r/SaaSMarketing

Still a small number, but seeing 400+ people sign up for something I started building from scratch a couple of months ago feels pretty special.

I built a design tool, basically a visual playground for creating cool effects like ASCII, dither, halftone and a lot more, all in the browser.

I've mostly been building by listening to users, shipping quickly and sharing the journey online.

If you're curious, this is what I'm building: https://ditther.com

No big launch or paid ads so far. Just sharing content on X and improving the app every week.

On to the next milestone: 1,000 users.

I'm starting to focus more on marketing now. For other solo founders, what channels actually worked for you when going from a few hundred users to your first 1,000?

Hey guys!

This community has been great!! I would watch people making money from SaaS from the side lines until end of last year then I decided to do something about it.

Since I watched Social network I wanted to build a massive startup of my own. A unicorn.

I would fail everytime as I would focus on things like market size, moat, trends etc, but would not account for the most impressive thing - which is solving a real problem and building something people want.

I was accepted into an accelerator program beginning of this year ( similar to YC ) but ended up leaving because it felt more like I am back in school trying to impress my teachers ( VCs in this scenario ) than actually building something worth while. - but that’s on me, smarter people than me navigated that environment better, raised money and now are doing bigger things.

Anyways, I launched my SaaS ( built it for a hackathon to win open AI credits and maybe a job too ), didn’t even make top 10.

Launched the platform a month after the hackathon anyway with the prototype and to my surprise someone bought a subscription.

Put in more time - used claude for SEO, posted on X, reddit and made videos on Instagram and now 4 months later the platform is at $500 MRR and $1.7k in gross revenue.

I work full time, work on my project after work and on weekends!

VC’s said no
Lost 2 hackathons with this idea

And I can see the platform grow every day.

Don’t listen to anyone else but your customers, keep your head down and work! Something will happen.

Major thing that has worked for me is - not quitting too early, I tried building a SaaS over 6 times before this and would quit too early, sometimes even before launching it.
Shiny object syndrome was a real problem for me.
I still go through it time to time, but have learned to manage it.

Wishing everyone here massive success!! 🚀🚀

PS: My SaaS is shipnative - it’s a no code mobile app builder for iOS and Android

Full time security engineer - but ive been working on this app (wellbody) for the past 2 years. the past 3 months have felt surreal.

first few months were brutal. but for whatever reason cold calling and cold DMing on Linkedin + email marketing has been my bread and butter. a few times I got bundle users when the people I was targeting were 'sources' such as gym owners or health specialists.

don't let anyone tell you that 'door to door' sales doesn't work 💪

Hey guys,

I noticed a lot of creators struggle with finding clean, quick AI voiceovers for short demo videos without hitting a paywall immediately.

So I put together a lightweight, free tool:https://www.vibrantsnap.com/ai-voice-generator

It's straightforward, type your text, pick a voice, and generate audio instantly. would like your feedbacks

I built Sitemapper after getting tired of checking a sitemap, then checking pages, then checking robots, then trying to remember what changed after the last deploy.

It does that in one pass. Give it a public site and it reads robots.txt, discovers XML sitemaps, checks live pages, and keeps a snapshot so later runs can tell you what actually changed.

The part I care about most is not an SEO score. It is catching boring regressions like a page turning noindex, a canonical moving, a URL disappearing, or the sitemap suddenly shrinking.

Free first scan, no account: https://sitemapper.oortstack.com/

If you try it on something weird or messy, I would like to know where it falls over.

I’m working on a product for founders who want to make better decisions before spending time, money, or traffic on the wrong thing.

The problem I’m trying to solve:

A lot of startup decisions are expensive to validate.

Changing pricing can hurt conversion.
Changing copy can confuse users.
Changing onboarding can reduce activation.
Launching a feature can waste weeks.
Running interviews or A/B tests takes time and often requires traffic you may not have yet.

So I’m building Polyhyle: a simulation platform where you can model a product/business scenario and see how different synthetic user segments might react.

Examples:

• simulate a pricing change
• test positioning and landing page copy
• predict objections before launching
• compare feature concepts
• simulate user reactions to a competitor move
• estimate impact on conversion, churn, adoption, or trust

To be clear: I don’t think simulated users replace real customers.

But I do think they can help founders narrow down bad ideas faster, generate better hypotheses, and decide what is actually worth testing.

I’d love feedback from other founders:

What’s one startup decision you wish you could simulate before making it?

we all something, these days everyone is building something. We've actually been obsessed with creating something. And that's what we're doing.

A few months ago, i built a small app, I started paying more attention to what people were saying about the products we were using. It was surprisingly messy.

One useful comment was on Reddit. Another was buried in an App Store review. Someone mentioned a feature they wanted on X. Then a competitor launched something interesting, and we almost missed it.

The weird part was that all of this information was available. We just didn't have a good way of putting it all together.

At some point, I realized I was spending more time on building in features instead of listening to the customer and understanding it

So we started building something for ourselves. That's how Mindphor started.

It brings customer feedback and competitor activity together and uses AI to find the patterns that are easy to miss when you're checking everything manually. You can use it for your both android and ios apps.

It's still early, and we're learning a lot from putting it in front of other founders.

We're launching it now, so if you're building an app and this sounds like a problem you've run into, I'd genuinely love to hear how you deal with it today.

Here's the link: Mindphor

Around 2-3 weeks ago I launched my SaaS, SeoLoupe.

It is a lightweight SEO tool that helps you find and fix SEO issues holding your website back, currently I am at 432 users and 5 paying users.

Essentianly the main purpose is to help your website rank higher on Google search and LLMs.

Since I am always trying my best to improve the product, I am happy to answer any questions or any feedback in the comments.

(here is the product if you want to check it out)