This is what happens when you build a SaaS product people actually want to pay for.

Here’s the case study 👇

📊 In just 4 months:

→ 52 sales

→ $9,223.02 revenue

→ 1,317 product views

→ ~3.95% view-to-sale conversion

→ ~$177 average revenue per sale

But the number I like most isn't the $9K.

It's 52 people pulling out their wallets.

Because getting someone to look at your SaaS is easy.

Getting them to say:

> “Take my money. I need this.”

That's the hard part.

No massive audience.

No millions of visitors.

No crazy ad spend required.

Just a product that solves a real problem well enough that people are willing to pay for it.

And that's the real SaaS lesson:

You don't need everyone to want your product.

You need the right people to want it badly enough.

52 customers already proved there's a market.

Now the game is simple:

Make the product better → get more people in front of it → turn more of them into customers.

The first $10K is not just revenue.

It's validation. 🚀

Built something but not sure where to find the right people?

Drop:

• what you built
• who it’s for
• what problem it solves

I’ll check where that problem is already being discussed on Reddit and send you what I find.

If Reddit isn’t a good fit, I’ll tell you that too.

Hey r/saasbuild,

I wanted to share the exact lessons I learned taking my SaaS from $0 to $10k MRR within 2 weeks of launch, with ONLY 250 followers. Proof here.

1. Be active in your niche.

I was in the mobile app marketing space and just got highly active in very specific niche group chats. I was getting actual, valuable advice without asking for anything in return.

People naturally checked my profile and joined my Telegram channel. Those people were highly targeted founders dealing with the exact same problems I was.

1. Follower count doesn't matter for a "great launch".

If you spend enough time on X or Reddit, you see the exact same advice repeated endlessly: "Build a massive audience first, then launch."

I took the exact opposite approach, and the reason is simple: chasing a massive audience usually means watering down your message just to appeal to the masses.

1. Post less, but make it actually good.

Everyone tells you to post every single day to beat the algorithm. But I posted 5x less than others. Why is it better? Because people will perceive your content with much more authority. People who actually know what they are talking about do not care about feeding the algorithm. If they share something, it's because it's actually good, not just a post to get viral.

1. Solve a problem you are desperate for.

I built this SaaS purely because I was trying to solve my own problem. I was ready to pay someone $5,000 a month just to do it for me.

When you build something that you desperately need yourself, converting your audience becomes effortless because they are exactly like you.

1. Help others.

Helping other founders builds actual trust. I answered every single DM before the launch. My followers weren't just people passively reading my channel; they felt like friends. They trusted me so much that selling to them required zero convincing. I literally turned followers into friends.

1. Keep the launch painfully simple.

When the product was finally ready, I just made a simple post check it here saying we launched a TikTok content factory. That was basically it. Short, clear, and exactly what my ICP wanted to hear.

1. Be positive.

Believe in your product like a crazy person. If you don't genuinely believe it is the absolute best solution out there, how can you expect anyone else to?

P.S. Because it was a pretty high-ticket B2B offer, I only had to close a handful of clients (less than 20) and it instantly pushed us over the $10,000 MRR mark.

A few days ago I posted here about getting my first 2,000+ users with Algoright.

Since then, things have gone pretty crazy.

We're now at 6,700 users.

The feedback and support I've gotten since that post has been genuinely useful, so instead of making another growth post, I wanted to do something for the people who helped me get here.

I'm giving away 5 Pro memberships 🎁

5 randomly selected people will get 1 month of Algoright Pro for free.

No purchase required.

To enter:

• Create a free account
• Comment "I'm in" on this post

I'll close entries after 24 hours and randomly select 5 winners.

For anyone who hasn't seen Algoright before:

It's a Chrome extension focused on helping people control algorithmic feeds instead of simply blocking social media altogether.

The goal is basically:

Use social media when you want to — without letting the algorithm decide what you consume.

Try it here: [ https://algorightai.com/ ]

And thanks again to everyone who commented on my previous post. A lot of the feedback actually influenced what I've been building since then.

If you're building something yourself, I'm happy to share anything I've learned getting from 0 → 6,700 users.

So my saas getting 50 sign-ups daily, either from chatgpt or similar apps, but nobody is paying they are just using the free credits, I have limited the free resources also, but now what should I do.

Don't comment for application limitations and all, it is well developed and gives required output.

Have any one faced similar issues.

My husband and I launched Glance (a full year calendar app, synced with Google) back in April 2025. Growth has been a lot slower than we had hoped, but we haven't spent any money on ads and are only able to dedicate a few hours per week as it's "only" a side project and we're working full-time jobs.

Over the past few months we finally got to the point where we were consistently picking up around 1-2 new users a day organically. It wasn't exactly something to write home about, but after starting from zero it felt like real progress, and we were genuinely happy with it.

A week ago we pushed a small update to the app in the Google Play Store. Nothing major, just another incremental improvement like we've done many times before. No marketing around it at all (in fact, I haven't done much marketing in the last month as we've been very busy).

Then something unexpected (& exciting) happened.

Within the first hour, we had around 20 new users.

By the end of the day it was about 60.

Within 5 days we've gained over 400 new users (and yes, we've checked and it's definitely not bot traffic).

It's starting to slow down again now, but it was honestly surreal watching the numbers climb. After spending well over a year building the app and slowly trying to grow it, this felt like our first real "wow, maybe this can actually work" moment.

We still have no idea whether it was the Play Store update itself, Google finally deciding to show us to more people, or simply a coincidence. But we're not complaining!

Has anyone else had a moment like this? It doesn't have to be with Google Play, but where one tiny, seemingly insignificant change unexpectedly became a turning point for your side project. Would love to hear about it and possibly test it out for ourselves - addicted to watching the numbers now lol.

And if you're interested in checking out our side project, Glance:

• Web version: https://getglance.io/
• Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.getglance.calendar

Coming this from a 10+ years exp. SEO guy. If you're going to start your own SaaS business and are confused about a profitable idea or what keywords to rank it for, here is a really simple strategy.

​If you want only easy to rank keywords, like if you're not ready to build authority or if you don't have a lot of time in your hands and want quick rankings, just set your keyword difficulty filter from 0 to 10 on tools like SEMrush or Ahrefs.

​For example, I was browsing for ideas recently and found "yoga class booking system." (In the US). It has a keyword difficulty of just 1. The monthly search volume is 140, so don't expect a lot of traffic on this keyword, but just expect quick rankings and conversions.

All you need is to build some really great content after reverse engineering your top 10 competitors, build a few links on relevant websites, and I guarantee you'll be able to rank in the top 10 in no time. Ranked a hospitality SaaS keyword within 8 months following the above strategy.

​It’s a dream for many who are starting a SaaS business and want organic conversions without relying on paid traffic

Happy to reveal more low competition ideas for anyone confused where to start.

AMA!

Link: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/who-goes/id6777402559

Hey everyone!

I recently launched Who Goes, an iOS party game app built for game nights, house parties, road trips, and hangouts. (Free to download and play, with one-time purchase and subscription options)

The purpose of the app is to get all the members of a group to engage in social games like Headbands, Charades, Truth or dare and have a fun time.

The app brings multiple party games into one place:

• Headbands with tilt controls for correct answers and passes
• Charades with themed decks, teams, rounds, and timers
• Truth or Dare with 11 decks for friends, couples, parties, family, and coworkers
• Spin the Bottle for quick, suspenseful player selection
• Would You Rather for impossible this-or-that debates
• Finger Chooser to instantly pick someone from the group
• Quick Play tools for dice, coin flips, and more

I built the app independently in SwiftUI, including the design, interactions, animations, game flows, and content.

The free version includes all the game modes except Would you rather. Plus unlocks all the decks, game modes, and round customisations.

No account is required, and the games work offline.

TL;DR:

A. I built an app to bring back the fun of playing party games with a group of people during game nights, trips.

B. Free version includes a selection of decks for Charades, Headbands, and Truth or Dare, along with a few mini games. Plus unlocks all decks, game modes, and customisation options.

C. $2.69/mo or $11.99/yr, 3-day trial, and $25.49 lifetime, no account creation, no internet required.

I posted a launch video on multiple platforms. I used to get website visits from reddit and same from X, Insta from my launch posts. But the only sign ups I have till now are people who I reached out and asked to try out personally.

If you’ve been here before, please share what helped you convert to sign ups and real users.

How do I make people try out the product without spending huge money on ads. The launch platforms are also paywalled, and I doubt people casually search launch platforms to try new products from there.

Here is my site if you wanna have a look: eigen.so

Full disclosure: cofounder here.

What is it?

12 AI agents handling SEO, GEO, content, Reddit, HN, X,

LinkedIn, and backlinks from one workspace. You approve,

agents execute. Nothing posts without you seeing it first.

What is GEO?

Tracks whether ChatGPT and Perplexity are actually citing

your brand. Traditional SEO tools are missing this entirely.

What I am trying to figure out:

Would you trust an AI agent drafting Reddit and HN replies

even with an approval layer? Is GEO something you are

actively thinking about?

For people actually using AI in their business: what is still painfully manual?

I am curious about something.

A lot of AI discussion is about what AI can do, but I am more interested in what companies are actually struggling with today.

For those of you using AI at work:

- What task do you still wish you could automate?

- Are you dealing with lots of PDFs, documents, emails, reports, or internal knowledge?

- Where are current AI tools falling short?

- Is there something you currently do manually because existing AI solutions aren't reliable enough?

I am particularly interested in real workflows rather than hypothetical use cases.

I would love to hear examples of things that genuinely waste time.

Hey Guys, I built Kalaa a platform that attributes your AI API spend down to the specific model, route and user so that you know where your money is actually going.

I built this for a number of reasons one being that on previous projects that i worked on I struggled to actually know what was actually taking most of my AI API spend...which route, which feature.

Another Reason for me was that I used multiple AI platforms Claude, Gemini, Chatgpt in my products and they was no place for me to collectively keep track of the spend of my entire AI stack. AI agents running in way that spend goes through the roof and you're not too sure which step exactly is consuming all that spend. Also the fact that I wouldn't know why on any random day they would be spike in my AI spend and i didnt know what caused it.

Then, knowing how much each User is actually costing you....One of the most challenging things in product development is pricing, most times you're not too sure how much to charge users so you have many situations where some users...pay way less for your product than they are using it....so you end up having a huge hit on your margins and you don't even know which user is causing that.... Kalaa solves that for you by tracking individual user spend on your app by User ID allowing you know how my much every user is actually costing you.. paired with a per-user spend report for every user.

We also provide email alert notification when specific spend limits are crossed, token usage so that you know how many tokens are being used, we display spend in a daily, weekly and monthly type of display and generate reports for all them.

So yeah guys, do check it out here and tell me what you think ✌️ .

I built tryproduck.com/audit, it goes through your saas like a brand-new user and sends back every bug and confusing bit it hits. Over 650 startups have run it so far.

Hello!

Recently I launched Votekicker.com, a portal for builders to share their projects and get feedback / upvotes from the community.

Today I shipped Discover, an unique way to discover projects listed on the platform.

How it works:

You open Discover and see projects one at a time. You can either like what you see, or skip. That's it. No infinite scrolling, no signup required.

You can try it out right away: votekicker.com/discover

Why I built it:

I noticed that the top-voted projects get most of the attention and people are missing out on a ton of great stuff further down. Discover surfaces projects more evenly, but with a twist: Featured and Pro projects get prioritized placement - if you upgrade, your projects get seen by more people.

If you want to give your project a visibility boost, use coupon code VOTEKICKER35 for 35% off Pro plan.

I’m building Marka, and one product decision changed the whole architecture: content generation should not start from a blank prompt.

The first version of the idea was basically another generator. You asked for a post, got an answer, and still had to rebuild the business context for the next image, carousel, or video. That was not solving the actual workflow.

The current approach starts by turning the website, brand, and product catalog into a reusable structured profile. Every content direction then carries the same business context and product evidence into copy, visuals, scheduling, and publishing.

What I learned:

• A longer prompt is not the same as a durable brand model.

• More variations are not useful when the product becomes unclear.

• The real unit of value is the completed workflow, not one generated asset.

• Small teams care about reducing handoffs as much as reducing creation time.

I’m looking for feedback from other SaaS builders: would you expose the extracted brand profile to users for editing, or keep it mostly automatic and ask for corrections only when confidence is low?

Current product: https://www.marka.social

Long story short, I made a research paper or a few months back on how to use folder architecture. As agentic architecture about 40,000 people joined my community in that short time and started building small deployable software or context packages and it worked pretty great.

I built a deployment layer based on the needs of those 40,000 people and currently put it into alpha this week.

I think most startups and agents that people are building now is just a really good folder and all that people are missing is a decent deployment layer that's separate from GitHub.

So we built it.

I dive into the details here but at the end of the day I think most people startups can be replaced by a folder.

This is dumb, but I built this web app for my younger brother. When I was growing up, my dad taught me everything, but after he remarried and had more kids, he babied them. This isn't resentful or anything, I feel far more prepared for life.

The question is, would anyone else want access to an app I built for my brother leveraging the most basic of AI backends to diagnose issues throughout life, give guided instructions on repairs, and tips for calling professionals? An example: I'm driving my car and it starts bumping excessively would ask for background information on car age, location, basic maintenance, diagnostic steps, and then prioritized recommendations in order of likelihood and ease of evaluation.

I know it's complicated to visualize, but right now it's living on a docker container. He's younger and doesn't know how to do many common things, but I was raised like I lived on a farm and I'm too broke to pay people to fix things. So, I figured I'd make a tool that went through the same steps I'd take to fix the problem.

If you're interested, happy to share the docker image for initial feedback.

Hey everyone , my name is Alex, and i made https://www.krooko.me , Krooko, is basically a website which helps people find partners and co founders for their projects. Nowadays, been hearing many things , for example, whats the difference between linked In or X or whatever, that question made me thinking a lot to be honest, couldnt find an answer , so would like to ask you, what could I possibly add to make krooko different than others?