u/Abject-Tree1923

Over the past few months, I've been building a SaaS for travel agencies that includes:

* Travel agency management software * Role-based portals * CRM & CMS * Website + admin dashboard * Free hosting with a branded subdomain

To validate the idea, I reached out to 200+ travel agencies through cold calls and cold outreach.

The interesting part is that agencies are willing to talk. I've booked around 10 demos, so I don't think the problem is getting attention.

The problem starts after the demo.

Even after offering a completely free test environment, none of them became active users.

Instead of seeing this as a failure, I'm treating it as a signal that there's a gap somewhere—whether it's the onboarding, the sales process, the positioning, the product itself, or simply how travel agencies make buying decisions.

I'm now looking to connect with founders, developers, or anyone who's sold B2B SaaS to traditional businesses. I'd love to hear what finally made your users say "yes."

If you've built in travel-tech, agency software, or B2B SaaS, I'd really appreciate your perspective. I'm committed to refining the product until I find the right product-market fit.

Over the past few months, I've been building a SaaS for travel agencies that includes:

• Travel agency management software
• Role-based portals
• CRM & CMS
• Website + admin dashboard
• Free hosting with a branded subdomain

To validate the idea, I reached out to 200+ travel agencies through cold calls and cold outreach.

The interesting part is that agencies are willing to talk. I've booked around 10 demos, so I don't think the problem is getting attention.

The problem starts after the demo.

Even after offering a completely free test environment, none of them became active users.

Instead of seeing this as a failure, I'm treating it as a signal that there's a gap somewhere—whether it's the onboarding, the sales process, the positioning, the product itself, or simply how travel agencies make buying decisions.

I'm now looking to connect with founders, developers, or anyone who's sold B2B SaaS to traditional businesses. I'd love to hear what finally made your users say "yes."

If you've built in travel-tech, agency software, or B2B SaaS, I'd really appreciate your perspective. I'm committed to refining the product until I find the right product-market fit.

Over the past few months, I've been building a SaaS for travel agencies that includes:

• Travel agency management software
• Role-based portals
• CRM & CMS
• Website + admin dashboard
• Free hosting with a branded subdomain

To validate the idea, I reached out to 200+ travel agencies through cold calls and cold outreach.

The interesting part is that agencies are willing to talk. I've booked around 10 demos, so I don't think the problem is getting attention.

The problem starts after the demo.

Even after offering a completely free test environment, none of them became active users.

Instead of seeing this as a failure, I'm treating it as a signal that there's a gap somewhere—whether it's the onboarding, the sales process, the positioning, the product itself, or simply how travel agencies make buying decisions.

I'm now looking to connect with founders, developers, or anyone who's sold B2B SaaS to traditional businesses. I'd love to hear what finally made your users say "yes."

If you've built in travel-tech, agency software, or B2B SaaS, I'd really appreciate your perspective. I'm committed to refining the product until I find the right product-market fit.

Over the past few months, I've been building a SaaS for travel agencies that includes:

• Travel agency management software
• Role-based portals
• CRM & CMS
• Website + admin dashboard
• Free hosting with a branded subdomain

To validate the idea, I reached out to 200+ travel agencies through cold calls and cold outreach.

The interesting part is that agencies are willing to talk. I've booked around 10 demos, so I don't think the problem is getting attention.

The problem starts after the demo.

Even after offering a completely free test environment, none of them became active users.

Instead of seeing this as a failure, I'm treating it as a signal that there's a gap somewhere—whether it's the onboarding, the sales process, the positioning, the product itself, or simply how travel agencies make buying decisions.

I'm now looking to connect with founders, developers, or anyone who's sold B2B SaaS to traditional businesses. I'd love to hear what finally made your users say "yes."

If you've built in travel-tech, agency software, or B2B SaaS, I'd really appreciate your perspective. I'm committed to refining the product until I find the right product-market fit.

A while back, I took on a project that needed a serverless backend, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, API Gateway. None of that was my primary stack, and I'd barely touched the AWS console before this. Worked the entire thing remotely too, no in-person handholding, just docs, trial and error, and a lot of console tabs open.

Figured it out as I went. Learned the trade-offs the hard way, things like eventual consistency in DynamoDB, partition key design, CORS issues that only show up once you actually deploy and test in a browser instead of just Postman.

Shipped a working product at the end of it. Came out the other side with a much better handle on serverless architecture, and walked away having actually gotten paid to learn it remotely, which felt like the best kind of growth.

Mostly posting this because I remember seeing similar posts and finding it motivating when I was hesitant to take on stuff outside my comfort zone. If you're sitting on a remote opportunity that needs a stack you don't fully know, it's usually more learnable than it feels going in.

A while back, I took on a project that needed a serverless backend, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito, API Gateway. None of that was my primary stack, and I'd barely touched the AWS console before this. Worked the entire thing remotely too, no in-person handholding, just docs, trial and error, and a lot of console tabs open.

Figured it out as I went. Learned the trade-offs the hard way, things like eventual consistency in DynamoDB, partition key design, CORS issues that only show up once you actually deploy and test in a browser instead of just Postman.

Shipped a working product at the end of it. Came out the other side with a much better handle on serverless architecture, and walked away having actually gotten paid to learn it remotely, which felt like the best kind of growth.

Mostly posting this because I remember seeing similar posts and finding it motivating when I was hesitant to take on stuff outside my comfort zone. If you're sitting on a remote opportunity that needs a stack you don't fully know, it's usually more learnable than it feels going in.