u/Embarrassed_Gas_5029

I've been building a SaaS product and one thing I've noticed is how difficult it is to convert Indian users into paying customers.

People will use the product, come back, ask for features, and sometimes even complain when something isn't available 😭

But the moment there's a paywall or subscription, a huge percentage just leave.

Even when the pricing is relatively low.

I'm genuinely curious why this happens.

Is it because we've become too accustomed to free apps and services?

Is subscription fatigue the problem?

Do Indian users simply not trust smaller SaaS products enough to enter their card details?

Or is the value proposition usually not strong enough to justify another monthly payment?

For founders who have successfully built SaaS products for Indian users: what actually worked for you?

Freemium with strict limits?

One-time payments?

UPI subscriptions?

Very cheap entry plans?

Giving users enough time to build a habit before showing the paywall?

I'm currently trying to understand how to attract users who are not just willing to try a product, but are actually willing to pay for it.

Would love to hear from Indian SaaS founders and users on both sides.

A while ago I needed to make a presentation quickly and tried a few AI presentation tools.

Most of them were good at generating something that looked like a presentation inside their own editor.

But I wanted an actual PowerPoint.

Something I could generate, edit and export as a .pptx without being stuck in a proprietary presentation viewer.

So I started building EXdeck.

https://exdeck.xyz

You give it a topic or an idea and it generates a full presentation with layouts, visuals, charts and speaker notes. The deck can be edited and exported as PowerPoint or PDF.

While building it, I also ended up adding AI documents, spreadsheets and a resume builder, although presentations are still the main thing I'm focused on improving.

The hardest part has honestly been slide design.

Generating text is easy. Making 10 slides that don't feel like the same template repeated 10 times is much harder.

EXdeck is still a work in progress and I'm actively building it.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the generated slide designs and editing experience:

https://exdeck.xyz

If you build presentation or AI tools, I'd also be curious how you're solving repetitive AI-generated layouts.

Why are Indian users so reluctant to pay for SaaS? How do you actually convert them?

I got tired of AI presentation tools giving me pretty webpages instead of actual PowerPoints, so I built my own