u/Due-Owl5231 — reddlx

[Hiring] Developer for ongoing feature work on a small SaaS — $40/hr or monthly retainer, ~20 hrs/week, remote

I run a small dev studio, and I built a SaaS product called Qualyo Forms solo. It's live, and I'm now moving my own time fully onto distribution, which means I need someone to keep the product moving.

This isn't a one-off build. I'm looking for an ongoing relationship with one developer who gets to know the codebase properly and ships features week to week, working closely with me.

Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase/PostgreSQL, Stripe, OpenAI/Anthropic APIs

What you'd be doing: feature work across the app, mostly product surface rather than infrastructure. You'd be the only developer, so I need someone who can take a rough spec and run with it rather than wait on tickets.

Rate: $40/hr, or retainer for roughly 20 hrs/week. Open to either.

Timezone: I'm in Brazil (UTC-3). Some overlap needed, doesn't have to be full days.

If it sounds like a fit, DM me, and I'll send over a short application form. Happy to answer questions there too.

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u/Due-Owl5231 — 7 hours ago

▲ 3 r/SaaSMarketing

Built a SaaS, got 0 paying users, rebuilt it anyway, and I still don't know how to get people to see it

Last year I built an AI lead qualification tool in five days and put it live at $12 a month. Nobody paid for it, and I spent months telling myself the product wasn't good enough. What I'd actually done was drop a link in two or three places and assume that counted as launching.

I rebuilt it anyway, partly to stop that excuse from being available to me, and I'm now full time on distribution instead of building.

It's now a form builder for people who take inbound. Instead of a static contact form, it asks questions conversationally, works out whether someone's a fit from their answers, and either sends them to your calendar or politely turns them away.

My whole plan is one thing: I will find people on LinkedIn with a public calendar or intake form, rebuild their qualification intake flow as a free teardown, and send it over with no strings. If they want to keep it, they make an account and I transfer the form to them, so they get 50 AI conversations to run real inbound through before paying anything. This starts today.

It's slow and caps out at maybe 20 connections a day, but it's the only thing I'm hoping people actually reply. I'm an engineer, 25 or so apps shipped for clients, and I've never run SEO properly or done content consistently or touched ads, so I don't really know what I'm missing.

If you got your first ten paying customers, what actually got them? And is there anything obvious I should be running alongside this? Thanks!

u/Due-Owl5231 — 16 hours ago

▲ 4 r/SaaSMarketing+2 crossposts

Anyone tried Marketing or Die (the Ship or Die add-on)? Worth it?

Already shipped my SaaS, so the "ship in 30 days" pressure isn't really what I need right now. What I'm actually curious about is the Marketing or Die side, the 4 guided 30-day marketing missions.

Has anyone gone through it? Did it actually move the needle on getting eyes on your product, or is it more just accountability/community vibes without much substance? Curious if it's worth it for someone past the "build" stage and focused purely on distribution.

Would love to hear from anyone who's actually done a mission or two.

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u/Due-Owl5231 — 7 days ago