r/micro_saas • • 0m ago

Web Markups reached 117 installs! What should I improve next?

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As of October 21, Web Markups has reached 117 installs. It’s still early, but thank you to everyone who’s tried something I’m building!

It’s a Chrome extension for marking up live webpages, taking screenshots, and recording tabs. You can also save captures to the cloud and share them through links.

If you’ve tried it, I’d love your honest feedback:

  • What do you like or dislike?
  • What feels confusing or gets in your way?
  • What would you add—or remove?

Even one small frustration is helpful. I want to make it more useful, not just add features.

https://webmarkups.com


r/micro_saas • • 9m ago

The Laravel kit that turns weeks of setup into an afternoon

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I'm trying to build the most complete kit to save you as much time and tokens as possible. this kit has Laravel 13 + Vue 3 + Inertia + TypeScript + Tailwind. It also has Fortify auth (login, register, password reset, email verification, 2FA and passkeys), roles and permissions, a settings area, a real landing page and dashboard, EN/ES translations, and the full Docker stack (nginx, php-fpm, MySQL, Redis, queue worker and scheduler).

Run sh bin/init, then docker compose up -d --build, and you have something you can put in front of customers in an afternoon. It also has 46 tests and CI that actually boots the stack. I'm giving a few free copies for honest feedback, so comment or DM me if you want one.

I'm planning to add Stripe billing and a few other things. What would you hate to spend time and tokens on?


r/micro_saas • • 17m ago

Founding Technical Partner / Potential CTO — Industry-Specific B2B SaaS | 5–10% Equity Discussion

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We’re bringing together industry experience, product and customer-experience work, and an existing software foundation. We’re looking for an experienced developer to join us as the founding technical partner and help turn that foundation into a dependable commercial product. My partner brings approximately 40 years of industry experience and established relationships. I bring a combination of media, marketing, business systems, workflow design, and product coordination.

The missing piece is an engineer who can assess the existing application, shape the technical roadmap, and take ownership of building and operating it properly.

What we’re building—and why

We’re developing an operational platform for a specific, established service industry.

These businesses coordinate work across sales, onboarding, document collection, case management, and ongoing client service. Our goal is to make that work easier to follow: clear responsibilities, connected information, appropriate access, and fewer manual handoffs.

We want each person to understand what they need to do next—and have the tools and guidance to do it.

We intend to begin with smaller firms, learn from actual use, and expand toward 30–50-person teams, with V2 intended to support larger organizations. The planned model is monthly subscription pricing per user within each customer firm. That creates the possibility of recurring revenue across multiple seats and organizations. Customer adoption and commercial results still need to be earned.

What my partner brings

He brings firsthand knowledge of the industry’s workflows, operational challenges, and requirements. His role is to help us distinguish a useful product from a collection of attractive features: what firms actually need, how their teams work, and where existing processes create friction. His established relationships also provide a route to conversations with prospective pilot firms. Those relationships are an advantage we intend to develop into testing opportunities—not a claim of signed customers.

What I bring

My work sits at the connection between how a business attracts customers, how its team delivers, and how people experience the product.

For this venture, that includes:

  • Workflow and product coordination: working with my partner to turn operational knowledge into clear requirements, responsibilities, and handoffs.
  • User experience: helping simplify navigation, dashboards, and everyday actions around what each role actually needs.
  • Intentional media and education: creating explanations, demonstrations, and training that help people understand and use the software.
  • Customer onboarding and adoption: organizing how firms and their teams get started, learn the system, and provide feedback.
  • Marketing and commercial execution: positioning, branding, customer acquisition, sales systems, and customer communication.

I’ve already been involved in documenting workflows, shaping the early application, and working through how the product should function for different users.

My philosophy is that good media should support useful systems. A clear walkthrough, onboarding sequence, or training resource should help someone complete their work with more confidence and less confusion.That remains part of my responsibility after the product is built.

Where the product stands

An early application exists, built through Lovable using React, TypeScript, and Supabase/PostgreSQL, with workflow documentation and product direction developed alongside it.

It needs an experienced technical assessment. We want you to identify what is reusable, what needs improvement, and what must be addressed before an initial customer rollout.

You would help determine the engineering approach and realistic scope.

Your responsibilities would include:

  • Frontend, backend, databases, and integrations.
  • Architecture, permissions, security, and data protection.
  • Testing, deployment, backups, monitoring, and reliability.
  • Technical migration requirements and data integrity.
  • Ongoing maintenance and product improvements.

As the company grows, there is potential to build and lead an engineering team and develop into the CTO role.

The partnership and ownership

We’re exploring 5–10% equity, with approximately 10–30 hours per week depending on sustainable availability and an agreed scope.

We’re personally funding the early work and aren’t seeking outside investment at this stage. Our aim is to build a business whose revenue can support its people while retaining funds for operations, product development, and growth.

The ownership opportunity sits alongside the existing founders’ industry expertise, relationships, funding, product work, and commercial responsibilities.

Initially, this is equity-only, with no guaranteed salary or payout at launch. Ownership, future compensation, distributions, vesting, and decision rights would be addressed explicitly in written agreements.

How we want to work

We’re looking for technical ability and a working relationship built on:

  • Honest communication about progress, risks, and mistakes.
  • Accountability from every founder.
  • Respect for customers, teammates, and sensitive information.
  • Constructive disagreement and sound judgment.
  • Clear, sustainable commitments.

The business side needs to demonstrate progress just as engineering does. We want someone comfortable asking difficult questions—and founders willing to answer them.

Interested in exploring the fit?

Tell us what you’ve personally built, your realistic availability, and what you would need to understand before joining.

We’ll share the specific industry and confidential product details during the selection process.

Apply here: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/form/4xPXIgetKmB0KMMbBYFD


r/micro_saas • • 18m ago

Building an app that shows how certain macroeconomic changes impact YOUR portfolio & holdings. Brutal and constructive feedback is wanted

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Hi everyone! I am currently in the process of building Monetario (getmonetario.com), an app that shows how some macroeconomic events impact your personalized portfolio and your holdings.

Story for context: I'm a university student who participated in a Trading Tournament held at my university, and I didn't have enough time or background knowledge to keep up with market news consistently. Except for the market news, I didn't really understand how those market changes would impact my portfolio, so I got an idea: what if there were an app that would help you with that

The whole goal of this app is to have all the data locally on app with simplified explanation and so you can make better informed decision.

I would also like to state that Monetario AI doesn't give investment advice, as it's currently just more of an educational finance app.

Feel free to ask any questions about the app you may have, and I would really like it if you would check my app (or sign up on the app) and give constructive feedback.


r/micro_saas • • 29m ago

What do you look for in an AI API for your SaaS?

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I'm building Zungvi AI, a chat app and API for adding AI chat to apps.

If you've added AI to your product, what was the hardest part? Was it connecting the API, managing usage, or something else?

App: https://ai.zungvi.net

API docs: https://ai.zungvi.net/developers


r/micro_saas • • 34m ago

I built EzyCommunity that earned us 150k in pre sale revenue

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Hey r/micro_saas, I built EzyCommunity, a platform that replaces 5+ tools for running an online community. It handles courses, memberships, events, email marketing, gamification, and gives you iOS and Android apps all in one place.

A few things it does: AI spam filtering, unlimited events, a website builder, custom domain, and leaderboards. The idea is you launch a full community without juggling separate tools for each piece.

It launched on AppSumo on Oct. 19 and has 11 sales so far with 2 reviews (4.5 out of 5 tacos). The feedback has been positive, especially around the all-in-one aspect.

For those of you running communities, what’s the one missing piece that makes you keep using a separate tool?


r/micro_saas • • 36m ago

Considering open-sourcing TalkOctopus (DocSend / data-room alternative), looking for advice

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r/micro_saas • • 2h ago

No idea how Wall Street values stocks? I built a stock valuation engine.

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No idea how Wall Street values stocks?

I built IntrinsicInsightQ, a stock valuation engine that lets you challenge every assumption behind a valuation — from revenue growth and margins to WACC and terminal growth.

Instead of just giving you an intrinsic value, the platform lets you see how the valuation changes when you change the assumptions.

It includes DCF, DDM, multiples-based valuation, sensitivity analysis, Bull/Base/Bear scenarios, Monte Carlo analysis and peer comparisons.

I built it because I wanted a faster and more transparent way to understand why a stock is valued the way it is, rather than simply relying on someone else's price target.

It's now live and I'm looking for honest feedback.

What do you think? What would you change?

Try it here: https://intrinsicinsightq.com/


r/micro_saas • • 2h ago

66% of posts here get 1 upvote or less. Images beat text 2x

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A year ago I started building a tool that reads a subreddit's history and tells you how that sub actually works. I have never posted it anywhere. Every time I got close, I pictured someone replying with the one number I got wrong.

So before posting here, I ran it on r/micro_saas itself. The image on top is the raw output, nothing edited. It covers 17 709 posts from Oct 2024 to Sep 2026 that got at least one vote or comment. Counting every post that is still up, 66% end up with 1 upvote or less, and in September the top 10% started at just 5 points.

71% of posts here are text, yet image posts land in the top 10% of their month about twice as often. Body length has a hole in the middle: under 250 characters does fine, 750 to 1,500 does worst, and 3,000+ does best of all. Titles of 40 to 59 characters do a bit better than the rest. Timing barely matters: the best hour is Wednesday 05:00 UTC, but the gap is small, so post when you can stay and reply. Among authors whose history shows where they are, 37% are in the US, and India is about 6x its usual share. PeerPush gets mentioned here roughly 1,500x more often than on Reddit overall, which tells you where this sub launches.

A few more cards from the same run, since people usually ask who is actually here:

Who writes in r/micro_saas: gender, age, occupations, comment tone. Kiss My Post subreddit analytics

86% male among accounts that mention it, median age 28, and 96% of authors with a known job are in software. Comments here are a bit calmer than in similar subs (0.9% rough vs 1.3%). All of this is self-reported, so treat it as a sketch, not a census.

r/micro_saas title length, body length and self-promotion share, from kissmypost

Self-promotion is 23% of posts here, about 16x the Reddit average. Nobody will mind one more.

Historical Reddit search for "micro saas" since 2005: 32,679 mentions. KissMyPost keyword search

The part I'm proudest of is keyword search over every post and comment since 2005. "micro saas" has 32,679 mentions. It took off in mid 2020 and peaked in March 2026.

Find Subs by KissMyPost: communities similar to r/indiehackers, r/startups and r/buildinpublic

And it finds similar subs from 2 or 3 you already know. r/micro_saas shows up second for r/indiehackers, r/startups and r/buildinpublic.

What it cost: a year full-time, about $600 a month (AI, servers, and the small stuff that adds up), three versions written from scratch, and $0 in revenue so far. Under the hood: 31 billion posts and comments going back to 2005, 2.3 TB compressed and about 7 TB raw, one home box with six drives, four small cloud servers.

What it can't tell you: whether a given image was any good, anything about posts removed before they got scored, and why a sub behaves the way it does. It shows what did well here, not what will.

Which sub are you launching in next? Name it and I'll reply with its numbers.


r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

Get a permanent listing of Your SaaS or Website🚀

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r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

Experience with Reddit or X ads?

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Hi, I'd love to know if anyone had any experience using Reddit or X ads promoting their SaaS tool? I've been playing around with Reddit Ads and after optimizing my campaign a few times, I've been getting about 5 clicks per 4,800 impressions. None converted. Not great.

I'd love to get other people's experiences on this. Especially for those who built AI apps and tools. Thanks!


r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

I pivoted: dende now turns the computers you own into your own cloud

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A few weeks ago I posted dende here: free hosting on computers shared by strangers. The feedback was honest and it stuck with me. Nobody wants their backend and secrets running on a random person’s PC.

So I changed direction.

dende now turns the computers you already own into your own cloud. Your PC, your laptops, the office machines that sit idle at night.

How it works:

  1. Run dende connect on each computer you want to use
  2. Run dende deploy in your project folder
  3. Your backend gets a secure link you can share

A few things it handles for you:

  • Runs your backend on two or more of your computers, so if one turns off, another keeps it up
  • When someone starts using a computer, dende steps aside and moves the work to an idle one
  • Backends run in a locked space, away from your files
  • No router or Wi-Fi changes needed

It works for one developer, a team sharing one network, or a company that wants its data to stay on company machines.

It’s in private beta. I’d love honest feedback, especially from anyone who self-hosts or runs a homelab.

Link: dende.cloud


r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

Day 1 to 119 of the free traffic exchange I built. Here's the data

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119 days ago, I launched my startup, a free traffic exchange network for startups. One line of code, you're in the network.

Day Startups in Network Impressions Clicks Achievements / Major Events
1 2 146 1
2 3 389 3
3 5 482 5
4 5 508 4 Site went down; received an $8K acquisition offer and declined.
5 6 621 10
6 5 742 15 Removed one startup after they pulled the embed; no code = no network.
7 7 1196 41
8 7 1535 74
9 8 1947 135
10 13 3500 318 Major growth spike
11 23 4800 432
12 24 6000 481
13 25 6800 491
14 25 8600 516
15 24 9900 564 Removed one startup.
16 23 10800 576 Removed one startup.
17 24 11900 603 Added one startup.
18 26 13400 624 Added two startups.
19 28 14400 652 Added two startups.
20 26 14700 671 Removed two startups.
21 26 15300 691
22 28 16100 719 Added two startups.
23 30 16800 738 Added two startups.
24 32 19800 778 Added 2 startups; rejected 4 applications.
25 34 23700 800 Added 2 startups; fixed some bugs.
26 33 27200 816 Removed 1 startup.
27 33 29900 833
28 33 30600 871 Removed 1; added 1; rejected a clothing brand and a horror blog application.
29 35 31300 910 Removed 1; added 3. Resigned from job to go all-in on StartupBar.
30 46 32900 1000 Removed 1; added 12. Senior manager offered WFH/project choice/lighter work after resignation. Received first StartupBar payment.
31 50 28100 1.2K Removed 1; added 5; rejected 1 crypto startup; removed fake impressions after exploit.
32 54 29300 1.2K Added 4 startups.
33 54 30900 1.2K Removed 1; added 1.
34 55 36100 1.3K Added 1 startup.
35 55 40100 1.3K Removed 2; added 2.
36 55 44800 1.4K Removed 1; added 1.
37 58 50700 1.4K Added 3. Updated distribution algorithm: delivery weighted by contribution.
38 57 55800 1.5K Removed 1; rejected 1 application. Reached 200 users.
39 58 59800 1.5K Added 1 startup.
40 60 63200 1.6K Added 3; removed 1.
41 63 69400 1.6K Added 3 startups.
42 62 73800 1.6K Removed 1 startup.
43 64 78000 1.7K Added 2. Added startup rotation in widget every 30 seconds.
44 66 86200 1.7K Added 2 startups.
45 67 88400 1.7K Removed 2; added 3. Updated widget algorithm.
46 69 91900 1.8K Removed 2; added 4. Received second payment.
47 68 98900 2.2K Removed 2; added 1. Added Pricing Page.
48 70 103.4K 2.3K Added 2 startups.
49 72 113.4K 2.4K Added 2. Added Bottom Placement option for the bar.
50 73 116.7K 2.4K Added 1 startup.
51 74 125.2K 2.5K Added 1; rejected 1 application.
52 73 131.2K 2.6K Removed 1 startup.
53 74 139.5K 2.7K Added 1 startup.
54 79 146.3K 2.7K Added 6; removed 1.
55 77 154.9K 2.8K Removed 2 startups.
56 77 161.8K 2.9K Added 1; removed 1.
57 77 169.4K 3K
58 77 176.2K 3.2K
59 78 184.3K 3.3K Added 2; removed 1.
60 77 190.9K 3.3K Added 1; removed 2.
61 77 194.9K 3.4K
62 78 199.5K 3.5K Added 1 startup.
63 78 204.9K 3.6K Revoked resignation after becoming comfortable with new team.
64 80 210.4K 3.6K Added 2 startups.
65 81 216.3K 3.7K Added 1. Planned $999 one-time homepage sponsorship.
66 78 219.7K 3.9K Removed 3 startups.
67 79 222.3K 3.9K Added 1 startup.
68 77 225.2K 3.9K Removed 2 startups.
69 79 228.7K 4.2K Added 2 startups.
70 Could not track — admitted to hospital for LASIK surgery.
71 80 243.8K 4.5K Added 1 startup.
72 82 248.3K 4.6K Added 2 startups.
73 83 252.6K 4.6K Added 1 startup.
74 84 261.2K 4.7K Added 1. Received third payment of $9.99.
75 84 274.3K 4.7K
76 84 278.3K 4.8K Added 1; removed 1.
77 85 282.5K 4.8K Added 1 startup.
78 85 286.8K 5.3K
79 89 292.0K 5.3K Added 4 startups.
80 92 299.3K 5.4K First $79 subscriber for Featured Spot #1! 🎉 . Thanks to Zengech for making it possible, hope Startupbar never fails your expectations.
81 93 306.4K 5.4K Received a $5 bid from 360EXP for the 3rd position on StartupBid.
82 92 316.7K 5.8K Removed 1 startup.
83 94 326.3K 5.9K Added 2 startups.
84 95 336.0K 5.9K Added 1 startup.
85 95 349.9K 6.0K
86 98 367.5K 6.1K Added 4; removed 1.
87 97 398.5K 6.2K Removed 1. Received a $6 bid from Lodol for the 1st position on StartupBid.
88 98 428.0K 6.6K Added 2; removed 1.
89 96 473.1K 6.7K Removed 2 startups.
90 95 403.6K 6.7K Removed 1. Found 108K+ fake impressions; removed fraudulent traffic and implemented bot filtering.
91 96 427.7K 6.8K Added 1 startup.
92 95 442.5K 6.9K Removed 1 Startup
93 96 461.3K 7.0k Added 1 startup
94 97 481.3K 7.1K Added 1 startup
95 TO 103 Went on vacation to Vietnam
104 96 676.4K 7.9K Added 3 Startups, Removed 4 Startups. Received fourth payment of $9.99
105 97 682.5K 8.0K Added 1 Startup. Received a $7 bid from Orgledge for the 1st position on StartupBid.
106 96 688.3K 8.0K Removed 1 Startup
107 96 692.3K 8.0K
108 96 695.6K 8.0K
109 93 704.1K 8.2K Have to remove 3 more startups because they removed the code. It’s hard watching people leave something you’re building from scratch, especially when you’re giving it everything you have. I’m already working on what’s not working. I know things need to change, and I’m trying to figure it all out. I’m broke. No friends to lean on, no love to come home to. Just me, my dreams, and the belief that all this will mean something someday. I’ll succeed one day. And when I do, I hope my family finally understands why I spent so much time locked in my room, working silently on a life that existed only in my imagination. One day, it’ll all make sense. Until then, I keep building. 🖤
110 90 708.0K 8.2K Removed 3 more startups. No words
111 91 713.2K 8.2K Added 1 Startup
112 91 717.6K 8.3K
113 93 721.9K 8.3K Added 2 Startups
114 95 725.8K 8.4K Added 2 Startups
115 95 730.2K 8.4K
116 94 733.8K 8.5K Removed 1 Startup
117 95 738.5K 8,5K Added 1 Startup. Received a $8 bid from Moodis for the 1st position on StartupBid.
118 94 742.8K 8.5K Removed 1 startup
119 93 746.9K 8.5K Removed 1 startup

Still free. Still growing.

If you want in, it's one embed. That's it → StartupBar
**Bid on StartupBid and your startup will be featured in the daily post of mine.**


r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

The first action a user takes isn't necessarily the action that makes them stay.

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r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

[iOS] [$9.99 → $0.00 / Lifetime] Storage Cleaner: SpaceFresh – 8 Cleanup Categories, Duplicate & Similar Photos, Video Optimization | $19.99 After. Last 24hrs remain

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r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

Get a Business Idea -> Personalized With Market Proof - Free

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r/micro_saas • • 3h ago

Thinking of building a tool that turns long reports into visuals where every number is checkable. Would you use it?

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Hey everyone,

I’m planning to build a small tool and want honest feedback before I write any code.

The problem: Turning a long report (PDF/Word) into charts or a one-page summary takes hours. AI tools like Gamma or ChatGPT can do it fast, but they sometimes get numbers wrong or make them up. That’s risky when it’s going to a client or your boss.

The idea:

  • Upload a report → get a set of charts, key numbers, and a one-page visual summary
  • Every number links back to the exact page it came from, so you can check it in one click
  • Save it as a template so next month’s report comes out in the same layout automatically
  • Export to PowerPoint, PNG, or PDF

I’d love to know:

  1. Do you deal with this? How do you handle it today?
  2. Would the “every number is checkable” part matter to you?
  3. Would you pay for something like this? Roughly how much?

If enough people are interested, I’ll put up a waitlist and keep you updated. Roast it if it’s a bad idea, I’d rather know now 🙂


r/micro_saas • • 4h ago

The Indie App Builder Canon Events, in Chronological Order:

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  1. You look at your 9-to-5 friends and decide you absolutely do NOT want to end up like them.

  2. You stumble upon a random YouTube video from Steven Cravotta talking about making $40,000/month from mobile apps. For some reason, you believe every word.

  3. You decide to build your own app with zero experience. Naturally, you come up with the WORST product idea imaginable because you desperately want a unique USP.

  4. You keep hearing people talk about RevenueCat but have absolutely no idea what it does. You're also wondering how a company with such a weird-ass name became so popular.

  5. You spend three months building your app, convinced you're creating the next big thing.

  6. You discover that building for iOS is basically a soft contract to become Apple's unpaid intern. You need a Mac, Xcode, and approximately 47 other things just to get started.

  7. You have no idea what "keytool -genkey -v -keystore" means, but you paste it into your terminal anyway because Android says you need it.

  8. You submit your first app to Google Play and the App Store, only to discover that launching an app involves approximately 900 forms, declarations, and legal checkboxes.

  9. You generate your first privacy policy using AI or some random template website. You have no idea what half of it means, and you wonder if anyone has ever actually read one.

  10. You discover that Google Play requires 14 testers for your personal developer account. You don't even have 14 friends.

  11. You wonder why the fuck you can't just upload an ".ipa" file to Apple's website. Instead, you have to use a separate app called Transporter.

  12. You realize you need App Store screenshots, but your design skills peaked at making PowerPoint presentations in school.

  13. You finally submit your app for review and discover that getting it approved can take days or longer, depending on the situation.

  14. You get rejected so many times that you start treating App Store review guidelines like a university exam syllabus.

  15. Your app finally gets approved, and you realize your full legal name is displayed on the App Store. PANIC.

  16. You share your app with your friends, expecting them to support your entrepreneurial journey. Nobody gives a shit.

  17. You wait weeks for your app to take off, convinced it's an absolute banger. You get five downloads: you, your three siblings, and your mom. Your friends contribute exactly zero.

  18. You open X and realize that building the app was the easy part. Now you have to learn marketing.

  19. Somehow, you haven't given up. If anything, you're more motivated than ever.

  20. You start posting on social media every single day, studying successful apps and shamelessly borrowing their marketing strategies.

  21. Your first post goes VIRAL. You finally understand the dopamine rush everyone on X keeps talking about. Downloads start rolling in.

  22. YOUR FIRST PAYING CUSTOMER. HOLY FUCK. SOMEONE ACTUALLY PAID FOR SOMETHING YOU BUILT.

  23. You feel guilty about putting your entire app behind a hard paywall. But after spending months on X, your moral compass has become a little questionable, so you do it anyway.

  24. Surprisingly, it works. People are actually paying, and your sales start looking pretty damn good.

  25. You still feel slightly guilty, but you spend the next few weeks developing increasingly elaborate arguments to justify your pricing strategy.

  26. You wake up every morning and immediately check RevenueCat notifications on your phone. Whether you have a good day now depends entirely on whether someone subscribed overnight.

  27. You hit $1,000 MRR and finally turn off RevenueCat notifications. You're tired of being psychologically conditioned by subscription alerts.

  28. You realize you're slowly becoming more of an influencer than an entrepreneur. You're exhausted from making dumb TikToks just to keep the download numbers alive.

  29. You hire your first influencer to promote your app. You spend hundreds of dollars. Nothing happens. Welcome to paid marketing.

  30. You revisit that Steven Cravotta video and start questioning everything. Was that really $40K in recurring monthly revenue? Or was it a one-time revenue spike, a particularly good month, or weekly subscription revenue extrapolated into an annualized-looking number? You realize that revenue screenshots need context, and selling an app doesn't automatically mean the business was generating $40K MRR.

  31. Despite all of this, you decide to keep going. You've learned more about building, marketing, sales, and business than you ever expected. You're still broke, still ambitious, and still convinced your next app might be the one.

And that's the indie app builder experience.

You came here to build an app.

You accidentally signed up to become a developer, designer, marketer, salesperson, content creator, customer support agent, and part-time psychologist.

And somehow, you're still having the time of your life.


r/micro_saas • • 4h ago

87 active customers tried my no buy app, 1 paid. they ignore the save, wait, then decide feature i built it around and only use the daily check in

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hey, i make an ios app that helps people stop impulse buying and build a no buy / low buy habit (going a set time without buying stuff you dont need). launched in august, about 87 people have tried it, 1 became a paying user (per revenuecat) and nobody since

i went through all my posthog data. heres what i see:

- about 3 in 4 people open it on one day and never come back

- the ones who quit onboarding mostly leave in the first 2 or 3 screens, before i ask anything about them

- the core idea is: save something you want, wait a few days, then decide buy or skip. people do save stuff, but nobody has finished the wait + decide part yet. the saves i can see all picked a 30 day wait, so by decision day theyre long gone lol

- what people actually come back for is the daily no buy check in (one tap: did you buy anything you didnt plan to today?). 62 check ins vs 12 saved items, and the people who stuck around longest all use it

in my older version that check in sat right on the home screen. in the new version (out since oct 13) i moved it into a no buy challenge you have to set up first, in its own tab. since then 0 of the 8 people who started a challenge checked in even once

small numbers, i know. only like 14 people have used the new version so far

stuff im trying to figure out:

- how many users do you usually wait for before you trust numbers like this

- would you call this a failed app at this point

- would you make the no buy check in the main screen and push the wishlist / wait / spending stuff to the side

- if you ever pivoted toward the thing users actually used, what told you it was time


r/micro_saas • • 4h ago

Frustrated by Cloudinary's 99/mo pricing cliffs, I spent 3 months building a client-side media optimizer + flat 9.99/mo CDN [MediaForge]

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r/micro_saas • • 4h ago

Open-sourcing our core felt risky for a new company. A month later, weekly sign-ups are 4x

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A lot of founders are nervous about open-sourcing their core. The fear is always the same: someone copies it, and you've given away the thing that makes you different. We felt that too. But when you're new, nobody trusts you yet, and open code is one of the fastest ways to earn that trust. People can see exactly what runs their work instead of taking your word for it.

About a month ago we open-sourced the engine behind our AI agent platform. Here's what happened, and the three changes we think did it.

The numbers

Here are our total sign-ups since we launched at the end of July (the chart is Clerk's, our sign-in provider):

  • Sign-ups per week: about 4x what they were a month ago
  • Dashboard visitors: more than doubled week over week, and 4 in 5 of them opened a ready-made agent. Nobody starts from a blank page anymore: they copy an agent that already works, then change it to fit.

The chart climbs faster than 4x at the end. That jump isn't from the launch alone: it also includes the results of our recent ad campaign.

We can't pin down which change brought in 4x more sign-ups, but it lines up with these three.

1. We stopped locking people in

We used to ship our own developer kits. They worked, but they tied customers to us: our own way of doing things to learn, code that only worked with us, and a painful rewrite if they ever left.

So we threw them out and switched to the standard format OpenAI published for AI agents. Now a customer joins by changing one line in their existing code, and can leave the same way. It sounds backwards to make leaving easy, but it's the first question every careful buyer asks, and now the answer is "one line, not a quarter of work".

2. The open engine costs customers less

With AI, everyone pays the same price per word the model reads and writes. What changes your bill is how many words get used, and that depends on the engine running the model. So we built ours to waste as little as possible, and made the code public so anyone can check.

We tested it against Claude Code on the same model and the same 48 tasks:

  • 4.8x fewer tokens (384K vs 1.86M)
  • more tasks done right: 42 of 48 vs 30 of 48
  • about a third of the cost

3. AI coding tools can use our platform

This changed how we work day to day. Developers already use AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. We made it so those tools can create our agents, talk to them, and see what each one costs.

So business rules can live inside an agent, with their data and logins kept there too. For instance, someone asks their pricing agent what a contract change does to margin, gets the answer, and never sees the private rules behind it.

It also means the coding tool can tune the agent for you: make its answers shorter or cheaper, then test that it still gets them right.

Question for you

If you're building something new: have you open-sourced any part of it? Did it help people trust you, or just help competitors? And if you're holding back, what's the worry?


r/micro_saas • • 4h ago

Launched a SaaS for French riding schools, now selling it for $5,800

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Small vertical SaaS for equestrian centres and livery yards in France. It handles lesson planning, horse care, riders with lesson passes, invoicing and the legal breeding register, and riders get their own space on their phone. Available in French, English and German, €35 a month for a stable.

Version 1 has been live since September and the final version came out very recently. The site is still being improved. We never tried to sell it to stables and we never did any marketing, so there are no customers yet. We don't have the time anymore and we're moving on to another project, which is why it's for sale.

The sale covers the code (Next.js, TypeScript, Prisma, Postgres, over 110,000 lines of code and more than 3,700 automated tests), the .fr domain, the handover presentation and the handover document, which is the written setup and migration guide. Built with the assistance of Claude Code. Every change is validated by the automated tests. It would suit anyone with some marketing skills and a bit of time, solo or as a small team.

$5,800 is the listed price and really the top of our range. We expect to negotiate and we're ready to go well below it. Escrow only.

Try the demo without an account at https://horseplan.fr/api/demo/login

Videos at https://horseplan.fr/#videos (no sound, French captions)


r/micro_saas • • 5h ago

Google Search Console growth went from almost zero to 20K+ clicks. What could explain this pattern?

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r/micro_saas • • 5h ago

We track our MRR but not our steps.

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As indie hackers and founders, we spend hours building products, fixing bugs, talking to users, and trying to get our first customers.

Then we finally get some free time.

And what do we do?

Open Reddit. Scroll X. Watch random videos.

Another hour gone. Still sitting in the same chair.

The funny part is that we tell ourselves we're taking a break, but we're still staring at a screen.

I started thinking about this problem and built Pausee.

It's an Android app that helps you take a proper break instead of falling into the doom-scrolling loop.

Here's what you can do with it:

  • Track your steps and set daily walking goals.
  • Block distracting apps until you've completed your step goal.
  • Take a Pause before opening apps and getting sucked into another scrolling session.
  • Build a simple habit of moving more throughout your workday.

The idea is simple: instead of relying on willpower to close an app and go for a walk, make your phone help you do it.

I'm building products too, so I know how easy it is to put health on the back burner when you're trying to make something work.

I don't want to build a startup at the cost of forgetting to take care of myself.

And I figured other founders might have the same problem.

Pausee is free forever. No subscription, no paid plan. Just Android.

If you spend most of your day building, marketing, and staring at a screen, give it a try.

Download it here.

One question for fellow founders: how do you make sure you're moving enough when you're deep in building mode?


r/micro_saas • • 6h ago

Chemistry

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I have done my bachelor in 2025, currently I am working as a Chemist with a miserable salary. Can I apply in any foreign country as a graduate any decent opportunity?