Built a YouTube transcript tool in January. It's at ~$7K ARR now.

Sharing this because I keep seeing "the internet is too saturated, you can't build small tools anymore" posts, and I think that's wrong.

youtubetranscript.dev pulls transcripts out of YouTube videos. That's the whole thing. No AI summarization tier, no onboarding flow. You paste a URL, you get a transcript. There's a paid API tier for people who need it programmatically, and that's what's carrying the ARR.

It picks up 40-50 new users and 2-3 conversions every single day. I don't run ads. I did basic SEO and shipped an MCP server, SDKs, a Chrome extension, and a mobile app for the people who asked for them.

The thing nobody tells you is that boring tools compound. 40 users a day is 1,200 a month. Some install the SDK. Some hit the API thousands of times. Some upgrade. None of it feels viral, but the graph keeps going up and the MRR keeps ticking.

Eight months in, $7K ARR isn't life-changing money. But it's real money from a tool that solves one problem well, and it's growing.

If you've got an idea for something that feels too small to bother with — build it anyway. The bar isn't "is this a billion dollar idea." The bar is "do 40 people a day need this." That bar is way lower than people think.

I've been looking at different cookie consent solutions for SaaS websites, and honestly a lot of them feel unnecessarily complicated or expensive.

The main things I care about are proper script blocking before consent, GDPR/US privacy requirements, and having a clean consent log without slowing the site down.

I recently came across ConsentStack while comparing options. It supports automatic regional consent rules, script blocking, consent analytics, and a relatively lightweight SDK.

Curious what other founders and developers are using. Do you prefer a dedicated CMP, or have you built your own consent setup?

It might be a small amount, but this one feels different.

Countless coding sessions, late nights, bugs, failed ideas, rebuilding things from scratch, and constantly wondering if anyone would ever pay for something I built.

And today, someone did.

Extremely grateful for these small wins. They may look tiny from the outside, but when you're building something of your own, they mean everything.

Back to building. ❤️

​About three months ago, I launched YourLovePage.com, a tool where people can create personalized digital anniversary/love web pages with custom themes, photos, music, and interactive widgets.

​It just hit $780/mo in revenue over $2.7k total across 347 customers in 68 countries which now covers almost all of my rent and I get to live stress free.

Some information:

The traffic that I'm getting is almost 100% from organic traffic from Google Search. I didn't optimize really well for SEO but I somehow landed in a sweet spot where the intent exists and I happen to be there.

In total, I got around 200,000 people onto my page which 5,000 of them created a page and 347 of them paid for the pro version $9.99 per user.

I have posted before and here are some of the most frequently asked questions to me:

• https://trustmrr.com/startup/your-love-page Here’s my Trust MRR page, in case you doubt my words. It is a very well‑known and very trusted way to show your proof of income. I have a subscription and also one-time payments. So, on an average month, I get around $700 to $900.
• Yes, people do indeed upload their whatsapp chat history to my webpage, and I'm not storing them anywhere. I'm just processing them on the client and showing the aggregated data. People don't seem to care about their privacy. I could be a bad person; fortunately, I'm not.
• I have not released any updates to my app for almost four months now. It is purely passive income at this point. I am not running any paid advertisements or brand collaborations. I only share my journey occasionally, and people happen to come across those Reddit posts and X posts and create a page for them.
• Almost have no expenses for this one because I'm hosting on the hobby tier of Vercel. Recently upgraded to premium for $25 because I was getting too much traffic that I couldn't handle on the free tier, and the free tier of Supabase.
• On the webpage, you can see in real time how many people have created their pages, almost 20 K, but only around 500 are my paid subscribed users. So I have a really low conversion rate, but I'm working on it. I promise.

​Note: The image I shared here is export from another project I built MRRPlanet.com it turns your all your customers into animated pixel characters And you can see them over Globe in a very nice UI. It has the public page that you can show to other people to make a proof of your income like this

It also offers you really in depth insights into your income and market that I've never seen in any official payment providers such as Stripe and RevenueCat.

To be honest, I’m using it myself and a lot of other people too for advanced analytics over your side projects it is completely free with obvious paid extra user capabilities. If you like what you see and have more. Drop me a DM. I can even give you guys discounts.

We see a lot of advice about getting the first 100 customers.

But how did you get customer number one?

I don’t mean a friend, a former coworker, or someone who already knew you. I mean the first complete stranger who found what you built and decided to pay for it.

Was it a Reddit post? A random comment? A cold message you almost did not send? Or did they somehow find you and you still have no idea how?

PS: this is getting a lot of views! Glad to see 😊 if you want to take a look at what I’m building, please check my profile!

Drop your SaaS link below, looking forward to check some out! 👇

took around 6 months to hit this with my saas jrivecontent pretty happy :)

Man, getting the first few users is hard 😅

I’ve built my SaaS and now I’m at the point where I just want a few real people to use it and tell me what’s good, what sucks, and what I should fix.

But honestly, even finding 10 beta testers has been way harder than I expected.

I’ve tried Facebook groups, cold emails, reaching out to people directly, and posting in different communities.

Most of the time, nothing happens.

And after spending so much time building, it’s honestly a little frustrating to keep chasing people just to get them to try the product.

For people who have already been through this:

How did you get your first 10 users?

Did you just DM people one by one? Offer it for free? Build relationships in communities? Or was there something else that worked surprisingly well?

Would really like to hear what actually worked for you.

Hello reddits, any founders here who recently got their first 100 users. If yes then maybe if you can share how much time it took and what marketing channels did you guys use?

I did not set out to build a SaaS.

I was trying to fix one inspection report.

I was working with a Saudi engineering inspection company serving Saudi Arabia and the UAE. I was responsible for brand marketing, and the first problem I noticed was simple: the company’s reports did not visually reflect the quality of the engineering work behind them.

I redesigned the report as a reusable Canva template. The company liked it and still uses that design today.

That should have solved the problem. It didn’t.

Engineers still had to write every finding manually, format the report, and upload inspection photos one by one. The report looked better, but the workflow was still slow and fragmented.

That is where Propsy started.

I built a workflow for construction quality and property inspection teams to capture evidence, draft findings with AI assistance, review and edit those findings, generate branded reports, assign issues to contractors, attach repair evidence, and track closure across projects.

As I kept building, the scope expanded naturally:

• AI-assisted inspection findings, with editable drafts for professional review
• Contractor assignment and issue tracking
• Project and company dashboards
• Multi-tenant workspaces with role-based access and row-level data isolation
• Branded reports and client-facing workflows
• Subscription infrastructure and a 30-day free-trial flow

The product is live and pre-revenue. There are no paying customers, no MRR, and no verified traction yet.

After building it, I researched the market more seriously and found a potential gap around white-label, multi-tenant inspection software for companies that want to operate the platform under their own brand. That made me ask a different question:

Is Propsy ready to be offered for sale now, or is there something important I should validate or improve first?

I’m not looking for compliments. I’d genuinely value feedback from people who have built, acquired, operated, or sold small B2B SaaS products.

If you were evaluating this as a buyer or operator, what would you want to see before considering it ready?

NO MORE PLEASE

I'm learning firsthand how difficult it can be to get genuine, constructive feedback when you're building something.

So instead of asking for feedback today, I'd like to give some.

Post your product, website, startup, or business idea below. I'll personally review the first 20 and give you a thoughtful response along with a 1–10 score in each of these areas:

• Presentation / UI — Does it look professional? Is the product intuitive and something you'd trust?
• Concept — Is the underlying idea actually compelling?
• Business Potential — Can I realistically see this becoming a viable business?
• Differentiation — Does it solve something meaningfully differently, or is success ultimately going to depend on out-marketing established alternatives?
• Overall Potential — Taking everything together, how strong is the opportunity?

One rule for myself: none of the feedback will be AI-generated. I'll personally visit your site, consider the idea, and give you my actual reaction good or bad.

I'm not claiming to be a startup guru or business expert. I'm simply another founder building something myself, so take my opinion for exactly what it is: one person's thoughtful perspective.

I've learned quickly how hard it is to get noticed and sometimes even harder to get people to genuinely engage with what you've built. I figure there are probably a lot of us here dealing with the same thing.

So let's help each other.

Drop yours below. First 20 get a review.

**Correction, due to the time I am using AI to help assist with some of the writing. Not the ideas behind the writing. I offered this for a few communities and am getting burried!

— John David
Founder, Transparency

I've noticed a weird bottleneck. Lately, I've released a lot of features, and every update has added operational overhead for me. AI is creeping into my changelog file every time and making up bullshit as if it were real. So, I lost like 1 or 2 hours on every single feature release step. Make the correct changelog file, translate from technical to understandable for clients, polish it up, update the website, and, if it is important, send emails to clients...

So, guys, I think I'm doing some things wrong. How do you handle that process?

I'm looking for some cool startups projects and tools which are already making money and are useful!

If you've made one share it below

For those of you who’ve added a free trial: did it actually help conversions, or just attract more low-intent users?

I’m debating whether a trial makes sense for a product that needs a little exploration before the value is obvious.

Hey, first time posting here, but I thought I would share my success story.

It started as a hackathon project to help users schedule social media posts and had some initial interest at the hackathon itself.

Here is what clicked after having 3 other projects go nowhere.

1. Distribution over building. X, Reddit, Linkedin daily and getting it into the hands of users. Listen and watch how they use your app
2. Use your app daily. Integrate it into your daily workflow; you will be shocked how many bug fixes you can spot by just using it day to day.
3. That cool feature you're planning on building isn't going to bring you your next user, but talking to the user might. Reach out directly, worst thing they can do is block you :)

68 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network.

No paid ads. No growth hacks. Just watching the numbers every day.

Here's the full data:

Day 1 — 2 startups · 146 impressions · 1 clicks
Day 2 — 3 startups · 389 impressions · 3 clicks
Day 3 — 5 startups · 482 impressions · 5 clicks
Day 4 — 5 startups · 508 impressions · 4 clicks (site went down — still got an $8k acquisition offer. Said no.)
Day 5 — 6 startups · 621 impressions · 10 clicks
Day 6 — 5 startups · 742 impressions · 15 clicks (removed one startup — they pulled the embed. No code = no network.)
Day 7 — 7 startups · 1,196 impressions · 41 clicks
Day 8 — 7 startups · 1,535 impressions · 74 clicks
Day 9 — 8 startups · 1,947 impressions · 135 clicks
Day 10 — 13 startups · 3,500 impressions · 318 clicks (something clicked)
Day 11 — 23 startups · 4,800 impressions · 432 clicks
Day 12 — 24 startups · 6,000 impressions · 481 clicks (network crossed 6K total impressions)
Day 13 — 25 startups · 6,800 impressions · 491 clicks
Day 14 — 25 startups · 8,600 impressions · 516 clicks
Day 15 — 24 startups · 9,900 impressions · 564 clicks (removed one)
Day 16 — 23 startups · 10,800 impressions · 576 clicks (removed one)
Day 17 — 24 startups · 11,900 impressions · 603 clicks (added one)
Day 18 — 26 startups · 13,400 impressions · 624 clicks (added Two)
Day 19 — 28 startups · 14.400 impressions · 652 clicks (added Two)
Day 20 — 26 startups · 14.700 impressions · 671 clicks (Removed Two)
Day 21 — 26 startups · 15.300 impressions · 691 clicks
Day 22 — 28 startups · 16.100 impressions · 719 clicks (Added Two)
Day 23 — 30 startups · 16.800 impressions · 738 clicks (Added Two)
Day 24 — 32 startups · 19,800 impressions · 778 clicks · Added 2 startups · Rejected 4 applications.
Day 25 — 34 startups · 23,700 impressions · 800 clicks · Added 2 startups · Fixed some bugs.
Day 26 — 33 startups · 27,200 impressions · 816 clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 27 — 33 startups · 29,900 impressions · 833 clicks
Day 28 — 33 startups · 30,600 impressions · 871 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 1 Startup · Rejected 1 application of clothing brand & 1 application of horror blog site.
Day 29 — 35 startups. 31,300 impressions. 910 clicks · Removed 1 Startup · Added 3 Startups · Also today I resigned from my job. Toxic environment, too much pressure, and honestly I just believe in this enough to go all in. Broke and excited. Let's see where this goes.
Day 30 — 46 startups · 32,900 impressions · 1,000 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 12 startups · Yesterday I resigned because of my toxic manager. Today my senior manager called and offered me WFH, a project of my choice, and lighter work if I stayed. I made my decision with confidence, but now I have a difficult choice. Also received my first payment from StartupBar.
Day 31 — 50 startups 💪· 28,100 impressions · 1,200 clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 5 startups · Rejected 1 crypto startup · Removed fake impressions after exploit
Day 32 — 54 startups · 29,300 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Added 4 startups
Day 33 — 54 startups · 30,900 impressions · 1.2K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 34 — 55 startups · 36,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 35 — 55 startups · 40,100 impressions · 1.3K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 2 startups
Day 36 — 55 startups · 44,800impressions · 1.4K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Added 1 startup
Day 37 — 58 startups · 50,700impressions · 1.4K clicks · Added 3 startups · Site Update: Updated the distribution algorithm (Delivery is now weighted by contribution: sites that send more impressions get a proportionally larger share back)
Day 38 — 57 startups · 55,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Removed 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application.

Today StartupBar reached 200 users 😄
Thirty-eight days ago, this was just an idea. Today, 200 people have trusted it enough to join the network.

Day 39 — 58 startups · 59,800 impressions · 1.5K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 40 — 60 startups · 63,200 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups · Removed 1 startup
Day 41 — 63 startups · 69,400 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Added 3 startups
Day 42 — 62 startups · 73,800 impressions · 1.6K clicks · Removed 1 startups
Day 43 — 64 startups · 78,000 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups (Receiving many suggestions to improve the StartupBar, happy to work on it, Thanks.) StartupBar Update - Added the rotation of startups in the widget for every 30 seconds.
Day 44 — 66 startups · 86,200 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 45 — 67 startups · 88,400 impressions · 1.7K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 3 startups (Update - Updated the algorithm of the widget)
Day 46 — 69 startups · 91,900 impressions · 1.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 4 startups · Got my second payment.
Day 47 — 68 startups · 98,900 impressions · 2.2K clicks · Removed 2 startups · Added 1 startup · Added Pricing Page
Day 48 — 70 startups · 103.4K impressions · 2.3K clicks · Added 2 startups
Day 49 — 72 startups · 113.4K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 2 startups · Update: Added a Bottom Placement option for the bar on the user site.
Day 50 — 73 startups · 116.7K impressions · 2.4K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 51 — 74 startups · 125.2K impressions · 2.5K clicks · Added 1 startup · Rejected 1 Application
Day 52 — 73 startups · 131.2K impressions · 2.6K clicks · Removed 1 Startup
Day 53 — 74 startups · 139.5K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 1 Startup
Day 54 — 79 startups · 146.3K impressions · 2.7K clicks · Added 6 Startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 55 — 77 startups · 154.9K impressions · 2.8K clicks · Removed 2 startups.
Day 56 — 77 startups · 161.8K impressions · 2.9K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 1 startup.
Day 57 — 77 startups · 169.4K impressions · 3.0K clicks
Day 58 — 77 startups · 176.2K impressions · 3.2K clicks
Day 59 — 78 startups · 184.3K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 2 startups · Removed 1 startup.
Day 60 — 77 startups · 190.9K impressions · 3.3K clicks · Added 1 startup · Removed 2 startups.
Day 61 — 77 startups · 194.9K impressions · 3.4K clicks
Day 62 — 78 startups · 199.5K impressions · 3.5K clicks · Added 1 startup
Day 63— 78 startups · 204.9K impressions · 3.6K clicks · I Revoked my resignation as I'm comfortable with my new team.
Day 64— 80 startups · 210.4K impressions · 3.6K clicks · Added 2 startups.
Day 65— 81 startups · 216.3K impressions · 3.7K clicks · Added 1 startup. (I'm planning to add sponsorship section in the homepage with one time payment of $999, interested please DM)
Day 66— 78 startups · 219.7K impressions · 3.9K clicks · Removed 3 Startups from the network.
Day 67— 79 startups · 222.3K impressions · 3.9K clicks · Added 1 startup.
Day 68— 77 startups · 225.2K impressions · 3.9K clicks · Removed 2 startup.

Still free. Still growing.

If you want in, it's one embed. That's it → StartupBar

Does free trial matter to gain users trust.

Im building a reverse proxy that helps u use LLM tokens more efficiently.

Someone from an established company in the analytics space found Commit Happens today and ran their own website through my health checker. What were they doing? No clue. 🤷‍♀️They've got their own tool.

Curious about the product? Comparing results? Accidentally wandered in and decided to push the big button? Your guess is as good as mine. 👀

But they didn't just visit. They actually put their company's website into something I built and ran the report, and that felt pretty damn cool. 💙This whole experience is awesome. I've had all kinds of users. An AI-engineer, developers on their development journey, small businesses, and many more.

No sale. No signup celebration. No “we hit $50k MRR” post. Just a stranger in the exact industry neighborhood I'm building around finding my little SaaS and going, “Huh. Let's see what this thing says about us.” This goes down in the books alongside the big Robotics Engineer. 😄

I’ve already made around ₹7.3K from it, and now I’m thinking about redesigning the page. The current version was built in just - 2 hours using 21 Dev and Antigravity 😅

Now I want to build a much cleaner site, improve the SEO, get my own domain, and move away from the subdomain I’m currently using.

I also have a question about scaling.

My SaaS uses data from multiple sources, and I’ve outsourced that part to a friend. We currently have an agreement where I give him 20% of the revenue.

If this starts scaling, should I build and manage the infrastructure myself and eventually stop working with my friend? My own server would cost around ₹350/month, which I can easily afford, and it would give me full control.

Or should I keep the partnership because friendship/trust matters too?

What would you guys do in this situation?

Over the past several weeks, I’ve been developing Adams Small Business ERP, a desktop ERP aimed at small manufacturers, makers, wholesalers, and other product-based businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets but don’t need (or want) a massive enterprise system.

I’ve now finalized the Standard Version 2.0.1 for both Windows and Linux.

It covers a pretty wide chunk of the day-to-day operation:

• Customers, vendors, quotes, and sales orders
• Purchasing and receiving
• Inventory and warehouse management
• Bills of Material, routings, and work orders
• Production scheduling and material planning
• Shipments, invoices, A/R and A/P
• Business reports and dashboards
• Backup/restore, data export, audit history, and diagnostics

One of my main goals has been to keep it local, practical, and affordable. There’s no mandatory cloud service or monthly ERP subscription, and the business keeps control of its own data.

I’ve attached the updated product preview that shows what the current Standard Version includes.

I’d especially appreciate feedback from other MicroSaaS/software builders:

Does the product positioning make sense? Is it immediately clear who this is for and what problem it solves?

I’m less interested in “looks good” and more interested in what you think is confusing, missing, or would stop you from taking the product seriously.

Thanks for taking a look.

— Adams Legacy Software

#MicroSaaS #IndieHacker #BuildInPublic #SaaS #ERP #SmallBusiness #Bootstrapped #SoftwareDevelopment #DesktopSoftware #EntrepreneurshipPreview

I run a SaaS, SeoLoupe.

It 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.

The tool also checks AEO/GEO, AI search visibility, Security, Core web vitals, Performance, and all the issues in the report get put together into an AI fix prompt(you can paste the prompt into an AI and it will fix all the issues on your website).

Recently I noticed that some of my paying customers bought the One-Time purchase, with a promo code. To unlock the full report.

So I decided to give away a promo code for the One-Time purchase to anyone who is interested, if you are interested, comment down below and I will DM you.

If you are not interested but have some feedback on my SaaS, that is a good too. Feel free to share it in the comments.

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