I'm a solo developer in my early 20s building a SaaS for small businesses.

After months of development, I finally launched and started trying to get users. I've tried cold emails, cold calls, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and even visiting local businesses in person.

I managed to get a few signups, but almost none of them are paid users, I only get the free tier signups and they come once in a while to take the invoice well within the free tier usage limit.

I'm seeing the positive that my app attracted people and solved their problem and they signup and use it, i didn't even spent any kind of ad.

Now how can I get paid users.

For founders who got from 0 to 100 paid users:

• What was the moment things started working?
• How did you validate that people genuinely wanted your product?
• Looking back, what was the biggest mistake you made in the early days?

I'm not looking for shortcuts or growth hacks, I'm trying to understand what separates products that get real users from those that only get signups.

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I'm also upto any advice on how to get users

I'm a solo developer in my early 20s building a SaaS for small businesses.

After months of development, I finally launched and started trying to get users. I've tried cold emails, cold calls, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and even visiting local businesses in person.

I managed to get a few signups, but almost none of them actually came back and used the product after registering.

That made me wonder if I'm solving the wrong problem, targeting the wrong audience, or just approaching customer acquisition the wrong way.

For founders who got from 0 to 100 active users:

• What was the moment things started working?
• How did you validate that people genuinely wanted your product?
• Looking back, what was the biggest mistake you made in the early days?

I'm not looking for shortcuts or growth hacks, I'm trying to understand what separates products that get real users from those that only get signups.