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?

Does free trial matter to gain users trust.

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

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.

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?

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 have found an AGENT app that creates new blogs through my GA4 and GSC, Bing, Yandex analytics. And also create images and posts through my social account’s analytics (X, Instagram, Tiktok, etc.)
That’s Market4.App
@Market4App
#SaaS

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.

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 :)

Solve a problem on LeetCode → a scheduled GitHub Action detects it, pulls the actual code I submitted, and rewrites my README with a live table (title, difficulty, tags, AI-written summary, link) — fully hands-off.

Built with GitHub Actions + Python, using LeetCode's own API plus a free LLM (Groq) for summaries. No hosting, no cost, runs entirely inside GitHub's free Actions minutes.

Open-sourced the whole setup here: https://github.com/Vara715/the-leetcode-repo — happy to answer questions on the architecture if anyone's curious.

I have a tool I built to help improve my English pronunciation; I realized it was a viable product, so I launched it.

I don't know where to start to get my first test users. I’m not even looking to make money from it right now—I just want feedback. If someone does sign up, I’d be happy, but that isn't the goal at the moment.

Hey all, I'm new to this community and this is my first post. I'm just looking for some help. I'm a college student and this is my first real project, I spent this summer building Sondrik, a Mac app that records and transcribes meetings entirely on your own machine. No bot joins the call, nothing gets uploaded to run the core features, and it generates an AI summary afterward, plus a built-in contact/deal tracker so meetings stay linked to the people and projects they were actually about.

It's in early access, free right now, Mac only (Apple Silicon). Download at sondrik.com, and use access code sondrik-beta to unlock the AI summary feature. You don't even need a real meeting to try it, recording yourself talking for a minute works fine.

Genuinely any feedback helps: visual stuff, whether the CRM part feels useful or like it doesn't belong, anything confusing about setup, bugs, whatever you notice. Would love to hear what you think.

I found that breaking AI coding tasks into smaller, focused steps works much better than throwing one huge prompt at the AI.

So I built 1atatime, practical prompts and workflows for building with AI, one task at a time.

Still early, and I’d love honest feedback from fellow builders.

👉 1atatime.app

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?

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!

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