After selling both my extensions for a humble amount of money, I thought i would relax because it was my first time making money but i was still hungry to build. So now, I'm building an extension that hides your geolocation from websites. I just want to say to those who are working, don't stop. Keep it up
Edit: I have to say, I did take motivation from GeoSpoof so props to the builder
I’ve been building AGMAN and the app is now live.
I need a few SaaS founders to register, add a real product and test the full flow.
I mainly want feedback on the listing process, categories, final profile and anything that feels confusing or missing.
Payments are also in test mode, so no real money is involved if you want to test that flow too.
If you have a SaaS and don’t mind testing an early product, try it here:
Tell me what’s broken or what you would change.
Hey everyone,
I was completely fed up with the tedious, repetitive admin work at my day job. So, I started building a small side project to solve my own problem. I’m not a professional developer—I slowly learned to code through YouTube and wikis, and recently, modern AI tools helped me accelerate development to reach the finish line.
I handle construction site administration, which meant dealing with an endless stream of site photos and daily expense receipts. Every day, week, and month, I had to compile progress photos into structured reports. Worse, I had to tape corporate card receipts onto physical A4 sheets one by one, scan them, calculate totals, and send them to HQ.
It was draining, and it took time away from actual high-value work. I eventually managed to hack together some scripts that ran in the terminal. When a colleague at another site struggled with the exact same routine, I shared my code and showed him how to run it. The very next day, he bought me dinner to say thanks. That was the moment building software clicked for me, and with AI handling a lot of the heavy lifting, I turned it into a full web app called "imgsheet". (Per community rules, I won't drop direct links here, but you can find it via my profile.)
Key Features:
My coworkers love using it, but most are older and non-technical, so getting actionable product or business feedback internally has been tough.
The core utility works and saves real hours, but like many solo builder/developer-types, my biggest bottleneck is marketing and distribution. Before spending money on ads, I’d love to get objective, no-BS feedback from this community.
I’d especially appreciate your thoughts on:
Current Status: I recently finished internationalization (supporting 10 languages) and polished the UI for desktop and mobile.
Tear it apart—UX, copy, business model, or positioning. Brutally honest feedback is very welcome. Thanks for reading!
I'm a QA engineer and I'm testing a small idea.
If you're building a SaaS, AI app, or indie product, drop it below.
I'll pick 3 products and spend around an hour testing each one as a first-time user.
I'll check the core flow, forms, edge cases, mobile behavior and UX friction, then send you a structured report with screenshots and prioritized findings.
No catch and no sales call. I'm validating whether this kind of report is actually useful to founders.
If you're interested, send the URL + the main thing a user is supposed to accomplish.
Update: Thank you so much to everyone who commented and shared their products.
I’ve chosen the 3 products for this first round, so the free spots are filled for now.
If you missed the 3 spots but you’re still keen to have your product tested, feel free to DM me. I’m happy to keep a list for the next round.
tldr: My first AI SaaS failed because I built blindly, outsourced marketing, and had no clear ICP. My second product hit $5k/mo in 3 months because I built an audience first, obsessed over SEO and distribution, and targeted a specific niche.
I launched my first AI SaaS last year, kept it alive for about a year now. It's making less than $50 mrr and i'm thinking of closing it.
Here's what went wrong:
For the second one, I changed everything.
SocialCrawl launched in April this year and it's already making $5k a month in revenue and en route to $10K this July.
Here is what actually worked this time around:
Overall, failing the first time taught me you have to know who you're selling to, show up where your users hang out and be obsessed with distribution.
when we launched our first side tool we priced it at 5 dollars a month thinking cheap pricing would make it an easy buy for users. But it turned out 5 dollar a month brought in the kinda the absolute worst type of customers. people paying five bucks were sending ten support tickets in a week, complaining about tiny UI bugs, and churning after two months anyway, which meant our lifetime value per user was like 10 dollars , after credit card processing fees and customer support time, we were literally losing money on every signup. we completely scrapped this 5$ a monthly tier and changed it to a flat $29 one time payment for lifetime access, with an option for an annual sub later. conversion rates actually went up because I think people prefer a clean one off purchase for small utility tools instead of adding another recurring subscription to their credit card statement I mean this is what I've noticed and think too if u see this as a third person so yeah. it gave us enough upfront cash to cover basic directory listings on platforms like scrolllaunch, run small experiments, and keep our server costs paid for months ahead. if you are launching a simple micro saas utility, my suggestion would be this only to don't price it at $5 a month out of fear. charge a fair one time price or push your monthly price to $19 20$ minimum so you actually have margin to keep the project alive. how are you pricing your micro saas right now do tell me I'll see if I can give you suggestions
Hey everyone,
Building an early-stage app (Venus, built around fast comparisons) and I'm totally stuck. I don’t need millions of views; I just need 20 to 30 real, active people to test it and give feedback. Zero ad budget.
For those of you who’ve been here: How did you actually find your very first users without sounding like spam?
Hi everyone, I know there are a lot of people here who have had success selling SaaS and apps, so I’d really love to hear your advice based on your personal experience.
I’ve been learning how to develop software for about a year now, mainly to make my own life easier when it comes to work-related tasks. I even built a fully functional skincare app for my girlfriend, with a deterministic engine that generates personalized routines.
However… holy shit, getting a client is hard.
I’ve tried offering AI receptionists to clinics and renovation companies, quote-generation tools to construction companies, and a bunch of other things, but nothing seems to work. I haven’t made a single dollar from it.
It’s incredibly frustrating. I’m not going to give up because I know I have a lot of value to bring to the market, but I really need honest feedback from people who have already achieved what I’ve been trying to achieve for the past year.
I know the problem is probably on my end. I’m sure I’m making a lot of mistakes when it comes to prospecting and designing my offers. But damn, I genuinely want to help and provide value. I just feel like I keep running into a wall every time I go out there and try to sell my services.
I've made conversations with few founders here over the past couple weeks about why customers cancel.
Most of them track the rate of churn , not the reason and the ones who track the reason use normal survey and do not get good results ..... Also Nobody follows up on the answer.
So you know something is wrong, but not what.
One founder I talked to said something that stuck with me: "I don't need a dashboard. I need to know why."
Curious how others here handle this. Do you actually ask your customers why they leave, or is it mostly a guess?
for about eight months my pattern was launch something, get crickets for two weeks, panic, decide the idea was wrong, and start building the next thing. i did that four times. every cycle i told myself the last idea just wasnt it, when really i never gave any of them enough time or talked to enough people. the building felt productive so it hid the fact that i was basically running from the scary boring work of distribution and follow up. i finally forced myself to stick with one for ninety days no matter what and it is uncomfortable but the numbers are slowly moving. sticking with one thing long enough to actually learn from it turned out to be the real skill.
Day 6.
Product and content:
- Made the chat widget better, including a fix for the phone keyboard pushing the message box off the screen
- Worked on Turnstile for the landing page's AI agent, after last week's jailbreak attempt
- Rebuilt the blog and published a post on how to guard a public AI agent, the one from the 81k-view thread, with the two extra guardrails commenters suggested
- Added read counts to the blog, so I can see what people actually read
Distribution:
- The 99helpers interview went live, and its author shared it on X
- A newsletter featured AskVerb in its Sunday Picks (2,500+ readers)
- A founder building a lead-finding tool sent me a qualified lead: a field service app with no AI and live paying users, exactly my target. I'll share the tool in this series once he makes it public.
Numbers after Day 6:
- Paying customers: 0
- X DMs: 31 sent, 5 replies
- Cold email: 64 sent, 4 replies, all no. The 15 emails to founders' own addresses got 0 replies.
- LinkedIn: 12 invites, 2 accepted, 0 replies. No new invites since day 2: the search only ran once.
- X followers: 200+
On PumpGTM, since a few of you asked about tools: LinkedIn gave 2 accepts and no replies, and the X auto-DMs sent nothing because nobody who engaged passed my filter. It hasn't earned its price yet. Warm contacts and public posts are doing more than any automation.
Question for you: what's the best source of qualified leads you've found, and did you pay for it?
Building got easy, so easy that everyone built a tool and made marketing brutal.
You probably have that idea for a product you want to build, maybe you've already built it -- but you know that marketing is expensive. And prices are only going up as the markets are being flooded.
You try to do social media organically, but the shit just doesn't take off.
If you had money, no problem -- the problem is, you don't.
I recently came across a new strategy, which is cross-integrations.
I put a widget from my platform on another, and let their users use it and get value from it.
It took 24h to set everything up, cost nothing upfront, and then it generated a 32% CVR. All paid with through rev-share
And because it's so easy to set up, if the collaboration doesn't generate anything, no one loses.
Lmk if you guys have any questions, happy to answer!
I'm looking to start doing some cold email outreach, but most of the popular tools seem built for large sales teams with massive budgets.
As a solo user, I don't need heavy enterprise features. I just need something reliable.
Did somebody had experience in building chatGPT plugin ? I am thinking to create a chatGPT plugin. If it would be approved by openAI review, I would be listed under plugins/finance category. So I guess this would bring me some exposure. Did anyone tried this and how it worked ? For my use case it makes sense becuase i expose data via my platform ? of course it would not wrk for any use case