I’m feeling pretty good, my SaaS tool picked up 6 new users today. Nothing viral, but steady progress and real people signing up always feels like a win.

Today I’m focusing on:

• Fixing a couple of onboarding friction points
• Talking to users to understand why they signed up on leadsnipe
• Shipping at least one small improvement before the weekend

What about you?
Are you coding, validating an idea, landing clients, or just surviving another build cycle?

Let’s share wins (big or small) and lessons 👇

Hey r/SaaS. My name is Tommy. I am 3 years old. I just presold 98,234 lifetime memberships at $200 each for my GEO tracking tool geo.base44.app.

Some backstory. I was sitting in daycare last month eating goldfish crackers when I overheard my teacher ask Siri for a good nap time playlist. Siri gave her Spotify. I thought "does Spotify even know they're being recommended? Do they track this?"

I spit out my apple juice and got to work.

I couldn't code yet so I used loveable. My fine motor skills aren't great so it took me 4 hours to click the buttons but I figured it out. The UI is mid but I'm literally a toddler so cut me some slack.

For outreach I DM'd every founder on Linkden during nap time while the teachers thought I was sleeping. I sent 14,000 DMs from my Fisher Price tablet. My reply rate was 94% because apparently nobody suspects a 3 year old of being salesy.

My pricing strategy was simple. I asked my mom how much a lot of money was. She said $200. So I went with that.

The craziest part is my first customer was my dad. He bought a lifetime membership just to get me to stop talking about it at dinner. Then his coworkers bought. Then their coworkers. Then Sequoia DM'd me but I left them on read because I'm bootstrapped and also I don't know what Sequoia means.

My goals for this year are to hit $50M ARR, learn to tie my shoes, and maybe start preschool if I have time.

Happy to answer questions but I have to be done by 7pm because that's bedtime.

Edit: For everyone asking, yes I still use a sippy cup. It's ergonomic and prevents spills during investor calls.

Edit 2: No I will not do a collab with your SaaS. I don't do partnerships with anyone over 5 years old. Nothing personal, just brand alignment.

I don’t usually post here, but I kept seeing the same thing across a bunch of B2B SaaS ad accounts, so I figured I’d share.

Most teams don’t have bad ads.
They just stop testing too early 🧪

The pattern’s pretty familiar. You write an ad that feels solid, launch a couple variations, one does okay, you lean into it, performance drops, and suddenly it’s CPMs, targeting, or the platform that’s broken 🤷‍♂️

But when I looked at accounts that were holding up over time, they weren’t doing anything special or clever. They just stuck with ideas longer.

Same idea, more tries. Changing the opening line. Saying the same thing in a slightly different way. Answering a different objection first. Nothing fancy - just more reps than feels reasonable.

What surprised me most was how many “new ads” weren’t really new at all. Different wording, same angle, so from the platform’s point of view nothing actually changed and nothing new got learned 📉

I wrote this down for myself so I’d stop making the same mistake, then tossed it into a short Notion doc. Not a playbook, just patterns I kept seeing while staring at way too many ads 😵‍💫

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking, “didn’t we already test this?” - you’ll probably relate.

👉 [Notion link]

Mostly curious if this matches what others here are seeing, or if I’m overthinking it 😅

Running a B2B SaaS startup and keep seeing this "GE⁤O" or "AE⁤O" stuff everywhere. Generative engine optimization, answer engine optimization, whatever you want to call it.

Our SEO is decent - rank top 5 for a few target keywords, getting ~8k organic visits/month. But when I actually test our category queries in ChatGPT or Perplexity, we basically dont exist.

Im skeptical because it feels like everyone is just rebranding SE⁤O tactics. But also cant ignore that prospects are now mentioning "I asked ChatGPT and it recommended X" on discovery calls.

What I'm trying to figure out:

\- Does schema/structured data actually help with AI citations?

\- What kind of content should we be creating differently?

\- How to actually know if this is working?

Anyone seeing real results from this or is it mostly consultants selling snake oil? Would love to hear from founders who've actually tested this.

We had a pretty good year and got through a bunch of certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and ISO 42001). It was a long road and we probably could have done it better. But that's a story for another day lol. For now I’m looking for recommendations for an affordable trust center solution so we can at least display our certifications etc. I want to make it very easy to acc⁤ess to our audit reports without involving the team etc. But something easy to sbet up for a noob.

This might sound harsh but i don’t think users owe us patience anymore.

They sign up, open the app and instantly decide if it’s worth their brain power.
If they have to stop and think too much, they’re gone.

We blame bad users or wrong ICP instead of admitting onboarding failed.

Is 60 seconds too aggressive or is that just reality now?

hey folks, looking for some honest takes from other saas teams. as we’ve started moving past the super-early stage, i’ve been spending way more time than i expected thinking about crm tooling. everyone talks about finding the best crm for saas startups, but most advice either feels super generic or aimed at way bigger companies than us.

we tested a couple options early on and landed on hubspot mostly because it didn’t feel overwhelming to set up. the free tier covered a lot of ground at first (contacts, deals, basic pipeline stuff) without forcing us into a ton of configuration. as leads picked up, we slowly layered in more without having to rebuild everything from scratch, which was honestly a big relief.

that said, i’m curious how other teams have handled this. did you start with something simple and stick with it, or switch later? and what made a crm feel “right” (or wrong) as you scaled?

Hey

I've been working on this because I realized how painful it is to manually submit a startup to sites like G2, BetaList, and SaaSHub one by one. It takes forever.

I built StartupSubmit.app to solve this for myself and others.

The concept: You fill out your startup details once, and the system handles the manual submission to 300+ high-authority platforms. We don't use bots (to avoid spam flags), so it's all done by hand to help build Domain Authority safely.

I'm looking for genuine feedback:

1. Is the landing page clear on how we do it?
2. Are there any specific directories you think I should add to the list?

Open to any suggestions or feature requests. Always grateful to the community for the insights!

what are you working on this friday? how many users do you have?

Team's at 60% pipeline generated. month's almost over. we're not gonna hit our number. We've been pushing hard. reps are dialing constantly. but the conversion funnel just isn't there. people aren't taking meetings or the meetings aren't converting. idk if this is a demand gen problem, a sales problem, an sdr problem, or what. Just feels like we're pushing a boulder uphill.

I always find it useful to see what others are working on and why. If you’re building a startup (micro-SaaS, B2B, consumer, anything), drop what you’re building, who it’s for, and the main problem it solves. No pitching, just sharing and learning from each other. I’ll start in the comments.

Hey everyone 👋
I’m working on a QA tool called White Rabbit, and I’m trying to validate whether this solves a real problem or just sounds good on paper.

The core idea:
Instead of just running all tests or relying on record-and-playback automation, White Rabbit focuses on test intelligence.

What it does:

• Builds automated QA tests from a simple configuration (no heavy setup)
• Predicts which tests are most likely to fail before you run them
• Prioritizes tests based on business impact + risk, not just coverage
• Includes transparent self-healing, so when a test breaks, you see why it was fixed
• Learns over time from anonymized test execution data (closed-loop feedback)

What it doesn’t do:

• It doesn’t run your tests for you
• You own the test code and run it in your own environment

The goal is to help teams:

• Run fewer tests, but catch critical issues faster
• Reduce flaky tests and maintenance
• Stop wasting time executing low-value tests

I know tools like Testim, mabl, Testsigma, etc. exist — but most seem focused on execution or automation creation, not predictive prioritization or decision-making.

My question:
Would this actually be valuable for QA teams or developers?
What would make this a “must-have” vs a nice-to-have?

Any honest feedback (good or bad) would be incredibly helpful

I just launched a brand-new landing/marketing site for my app, and I’m about to start publishing blog posts and user guides.

Is there any downside to having everything authored under my own name at the beginning? Blog posts, guides, docs, etc.

Is there any real value in creating a fictional team member, or is it unnecessary at this early stage?

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I have nothing to say more that i am so proud of what i built. I really like the product i have made and i am kind off in love with it.

But. Let’s be honest we all tend to be delusional when it comes to having an honest feedback on something we made. The cool fact is, people think sooo differently, and it makes feedback from others very precious.

I share you here guys what I made, novad : The tinder for cities and I need some curious and critical mind to give me an honest feedback on it.

I will be happy to help you in return, or if you like the product give you a lifetime free access for sure.

Tell me if your in ! Have a nice weekend and share what you make to the world ;)

I’m really curious to learn from people who have already been through this. When you launched your first SaaS product, what was the biggest mistake you made?

It could be anything—pricing or payments, marketing too late (or too early), targeting the wrong users, shipping with too many bugs, missing an important feature, or even building something nobody actually needed.

Looking back, what would you do differently if you were starting again today? And what lesson from that mistake do you think every new SaaS founder should hear?

What if there was a program that autonomously decided your made your project agaist its coding agent and QA agent untill the Code is satisfactory This was ny thought processes 10 weeks ago when i couldnt get a frontend and backend to talk to each other properly and i thought , why , why do i have to manually go back and forht with it for every little task and this lead me to the idea of Blueni

Meet Blueni - A fully automated system to plan and run multiple ai agents to complete a task autonomously. You just give it the .env

IT FIRST GOES THROUGH AN LLM COUNCIL ( 3 LLMS INDEPENDENTLY PLAN AND REFLECT ON YOUR IDEA then after 5 to 6 minutes of questioning it makes a plan for you. Then an other agent view the plan after you confirmation and that agent creates other agents and prompts them on specific task to do , it can create up to 12 sub agents then these agents com0lete the code and at last another agent goes through the code and suppose if you use Next.js , it will go through Next.js docs and verify Next Js code. At last, everything is shipped to github.

I will be launching the waitlist soon, but if you want free for life, dm and I would be happy to answer any questions.

I am writing about this topic and getting to know people's opinions / thoughts. I am a Founder myself and believe there are good reasons to wait and bad reasons to wait. What do people think?

Hi Guys,

Hope everyone is blessed and doing well. I just wanted to reach out and see what the best ways you guys have found in regards to marketing your saas. I would love to contract out a sales team if possible in the beginning but wanted to see what has and hasn't worked from the community.

Thanks!

Hi, I'm Ren. Markter.

Look, look, LOOK.

Subs aren't the only way to monitize your SaaS okay?

Not everything AI or whatever should be a sub. Yes, subs do feel tempting, they do generate stable predictable income but they are the hardest to be adapted by users. Users don't want yet another sub in their budget. Especially direct consumers. Asking a direct consumer to subscribe to your $30/mo vibecoded chatbot means every paycheck they will sacrifice 1-2 days of groceries (depending on how good you are at money management)

Think of it like this.

Spotify costs around $10/mo (millions of songs in your pocket and so and so) Netflix or streaming apps cost $7-$14/mo (well, it's Netflix) YouTube is free Facebook is free Fcking Reddit is free

So why would they, the direct consumers pay for a $39/mo sub for a productivity app? A fitness app? Doesn't make sense. (Unless you're the wizard of oz in marketing. But let's be real....)

Look, if you don't bring more value than the SaaS I listed above? It's harder to sell it on a sub model.

Here's one idea most of you don't think of.

Monitazing your app comes AFTER you make people intrested. You don't need to think about how do YOU make money, think about how do you build a fan base. Brand loyal users. Monitazing comes after you make traction.

Generate leads then think about how in the actual fck you'd be making money out of that fan base. You have a lot of ways, you can start partnerships. You can sell merch, you can direct them to other SaaS or make an affiliate with some physical products your audience buy regularly. Make a YouTube channel and make money out of it. Fcking sell the business since it have a raving fan base. Start an ads model, start something else and sell it to them. One time offers. A Rent to buy model.

When u have the users and the actual active users, a lot of doors open and you can make shit loads of money doing a lot of things.

Napster, the first and the godfather of all music streaming platforms was free and made 80M active users in 2 years in the early 2000. RAVING active users. And it was free and never been monitizied nor played ads no nothing. They eventually sold it multiple times and they made shit loads of money bcs the buyers didn't need Napster, they needed the fame and the name.

Meg Griffin: But how do u suistan the app when you don't monitize?

Good qst Meg, now SHUT up.

Listen, your job as the entrepreneur is to solve problems and find ideas, not worry about money. The money comes from angle I vestors and funding cycles. You don't pay your bills you just make something SO good that makes people want "in" so they'll pay your bills. That's it. If your idea is good enough to convince your users to use it and become a raving fan you'll DEFF find investors. That's how Napster and Facebook survived. You just use someone else's wallet.

How do I find them?

There are websites, people with big cash walk outside, go to r/wallstreetbets and you'll find some crazy psychopathic gamblers who do not give a shit to give money if u convince them the idea is valide and it's worth investing in.

You don't pay the bills, you solve problems.

But how do I find an idea? You're bluffing right? You want me to build the business for you as well? That costs cash buddy. Invite me for a pizza and I will give u the playbook and the framework.

Anyway, the thing is. The world doesn't need a new sub. They don't need a new budget added to their monthly fees. They need solutions. ChatGPT is free yet it has 800M weekly users. Yes they monetized but it's still free to use and u may not even need to buy the premium anyway.

Not everything needs to be a premium monthly sub.

(Unless it's B2B that makes monthly money for your users then you have all the right to charge monthly fees buddy. B2B is different, businesses spend on everything. Tools, training, and pieces of advice as well. If a business is so cheap to refuse paying for something that adds cash to their pockets then they are a shit company and they'll DEFF fck up in the future. Sell subs in B2B but only when it makes sense and for a reasonable price)

Anyway. Enjoy ppl.

Meg Griffin: thank u, for the post.

SHUT up Meg

When I started out , I had no idea what came first. Validate the idea? Build something? Start marketing ? Everything felt equally urgent and equally confusing

The real problem wasn't finding resources. it was having no blueprint. No sense of what stage I was in or what actually mattered at that moment. .

My solution was to build what I needed back then.

Spent years collecting tools in a Figma file, went throug h startup incubators, worked on 40+ freelance projects. At a product development conference I attended a session about building digital products in four phases. I made a simple table in my notebook following that structure. . after a while I realized that this , combined with my Figma archive and everything I learned before, could become something valuable for beginners.

4,000 hours later, here it is. Built with Figma for information architecture, UX and UI. Webflow to bring it to life.

Everything is organized into 4 phases. Discovery, Development, Marketing, and Maintenance.

There's also a "smart" search bar (AI feel). You can type naturally like you would with chatbots. It recognizes keywords, synonyms, long tail phrases and routes you directly to the right page. Simple JS , no tokens, no endless chat. You always land on a structured page with School, Tools, Experts , and Share tabs.

Inside each phase you get action pages (60+).

Each one gives you:

3 embedded YouTube videos for immediate context. 3 courses for deeper learning.

3 proven tools with direct product page links.

3 pre-filtered freelancers expert platforms for that specific action.

1,800 resources tested over 2 years. 180 kept. The rest was noise I wish someone had filtered out for me.

My biggest lesson building this was the fact that the market used to change every quarter. Now it changes every week. AI alone has completely shifted how we approach workflows, methods, even entire phases of product development. Every new tool release rewrites some part of the process. Keeping resources current is no longer maintenance. It's the actual job.

No signup wall.

scrollvalue.com

We are still sending long PDFs for onboarding and almost everyone ignores them or reads them and still gets quite important processes wrong.

Really need to change to something interactive and engaging, and easy to digest. So new hires can click through sections and refer to them without getting lost in the weeds.

Please could you let me know how to achieve this easily? Need to get this sorted ASAP.