Was job hunting in a rough market and got tired of tailoring the same CV over and over, so I built a small tool to do it properly for each job and grade it before I send. It helped me land a role.
A few friends tried it, worked for them too, so I put it online.
Somehow it's at €2k MRR now. Really happy. Job market is brutal right now so it feels good to have built something that actually helps people.

Its been almost a month since we launched paid plan. First week we just got 1 organic payment, post which we doubled down on ads and influencer marketing while no results initially even after that, payments started racking up slowly and now have started scaling.

Week 1:- our funnel and system was broken and we realised that pretty late in the week

Week 2:- We launched ads

Google Ads which has worked the best for us 4 weeks down with the lowest cpr, but initially we just burned through cash, as google ads took almost a week to get out of learning and start performing.

Meta Ads conversations are happening but cpr is the highest we still feel the campaign cpr is too high, we internally feel our creatives are not optimised. plus campaign took almost 2 weeks to get out of learning we also made some mistakes here as we made changes in the ad set in middle of the first week

reddit ads burned almost $520 dollars of cash and 500 dollars worth of ad credits; but still havent even gotten a single payment from it, additionally user intent has been overall the lowest while impressions have been the most.

Week 3:- Influencer marketing started after the posts started going out we saw a surge of payments but ironically we are not sure if it was because of other efforts or influencer marketing as we had also distributed coupons to creators but only 1 user actually used the creator coupon code.

week 4:- payments have been rising on a day to day bases, we are now optimising as much as possible and looking to stop efforts that didnt result and double down on things that have worked out for us, which will be Google Ads, giving 1 month more to meta ads to show performance and Influencer marketing. Will be halting reddit ads by the end of this week.

Genuinely curious, not here to pitch anything. I've tried a handful of channels so far: cold outreach to local businesses (got polite silence 22 times in a row), marketplace listings that depend on search traffic I can't control (and am not getting), and asking people in my niche for their expertise instead of pitching them, which at least got real replies but has led nowhere. Would appreciate any help you can offer. Thank you!

I had an old raspberry pi with an e ink display lying around (it used to be a pwnagotchi) and wanted to give it a second life.

So now it sits on my desk and shows me whats happening with my SaaS.
My MRR with a progress bar toward my €1k goal, plus how many users were active and signed up today. A little python script polls my analytics every 10 minutes. And when someone signs up or goes paid, it interrupts everything with a little celebration screen.

Currently at €486 MRR. Watching a physical thing on my desk fill up toward €1k is weirdly way more motivating than any dashboard.

Anyone else built physical stuff for their SaaS?

I've been building my SaaS alone for about 3 months.

Current numbers:

• 370 total users
• 31 total sales
• 17 active subscribers (17-4: 13 active subs)
• 4 cancellations
• $365 MRR

Overall, I'm happy with the progress, but managing everything alone means I still make mistakes.

For example, I recently updated my pricing but forgot to notify one existing customer. As a result, they were charged about $30 more than expected. I apologized and offered a discount on their next invoice to make up for it.

I'm curious if other solo founders still make mistakes like this.

Do occasional mistakes like these have much impact on a SaaS, or is this just a normal part of building a business? Also, based on the numbers above, do you think I'm on the right track after 3 months?

Yo folks!
I’ve been building Relayys, its** **tool to stop wasting ad spend on bot clicks (because let's be honest, Google and Meta ads are plagued with fake traffic, and their default attribution tools are blind to it).

I was getting ready for an early access launch but had zero budget or skill to make a sleek video. I ended up using Claude to map out a clean, minimalist storyboard, animate the concept, and put together this quick launch clip.

I sent the video to a few beta prospects on LinkedIn, and to my surprise, it actually landed us our first 3 early access customers within a couple of days.
Honestly just wanted to share a win because building in public is tough.

Sell the outcome not the product.

My revenue nearly tripled for SaaS.

I did make some UI changes but that wasn't what caused the revenue to increase.

I started sharing tutorials and use cases on how to use it e.g:

1. creating tiktok slideshows and scheduling them with claude
2. how to find content on pinterest
3. how to use real UGC reactions to make viral posts on social media
4. how other successful brands were promoting on TikTok

all of the above were actual helpful tips for my users which I didn't directly benefit from, but by teaching them some stuff that works out there, they converted into paid users for my tool as well (which they don't have to, it's not the only alternative)

previous to me sharing tutorials, someone who'd sign up for my website had a ~5% conversion rate to free trial

after I did some tutorials and helpful guides, sign up to trial went from ~5% --> ~20%!

of course this number is higher since I'm a micro saas at this point, you'd probably see less of a jump, but the point still stands

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(Going back to the UI change, that didn't directly increase sales. But the people coming from my tutorials had a higher trust seeing a better website, so it indirectly increases sales. But you must have a reason for people to come first)

We're trying to decide between a turnkey branded payroll experience or building the workflow ourselves on top of an API.

Engineering wants to keep it lean but I'm worried we're underestimating everything that comes after launch.

If you've already done this, what actually consumed the most time? The integration itself or support, compliance and multi-state payroll?

I build an analytics tool (Chion, so that's my bias up front), and I keep going back and forth on how much choice to give people at setup, so I wanted to ask folks here who have shipped onboarding.

We ended up with two on-ramps that run the exact same pipeline underneath:

• A quick path: connect a Postgres database, upload the SQL queries the team already trusts, and start asking questions in a couple of minutes on managed cloud.
• A controlled path: bring your own models (any cloud or open-source), run on prem or on your own GPUs, and keep plans, seats, and access under your own admin.

The thing I wasn't sure about was whether offering both at the door helps or just adds a decision the user doesn't want to make on day one. Some people clearly want the two-minute answer; others won't touch it until they control the model and the infra.

For those of you who have onboarded both self-serve and security-conscious teams: did you split the on-ramp like this, or force everyone down one path first and reveal the advanced controls later? What actually converted better?

Not sure if this is the right sub, mods feel free to remove.

I built a small app called Lamponi and I want some honest feedback before I push it any further.

Backstory: I used Granola for a while and liked the notes, but two things bugged me. It doesn't actually record the audio, so I could never listen back to what was said. And it doesn't let you label who is speaking, so the transcript was one wall of text with no idea who said what. On top of that I was using Loom separately to record my screen and voice for walkthroughs. So I had two tools each doing half the job.

Lamponi combines them. It records the actual audio (and your screen if you want), real time transcribes and speaker separates it in over 60 languages, and lets you name the speakers so you know who said what. It is also end to end encrypted.

The part I am most excited about, and honestly the part I think no other meeting app really does, is that it builds a kind of home base ( called vault, i'll probably change the name) that understands the people in your meetings. The first time you label someone, it goes and pulls together the context about them from your past meetings. So while you are in a live meeting you can ask something like "what did Sarah say about the budget last time" and it will go find it in real time. And when you are just chatting with it at home afterward, it understands the people and the relationships between them, not just isolated transcripts. This is the piece I am putting the most work into right now, so I would genuinely love feedback on it specifically.

Also, it connects & syncs with obsidian!

There is a free forever plan, no credit card, so you can just try it and tell me if it is any good.

I would love feedback on:

• does the speaker labeling hold up on your real calls
• is the "ask about a person mid-meeting" thing actually useful, or a gimmick
• how does it work in your languages? i also speak japanese & italian and it works pretty well with those.
• is the obsidian sync reliable?
• anything that feels broken or confusing

Thank you so much!

lamponi.ai

The percentages themselves aren't surprising.. but where the budget is moving definitely is.

Curious if this matches what everyone else is seeing.

I dug deeper into the data and why SEO seems to be getting a larger share of marketing spend: Read Here

Hi,

I've been staring at my own SaaS for so long that I can't see it clearly anymore. Is the same happening to you too?

I am looking for other SaaS owners who can give me critical feedback and I am willing to do the same for their SaaS.

Just 2 entrepreneurs sharing their knowledge and helping each other.

We both get real feedback from someone who's also in the trenches and we both walk away seeing our products the way users actually see them.

If you are interested just leave a comment or DM me.

Don't just add features. Create value that is clearly differentiated from competitors.

Our product already handles crews, timesheets and job sites. Customers keep asking why payroll still means exporting everything into a different tool.
The hard part isn't really calculating pay, it's the W-2 vs contractor mess across states, plus registrations and withholding. For anyone who's added payroll to a platform like this, did you go API or white-label and what actually ate your time after launch, not the stuff you expected?

The process of actually building a saas product is really confusing to me at first and everyone on inyernet is saying "I used claude and make 10k with my saas" the amount of lies out there is just insane which has also made me go insane and confused the real fact which i have learn is that saas is probably one of the worse thing you may start when you are in desperate need of money its lengthy you need time and will make alot of mistakes to even get a semi finish product plus distribution is tough you need great knowledge about marketing and better if you have an audience but it also depends on the quality of the audience as random eye balls will not make them converts as users

Let’s be real: If a dev isn’t daily-driving AI today, they’re falling behind.

Yet, our hiring loops still act like it’s 2015. We block internet access, ban Copilot, and test for rote memorization instead of how they actually work. It feels like testing a modern driver on how well they can ride a horse.

I got tired of this hypocrisy, so I spent the last few weeks building an MVP called DevTrace.

Instead of just grading the final code, it actually measures how an engineer collaborates with AI to solve real-world problems.

I just shipped it and need some brutal feedback from CTOs, EMs, and founders. Are we ready to start interviewing devs for the world we actually live in, or is this approach totally off?

MVP hosted at : https://dev-trace-4fuf.vercel.app/

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share a quick breakdown of how we approached the visual storytelling for a high-level tech platform.

Most tech explainers rely on generic flat vectors and standard stock templates, which often fail to convey high-end infrastructure. For this project, the goal was to make abstract software processes feel incredibly premium.

Our design approach:
* Using a high-contrast dark aesthetic with glowing datalines to keep viewer attention.
* Focusing on structural, geometric 3D builds to represent data architecture.
* Clean typographic transitions that keep the focus on the actual message.

Would love to hear how other founders or creators here approach explaining highly technical products on your landing pages!

I’m a founder who has vibe coded a website and I know it’ll need to be fixed later on. Any recommendations on where I can find engineers who can do this? Looking for someone who I can speak to on a monthly basis or so for up keep. Haven’t launched to the public yet and it’s a fairly simple website.

All recommendations welcome!

Founder of a B2B SaaS here (SEO/AI visibility space). We just shipped a big batch of updates (new onboarding, new plans) and are about to turn on paid ads + SEO. So right now I'm obsessed with one question: where do people actually get stuck in the app, before I pay to send traffic into it.

Yesterday I tried something I half expected to fail. I connected Claude Code to Mixpanel's MCP (you can use any other tool with MCP + Replays, like Posthog, Amplitude, etc.) and asked it to check our session replays and list where users struggle. That was the whole prompt.

It went through 5 replays and came back with:

- an onboarding step that just doesn't work

- one user stuck on the confirmation code

- one user who couldn't switch their plan

- notifications people clearly find boring

- and one person who logged in only to turn notifications off

Nothing dramatic individually. But my dashboards would never show me this. Charts say "people drop off." They don't say a guy logged in just to kill notifications.

The part that surprised me: this one session surfaced more real problems than my last few user calls did. And I say that as someone who does the calls. Interviews are weeks of scheduling, most users decline, and the ones who say yes are the polite ones.

How are you catching this stuff at early stage: replays, interviews, support tickets? And if you do user calls, how often does a call actually teach you something new?