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When I’m collecting information from websites, I try not to copy everything.

Instead, I first decide what the final table should look like.

For example, for research papers:

| Title | Author | Year | Journal | DOI | Link |

| ----- | ------ | ---- | ------- | --- | ---- |

Then I extract only those fields from the pages.

This makes a huge difference.

Instead of ending up with a messy spreadsheet full of copied text, you get structured data that you can filter, sort, compare, and analyze.

The same approach works for:

* regulatory documents

* product research

* company directories

* job listings

* real estate

* academic research

* competitor analysis

The trick is simple: define the structure first, extract second.

It saves a surprising amount of cleanup later.

Not life-changing money.

But every payout means the same thing: someone I don't know pulled out their card and decided my product was worth paying for.

That's the hardest part of building a SaaS.

The first €10 teaches you more than 1,000 upvotes, 10,000 visitors, or months of "building in public."

Revenue is the only feedback that truly validates you're solving a real problem.

Now the goal isn't the first customer anymore.

It's making the next 1,000 inevitable.

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I launched Page2Doc on Product Hunt 6 months ago.

It didn't take off.

I got a handful of upvotes, almost no traction, and for a moment I wondered if it was worth continuing.

Instead of chasing another launch, I kept shipping.

* Rebuilt large parts of the product.

* Added AI-powered document processing.

* Introduced Free, Pro and Team plans.

* Improved conversion quality for PDF, Word and Excel exports.

* Started talking to users and fixing what mattered.

Today, I'm still far from where I want to be.

But something changed.

People are paying.

Stripe MRR is growing—slowly, but every month.

The product is more mature.

And I finally feel like I'm building something people genuinely need.

I'm launching on Product Hunt again today.

Not because it's perfect, but because it's **10x better** than the first version.

If you've ever rebuilt a product after a disappointing launch, I'd really appreciate your support and honest feedback.

🚀 https://www.producthunt.com/products/page2doc

Every upvote, comment, and piece of feedback means a lot.

Thank you ❤️

A few weeks ago, I celebrated my first Stripe payout.

Today, I received my second payout.

It's still a small amount, but that's not the point.

Every payout is proof that:

Someone discovered the product.

Someone trusted it enough to pay.

The business is moving in the right direction.

Building a SaaS is rarely an overnight success. It's a series of tiny wins that slowly compound.

Now it's back to building, talking to users, and improving the product every day.

For those who've grown from a few euros to consistent monthly revenue, what was the biggest change that helped you make that jump?

Two months ago, I launched my chrome extension with zero audience, zero funding, and no fancy launch strategy.

Today, we crossed 200+ users.

It's not a huge number compared to the big success stories here, but for me it's a milestone that proves people actually have the problem I'm trying to solve.

A few things that made the biggest difference:

Building in public instead of waiting for the "perfect" product.

Shipping improvements almost every day based on user feedback.

Posting consistently on LinkedIn, Medium, and other communities.

Focusing on solving one problem really well instead of adding dozens of features.

Talking to users whenever they had questions or suggestions.

Things that didn't work as well:

Spending too much time polishing small UI details.

Trying to be active on every social platform.

Waiting too long before asking people to try the product.

The next goal is 1,000 users, and I know the challenges will be very different from getting the first 200.

For founders who have already made that jump, what was the biggest thing that helped you go from a few hundred users to your first thousand?

I'd love to learn from your experience.

A few months ago, this was just an idea on my laptop.

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Today, I woke up to my first real payments coming through Stripe.

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It's not life-changing money yet, but seeing strangers pay for something I built feels different.

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A few things I've learned:

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Progress is much slower than you think.

Building is the easy part. Getting users is the hard part.

Most growth comes from consistency, not big breakthroughs.

You'll spend a lot of nights wondering if anyone will ever use your product.

The temptation to quit is always there.

I work on this project outside of my normal responsibilities, often late at night when most people are sleeping. There were plenty of bugs, failed ideas, and moments where I thought I was wasting my time.

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But every small improvement compounds.

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Getting the first customers doesn't mean you've made it. It just proves that someone has a problem worth paying to solve.

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Now it's time to keep building.

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Curious: what was your biggest lesson after getting your first paying customer?

Imagine having a tool capable of understanding website content and which you can leverage to get data and information instantly... This is how i came out with the idea of page2doc the main idea was to build 3 in 1 extension for converting webpages to pdf,word and excel instead of switching tool each time...

Here how I did it, I launched asap and started to improve all the features and once everything was ok i added some new features to make people productives then I posted on reddit and product hunt and currently improving my seo to optimize my crawl budget on GSC but my main idea with page2doc.com is to make people more productive and less time spend on such tasks.