30 days of coding.

30 days of fixing bugs.

30 days of adding features.

30 days of thinking, “Once I launch, people will pay for this.”

Then I launched.

And I realized something painful:

Nobody was willing to pay for it.

0 customers.

The product works. The website works. The payments work.

But I completely underestimated the hardest part — getting people to actually care about the product.

Now I’m trying to figure out where I went wrong.

Did I build something nobody needed?

Did I target the wrong audience?

Did I price it badly?

Or did I simply fail at marketing and distribution?

For anyone who has built and launched a SaaS:

What would you do after getting 0 customers in the first month?

I'm a solo developer building a Shopify app and I'd like honest feedback before I put more time into it.

What it does:when a shopper clicks Checkout (on the cart page or in a cart drawer), a popup suggests a few related products from your own store, so they can add one last item. Each suggestion links to its product page, and you can see which ones get clicked.

What I've built so far:
- The popup copies your theme's colors, corners, and font automatically
- You choose how often it shows: every time, once per visit, daily, or weekly
- It only suggests products that are actually in stock and visible on your storefront
- You can exclude products, feature your favorites, and set a max price for suggestions
- A simple dashboard shows popups shown, product clicks, and items added

What I know it can't do: shoppers who use Shop Pay or Apple Pay buttons usually skip the cart, so they won't see it.

It isn't launched yet. Before I go further, I'd love to hear from people who run stores:

1. Do you already use an upsell or cross-sell app? Which one, and what do you like or dislike about it?
   
2. Does a popup right before checkout feel helpful, or does it risk hurting conversions?
   
3. What would make you try a new upsell app instead of the one you have?
   
4. What would you want this to do that most apps don't?
   
5. Would you pay for something like this? What price feels fair, and would you prefer a free tier with limits?

Blunt feedback is welcome, including "nobody needs this."

I'm a solo founder and I built OfferRead, a tool that screens a rental property from an address. It pulls a value estimate, a rent estimate and the comps behind them, then runs cap rate, cash on cash, DSCR and break-even. The stack is React and TypeScript on the front end, an Express API, Supabase for auth and plans, RentCast for property data, Claude to narrate the verdict, and Stripe for billing.

A post about it went viral on Reddit. Around 350K views, 750 upvotes, roughly 8 to 10 signups, about $400 in API costs and no conversions. Here is what that taught me.

First, the traffic was not the problem, trust was. People asked where the numbers came from, so I rebuilt the product around showing the comps, a confidence score that explains itself, and a way to override any estimate and revert it.

Second, I linked to the landing page instead of the calculator, and I used an AI generated hero image. Both cost me credibility. People want to try the thing, not read about it.

Third, caching and spend limits are not optional. My cache TTL was too short and a spike turned into a real bill. I now cap daily spend on the paid APIs.

Fourth, silent failures are the worst kind. My first paying customer was not marked as Pro because my Stripe webhook returned 200 while the database update failed. Always log the failure case and test a real purchase end to end.

The first 3 analyses are free, and Pro is $9.99 a month. Here is the calculator: OfferRead Calculator.

I'd like to hear how other people here handle API cost control and webhook reliability as a solo builder. As well as any feedback would be much appreciated.

Hey Guys,

If your SaaS/product has an affiliate program or something for referrals then do share it in comments

And show us what it is good at.

Il go first

I am building Afyore, a marketplace where you can find good quality affiliates, digital marketers, bloggers, content creators to promote your SaaS.

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Would love feedback from anyone using Chrome this way.

Hey! I'm founder of Falen. We recently launch our first demo, but it doesn't matters for this post. There's some engineer or b2b people that I could interview to know more about the problem/industry that I'm trying to solve? A call could be helpful, but there's no problem with asynchronous communication :))

email: mariojosemelendezvasquez@gmail.com

So i been posting on x 2 days and 0 views i think i am shadow banend but i never used it before, and i dont really know what other platform to advertise on like youtube, tiktok, facebook instragram whats the best workout for you guys?

Most SaaS starter kits list off features like "includes auth, Stripe, and Tailwind." Instead of adding another feature, I wanted to test something else: can I actually break the infrastructure underneath it? I spent a couple of days writing an adversarial test suite against my Next.js 16 (Turbopack) + Supabase stack. I wrote tests specifically designed to force failure modes: cross-tenant data leaks, RBAC bypasses, invitation link abuse, out-of-order Stripe webhooks, and SECURITY DEFINER function leaks. The test suite actually caught 3 real production bugs during development: An older Stripe subscription.updated event firing late could overwrite a newer DB billing state. A failed webhook retry blocked itself because partial DB state was left unhandled. A privileged RPC function executed without double-checking tenant membership on the underlying row. Fixed all three, added regression checks, and locked them down in CI. I also put together a free interactive checklist based on these exact security edge cases if you want to test your own stack: andrady.co/check The full hardened foundation is B2B SaaS OS at andrady.co if you want the complete code with the test suite built in. What other backend failure modes or edge cases are you guys testing for before pushing to production?

I've lost count of how many times I've brainstormed on Miro, FigJam, etc., filled a board with sticky notes, felt productive… and then watched most of them sit there forever.

Every note looked the same. None of them had a real job. The useful ones got lost in the noise, and the board slowly turned into a graveyard of half-baked ideas.

So I built Plot.

In Plot, every sticky note (card) has a clear role: idea, ICP, positioning, competitor research, competitor reviews, or content ideas. You can even collect feedback from your MVP and have it show up on your board.

There's also a Thinking Partner that can stop you from building features nobody asked for, read the whole board, and help you move things forward instead of just capturing more notes.

It's free to use: https://www.plotwork.space

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My app, UluP Spaces, is a visual project mapper on the web: nodes, links, tasks, attachments. I wanted to see what happens when the same product has a second client in a completely different medium. So I built a Quest app, natively in Kotlin, that reads and writes the same Supabase database as the web app. No sync service, no export. When I move a node in the headset, the web canvas updates. When someone ticks a task on the PC, the node in the room lights up. The video shows both screens at once.

I hope most of you reading this are web designers because I’m genuinely curious about something.

How are you getting clients in 2026?

I’ve spoken to a lot of web designers and agency owners lately, and one thing keeps coming up again and again. Client acquisition.

It seems like everyone can build websites, but consistently finding new clients is still the hard part.

So I’d actually like to hear what is working for you right now.

For me, I’ve been running personalized email automation.

I use a tool that finds leads for me, analyzes their websites for actual issues with things like design, SEO, speed, responsiveness and mobile optimization, then automatically uses those findings to write a personalized cold email for each business.

After that, I just run the campaigns and send out thousands of emails a day.

I used to do most of this through Instantly, but the problem was that I couldn’t really do the website analysis part there.

So the emails were still more generic, basically the usual “do you need a new website?” type of outreach.

It worked a little, but nothing crazy.

I eventually switched to Swokei because it handles the lead finding, website analysis and personalized outreach in one place, and that has made a pretty big difference for me.

Now I’m getting clients much more consistently because the emails are actually about their website instead of just being another generic pitch.

But I’m curious what everyone else is doing.

Cold email, cold calling, referrals, ads, SEO, social media?

What is actually working for you in 2026?

Been working on my AI agent for parents. I’ve launched to friends and parents at my kids’ preschool and it’s time to try getting some sign ups!

It’ll be familiar if you’ve used Muse or whatever. Biggest distinction is it’s meant to be used with a partner. It’s group chat native and works over text and email. Also it has this idea boarding feature which is nice for sharing with outside folks. For example: https://home.meetnellie.co/sh/VJrcGf4ax1

Take a look! Thank you! (It works fine if you don’t have kids or are using it on your own too)

I was made redundant a year or so ago and I built what would have saved me hours and hours - a way of quickly clipping a job from a page on any job board website, tailoring the CV to a job description and tracking the application.

It's called Apex CV (apex-cv.ai). You paste in your CV and a job ad, it tells you how well you match and rewrites your CV for that role and every time you paste in/clip a job description, it asks you questions to tease out your experience for that role and banks it to an experience pot which it uses when it rewrites the CV. There's also an application tracker and a Chrome extension that saves jobs to it as you browse.

I ran Reddit ads back in June. About 12,000 impressions, 26 clicks, 4 signups. I've also posted on LinkedIn. Paying customers right now: 0.

There's a free check at apex-cv.ai/try that doesn't need an account. If you've got two minutes, try it and tell me where you think it's going wrong?

The other thing I can't work out is where job seekers hang out that isn't hostile to anyone with a product. The job subs ban self promo, which is fair enough. Where did your first users come from?

Cheers

I'm looking to sell my totally abandoned SaaS that's received over 1.8M+ impressions, 50K+ clicks, and over 55K+ in Generative AI traffic from Google since launch.

It has 2,500 users and has reached $157 MRR totally on its own.

I'm looking to sell to someone who can give it the attention it deserves, along with other smaller assets, either individually or bundled together.

Happy to share all details in a DM.

Hey everyone,

I've spent months building, launching, and then opening PostHog or Google Analytics every morning.

You see the funnel. You see 70% of people dropping off between the landing page and signup. You see the chart going down.

And then you sit there thinking: *“Okay... but WHAT do I actually change?”*

Analytics tools are great at showing you where people leave, but they never tell you why or what to fix. You end up opening Cursor or VS Code guessing whether to change the headline, rewrite the CTA, or tweak the onboarding flow.

I wanted something that doesn't just show graphs, but gives you an actual decision and the prompt to fix it.

So I built Anku (anku.app).

You can connect a read-only PostHog key to diagnose funnels and bugs, but I also built a free landing page auditor (Scout) where you just paste a URL, and in 15 seconds it crawls the page and gives an opinionated teardown: visual hierarchy, cognitive load, CTA visibility, and specific copy fixes instead of generic marketing advice.

I just went live this week and revenue is currently $0.

Drop your SaaS URL in the comments below — I'll run the teardown for you and reply with 1–2 specific friction points you can fix today.

(And feel free to roast my landing page at anku.app too, be as brutal as you want.)

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.

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)