me). No games, no attempt to increase time on platform (i.e. addict kids to screens), just simple digital or paper worksheets generated by AI grounded in real curriculum and standards they teach in schools with little animal emoji rewards to earn along the way (basic PBIS, also done in schools).

Does the landing page communicate any of that well?

https://waddlelearning.com/

I founded a dev shop over two years ago, but working with founders taught me something: building is the easy part now. Getting seen is where most people get stuck.

I'm testing something new, systematic content posting or outbound DM growth, same systems I already run for my own company and one paying client. Looking for 2 to 3 people to run it for free for 2 to 3 weeks. No strings.

Good fit if:

• You've got a live product, app, or audience already, not pre-launch
• You're stuck on distribution, not on building
• You can share what's needed (raw content, product info, current stats) without much back and forth

What happens: I run either content ops or an outbound pipeline for you daily, for free, then we hit a checkpoint at 2 to 3 weeks and look at real numbers together. If it moved the needle, we talk about continuing.