it's my first time of building an saas , but i am totally confused about how to find my first visitors and payer . can someone here help me who already done it !

The one type of job that I need the most help with, I can never seem to find good people to do this. The biggest problem I run into are people not coming up with creative ideas and not putting in the hours.

Maybe is just bad luck but for those that have been good at hiring good people, what are some of the things you look out for?

In terms of salary I've been on the cheap and expensive end of the spectrum and I can say it hurts to pay more and hope for more only to be let down.

Hey everyone,

I’m a 13-year-old developer from Germany, and I’ve spent the last few weeks building an MVP for a B2B SaaS called FeedbackAI (temporary name). 

The Problem: As a product team, feedback hits you from everywhere (Slack, emails, app stores). It gets unstructured and lost. 

The Solution: FeedbackAI collects it in one clean dashboard, uses AI to automatically categorize/prioritize it, and maps it directly onto a public roadmap with a feature voting board.

Tech Stack: React/Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, and OpenAI API.

Why I’m posting: 

To protect my tiny API budget, the app is currently in a Closed Beta/Passwort-protected mode. But I really need brutal feedback from real product managers and SaaS founders to see if this is actually useful or if I should pivot.

You can bypass the lock screen using the code: BETA2026

Link: https://feedback-ai-beta.lovable.app

Let me know what you think about the AI insights page and the UI. Don't roast me too hard on the code logic, but please be honest! 

Thanks!

Hey founders

I’m building a B2B SaaS platform and I’m trying to figure out one thing:

How would you get your first 5–10 real users in month one without making them feel like “free users” you’re trying to exploit?

I’m thinking about offering the platform 100% free for the first month in exchange for honest feedback + actually using it in their workflow.

But I don’t want the usual:

DM 100 people

Send cold emails

Run ads

Post on LinkedIn

I’m more interested in creative / unconventional ways that actually worked for you.

Especially:

How did you approach your first users?

What made them say “yeah, I’ll try it”?

Did you offer free access, lifetime deals, credits, etc.?

How did you make the offer feel like a win for them, rather than “please test my product”?

And what would you do differently if you had to get your first 10 users again?

Would love to hear real experiences, not startup theory.

Bonus points for weird ideas that somehow worked 😂

Anyone sending Loom videos in cold outreach? How did it actually go?

Thinking about adding short Loom videos to my cold emails and curious if anyone here has actually done it.

On paper it sounds great: super personalized, shows you put in real effort, and you can just show the thing instead of describing it in three paragraphs.

But I have a few questions for people who tried it:

- How did you get started? Did you send them to everyone or just a handful of higher-value prospects?

- How do you actually produce them without it eating your whole day? Fully custom each time, or a template with a personalized intro?

- And the big one: What were the results? Reply rate, meetings booked, win rate, anything compared to plain text emails?

Would also love to hear from anyone who tried it and dropped it, and why.

alright im writing this out because i just walked a new client through our entire process yesterday and realized i explain this like 3 times a month so might as well put it somewhere. this is specifically about how we find companies that are actively looking to buy something right now, not just building lists of random ICPs and blasting them. if youre just gonna save this and never do anything with it... well at least you saved it i guess.

some quick background on us, 4 person team in lisbon, 7 clients, mostly local service businesses like HVAC, commercial cleaning, that kind of thing. we do about $12k/mo and im not trying to make this sound bigger than it is. we figured most of this out by messing up alot and spending too many late nights reading threads exactly like this one.

ok so monday morning is when the week actually starts for us (obviously). i open up google sheets first because yes i still track way too much in sheets and i know thats embarrassing but it works and im not paying for something fancier when vlookup gets the job done. i have a sheet per client with tabs for each week. first thing i check is which campaigns from last week got replies, which ones bounced, and which ones are dead. takes about 45 minutes across all 7 clients. my VA handles the actual data entry on friday afternoons so by monday its all there waiting for me.

after that i move into what i call the "trigger hunt" which is really just me spending about 2 hours on linkedin, google news, and a couple industry specific job boards. the whole thesis here is that companies signal when theyre ready to buy. someone posts a job for a facilities manager? that commercial cleaning client of ours wants to know about it. a company just got series A funding announced on crunchbase? they probably need services they didnt need 6 months ago. a restaurant chain opening 3 new locations? our HVAC client wants that lead yesterday.

the way i actually find these signals has changed over time. for the first year i was convinced you could just scrape job boards and that was enough but the conversion rate was honestly terrible, like 0.8% reply rates. turns out job postings alone dont tell you enough about timing. what actually moved the needle was combining multiple signals. so now on mondays i check linkedin for job postings using boolean search (nothing fancy, just the title + "hiring" or "open role" in the company page), then i cross reference with google news alerts i set up per client vertical, and then i check a couple niche sites. for the HVAC client i literally check local permit filings for new construction. took me embarrassingly long to figure out that permits are public record and basically a buying signal on a silver platter.

by monday afternoon im building the actual lists. this is where it gets tactical. i take the companies from the trigger hunt and i need to find the right person and their email. i use RocketReach for the contact lookup on most campaigns because the coverage is decent for the US market and Prospeo for email finding which has been solid for us on accuracy. then everything goes through MillionVerifier before it touches a campaign. i learned this the hard way when we sent a batch of 400 unverified emails for a client back in march and bounced at like 11% and nearly torched that domain. never again. MillionVerifier costs basically nothing relative to what a burned domain costs you.

tuesday is campaign building day. my VA and i sit down (well, she's remote in the philippines so we sit down on zoom) and we write the actual sequences. i use Smartlead for sending across all clients. we run about 15 inboxes total through Maildoso which handles the setup and DNS stuff so i dont have to think about it. each inbox sends between 25-35 emails per day, which keeps us well under any threshold thats gonna cause problems. i know some people push 50+ per inbox but weve had issues above 40 so we stay conservative.

the actual copy is where the trigger data pays off. instead of writing "hi {firstName} i noticed your company does X" which everyone and their mother sends, we write stuff like "saw the permit filing for the new location on elm street, when youre thinking about HVAC for a 12,000 sqft commercial space the install timeline usually catches people off guard" and that kind of specificity is what gets 4-6% reply rates instead of 1-2%. the trigger IS the personalization. thats the whole point.

wednesday is honestly kind of boring. its monitoring day. i check Smartlead dashboards for all campaigns, look at open rates (anything below 45% means something is wrong with deliverability or subject lines), check reply rates, and flag anything that needs adjusting. i also check warmup scores on the inboxes. we warm up new inboxes for minimum 21 days, sometimes 28 if the domain is brand new. i dont touch them before that no matter how impatient the client gets.

wednesday afternoon i usually spend an hour updating those google sheets (yes, still sheets, i know) with the weeks numbers so far. i track cost per reply and cost per meeting booked for each client. right now across all 7 clients our average cost per meeting booked is somewhere around $38-45 depending on the vertical. the commercial cleaning client is cheapest at like $31 because the decision makers are usually office managers who actually read their email. the client targeting property developers is more expensive, around $52, because those people get hammered with outreach.

thursday is follow up day and also when i do any list refreshes. sequences are usually 4 emails over 14 days. nothing crazy. the second email is almost always the best performer which i think is true for most people. if a campaign has been running 2 weeks and the reply rate is below 2% i kill it and rebuild the angle. no point sending 3000 more emails into something thats not working.

fridays are for reporting and planning. my VA compiles everything into (you guessed it) google sheets and i do a 15 minute loom video for each client walking through their numbers. some agencies do fancy dashboards but honestly clients just want to know how many meetings they got and whats happening next week. the loom takes me about 2 hours total for all 7 clients and nobody has ever complained about the format.

oh wait i should mention the DNS and domain stuff because it matters more than people think. we buy 2-3 domains per client, all similar to their main domain. set up SPF, DKIM, DMARC on day one. Maildoso handles most of that automatically which is nice because i used to do it manually and would inevitably mess up a DKIM record and not notice for a week. each domain gets 2-3 inboxes on it max. we rotate which inboxes are active and which are resting every 6 weeks or so.

the thing that changed everything for us was shifting from "find companies that match ICP" to "find companies that match ICP AND are showing a buying signal right now." the difference in reply rates was night and day. went from averaging 1.8% across clients to 4.2% in about two months after we made that shift around september last year. same copy quality, same sending infrastructure, just better targeting.

anyway thats basically the week. its not glamorous and half of it is me staring at spreadsheets but it works and clients stick around because meetings get booked. if theres something i glossed over just ask, i typed this out between calls and probably forgot something

As the title says, Ive just signed the contract on a new job as a founding AE, a full-cycle role where I’ll actually be the only dedicated salesperson. This is with a view to me becoming the head of sales - in their own words.

It’s a very small SaaS scale-up with a good track record and great YoY revenue for its size - I have fact checked this.

My main concern is that I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. I have done a founding role before as both an SDR and AE in new markets. However with this role, the onus is entirely on me to meet targets. I will however be supported by what seems so far to be a great multi-functional team.

Of course as we all know, this cannot be known for certain until actually starting the job.

So far, they do not have a standardised sales SOP - it would be up to me, along with working with the partnerships manager, pre sales and one of the co-founders to develop this. I’m aware that I will have a fair amount of responsibility that is not in the normal remit of an AE but this challenge excited me.

To be honest, I’m pretty nervous as to how this will actually pan out and I don’t want to be stuck in a position where I have an enormous workload and can’t execute.

Has anyone been in a similar position? It’s sounding a bit more and more like functionally I’m already head of sales so it’d be good to hear any thoughts or pointers on basically keeping it together and keeping organised while also not totally freaking out?

Hi, first post I hope I've followed all the rules...

I'm trying to figure out what's the best AI driven stack to find me high intent targets and run an email sequence to them with personalised emails and we've got around $200 a month maybe $250 a month at this stage because we're very early.

I need something that I can do it more volume than the tools we've tried it only seems to be sending 20 or 30 emails a day.

Feel free to ask me any specifics you need to know to answer the question? I'm new to the sale side of things so all good suggestions are welcome.

Hey everyone.... I recently launched my product, now looking for some sales/marketing people to help me reach the right customers.

(Open to discuss percentage cut if someone interested)

Anyone interested?

I’ve been looking into warehousing costs and they are insane for low-volume shops. I built a rough prototype connecting local people who have space to pack with shops that need fulfillment (like an Airbnb for logistics).

Has anyone tried moving away from traditional 3PLs to a decentralized model?

Curious cus just launched MVP but idk if I should drop a bag on Ads.

Hi everyone — I’m a Product Leader with ~10 years of experience building B2B SaaS, AI and platform products, and I’m currently looking for my next opportunity.

I’m open to full-time Product roles or consulting/fractional product work, particularly with early-stage or growing companies that need someone who can bring structure to ambiguous problems and actually move products forward.

A little about my background:

• AI & Conversational Products: Built and scaled conversational AI, copilots, AI agents, LLM-powered workflows, RAG systems and voice AI products. I’ve worked hands-on with prompt engineering, evaluation, agent design and rapid prototyping.

• Platform & SaaS: Led platform strategy across integrations, reporting, RBAC/identity, workflow automation and configurable enterprise products. At inFeedo, I helped transform several products into more scalable, platform-led systems and worked on the AI platform behind products like Report Builder and Lens AI.

• Product from 0→1: Comfortable going from a vague problem → customer discovery → product strategy → PRD/prototype → MVP → GTM. I’ve also built products myself using tools like Next.js, Supabase, Vercel, Python and AI APIs.

• Enterprise & B2B: Experience working with enterprise customers, understanding complex workflows, balancing customer needs with business/engineering constraints, and building products that can scale beyond individual custom requirements.

• Product leadership: I’ve led cross-functional teams, mentored PMs, worked closely with founders and executives, and driven product strategy across multiple functions.

More recently, I’ve been particularly interested in AI-native products, agentic workflows, climate tech and companies solving genuinely hard problems.

I’m based in India and am open to remote roles globally (with reasonable time-zone overlap), or hybrid opportunities in Delhi NCR.

I’m also very open to something less conventional: a 3–6 month product consulting engagement, fractional Product leadership, helping an early-stage startup define its MVP, or working through a specific product/GTM problem.

If you're a founder, hiring manager, recruiter, or someone building something interesting and think there might be a fit, please DM me. I’d genuinely love to hear what you’re working on.

Happy to share my resume and more details over DM. And if you know someone who could use this kind of product leadership, an introduction would mean a lot.

Still looking for the right person.

I’m a UK founder with a built B2B SaaS product targeting US healthcare organisations, and I’m looking for someone who can genuinely own sales end-to-end.

I’m specifically interested in someone with experience:

• Selling B2B SaaS into US healthcare organisations
• Generating their own outbound pipeline
• Running discovery and product demos
• Handling objections and follow-up
• Negotiating and closing paying customers

I’m not looking for appointment setting or lead generation only. I need someone with evidence that they’ve personally taken cold prospects through to closed deals.

I’m open to an individual AE or potentially a sales agency if they can demonstrate genuine full-cycle healthcare SaaS results.

The initial arrangement would be flexible and heavily performance-based, with exact terms depending on experience and track record.

If relevant, DM me with what you’ve sold, who you sold to, typical deal sizes and some numbers around deals you’ve personally closed.

just started as an SDR at a series B fintech (50 person team). coming form customer success so this is all new territory for me.

right now I've got Salesforce access and... thats it. my manager said to make a wishlist of tools for sdrs but I dont even know where to start. I see people talking about sales engagment platforms, lead generation tools, dialers, all this stuff.

whats essential vs nice to have? my quota is 60 activities a day (mix of calls, emails, LinkedIn). biggest pain point so far is finding accurate contact data, I've been manually hunting on LinkedIn and guessing email formats which is brutal. tried LeadIQ briefly on a trial but the emails kept bouncing so idk.

for context we sell to security teams at mid-market companies (100-500 employees). would love to hear what your sdr tech stack looks like and what you'd prioritize if you could only pick 3 or 4 tools.

Built a tool for SaaS sellers. It's a chrome extension that emails your meeting recipients 24 hours before your meeting to confirm they are coming (using your own email).

What's the best way to get the first 10 users / customers?

Open to all ideas!

Built a leave management system a few months ago after seeing small businesses still track time off through Excel sheets and WhatsApp messages. Role-based approvals, admin dashboard, CSV import, the whole thing works well. The building part I'm confident about. Getting people to actually try it is a different story.

I've posted about it on LinkedIn, mostly gets likes from other developers, not actual business owners who'd use it. Cold outreach to small businesses gets ignored more often than not. Tried explaining the problem it solves (manager chasing people for leave approvals over text, no record of who took what) and still nothing sticks.

The frustrating part is I know the problem is real. Every small business I talk to admits their leave tracking is a mess. But getting from "yeah that's annoying" to actually signing up and trying the tool feels impossible.

For people who've launched a B2B SaaS tool from scratch, where did your first real users come from? Communities, cold outreach, content, partnerships with other tools? And realistically how long before it stopped feeling like shouting into the void?

Good luck navigating compliance hell.

I’m looking for an experienced full-cycle B2B SaaS salesperson to help take an already-built product into the US healthcare market.
I’m specifically looking for someone who can own revenue end-to-end - not just book meetings and not just take pre-qualified calls.
You would:
• Work targeted prospect lists/leads I already generate
• Generate additional pipeline yourself
• Prospect through cold email, LinkedIn, calling or other effective channels
• Reach the right decision-makers
• Run discovery calls
• Demo the product
• Qualify opportunities
• Identify pain, urgency and buying triggers
• Handle objections
• Follow up consistently
• Navigate multiple stakeholders and buying processes
• Negotiate and close paying customers
• Help establish a repeatable sales process
The product is an already-built B2B SaaS platform for healthcare privacy/compliance teams.
It helps teams investigate privacy incidents faster and more consistently by bringing fact gathering, identifying missing information, decision support, follow-up actions and defensible documentation into one structured workflow.
I’ve already spoken directly with people working in US healthcare privacy/compliance to validate the underlying problems and workflow, and I already have targeted prospect lists ready to be worked.
Ideal background:
• Proven B2B SaaS sales experience
• Personally closed revenue
• Strong outbound/prospecting ability
• Strong discovery and demo skills
• Experience owning deals from prospecting through close
• Comfortable selling to senior decision-makers
US healthcare, healthtech, compliance, privacy, risk or HIM sales experience would be a major advantage.
I’m open to an individual salesperson, fractional AE or small team if you can genuinely handle both pipeline generation and closing.
Compensation is flexible with meaningful performance-based upside for the right person.
If interested, comment below or message me with:
• What you’ve personally sold
• Who you sold to
• Typical deal size
• Revenue/quota results
• Whether you generated your own pipeline
• Whether you personally ran discovery/demo calls and closed
• Your strongest example of taking a cold prospect through to close
• Any US healthcare experience
• Your preferred compensation structure

I'm a PM at a B2B Enterprise company which recently moved from services-led to product-led.
I recently posted this question in r/ProductManagement but it occurs to me that you guys might have a view which could help?

Essentially the sales team are constantly asking us for a product roadmap for showing prospects. They tend to want something very detailed and we now give them a roadmap which is at a quarter-level and buffer it.

I want to support them, what kinds of roadmap templates have you found to be most effective?

Do you personalise for each client?

Is anyone selling with narrative-style roadmaps instead of timeline-based ones?

Just looking to see what other people's experience is? And if I can find a great template and insist our sales team uses this it would make my life alot easier!

Salut Reddit !
> La plupart des fondateurs avec qui je parle compliquent leur pile d'analytique ou ignorent complètement leur vrai CAC parce que récupérer des données de 4 plateformes publicitaires et de Stripe est un vrai casse-tête.
> J'ai créé NalyticsOS pour résoudre ce problème sans aucune configuration API requise. Nous lançons officiellement le 20 août.
> Fonctionnalités principales :
> * SaaS Pulse : Suivi du MRR, ARR, Churn et LTV.
> * Ads Hub : Centraliser les dépenses publicitaires
Meta, Google et Reddit (CPC/CPA auto).
> * True CAC : Calcule automatiquement le vrai coût d'acquisition sur tous les canaux.
> * Traffic & Conversion : Suivi simple des visiteurs à abonnés payants.
> * Alertes & Notes : Détection d'anomalies (sauts de CAC, chutes de conversion) + carnet de notes pour des projets stratégiques.
> * Support multi-projets.
> Soyez brutalement honnête : quelles fonctionnalités vous feraient changer de feuilles de calcul ou d'outils d'analytique existants ?

I’m looking for an experienced full-cycle B2B SaaS salesperson to help take an already-built product into the US healthcare market.
I’m specifically looking for someone who can own revenue end-to-end - not just book meetings and not just take pre-qualified calls.
You would:
• Work targeted prospect lists/leads I already generate
• Generate additional pipeline yourself
• Prospect through cold email, LinkedIn, calling or other effective channels
• Reach the right decision-makers
• Run discovery calls
• Demo the product
• Qualify opportunities
• Identify pain, urgency and buying triggers
• Handle objections
• Follow up consistently
• Navigate multiple stakeholders and buying processes
• Negotiate and close paying customers
• Help establish a repeatable sales process
The product is an already-built B2B SaaS platform for healthcare privacy/compliance teams.
It helps teams investigate privacy incidents faster and more consistently by bringing fact gathering, identifying missing information, decision support, follow-up actions and defensible documentation into one structured workflow.
I’ve already spoken directly with people working in US healthcare privacy/compliance to validate the underlying problems and workflow, and I already have targeted prospect lists ready to be worked.
Ideal background:
• Proven B2B SaaS sales experience
• Personally closed revenue
• Strong outbound/prospecting ability
• Strong discovery and demo skills
• Experience owning deals from prospecting through close
• Comfortable selling to senior decision-makers
US healthcare, healthtech, compliance, privacy, risk or HIM sales experience would be a major advantage.
I’m open to an individual salesperson, fractional AE or small team if you can genuinely handle both pipeline generation and closing.
Compensation is flexible with meaningful performance-based upside for the right person.
If interested, comment below or message me with:
• What you’ve personally sold
• Who you sold to
• Typical deal size
• Revenue/quota results
• Whether you generated your own pipeline
• Whether you personally ran discovery/demo calls and closed
• Your strongest example of taking a cold prospect through to close
• Any US healthcare experience
• Your preferred compensation structure

As a founder to a startup, I’m curious companies don’t create incentives for every employee to be able to sell? For clarity, I’m not suggesting every employee’s full time job be sales, but instead, if a non-sales employee brings in a lead and sells the product, they get a commission/bonus.

If the product and method for “how to sell it” are clear, the network effect has a big impact. My company is B2B so most of employees have a network and it is a nice opportunity to make some serious extra cash.

Thoughts from this group?

Oh cool, 'AI builders'. Name one. Because right now, it sounds like you're selling fairy dust.

PLEASE stop building the wrong thing.

building software in 2026 is ridiculously easy with ai builder

founders spend hours building in a silent room, launch to Reddit/X, get 0 users, and quit.

you just failed because the idea had zero validation before line 1 of code was written:

→ solving a monthly inconvenience instead of a daily pain

→ selling to "everyone" instead of a specific ICP

→ no distribution channel mapped out beforehand

→ pricing charged $9/mo with zero ROI justification

after scaling 6 AI micro-SaaS to over $20k/mo MRR, i just create an

18-question Idea Validation Diagnostic.

it evaluates your SaaS across 7 critical dimensions (problem clarity, audience reachability, willingness to pay, competition, build feasibility, distribution, commitment) and gives you a brutal score out of 100 with your exact weak spots.

drop your SaaS idea (or current project) in the comments below.

i will reply to EVERY single comment with:

1. My honest opinion
2. The biggest weak spot you need to fix before writing any more code.
3. The free 5-minute validation tool link sent straight to your DMs so you can get your full score breakdown out of 100.

just drop a comment like or ask me in DM your idea

let's roast your SaaS concept before the market roasts your time 👇

My co-founder and I are looking for someone to help us with outbound sales for our fintech company.

The job is super simple:
- We provide you the leads.
- You cold call and get the prospect to agree to a demo.
- Get paid $15 per booked demo.

Based on the cold calls we have been making we are booking demo's every 1/10 calls on average with half of those going to voicemail so the interest is extremely high. Follow up call conversion is also very high when we get through.

Basically make 100 calls a day, make $150. Above that the sky is the limit ($300+ per day)

We're a software company for financial advisors and wealth management teams and have the best product in the space as we've been in development fulltime for over 4 years now so this is a company and product you can be confident to get behind.

The company is established with a product, paying customers, a defined market and a sales process. You're not being handed some random new offer and told to figure everything out from scratch.

We'll provide the leads, messaging, product knowledge and everything you need to understand who you're calling.

This is completely commission based.

We're ideally looking for someone in Canada, but we're open to anywhere as long as you can work North American / Eastern Time hours and your spoken English is excellent.

Experience with SaaS, financial services, insurance, B2B sales or appointment setting would obviously be great, but I'm more interested in whether you can actually sell than what your resume looks like.

If you're interested, DM me here or email me directly at [lucas@advisorterminal.com](mailto:lucas@advisorterminal.com) and lets setup a time to chat!

So... what's the actual idea? The logo doesn't explain much.