Everytime I posted on this subreddit, most of the comments were just straight up ai.
And I don't even see the purpose because most of them aren't even trying to promote their product with that comment. Are they trying to karma farm?
I use ai for my work and throughout my day, but not for writing my texts and I don't understand why people do
Has anybody else realised that as well?
The last couple of months, I had about 10 different real saas ideas. 7 of them I actually started building and only 4 were finished. From those 4 I only published 3 and only one, my current project did not fail immediately.
I had huge problems with finding the right idea, I tried various different approaches like going through starter story or acquired or indiehacker searching for tools I liked to copy them and add a little twist, or I tried solving my own problems which worked for myself, but I couldn't make a real product out of those.
I was really disappointed after my last fail, when I randomly checked twitter and I saw a viral post about a new tool that just got released and everyone went crazy in the comments saying how they liked the idea. So, I dug deeper and finally found something I could use, similar idea, but different use case.
I instantly started building and 2 weeks later I had my first prototype ready. I posted about it on reddit and after 3 days, someone actually bought a subscription.
I was so happy, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, because after all those months were I was trying to build something for people and no one cared, finally someone liked my product and decided to pay for it.
So the lesson is: Always keep going and never give up, just ship more and suddenly you will build something valuable. Every failed project has value for yourself and you will learn from it and why it failed.
If you have read so far and want to know what tool finally worked for me, here is a link to my website. Maybe you will be my second customer ; )
PS: I know I'm talking here like I just became a millionaire when in reality I just made 29 dollars. But we'll get there, step by step.
The last couple of months, I had about 10 different real saas ideas. 7 of them I actually started building and only 4 were finished. From those 4 I only published 3 and only one, my current project did not fail immediately.
I had huge problems with finding the right idea, I tried various different approaches like going through starter story or acquired or indiehacker searching for tools I liked to copy them and add a little twist, or I tried solving my own problems which worked for myself, but I couldn't make a real product out of those.
I was really disappointed after my last fail, when I randomly checked twitter and I saw a viral post about a new tool that just got released and everyone went crazy in the comments saying how they liked the idea. So, I dug deeper and finally found something I could use, similar idea, but different use case.
I instantly started building and 2 weeks later I had my first prototype ready. I posted about it on reddit and after 3 days, someone actually bought a subscription.
I was so happy, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, because after all those months were I was trying to build something for people and no one cared, finally someone liked my product and decided to pay for it.
So the lesson is: Always keep going and never give up, just ship more and suddenly you will build something valuable. Every failed project has value for yourself and you will learn from it and why it failed.
If you have read so far and want to know what tool finally worked for me, here is a link to my website. Maybe you will be my second customer ;)
PS: I know I'm talking here like I just became a millionaire when in reality I just made 29 dollars. But we'll get there, step by step.
Disclaimer: I’m not trying to promote in any kind of way, I’m just asking for some feedback from you!
So, I stumbled across a viral twitter post a few weeks ago about a tool named clicky(maybe you’ve seen that) and that led me to building a similar tool but for websites and directed to business/website or SaaS owners.
Basically what it does is, the user asks a question like “Where can I upgrade my plan?”, and the tool guides the user step by step through the task, while highlighting the buttons they have to click directly on their screen.
The tool gets context through DOM screenshots and html2canvas and can then guide the user through the site accurately.
I added a little demo video to help you understand better.
I would love to hear some feedback from you, if this is a viable tool and if people would use it, feature requests/critics or just a general opinion
I’m currently working on a SaaS product and my target customers are other SaaS founders. And I often see people saying, to do Reddit marketing you have to find your customers and post about your product and everything.
And that sounds good in theory, but I have made a few post and even though some of them got a few likes or comments, 90 percent of the people replying where just bots or straight up ai.
So I am lurking where my potential customers are but I can’t connect with them because everything is flooded with ai and I can’t tell which replies have real value.
Maybe you guys can help me how to solve this problem or give me a few tips on how find ACTUAL customers and not just bot replies.
I'm running a small SaaS business and for the last months, I had one big problem, user churn.
Through some research, I found out that many people thought my site was confusing and didn't know where to find certain things. I tried changing the ui, but it still didn't really work.
The real problem is that users don't want to search. If they can't find a solution within a minute, they just leave your page.
Then I decided to try another approach, I tried different ai chatbots, but all of them were too generic, too expensive and just not good enough for me. I wanted something better... All of them had the same problem, they told the people what to do, but because most of them have never seen my site before, none of them knew how to handle the information.
So, what actually worked for me:
I wanted something that doesn't just explain, but shows. So I built a small AI assistant that lives directly on my site, understands where the user is right now, and can visually guide them through the task step by step while highlighting the exact button the user needs to click.
User types "how do I export this", the tool can see their screen and navigates them there and points at the button.
I called it Phaysr One script tag to install. Takes less than 10 minutes to set up.
If you want to see it in action, I set up a demo site where you can try it directly: Phaysr demo
Would love to hear some feedback(feature requests or just a general opinion) from you and if you would use my tool!
Two weeks ago, I made a post here which interested many people, writing about how I built a tool, which is an ai assistant that can be embedded into any website and guides user visually step-by-step through your website, helping them finding what they wanted to do(e.g. "Where is the billing?").
Since then, I continued building on this tool and here is a little update on what's new:
- the tool has now a name, Phaysr
- You can now share either a link or a pasted text of your docs/faq or any other context about your site and Phaysr uses it to generate its reponses. This especially really leveled up the quality of the output.
- problems I had to solve: getting the navigation right took longer than I thought, because I had to keep the system prompt as short as possible to keep the quality of the answers, but still needed to find a way to detect what the user is currently doing.
- I listened to your feedback from my previous post and decided to scrap the idea of "agentic mode" where the user doesn't even need to click anymore and the tool does everything itself. But, maybe I'll add something like this in the future
- Version 1 is out! Yes, after building and constantly improving the tool, I'm finally at a point where I can say that I am satisfied with the performance and looks of Phaysr.
- I created a demo website where you can try out the tool in realtime
I would love to hear some feedback from you(feature requests, general opinions, personal experience) and if you are interested in learning more about Phaysr, check out my website or just comment here!
Im running a small Saas business and for the last months, my email inbox looked the same:
- "How can I add ... to my project"
- "Where do I find the setting for .."
etc
Those questions were easy to answer, but it still took me a few hours each week to answer everyone.
The problem is:
Users don't want to search. If they can't find a solution within a minute, they either create a support ticket or even worse, leave your page.
First I tried different ai chatbots, but all of them were too generic, too expensive and just not good enough for me. I wanted something better... All of them had the same problem, they told the people what to do, but because most of them have never seen my site before, none of them knew how to handle the information.
What actually worked for me:
I wanted something that doesn't just explain, but shows. So I built a small AI assistant that lives directly on my site, understands where the user is right now, and can visually guide them through the task step by step while highlighting the exact button the user needs to click.
User types "how do I export this", the tool can see their screen and navigates them there and points at the button. No support ticket opened. No email sent.
I called it Phaysr. One script tag to install. Takes less than 10 minutes to set up.
Results after 4 weeks:
support tickets down around 60%, my weekly inbox time went from 2-3 hours to under an hour.
If you want to see it in action, I set up a demo site where you can try it directly: demo.phaysr.com