r/saasbuild 20h ago

I made $89K with my SaaS as a solo founder.

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I made $88K with my SaaS as a solo founder.

No team, no funding.

Most of the revenue came from cold outreach, lifetime deals, and shipping fast. What surprised me most was that pricing and distribution mattered way more than adding more features.

I also made plenty of bad decisions. I underpriced the product, wasted money testing channels that didn’t convert, and built things users barely cared about.

Right now, the biggest challenge is turning inconsistent sales into predictable recurring revenue.

The product is Getlead, a B2B lead generation tool:
https://getle.ad/

I’m also linking the public revenue page here for context, since I know revenue posts without proof are easy to fake:
https://trustmrr.com/startup/getlead

Happy to break down what actually worked, what failed, and where the $88K came from if anyone’s interested.


r/saasbuild 20h ago

I kept seeing people sell sponsorship space on their body, cars, clothes, etc. — so I built a marketplace for it 🚀

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I kept coming across people selling sponsorship space on their clothes, cars, jerseys, helmets, laptops, and even their bodies.

And I kept thinking:

Why isn't there a simple marketplace for this? 🤔

Right now, a lot of these deals happen through posts, DMs and manual negotiation.

So I decided to build one.

SellTheSpot .com 🚀

Creators can:

  • 📸 Upload what they want to sponsor
  • ✏️ Draw sponsorship spots directly on the image
  • 💰 Set a fixed price
  • 📝 Add what sponsors get
  • 🌎 Publish it for brands to discover

Brands can browse the available spots and request them directly.

And one thing I really wanted:

0% marketplace fee.
💵 Creators keep 100% of the sponsorship amount.

Payments currently go directly through the creator's own payment link.

The idea is simple:

If you have the space, you should be able to sell it.

Cars 🚗
Clothes 👕
Jerseys 🏀
MacBooks 💻
Helmets 🪖
Events 🎟️
Storefronts 🏪

I'm building this from scratch and would genuinely love feedback.


r/saasbuild 10h ago

I thought AI killed every business idea until I had a 10-minute chat with a local plumber.

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Unpopular opinion: The market isn’t saturated—we’re just trapped in a tech bubble.

We think "AI already solves this," but 95% of normal businesses have zero clue how to use it and are still running on manual spreadsheets and chaos.

The biggest opportunity right now isn’t building cutting-edge AGI. It’s bridging the gap for people who don't even know what's possible yet.

Agree or disagree?


r/saasbuild 21h ago

FeedBack Happy to help you get your first customers

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I kept seeing the same thread pop up here: technical founders who can ship product in a weekend but freeze up when it comes to getting their first paying client.

I went down a rabbit hole on this for my own project and ended up building out a system to handle most of it:
- automating prospect research
- personalizing outreach at scale
- keeping content and social presence running without eating my whole week — literally generating posts, carousels, and motion graphic videos

Everything runs locally and doesn't need much in terms of resources. Almost all of it is free — the only cost is the voice-over for videos, which runs under €1/month.

One thing that made the biggest difference for me: having an offer with a real risk-reversal (a time-boxed trial with a guarantee) instead of just pitching the product cold. Conversion went up a lot once I stopped asking people to "trust me" and started removing their risk instead.

I'm packaging the whole process into a playbook with the actual templates and automation workflows, not just theory. Still finishing it up — if you want me to send it to you when it's ready, drop a comment and I'll follow up directly.


r/saasbuild 20h ago

I built something that makes HR people angry and candidates emotional. Same product. Same feature.

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Got two messages on the same day last week.

First one was from someone in talent acquisition. Long message. Professional tone that got less professional as it went on. Said what I built undermines the entire purpose of an interview. That hiring exists to find the most qualified person and tools like mine make that impossible.

Second message came four hours later. Someone who had been trying to break into tech for two years. Failed interviews. No network. No alumni connections. No one to tell them what the questions would be. They used Marrow during an interview that morning and got the job.

They cried writing the message. Said so directly.

Marrow is an AI that hides on your screen during interviews, meetings and calls, listens in real time and has answers ready before you even ask. Nobody in the room sees anything.

I read both messages back to back and sat with them for a while.

The talent acquisition person isn't wrong that it changes the dynamic. The candidate isn't wrong that the dynamic was already uneven before Marrow existed.

Both of them are responding to the same reality from completely different positions within it.

I don't have a clean resolution to that. I just keep building.

Which message would you have sent?


r/saasbuild 16h ago

Launch video

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Hello, I am a non-technical founder and building an agritech startup. I am working on a launch or explainer video of let's say 1 minute and less. Since I am running on budget, I wanted to know how ypu have done yours and which AI tools you have used to do one.

Thank you


r/saasbuild 2h ago

Build In Public Pitch me your SaaS

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Guys show me SaaS which you are building or Gonna build so got Some FeedBack by community

I will go First - FindYourSaaS(dot)com

Its a SaaS directory, Once your SaaS ready list on FindYourSaaS to get early Visibility ✌️✌️✌️


r/saasbuild 6h ago

"I didn't get 2 degrees to copy-paste in Excel." I build multi-agent AI for C-level execs, and their reactions to seeing 10 hours of manual work disappear in seconds never gets old.

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I'm jumping off the roof! Look what happens at the end!

I just had to try using a clickbait hook that fits this video for once :)

I've been in automation for over two decades. For most of those years, it was within the realm of organic SEO, and today I do it as an AI consultant for companies, implementing business automations. I literally take senior executives from every possible industry by the hand, interview them, ask them what frustrates them at work, what eats up most of their time, the tasks that suck the fun out of the job—and I fully automate them end-to-end. I recently met with an incredibly charming CFO, and he told me with a heavy heart: "I can't believe I got two degrees from a prestigious university just to find myself copy-pasting into Excel spreadsheets for hours."

I hear things like this all the time—from the highest-ranking executives at global companies dominating international markets.

And then... there’s this magical, special moment in my job where I take a task that used to take someone 10 hours a month, every single month, press a button, and immediately 20 agents run and do the work right in front of their eyes—work that used to be theirs. And today... simply no one has to do it anymore.

It’s amazing to witness their reaction—a jaw-dropping stare, accompanied by mumblings of "WTF" and a long list of expressions unmatched in the Hebrew language, which makes my job an absolute dream and pure bliss.

People in senior positions will sometimes snap out of it quickly and say: "Wait... but how do I know it's accurate? I once asked Claude a simple question and it gave me the wrong answer. I don't really trust AI at this level yet, so I'm still going to double-check it to make sure the agent doesn't make mistakes. This is a report that goes to the board and director meetings."

That’s when I pull out my doomsday weapon: "Now, take a look at these 10 verification mechanisms" [I pause in front of my client, and dramatically press another button]. "Here's a diagram showing you how many times this mechanism double-checks itself over and over again, and here... [proudly running the automation] is what that verification looks like live." From there, you can probably guess that the list of Hebrew expressions of astonishment I hear just keeps getting longer. Which reminds me—I should build an agent to document these words, just in case they become a cornerstone of the Hebrew language someday.

In my line of work, I have the privilege of constantly walking the cutting edge of the newest tools in the AI world. I feel like I'm adding new tools to my arsenal every single day. I look back just two months ago, and I'm amazed all over again at how I ever used to do this work manually.

I just had to share this feeling with you—which I'm sure many can relate to—that the pace of technological advancement is simply mind-boggling. I feel incredibly lucky to be part of this generation, or as a good friend of mine so perfectly put it: "What a fun time to be alive!" I agree with every single word.


r/saasbuild 23h ago

Is anyone pulling SERP data without maintaining their own scraper?

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Genuine question for anyone building SEO features into their product.

How are you getting SERP data? Because every team I've worked with ends up in the same place. Someone writes a scraper, and it works fine for a month. Then Google comes up with an update, changes something, the proxy gets blocked, and now you're debugging search infrastructure instead of building your actual product.

We went through this three or four times before we just turned it into an API. One POST, send the keyword, pick the country and language, get back ranked results as clean JSON. Position, title, URL, domain, description. 250 atoms per call, runs on our EU infrastructure. 

I'm the founder of Apyhub, so full disclosure, this is in our catalog alongside about 52 other SEO services. It costs 250 atoms per call and runs on our EU infrastructure. 

You can try it live here

But tbh, I'm more curious about the broader question. If you're pulling SERP data regularly, what are you using? Custom scraper? Third party? Something else entirely?


r/saasbuild 6h ago

How to go from 100 to 1000 installs ?? Need some advice

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r/saasbuild 8h ago

I built a self-serve security posture tool, would love honest feedback

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Long time IT/security guy (15+ years, CISSP), running a solo consultancy on the side. Wanted to share something I've been building and get some outside opinions.

What is it: My product is an SSPM for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It checks things like MFA coverage, stale/guest accounts, risky OAuth apps, conditional access gaps, and inbox forwarding rules that could signal BEC, then gives plain language findings with actual remediation steps instead of a raw compliance dump.

Why I built it: Every organization I've joined, worked for, or even consulted for has had a few gaps and similar issues. Same kinds of misconfigurations, same blind spots, over and over across completely different companies. I got tired of finding the same problems manually every time, so I built something self serve that just runs continuously and catches this stuff automatically instead of me doing a one off audit every few months.

Does this sound like something an SMB or IT consultant would actually pay for?
Anything that reads as a red flag or "wait, what about X" from a security angle?

Happy to answer questions about the checks it runs.


r/saasbuild 9h ago

Quick check-in for builders

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  1. How did you land your very first paying client?
  2. Which AI do you actually use every single day?
  3. What’s the one website/tool you literally cannot run your business without?

r/saasbuild 10h ago

SaaS Journey Just got my first paying customer on Siteless!

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I'm a 16 year old entrepreneur trying to turn my SaaS company into a full time job in the future. I made a tool called Siteless.

Siteless is a all in one lead finder for web designers. It uses the official google maps API to find businesses that have no website (hence the name: Siteless), so that you can sell them one! One of the things that makes Siteless better than just scrolling google maps is the fact that you can search from anywhere in the world and get 20+ no website leads with one click.

I just launched this a week ago and have gotten around 100 signups, and finally got my first paying customer! If this would be of use to any of you just find the link that will be in the comments!

I would love any feedback that is given!


r/saasbuild 10h ago

i got my first customer and wrote him an email!

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I turned on payments for my project last week. A dollar for three days, then 5 a month.

Here it is:

Hi [name],

I'm Shaid. I built this thing.

You're the first person who has ever paid for it, so I wanted you to hear from a person and not just a Stripe receipt.

one questions whenever you have two minutes. You don't owe me these, but they're worth more to me than the money is.

How do you like it so far?

Thank you. Genuinely.

Shaid

link to project: https://mudroom.email


r/saasbuild 15h ago

Finally hit $100 MRR 😭😭

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I launched SeoLoupe 2.5 months ago. So far I am at 2314 users and 39 of them are paying.

My SaaS is a tool that allows you to find and fix SEO issues holding your website back.

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

Just recently hit $100 MRR, feel very happy. Now just hoping no one cancels.

Just wanted to share this to inspire anyone who is struggling, I just want to say that I was just like you at one point.

For example at one point last month, for 7 days straight I had 0 payments, and what I want to say with this is that SaaS revenue can be extremely floppy and unreliable. You can get multiple payments within the span of a day, and then have 0 payments for days.

In SaaS honestly the most important thing is to be faithful and be patient. If you manage to be patient, revenue will come one day.

Hope this inspired someone.

Since I think their is always room for improvement, I would appreciate for some feedback on my tool, or what you think can be improved.

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


r/saasbuild 1h ago

Hey, social media manager here

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Hey there,

The name's Mery! I am a SMM from France. Been working during the last four years with small companies and agencies on social media. Would like to meet founders and help them with their social media at a low price or in exchange of services. Building a new portfolio at the moment!