r/SaaSSolopreneurs

Hey all, I'm currently building Lockn, an app that helps you do more and plan less. Rather than planning your whole week, you plan day by day with Lockn.

It incorporates over 10 different productivity methods and has some really cool features.

Its launching really really soon, I just wanted to get a rough sense if any of you would use it 😄

If there are any additional features you would like to see added do drop a comment below! or if there is anything you think you don't like feel free to let me know too!

thanks so much for reading!!

hey everyone,

i'll be honest, putting this out there is scary in a way i didn't expect.

building something that actually matters to you means there's nowhere to hide if it fails.

decision theatre goes live on product hunt today. it's a 7-stage behavioural reflection tool for decisions you're stuck on.

it doesn't tell you what to decide, it names the psychological pattern that's been deciding for you.

the feeling i was chasing when i built this: recognition before understanding.

that moment where something names what you've been circling and your stomach drops a little. not "oh interesting" but "oh. that's what this has been."

it's not perfect. but seeing it through to the other side

is the greatest joy i've felt in a long time.

if you've ever supported a solo builder on launch day,

today would mean everything to me.

PH link 🤞🏼

Started this as a side experiment — wanted to see if I could pull structured business data from Maps without paying for some overpriced data vendor.

Tested it on LA dentists. Ended up with 3,000+ records: names, numbers, addresses, websites. Clean enough to actually use.

Threw it in a spreadsheet, shared it with a couple of people ended up with 2 paying clients from it which I did NOT expect.

Hey everyone,

We recently crossed almost 1,000 downloads and around $300 in revenue.

Still small numbers, but enough to start learning real things from real users. Here are the biggest lessons so far:

1. ASO matters way more than I expected
Around 80–90% of our downloads come from App Store search. For a mobile app, ASO is not optional. Better keywords, screenshots, translations, and conversion rate can slowly compound into more visibility.

2. Always make it easy for users to give feedback
Some of our best product decisions came from users who reached out directly. A simple email, form, Reddit post, or feedback button can be enough.

3. Onboarding is probably the biggest revenue lever
If users don’t understand the value quickly, they leave. Small changes in onboarding, copy, screen order, and paywall timing can have a real impact.

4. Track everything that matters
You need to know where users come from, where they drop, what they use, what they ignore, and where they convert. Without analytics, you’re mostly guessing.

5. Translations can unlock unexpected markets
We translated the app into 8 languages and were surprised to see traction in places like Russia. Even when revenue is lower, more users means more feedback and more behavioral data.

6. US users monetize much better
For us, the US install-to-payment conversion rate is roughly 2x higher than the rest of the world. Other countries help us learn, but the US is where most of the revenue potential is.

7. Test a paywall during onboarding
Around 68% of our conversions happen before users even sign up. I know onboarding paywalls can be controversial, but for us it clearly matters.

8. Reviews are harder than they look
It took us several attempts to find a review prompt logic that actually worked. Timing matters a lot: not too early, not too late.

Main takeaway: the more data you have, the less you rely on your own assumptions. What you want as a founder doesn’t matter as much as what users actually do.

Our app is Paintly, a small app to learn art history through one artwork a day, in around 2 minutes.

Paintly is available on iOS and Android here if you want to try it:
https://taap.it/getpaintly

Happy to answer questions or debate any of this in the comments.

Hey everyone, I hope you are well.

I built a platform for builders who built vibecoded sites/businesses/apps/start ups etc, who just want to build and not worry about markets, competitor analysis, pitch decks, business plans etc. You pop your URLs, code, files, images, chatgpt, Claude, Gemini chats etc in and it generates it all for you. You pivot, change prices, markets, it changes it all for you as a living document and workspace and export it in any format you want.

This idea stemmed from my own frustrations of building a healthcare startup as a tool for myself but spiralled into something else.

It's early stages and looking for some potential testers if possible who will get free access to help me improve it and hopefully help you too.

https://ceoworkspace.lovable.app/

Cheers

I am an indie developer. I built an Android app. Code worked. Design worked. Then Google told me I needed 12 testers for 14 days before I could publish. I did not have that.

I tried friends. They forgot after day 2. I tried test for test groups. People disappeared. I failed three times. Wasted over a month.

So I built RealAppTesters.

You add our testers emails to your Google Play Console. We provide 12 testers who use your app every day for 14 days. We track daily activity. If someone drops off, we replace them. After 14 days, you apply for production access.

No app to download. No system to learn. No testing other people's apps.

I have helped over 50 indie developers pass closed testing so far. All customers came from Reddit. No ads. No paid promotion.

If you are building an Android app and stuck on closed testing, this is for you.

https://www.realapptesters.com

Not asking for validation. Asking if you’d actually pay and why or why not. Be brutal.

The problem.

Every developer building with AI APIs is one bug away from a surprise bill. It happened to me. A retry bug caused one user to hit my endpoint nearly 3,000 times in 14 minutes. Nothing crashed. Everything returned 200.

My Anthropic bill told a different story.

Normal protections don’t work here. Rate limits are per API key not per user. Observability tools show you the damage after. Nothing watches in the execution path where calls actually happen.

So I built Monrow. Three lines of code. Wraps your Anthropic or OpenAI client and throws an error before the next call fires when something looks wrong. Free tier. No account. No card.

The business model.

Free protects one server. When you scale to two servers each sees half the traffic and neither fires. Pro at $29 a month aggregates across all servers so detection works at real scale. That is the only reason to upgrade. I am not going to pretend otherwise.

Live right now. MIT licensed SDK. monrow.io

What would make you pay $29 a month for this? What would make you not? What am I missing?

I was having much trouble creating logo QRs dynamic QRs for my other Saas, so ended up solving the problem for the entire community by making https://createqr.in

this Saas platform has unique features such as video and image QRs, no longer youtube links in your apps, google review assist QR, unlimited free logo Qrs.

Can someone with UX experience review to tell about the UI/UX of the app?

I would much appreciate for some comments about pricing too?

Thanks so much in advance!!

I used to write blogs for my own site. Tried a bunch of AI content tools along the way.

Honestly? None of them felt right. The articles had no real research behind them, no citations, no sources just words on a page. And the SEO was always off. I'd pay for a tool, get a draft, then spend more time fixing it than it would've taken to just write it myself.

I'm a developer, so at some point my brain hit the idea! okay, what if I just build this properly with complete workflow agents that connected each other?

The idea was simple, a pipeline where each step does one job, and passes it to the next. No cutting corners. After months of work, I finally built it (Scrivia AI).

It runs through 6 agents: Research - Outline - Write - Humanize - SEO QA - SEO Fix

The research is real time using web search API. So the content has real time data. The Humanize step matters a lot to me personally because I know how lifeless AI content can feel. And the last two agents work as a pair, one audits, one fixes. No manual cleanup needed.

Still rough around some edges, still learning but it's live and it works.

Happy to discuss more in the comments if anyone's curious.

Faraz Khan
Founder (Scrivia AI)

Introducing SnapStat Studio — turn your runs, rides, hikes, and outdoor moments into immersive 3D visuals made for sharing in social media. 😉

Available in iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapstat-studio/id6765560810

Available in Android soon!

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to share a small milestone from my journey building a Chrome extension. After 30 days, I'm at 63 installs and 14 weekly active users. Nothing crazy, but coming from zero it genuinely means a lot to see real people using something I built.

The first two weeks were pretty flat — barely any movement. Then around May 4th I started posting on Reddit and things picked up pretty quickly after that. Weekly users have been holding steady since, and page views are up too, which I'm taking as a good sign.

In terms of marketing, I've tried a few things:

- Posting UGC videos on Instagram and YouTube

- Launching on Product Hunt

Nothing from any of those channels so far. No real spike I could connect to them. Reddit seems to be the only thing that actually moved anything.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get to 100 users. That's my next goal.

So I wanted to ask the people who've been here before — **how did you break through to your first 100 users?** Is running ads worth it at this stage, or is it too early? Would love to hear what actually moved the needle for you.

Bonjour,

J'ai cherché en ligne un outil pour valider mes factures Factur-X mais je n'ai rien trouvé satisfaisant, j'ai donc décidé de créer un moi-même et vous pouvez également l'utiliser gratuitement.

Il indique si le pdf est valide Facture Factur-X et affiche également tous les champs extraits.

https://www.facturwise.com/fr/validate

Curieux de savoir ce que les autres en pensent.