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I've been building and hanging around SaaS for a while, and it feels like there are a lot of "accepted truths" that nobody questions anymore.

Some examples:

"Build in public." "Just solve your own problem." "You need Product Hunt." "Launch fast and iterate." "AI is replacing SaaS." "You need VC funding to win."

Some of these worked... years ago.

Today it feels like the game has changed. Distribution matters more than product. SEO is getting replaced by AI search. Everyone can build. Very few people can sell.

So here's my question:

What's one piece of SaaS advice that you think is complete BS in 2026?

Or what's a lesson you learned the hard way that nobody talks about?

I'm genuinely curious whether people are seeing the same shift or if I'm just spending too much time on Reddit.

I've been building and hanging around SaaS for a while, and it feels like there are a lot of "accepted truths" that nobody questions anymore.

Some examples:

"Build in public." "Just solve your own problem." "You need Product Hunt." "Launch fast and iterate." "AI is replacing SaaS." "You need VC funding to win."

Some of these worked... years ago.

Today it feels like the game has changed. Distribution matters more than product. SEO is getting replaced by AI search. Everyone can build. Very few people can sell.

So here's my question:

What's one piece of SaaS advice that you think is complete BS in 2026?

Or what's a lesson you learned the hard way that nobody talks about?

I'm genuinely curious whether people are seeing the same shift or if I'm just spending too much time on Reddit.

I've been building and hanging around SaaS for a while, and it feels like there are a lot of "accepted truths" that nobody questions anymore.

Some examples:

"Build in public." "Just solve your own problem." "You need Product Hunt." "Launch fast and iterate." "AI is replacing SaaS." "You need VC funding to win."

Some of these worked... years ago.

Today it feels like the game has changed. Distribution matters more than product. SEO is getting replaced by AI search. Everyone can build. Very few people can sell.

So here's my question:

What's one piece of SaaS advice that you think is complete BS in 2026?

Or what's a lesson you learned the hard way that nobody talks about?

I'm genuinely curious whether people are seeing the same shift or if I'm just spending too much time on Reddit.

I've been building and hanging around SaaS for a while, and it feels like there are a lot of "accepted truths" that nobody questions anymore.

Some examples:

"Build in public." "Just solve your own problem." "You need Product Hunt." "Launch fast and iterate." "AI is replacing SaaS." "You need VC funding to win."

Some of these worked... years ago.

Today it feels like the game has changed. Distribution matters more than product. SEO is getting replaced by AI search. Everyone can build. Very few people can sell.

So here's my question:

What's one piece of SaaS advice that you think is complete BS in 2026?

Or what's a lesson you learned the hard way that nobody talks about?

I'm genuinely curious whether people are seeing the same shift or if I'm just spending too much time on Reddit.

I've been building and hanging around SaaS for a while, and it feels like there are a lot of "accepted truths" that nobody questions anymore.

Some examples:

"Build in public." "Just solve your own problem." "You need Product Hunt." "Launch fast and iterate." "AI is replacing SaaS." "You need VC funding to win."

Some of these worked... years ago.

Today it feels like the game has changed. Distribution matters more than product. SEO is getting replaced by AI search. Everyone can build. Very few people can sell.

So here's my question:

What's one piece of SaaS advice that you think is complete BS in 2026?

Or what's a lesson you learned the hard way that nobody talks about?

I'm genuinely curious whether people are seeing the same shift or if I'm just spending too much time on Reddit.

Hey everyone,

I've been diving into the world of AI-related SaaS lately, and I've noticed a common trend where many services are essentially just wrapping existing models. While that's impressive, I'm curious about how many of you have actually ventured into the more challenging territory of fine-tuning LLMs or even building entirely new models for text, image, audio, or video generation?

What kind of projects have you guys worked on that involve more than just repackaging existing AI capabilities? Have any of you built something from the ground up or significantly enhanced the original model to create something new? I'd love to hear about your experiences and the challenges you've faced along the way.

Looking forward to your insights!

Hey everyone,

I've been diving into the world of AI-related SaaS lately, and I've noticed a common trend where many services are essentially just wrapping existing models. While that's impressive, I'm curious about how many of you have actually ventured into the more challenging territory of fine-tuning LLMs or even building entirely new models for text, image, audio, or video generation?

What kind of projects have you guys worked on that involve more than just repackaging existing AI capabilities? Have any of you built something from the ground up or significantly enhanced the original model to create something new? I'd love to hear about your experiences and the challenges you've faced along the way.

Looking forward to your insights!

Hey everyone,

I've been diving into the world of AI-related SaaS lately, and I've noticed a common trend where many services are essentially just wrapping existing models. While that's impressive, I'm curious about how many of you have actually ventured into the more challenging territory of fine-tuning LLMs or even building entirely new models for text, image, audio, or video generation?

What kind of projects have you guys worked on that involve more than just repackaging existing AI capabilities? Have any of you built something from the ground up or significantly enhanced the original model to create something new? I'd love to hear about your experiences and the challenges you've faced along the way.

Looking forward to your insights!

I want to train/fine tune an llm for music generation, basically I have huge amount of trance music collection. I want to train or fine tune an llm using those music, it doesn't have vocal only music. Which model would be best to use as base model. Anyone done this before?

Hey! I run a SaaS business where my product is priced at $5. I'm concerned about chargebacks since some payment gateways have hefty fees associated with them. Can anyone recommend payment gateways that are more lenient with chargebacks or better suited for small ticket items? Thank you!

Hey! I run a SaaS business where my product is priced at $5. I'm concerned about chargebacks since some payment gateways have hefty fees associated with them. Can anyone recommend payment gateways that are more lenient with chargebacks or better suited for small ticket items? Thank you!

Dealing with refunds can be challenging in the SaaS space. Here are some tips:

1. Clear Policies: Establish a clear refund policy upfront to set customer expectations.
2. Customer Support: Have strong support to address user concerns, which can reduce refund requests.
3. Analyze Reasons: Track and analyze reasons for refunds to improve your product.
4. Offer Alternatives: Instead of refunds, consider offering credits or extended trials.
5. Feedback Loop: Use feedback from refund requests to enhance your user experience.

What strategies have worked for you?

I have made few saas applications, I want to integrate dodo payments for accepting payments. I am little unaware of what all formalities need to be taken care of before accepting payments from out of India customers.

So far my situation is like below -

1: I registered for msme udyam(sole proprietorship)
2: I want to use my personal bank account, savings to accept payments.

3: I ll use my own pan for tax filing.

I talked to a CA, he told to register trade license, gst an all, but at this moment I don't want to go for GST or trade license as the earning is not going to be much, still haven't accepted any payment because of confusion on the formalities I should adhere to.

Now at this situation what all things should I take care of to get the payments from abroad.

I ll use dodo payments.

Please advise, any new entrepreneur who have already have gone through this dilemma phase. I am a bit of worried if I miss any formalities and get penalties larger that my earning. That is my biggest worry, don't want to take any extra burden of tax hassle.

A detailed guide will be really helpful.

I am trying to open a business bank account for start up, I dont need physical office space, but it is required for address verification. I saw there are virtual office concept where I can rent a space for business address verification or gst , also saw few posts it sometimes doesn't work. Does anyone have done this? Could you share your experience if it really works, I don't want to add my home address as business detail is public data, so trying to avoid home address.

I have been working on my saas. It is at initial phase, I am confused whether to register an OPC or Sole Proprietorship or LLP. My saas is at initial stage, want to see if this at all work, which one should I choose. If I start a sole proprietorship, can I open a current account with the company name? or it would be my personal account, I want to get the payments on company account, but as sole proprietorship is owned by me, I assume I have to use my personal bank account for accepting payments. This seems to be very confusing, if someone has any idea please share, I appreciate your help.

JUST TO NOTIFY THIS IS RELATED TO HERMES SETUP INSIDE NVIDIA OPENSHELL

I am facing this issue, I want to use proxy on my host server using redsocks to route all outbound traffic through proxy ip. My hermes agent is installed inside nvidia openshell sandbox, openshell sandbox is using its own proxy to route the sandbox traffic which is I am unable to stop it or switch it off, as openshell default configuration comes with default proxy 10.200.0.1:3128, it routes everything from sandbox through this proxy.

Now my use case is I want to send the traffic of hermes agent through residential proxy, my agent is doning some scraping work from social media, I need to use proxy as vps ip can be esaily detected and blocked.

I am using redsocks to configure the proxy, it routes all the traffic from server to the proxy, the server traffic which are outside of the sandbox is working fine, it goes through the proxy.

But the traffic from the sandbox or the agent which is inside the sandbox is not able to connect to proxy, it never reaches the proxy. it just times out after some time.

Has anyone faced this issue, how do i configure the /etc/redsocks.conf to route the sandbox traffic to go through the proxy.

Please help if anyone have done same configuration.