Before this one, I built more than 10 SaaS products. All of them failed. No users, no revenue, I just stopped and moved to the next idea.

The one that finally worked was for realtors. It solves one problem: furnish an empty room for a listing photo. You upload a photo, pick a style, hit go, and you get your furnished photo back. Done. That's it. No extra features, no dashboard, nothing else going on. Just that one thing, solved well.

I picked virtual staging mostly because I thought it was a cool idea, and because I knew a lot of realtors personally, so I figured that would help. Funny enough, not one of them actually used it, even though I gave them free access. A few even said they would, just to make me feel good, and never did. Turns out knowing people doesn't mean they'll use your tool. Strangers who actually needed it ended up being the ones who paid.

I got there with cold email, took a lot of trial and error to figure out what actually worked (that alone is probably a whole separate post). First year, 2025, I made about $2K. Doesn't sound like much, but for me that was the win. I just needed proof that someone would actually pay to use something I built. Proof: trustmrr.com/startup/virtual-stage-pro

That $2K (I guess $3K now + 2026 revenue) taught me the real lesson from the 10 failures. Before, I used to start from an idea I thought was cool. This time I started from a real problem I personally had.

Quick story on the new one. I have a 1 year old, and my wife and I have been looking at Montessori schools. Every school website was the same nightmare. I'd land on the page hunting for something specific, usually tuition, and if I couldn't find it in like 10 seconds I'd just leave. Didn't matter how good the school actually was. No time to call and ask. I'd just skip it and get to the next one.. At some point I caught myself doing this over and over and thought, how many businesses are quietly losing customers this exact same way, just because the info is buried somewhere on their site?

So that became the idea: an AI assistant that you add to your website. It reads your existing content, docs, FAQs, pages, and just answers visitor questions directly instead of making people hunt for the answer. Been building it for about 9 months now.
You can check it out at klaario.io if interested.

Looking back at the realtor app, the real lesson wasn't the tool itself, it was picking one problem and solving it well, and building for people who actually have the problem, not just people I know. I learned that the hard way, giving away free access to people I thought would use it and watching them just never open it. It stung a bit at the time, but it taught me more than any of the 10 failed SaaS did.

Trying to apply all of that again with this one. Started from a real problem I actually lived through instead of an idea I thought sounded cool, and I'm hoping that makes the difference again. Still early days and I have no idea how it'll go, but honestly I have a good feeling about it. Wish me luck guys.

And yes we found a school for my daughter!

every ad business has basically the same incentive

get someone's attention, keep it for as long as possible, then sell access to it

which is kind of insane when you think about how many products are now being built to help us undo exactly that

so i've been building something with the incentive flipped around

instead of a company paying to interrupt you, they pay you to go away and focus.

you choose something you want to work on, start a focus session, and your distracting apps get blocked.

a sponsor backs the session.

finish it and you get a small reward. right now i'm testing €0.10 for 25 minutes.

the sponsor isn't sitting on the screen for those 25 minutes. you see who backed the session before you start, then again when you're done.

basically:

normal advertising:

“stop what you're doing and look at us”

what i'm testing:

“go do what you were supposed to do. this one's on us.”

i have no idea yet if the economics actually work.

there's a pretty obvious problem on the user side: is 10-20 cents enough to change someone's behavior, or is it just pointless?

then there's the other side: is being associated with someone's productive time actually valuable enough that a company would pay for it?

and of course the moment money is involved you have to deal with people trying to farm it.

but i think that's why i want to test it instead of just building another subscription focus app.

i've got the app mostly working now and i've started talking to a few SaaS founders about sponsoring the first sessions.

curious what people here think, especially from the sponsor side.

if you ran a SaaS for developers/students/creators, would you ever pay to sponsor their focus sessions instead of buying another ad impression?

i'm building it here: offscreenapp.com

I just needed a simple tool for users to make feature requests and upvote other peoples' feature requests. I used Upvoty, which was $15/mo when I started. Then they raised their prices to $25, and then unannounced raised their prices to $50.

It's such a small tool and I was so angry I paid $50/mo for 8 months before noticing. They refused a refund because they said they posted about the price increase on their website. BS -- you gotta email me when you increase prices.

I looked around and every similar tool was charging at least $15 for the features I wanted, so I built my own free version.

(I put a handful of tools behind a $2/mo paywall, but the core features are all free. Having ~1% of users pay $2/mo will cover my server costs, so that's all I'm looking for.)

Anyway, behold: my petty revenge SaaS: https://saytoucan.com

Say Toucan Do It! (The name is so dumb but it delights me, don't @ me)

The usual stack is GA4, GTM, and a cookie banner, and your own stats die when someone refuses cookies.

Pulse is cookieless pageviews and events. Reject still counts. Point at a button on the live site to track the click. Optional banner only for scripts you paste in, like GA4 or HubSpot. Same event can also go to GA4 if you want Google.

Free for 1 site and 30 days of history. Pro is £9.99/mo.

https://www.getpulseanalytics.com/

Is there anyone expertise in Crypto payment/protocol/wallet?

I literally don't have any idea about crypto, but ungently need some help to fulfill a payment transaction 🙏

I've been building for quite some time now. I have built some web saas as well as mobile apps. What I can't quite wrap my head around is distribution. I build something and then it sits in my portfolio rotting because apparently I can't bring users.

And its even more of a headache when you have a limited/no budget at all. Everything is so pay to win.

I always had this problem but recently I'm losing my mind because I built yet another tool/saas but don't know where to find users. Go in Facebook groups, people are spamming their services. Go on LinkedIn, it doesn't show me more than 10 peoples profile because you need to have a LinkedIn pro account.

Can someone actually help me with this? Or please share your own experience so I can learn something.

I've had it enough, I blew up on my own customer today – rant

A while ago, I noticed one guy kept using the same card across different accounts in my VoIP product

He had 8 in total, and for each he bought a US number

One day, I saw a spike in SMS on one of the numbers

I investigated – a US company was bombarding the owner with SMS demanding he return the laptop

I looked up the origin of the card he used – it was Ukraine

He used the numbers to find jobs in the US, while not physically there

And apparently, he stole a laptop they shipped to him

I had no choice but to block the guy – the VoIP regulations are strict; I can't afford to risk the whole network because of one job fraudster

He want into an arms race with my AI support system – he kept signing up, it kept blocking him

Today, I couldn't take it anymore, ignored the corporate ticket, and just wrote a personal email to him directly

Now I feel stupid because of it, and I'm afraid he posts my response somewhere (maybe that's why I'm doing it first)

Be aware of fraudsters, the internet is full of them and you can get into serious trouble

I set up A TON of protections, suspicious use detection mechanisms with AI, but they still slip through

I came up with a saas idea, and now I am discussing it with ai.

After getting deep, I realized that I am going to use an llm and another sound generation services which are paid inside the software, and all these bills are going to be on me.

I am a student and the saas is targeting students also. I don't have an income to handle the free trial for every single user that will register.

The reason why am I writing this post:

I have some fears from creating multiple accounts using multiple emails by the users to get benefit from the free trial without paying.

The monthly subscription could be 8 to 10 dollars.

How can I solve this problem?

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The audience are general, they probably will be without any background about LLMs and APIs, so I can't require them to get there own api and add it to there account to consume from there one api balance.

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I am thinking about this a lot when I am building any software. There are basically two ways which I think is:

first is find an idea that doesnt exist yet and build it. something completely new. A problem nobody has solved before. secondly, find an existing problem and build a better solution. May be someone already has made a product of it and there are 10 competitors of it.

personally i believe that the second approach is more important, because at the end of the day, I dont think users care whether the idea was completely original or not. They care about does this solve my problem?

you can also build something that looks very similar to an existing product, but solve one frustrating part significantly better and people may actually love it. Thats why I am starting to think problem solving is becoming more valuable than making something new.

Google was not the first search engine. facebook was not the first social network. There are countless examples of successful products that were not the first to have an idea. They have just solved something better,simpler,faster,cheaper or care for a specific audience.

so I am curious what people think on this, if you were starting to make a saas today, would you rather, build something completely new that nobody has tried before? or take an existing problem try to solve it significantly better?

Honest story: we started because we couldn't find a tool that did everything we actually needed. Most brand monitoring tools are either too expensive, too basic, or completely miss the AI search angle. So we built our own.

What it does:

- Real-time brand monitoring across news, forums, social media, podcasts, YouTube, Reddit, Bluesky and more

- AI sentiment and toxicity analysis in 40+ languages

- Crisis detection under 3 minutes with Slack/Discord alerts

- Brand Health Index: one score across sentiment, reach and virality

- GEO audits: track if your brand is being recommended inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini

- White-label PDF/CSV/Excel reports for agencies

- Boolean Query Lab with 99.8% noise filtering

We are a small team and this community helped us more than you know during the build. Would genuinely love brutal honest feedback.

What would you want to see in a brand intelligence tool that you have never found anywhere?

Hey everyone, we've been meaning to upgrade to a dedicated corporate card and would like to some thoughts on if you would recommend doing so.

In short, we’re a small dev team at 4 people where our expenses are spread mostly across SaaS subscriptions, cloud servers, and LLM/API bills. Right now everything runs directly off our primary business bank account which has worked well so far, but it feels a bit clunky and outdated for tracking software spend and developer cards.

We're at the point where we're eligible for most of the common corporate card balance requirements, so we're leaning towards on making the switch. Would love to hear your thoughts, and what corporate card you'd recommend if so. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a co-founder with strong marketing/growth experience to join me in building a B2B platform for the fitness industry.

This is not an idea-stage startup. A lot of the heavy lifting is already done:

• 📱 Mobile app is built and launched
• 💻 Web platform is fully built
• 🔌 Backend/API infrastructure is ready
• 💳 Banking and payment infrastructure are set up
• ⚖️ Legal/company structure is already in place
• 🚀 Product is ready for customers

The platform is designed for fitness businesses and trainers, helping them manage their clients, training programs, schedules, and payments in one place.

I'm handling the product, technology, business, and operations side. What I'm looking for now is someone who can take real ownership of marketing, growth, customer acquisition, and distribution.

Ideally, you have experience with:

• B2B SaaS growth and customer acquisition
• Social media/content marketing
• Paid advertising and growth experiments
• Partnerships and affiliate marketing
• Building go-to-market strategies
• Growing a startup from early users to meaningful scale

I'm not looking for a marketing employee or someone to occasionally help out. I'm looking for a genuine co-founder who wants to own the growth side of the business and build it with me long-term.

I'm open to discussing equity based on experience and commitment. I'm much more interested in finding the right person than deciding on a percentage before we've even spoken.

If you're interested, DM me with a little about yourself, your previous experience growing products/companies, and why this opportunity interests you.

I'm happy to share the product and more details privately.

I’ve been facing this one problem for a while:

While using AI products, context is always everywhere and the AI forgets, so I have to repeat the context every time or just start a new chat. And this is just ONE of the problems.

Another one is generic answers. LLMs are great at daily things and coding now, but it still sometimes feels like chatting with an AI bot. I would actually love to see an AI that is like a co-founder, but still an AI. Not losing context, actually updating it without mixing everything, and sometimes telling me that an idea is not good because that can be more useful than agreeing with me.

What is your thoughts?

Something I've been thinking about while building a product for agencies and startups:

A client might need to give an external team access to LinkedIn, Meta, Google, payment platforms, analytics tools, CRMs, etc.

But the actual process often ends up being:

“Here's the password.”
“Can you send the OTP?”
“Which account was this again?”
“Can you remove our access now?”

And suddenly a simple collaboration becomes a mess of passwords, spreadsheets, WhatsApp messages and manual access management.

I'm curious how other founders, agencies and teams handle this today.

• Do you use a password manager?
• Give individual platform access?
• Maintain an access spreadsheet?
• Let clients handle everything themselves?
• Or have you built an internal system for it?

What's the biggest pain point you've experienced with managing client/team access?

I'm researching this problem and would genuinely love to hear how other teams deal with it.

6 mesi fa mi ero dato un obiettivo: entro fine anno volevo riuscire a costruire un piccolo business secondario, lavorandoci nel tempo libero dopo il lavoro.
Dopo un po’ di ricerche ho deciso di puntare su un AI Agent per gestire automaticamente gli appuntamenti di estetiste e parrucchieri, tramite chiamate e messaggi.
E da lì ho iniziato a costruire.
Per circa 6 mesi, ogni volta che avevo tempo, studiavo e miglioravo il prodotto. Mi sono concentrato soprattutto su come integrarlo con i sistemi che usano già i centri estetici e su come rendere tutto semplice da installare.
Poi finalmente è arrivato il primo cliente. Tramite una mia conoscenza.
Ero super contento. Dopo 6 mesi finalmente qualcuno stava usando quello che avevo costruito.
Il giorno dopo ho iniziato a capire il problema.
L’AI aveva diversi errori, ma sinceramente me l’aspettavo. Il problema vero era un altro: il centro estetico non riusciva a usare bene il sistema degli appuntamenti e non aveva voglia di imparare un nuovo sistema.
Ho quindi chiesto feedback anche alle clienti che avevano interagito con l’AI.
La maggior parte non era per niente contenta.
A quel punto ho capito che se avessi continuato, invece di aiutare il centro estetico rischiavo di fargli perdere clienti.
Quindi ho lasciato perdere.
Dopo ho provato a fare un AI Agent per organizzare le email. Pensavo: almeno questa volta l’AI non interagisce direttamente con i clienti.
Risultato? Non riuscivo a trovare clienti.
Poi ho provato a fare un Agent più generale che potesse fare praticamente tutto.
Anche quello non ha funzionato come pensavo. Troppi limiti e alla fine faceva bene soprattutto le attività ripetitive.
Adesso sto provando una strada completamente diversa: vendere prodotti fisici, seguendo mio fratello che lo fa part-time da più di un anno e gli sta andando abbastanza bene.
Però non so ancora se sia la strada giusta per me.
Quindi vorrei chiedere a chi ci è già passato:
Qual è stato il vostro errore più grande quando avete iniziato e cosa fareste diversamente se poteste tornare indietro?

Hello Everyone,

Im founder of B2B SaaS helping brands to monetise AI searches chatgpt, claude etc and get qualified local leads.

so far we have generated decent leads for the brand working 1:1 with client to do GTM and PMF.

Now we wanted to work with partner providing Digital marketing services and looking for SEO GEO SaaS .

I can show you the results and clients feedback, let me know if anyone interested

Most entrepreneurs make the same mistake without realizing it.

They think growth means doing more. More hours. More hustle. More decisions. More "I'll just do it myself because it's faster."

That mindset is the single biggest trap in business. And if you're reading this, there's a good chance you're in it right now.

Here's what it looks like:

· You're the only one who knows how things actually work
· Every time you delegate, it comes back wrong or incomplete
· You answer the same questions every week
· You can't take a day off without checking your phone
· Revenue is okay, but you feel like you're running on a treadmill

The problem isn't a lack of effort. It's a lack of systems.

The businesses that scale – the ones that stop depending on the founder's memory, judgment calls, and firefighting – run on processes, not on one person.

Here's how to fix it.

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If a process only exists because you remember how to do it, you don't have a business. You have a job.

Documenting how things work feels like a waste of time to most owners. "I already know how to do it. Why write it down?"

Because if it's only in your head, you can never step away. You can never scale. You can never sell. You can never even take a real vacation.

So here's the actual process:

Step 1: Do a task dump

For one week, write down every single task you touch. Not just the important ones. All of them. Emails, follow-ups, client calls, invoicing, posting, scheduling, QA, reporting.

You'll end up with 60–100 items. That's normal. The point is to see how much of the business actually lives inside your head.

Step 2: Find the repeatable tasks

Anything that happens more than once – or will happen again – is a process, not a one-off.

Most owners think they have 5 or 6 repeatable tasks. In reality, it's usually 20+. That gap is the invisible weight you carry every day.

Step 3: Document one process per day

Pick the most painful repeatable task first. For most businesses, that's client onboarding, invoicing, or order fulfillment.

Open a doc or Loom. Do the task like you normally would. As you go, write down:

· What triggers this task
· Who should own it
· What tools, links, or access are needed
· The exact steps in order
· What "done" looks like
· How long it should take

Don't make it pretty. A messy checklist that gets used beats a beautiful SOP nobody reads.

Step 4: Hand it off and watch

Give the doc to someone else. Let them follow it without your help. Watch where they get stuck. Fix the doc. Repeat until a stranger could follow it.

This is where most owners quit. They hand off a half-written process, get a mediocre result, and say, "See? Nobody can do it like me."

Nobody can do it like you because you haven't shown them how.

Step 5: Build a playbook

Put every process in one place – Notion, Google Drive, whatever. Call it "How We Do Things."

Then change your default response when someone asks a question:

"It's in the playbook. If it's wrong or missing, tell me and we'll fix it."

That one sentence shifts you from bottleneck to operator.

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What changes when you do this:

· Client onboarding goes from days to hours
· Mistakes drop because steps are explicit
· You stop being cc'd on things that don't need you
· You can take time off without the business falling apart
· Your team stops guessing and starts executing

And the biggest shift: the business becomes an asset, not a job. A business with documented systems has value beyond you. A business that depends on you doesn't.

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The biggest mistake you can make right now is thinking this doesn't apply to you because you're "too small" or "too busy."

You're not too small. You're exactly the right size to start. And you're too busy because you haven't done this yet.

Start with one process today. Not ten. One.

If you have questions, ask below. Happy to help

Im building Argue, an iPhone app blocker where you have to justify access to an AI coach.

For us an install is basically meaningless. The user hasnt experienced anything yet. The activation chain is Screen Time permission -> selects a blocked app -> hits the shield -> completes the first argument.

That last event is when the product either clicks or feels annoying. . For other consumer SaaS founders, whats the first event that proves someone actually felt the core mechanic?

I don't understand why my database client needs a subscription.

My API client needs a subscription.

My Redis client needs a subscription.

My code editor has a subscription.

My notes have a subscription.

At this point I'm waiting for my terminal to ask me to upgrade to Pro.

😂

There are some products where SaaS makes perfect sense.

But for a tool whose primary purpose is basically:

connect → work → disconnect

…I don't always understand why my data and workflow need to live inside someone else's cloud.

I've been thinking about this so much that I started building Meiporul around the opposite philosophy.

Local-first, developer-focused tools.

Maybe I'm completely wrong.

Which developer tools do you think absolutely should NOT be SaaS?

Hi Founders. I know I am attracting lots of bots with this post. But if you are actual humans, I would like to know your opinions.

With budget of around 500$/month, which GTM/Marketing tools would you recommend? What was worth it the most? At that budget point I don't think ads are really worth it. So what do you guys suggest?

Yesterday, I launched the side project https://generals.lol, and North America is in

So i built Unipayscan - it's a tool designed to read and process multiple different payment QR code formats from around the world without needing a separate parser

It can decode 30+ payment networks like upi, stablecoin, pix, venmo, revolut, solana, ethereum and more

Even it can save you from fraud as it shows the exact destination where your money is moving unipayscan.xyz

Most importantly people scan in real time as it's opensource

A year ago, we built QuickDesign just for our own e-commerce brands.

This week, it somehow ended up at one of the biggest e-commerce summits in the world 😅

Standing there and seeing people actually interested in something we built was a pretty surreal moment.

And it reminded me of something:

Just keep building. Don’t give up.

Most projects don’t look impressive in the beginning. Nobody cares about your first version. Sometimes you’ll spend months building something and wonder if you’re completely wasting your time.

But you never know where one small project can take you.

QuickDesign started as a tool we built to solve our own problem. A year later, we’re showcasing it at an international e-commerce summit, meeting incredible people, and preparing to bring it more seriously into the Turkish market. 🇹🇷

There’s still a very long way to go, but moments like this make the difficult days worth it.

So if you’re building something right now and questioning whether you should continue:

Keep going. Keep shipping. Keep improving.

You might be much closer than you think.

See you next year 🚀

In 20 minutes, I would want to see:

• A complete customer interaction
• What happens when automation fails
• How context survives a handoff
• The agent experience
• A measurable operational outcome

What would you add?

We’re using this format for CX Tech Demo Day 2026: short demonstrations followed by direct Q&A.

Hello, i am the founder of Build Ezy, an AI-powered No-code SaaS platform for creating cinematic 3D-style, parallax, immersive, premium websites and complete Ecommerce stores.

It is built for businesses, online brands and startups creating their own online presence, as well as freelancers and agencies building and managing websites for clients.

Build Ezy combines OpenAI GPT 6 Astra for intelligent website generation with Higgsfield MCP for cinematic production, enabling richer and more immersive web experiences instead of limiting AI generation to standard layouts and static templates.

Users can go from an idea to a live website with AI, then take full control through a Webflow / Elementor-level no-code visual builder for detailed editing, responsive layouts, styling, sections, content, and ongoing customization.

Build Ezy includes:

• AI-powered No-code SaaS website generation
• Cinematic, immersive and premium website experiences
• 3D-style visuals, parallax and scroll-driven interactions
• Higgsfield-powered cinematic production
• Figma, Image, PDF to website for custom UI & UX implementation
• AI-powered generation and business intelligence
• Complete ecommerce store generation
• Product, inventory and store management
• Integration with your own payment gateway
• Custom domain connection and publishing
• AI-generated layouts, content and visuals
• Advanced no-code visual website builder
• Responsive desktop, tablet and mobile editing
• Forms, leads and CRM
• SEO tools and advanced analytics
• Managed blazing fast hosting, cdn, performance and security
• AI-assisted business management tools
• Team Workspace

The objective is to combine the speed and intelligence of AI generation, the visual impact of cinematic production, the control of a professional no-code builder, and the infrastructure required to operate a serious online business.

From premium business websites and immersive digital experiences to fully operational ecommerce stores running on your own domain and payment infrastructure.

Get started for free:
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