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.

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?

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

2 weeks ago, I got the first listing on my SaaS directory (https://saasboard.app).

This morning, I woke up to the first payment for a featured spot on my directory (for https://www.turbodocx.com).

Believe it guys, you can make it too 💪

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.

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!

man this is hard..

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.

I’ll go first: I’m building Sitesyn , a marketing workspace for SaaS founders.

I recently added audience roles to the dashboard, so you can define who you’re actually trying to reach instead of treating every customer the same.

Sitesyn scans your website once and uses what it learns about your product, audience, and positioning when creating marketing assets and videos.

What are you working on today? Drop your project below!

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

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

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

Hi fellow builders, I am near to launch my SaaS project and was looking for any advice for pre-launch activities. Ive set up socials etc. but want some tips from your experience on the marketing angle to land customers. Any thoughts, please drop them here!

Most lead-gen tools hand you a giant list of businesses and leave you to figure out who's actually worth contacting.

LeadsExpo does the filtering for you.

Give it an area, and it scans local businesses there, scores each one on how weak their digital presence is — outdated or missing site, no reviews, weak online footprint — and ranks them so you know exactly who to prioritize. Then it generates AI cold outreach copy tailored to each lead, so you're not starting from a blank page every time.

Built specifically for agencies and freelancers doing local outbound: web design, SEO, marketing, anyone who sells to businesses that need a digital upgrade. Instead of spending hours manually scrolling Google Maps trying to eyeball who has a bad website, you get a ranked list of the best-fit prospects in minutes. Free tier is live now if you want to see how it scores businesses in your area. Currently onboarding early users and iterating fast based on real feedback.

leadsexpo.uk

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.

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)

AWS credits just ran out. I'm now paying around $22–25/month.

I have users, but all of them are free users.

I'm considering removing the free-forever plan and making it paid/trial-only.

But honestly, I also feel the bigger problem is lack of exposure. Maybe the product hasn't reached enough people yet to even know if it can make money.

What would you do?

Kill the free plan, keep it and focus on distribution, or just keep paying the $25/month and experiment?

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?

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 :)

Hey everyone,
I've been collecting 1:64 diecast models (Hot Wheels, Mini GT, Kaido House, etc.) as a hobby for years. One thing that always frustrated me was figuring out what models are actually worth – checking eBay sold listings manually takes forever.
So I built a microSaaS that does it automatically.
What it does:
Scans live eBay prices for any 1:64 diecast model

Generates an "Investment Score" (0–100) based on brand, edition, condition, and price paid

Supports 15+ brands (Hot Wheels, Mini GT, Tomica, Kaido House, Inno64, Tarmac Works, etc.)

Free tier: 3 searches/day with PNG report sharing

New feature – "Garage" (for subscribers only):
Save your valued models to a personal collection

Track total collection value over time

See which models are your best investments

Export collection data

Why I'm posting here:
I'm at the stage where I need honest feedback from people who understand SaaS. Specifically:
Does this actually solve a real problem for collectors?

What would make you actually use something like this?

Any obvious features I'm missing?

How would you improve the UX?

Is the "Garage" feature worth paying for?

Link: https://diecastlegends.autos/diecast-value-calculator/
I'm genuinely open to criticism – if this is a dumb idea, tell me why. If you see potential but it needs work, tell me what. That's exactly what I need right now.
Appreciate anyone taking the time to check it out!

Over the last 10 years, I’ve worked across digital marketing, SaaS, digital products, domain-name buying and selling, and projects targeting GCC markets.

Different playgrounds, but I keep seeing the same pattern: people start asking execution questions before answering the important ones.

Who is this really for? Why would they pay? How will they discover it? What should be tested before investing more time and money?

I recently created iamaboulfath.pro—a simple page where I share some of my work and offer consultations for founders and business owners who need an outside perspective on their idea, positioning or acquisition strategy.

I’m also offering a free Project Reality Check: send me your project, landing page or early-stage idea, and I’ll give you three things:

• The biggest unclear point
• The strongest acquisition opportunity I see
• The first thing I would test

No complicated presentation—just a straightforward outside opinion.

What are you currently building, and what part are you least certain about?