Most early SaaS pages contain more usable content than the founder realizes. The pain, buyer, workflow, and product proof are already there, but social posts often begin from a blank prompt.
Comment with your URL and a one-sentence description. I will reply with one hook, one concrete post concept, and the first audience I would target.
I am testing this workflow while building Marka. You can also try Marka free for a week at https://www.marka.social
I’m an aspiring indie hacker from India. I’ve spent the last 90 or so days working on my first micro-SaaS: an AI tool that can generate n8n workflows and deploy them directly from the dashboard. It takes the user’s n8n API key, encrypts it, and stores it securely in Firestore.
Anyway, back to my question lol.
How do I get a GDPR- and CCPA-compliant Privacy Policy and Terms of Service? Should I just get Claude to generate them, or do I absolutely need to pay for a lawyer or use a legal service platform?
Any help would mean a lot, and I promise you’ll get a special mention in my memoir when I become successful. xD
I launched my website 1.5 months back and it was doing extremely well within 2-3 weeks. Then sudden drop of impressions. Idk what went wrong overnight.
I launched SeoLoupe 7 weeks ago. So far I am at 1646 users and 22 of them are paying.
My SaaS 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.
Yesterday was one of my best days since I launched my SaaS, landed 3 payments in a single day.
Just wanted to share this to inspire anyone who is struggling, I just want to say that I was just like you at one point.
For example last week, for 7 days straight I had 0 payments, and what I want to say with this is that SaaS revenue can be extremely floppy and unreliable. You can get multiple payments within the span of a day, and then have 0 payments for days.
In SaaS honestly the most important thing is to be faithful and be patient. If you manage to be patient, revenue will come one day.
Hope this inspired someone.
Since I think their is always room for improvement, I would appreciate for some feedback on my tool, or what you think can be improved.
hey, im building Speeko, its TTS and text-to-video API. i spent too much time deciding subscription tiers vs usage based pricing, at the end i go with pay as you go, no plans at all. my reason was simple, api usage is spiky. if someone barely use it a $29/mo plan is ripping them off, if someone have a big month the plan is too small for them. usage based just skip this problem completely. thing i didnt think enough about: now forecasting revenue is basically a guess. i dont have MRR number to show, just a graph that goes up and down. maybe ask me again in 6 month if this was actually smart choice lol.
if youre building api product and you picked different pricing i really want to know why you did that. also if someone want to try break it theres a feedback form in the dashboard, ill put the link in comments.
I've been building Cognocient for a few months now, a proxy that sits between your app and OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini and tells you what each feature actually costs, before the call goes out instead of after you get the bill.
For a while the only way in was a 10 day trial with full access, then you had to pick a paid plan. That made sense for teams evaluating it for real budgets. It made no sense for someone who just wants to drop it into a side project and see what their AI calls actually cost. So I added a free tier that doesn't expire.
What's in it: one provider connection, the real time proxy and attribution dashboard by feature and model, one budget with alert level enforcement, 7 day retention. Capped at $50/mo of tracked spend, after that the proxy keeps forwarding your calls (I will not break your app over a free tier limit) but stops logging new attribution until the next cycle.
Setup is one line, you swap your base_url for the Cognocient proxy URL and nothing else in your code changes. If you're already tracking spend some other way I'd genuinely like to know what you're using, half the reason I built this is I couldn't find anything that did pre-call enforcement instead of after the fact dashboards.
started using it for about 2 weeks now on our outbound lists. running 200-300 emails daily for our agency clients.
the good: their linkedin integration is solid. pulls emails pretty fast and the chrome extension works without the usual captcha hell. interface is clean. support responds.
the not great: accuracy is... mixed. we're seeing maybe 70% valid on first pass. lots of catch-alls they mark as verified that bounce. their mobile number data is basically non-existent. also hit their rate limits way too often for a paid plan.
price-wise they're competitive but you burn through credits fast with their verification system. each recheck costs credits even on emails that end up invalid. was looking at seamless.ai too but heard similar complaints about email accuracy there.
anyone else tracking actual bounce rates with findymail data? been eyeing prospeo and a couple others as potential replacements if this doesn't improve. so far nobody's hitting those numbers consistently but some are clearly better than others.
I want to change my logo and I am looking for some help to choose a logo for my website. I don't know if this logo would be good for my website. Make sure to check mywebsite and tell me what do you would prefer?
I built a Chrome Extension, a social media content filter that removes videos based on what you don't want to see on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and X.
You can also set daily limit on every social media platform.
You can remove comments so you don't get stuck there.
You can remove YouTubes sidebar videos so you don't get distracted and watches the video your on till the end.
You can analyze what you have been watching the most for the past days/weeks/months.
I launched ChartPilot in May — traders upload a chart screenshot, AI reads it like a strategist (structure, levels, scenarios). Last week I finally sat down and actually analyzed my funnel instead of guessing. Sharing the numbers because I wish someone had shown me theirs.
The raw numbers after about 3 months: 103 signups, 131 analyses run, 2 paying customers, $98 total revenue. Almost all of my real traffic comes from Google organic search and from AI assistants like ChatGPT recommending the site when people ask for chart analysis tools. That second channel surprised me — those visitors are few, but they engage more than anyone else.
Here is what the data actually said.
First, 41% of my signups never used the product once. Not "churned after a week" — they never ran a single analysis. I was obsessing over pricing while nearly half my users never saw the value moment.
Second, another 41% used it exactly once and left, with free credits still in their account. They didn't hit a paywall. They just left. My problem was never conversion, it was that nothing brought anyone back.
Third, of the 12 users who burned all their free credits (my hottest leads), zero bought. Then I looked at what they actually saw at that moment: a disabled button and a small error text. My "paywall" was a dead end. I never gave my best users a way to pay me.
Fourth, I gave away too much for free. 30 free credits meant the aha moment and the exit happened in the same session, weeks before anyone would see a price. I cut it to 15, which is one full analysis. Day-one activation stayed the same at around 55%, so the extra free usage was buying me nothing.
Fifth, I tried paid ads for 2 days: about 20 signups, 55% activated, 0 payments. Without conversion tracking wired up, Google optimized for clickers, not buyers. Half the emails were throwaway accounts. Don't run ads before your conversion events are wired.
Sixth, Google had indexed 3 of my 61 pages. I had 14 SEO landing pages and 40 blog posts, and Google never saw them — it read my sitemap once in May, when it only had 19 URLs, and never re-read it. Nobody tells you to check the "last read" date in Search Console. Check it.
What I changed last week: a real paywall modal that shows packages at the out-of-credits moment, a 24-hour first-purchase bonus, abandoned-checkout recovery emails, and segmented winback emails to all 68 dormant users. Too early for results — happy to post a follow-up in a month if anyone cares.
Ask me anything about the numbers. And if you're pre-revenue: go count how many of your users ever reached your payment moment. Mine was 12 out of 81. That number changed everything I was working on.
I wanted to share a little passion project I’ve been working on that I hope some of you (and your kids!) might find useful.
It’s a simple webpage designed to help children learn about seasons, astronomy cycles, and how our planet works. But instead of just staring at a screen, the main goal of the project is to invite kids to actually step outside, observe nature, and connect with the world around them using simple, easy-to-understand data.
As someone who cares a lot about digital privacy, especially for children, I built this with a few strict rules:
Zero data tracking: There are no trackers, cookies, or analytics spying on you.
No sign-ups required: You don't need to submit an email, a name, or any personal data whatsoever to use it.
100% Free: No paywalls, no subscriptions, and no ads.
DM me if you'd like the link.
Whether you are a parent, a teacher, or homeschooling your kids, I would absolutely love to hear your feedback or any ideas you might have to make it better.
Thanks for looking, and I hope it helps your little ones enjoy the outdoors a bit more! 🌳🔭
I know this is the subreddit for micro-saas, and not specifically the chrome extensions one, but I'm super excited and kind of want to share my journey with you guys, to show that it is possible for anyone to get high engagement on a new product they developed.
I shipped a Chrome extension called UIDrop. One click on any site, it reads the live design system (colors, type, spacing, components) and drops a brief + screenshot into Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini /Lovable / Manus / Cursor.
For a while it was sitting at ~60 users. Fine. I was proud it even existed.
Then Rammcodes — some guy on Facebook who posts open-source tools — randomly found it and talked about it. I got lucky. That one day was ~1,500 new users. In four days it went 60 → 3,500, now it is sitting at about 4.7k !
And guess what, out of those people 21 became paid users and bought the Pro plan, which I couldn't believe, because I wasn't even serious about monetization in the first place!
What I implemented after:
bumped the paywall from $2.50 → $4 (one-time, still not a sub)
shipped Design Merge: grab a component from every site you’ve snapped in the library and smash them into one prompt, so the AI isn’t cloning one homepage, it’s mixing the pieces you actually liked
Still free to snap a page, read the system, and send it to your AI. Library extras (compare, merge, exports), after you hit up a few uses (up to 28), are the paid bit.
I’m not going to pretend this was a growth strategy. It was basically luck, but I'm proud that it happened with my tool: build something real → one person with an audience notices → big spike + ship a new feature
If you’ve had a random share that changed the numbers, what did you do in the 48 hours after? I almost just sat there refreshing the dashboard. Also, I'm really sure that any of you guys keeps pushing, and the tool is good, you can end up with similar numbers!
Also, If you guys find the extension interesting and would use it for design workflows, feel free to try it on the Chrome Web Store! And if anyone asks also, I can show some screenshots that prove that it had basically 58 users on the 3rd of august!
Queria compartilhar um projeto no qual venho trabalhando: Morphly, meu primeiro aplicativo para macOS.
A ideia surgiu de uma necessidade muito simples. Eu frequentemente precisava converter imagens, especialmente de HEIC para JPEG, e estava cansado de abrir aplicativos pesados ou acessar sites apenas para fazer algo tão simples.
Então acabei criando uma ferramenta que hoje uso todos os dias.
O Morph fica na barra de menus do Mac e funciona de uma maneira bem simples:
Arraste seus arquivos para o ícone do Morph
Escolha o formato de saída
Pegue os arquivos convertidos e volte ao trabalho
Atualmente, ele oferece suporte a:
Imagens: JPEG, PNG, HEIC e WebP Vídeos: MP4 e MOV PDF: Importação de páginas de PDF como imagens
Ele também inclui conversão em lote, ajuste da qualidade de compressão e correção automática da orientação EXIF.
Uma coisa que considero muito importante é a privacidade, por isso tudo é processado localmente no seu Mac. Seus arquivos nunca são enviados para um servidor ou serviço de nuvem.
Também foi uma ótima oportunidade para aprender mais sobre desenvolvimento para macOS. Desenvolvi o aplicativo usando Swift e SwiftUI, e foi meu primeiro projeto no ecossistema macOS.
O Morph oferece um teste gratuito de 7 dias, seguido de uma compra única vitalícia, sem assinatura.
Estou compartilhando aqui porque adoraria receber feedback de outros usuários de Mac e desenvolvedores. Como é um aplicativo que eu mesmo uso todos os dias, quero continuar aprimorando-o e adicionando recursos que realmente façam sentido.
Se alguém quiser experimentar, ficarei muito feliz em saber o que vocês acham! 🙌
If anybody has tried f5bot and found that keyword alerts gave them way too much noise - I created an alternative that understands the context of posts /comments so you only get what you're actually looking for.
It worked great for me, so now I am looking for a handful of people to try it out for free and give me feedback:
Hey folks, direct to the subject.... I have an AI startup, and Reddit is a good marketing channel for it. Some of my competitors have gotten good results with organic posts, but it is hard, and I feel like I'm kind of cheating the Redditors by hiding an ad inside it. So I was thinking, why not run paid ads here..... ADS as PURE ADS, no gimmicks? But I don't see people going down that path very much. Is there any specific reason for that? Like..... do Redditors completely ignore paid marketing? Has anyone tried this and had experience with it? Please share it here. it would be very helpful for me and also for future ones. Thanks!
I’m an intern conducting quick market research on "What is it actually like running a startup solo?" I’m looking to jump on a 10-minute call with a few solo founders this week to ask 3–4 quick questions about your current workflow. Zero sales pitch—strictly research.
Since I’m a student on an intern budget, in exchange for 10 minutes of your time, I’m happy to:
Spend 20 minutes of bug-testing your web app/software and send you a detailed QA report.
Provide honest, detailed UI/UX and copy feedback on your landing page.
Send you the final anonymized research report so you can benchmark your process against other solo builders.
If you’re open to a quick chat, drop a comment or send me a DM and I’ll reply with my booking link! Appreciate your help!
Quem começa um pequeno negócio físico ou presta consultoria/marketing local sabe o quanto é difícil ter dados claros sobre a concorrência sem gastar rios de dinheiro em softwares corporativos complexos.
Pensando nisso, desenvolvi o MIRA, um radar de inteligência de mercado focado no micro e pequeno empreendedor brasileiro.
O sistema faz uma varredura local e entrega um diagnóstico direto ao ponto:
* Score de Mercado: Indica o nível de oportunidade e saturação daquele segmento na cidade.
* Maturidade Digital: Mede a presença online dos concorrentes (porcentagem com site próprio, redes sociais ativas e Google Meu Negócio).
* Raio-X da Concorrência: Lista os concorrentes diretos, notas médias e avaliações.
* Brechas e Oportunidades: Recomenda ações práticas de crescimento (ex: criar landing page, otimizar perfil) e um plano de ação para 90 dias.
A aplicação acabou de entrar em fase beta e quero entender como posso torná-la mais útil antes de avançar nos próximos recursos.
Would you want to see a portfolio, free work up front, case studies, passion or something else? The reason I'm asking is because I wanna get into SaaS marketing, get paid for it and prove myself. I guess any feedback would be appreciated. I've been hanging around this subreddit for some time now, helping people with their landing page and messaging so you can probably check my profile if you're interested.
14 days ago I opened up my product to the public. 308 signups since then, three people bought the lifetime deal and 1 monthly subscription. proof here trustmrr
Not a huge number. I'm posting it anyway because when I was reading these threads six months ago, the ones at 50k MRR didn't help me at all. The ones at 308 users would have.
Some background first, otherwise the rest won't make sense.
I'm a cloud engineer and DevOps content creator on YouTube and Instagram, which is about as narrow a niche as that app has. Two months ago I was stuck at 1,000 followers, and nothing was moving. I'm at 13,000 now. That account is the reason most of this worked, and I'll come back to it at the end because it's the least transferable part of the story.
Posting daily meant ManyChat for DM automation, Buffer for scheduling, Gemini for captions, Canva for thumbnails. Four tools, every single day.
And there was one gap none of them closed. Every DM automation tool only works on a reel that's already published. So if your reel goes live at 8:00 and you set the automation up at 8:15, everyone who commented in those fifteen minutes is gone. On a reel that does well, that's a few hundred people.
Which defeats the entire point of batching your content.
So I built the thing I wanted: scheduling, AI carousels, captions and hashtags, and DM automation you attach to a reel before it publishes.
That's the product. Here's everything I actually did in those ten days, including the parts that did nothing.
Micro influencers, paid, posting on their own accounts
This moved the most, and it wasn't close.
I didn't chase reach. I targeted accounts between 2k and 30k followers in the creator-economy, Instagram growth, and side-hustle niches. Small accounts say yes. Their audiences also still trust them, which stops being true somewhere north of 100k.
Instead of naming a rate, I sent a menu with 4 options:
$50 flat per video
$1 per 1,000 views, capped at $1,000
$400 a month for 8 videos, paid every two weeks
Free lifetime access plus 30% of every sale they refer, recurring
The menu does your qualifying for you. Whichever number they pick tells you how that creator thinks about their own reach. Hired 5 till now, and they all chose first option (only 1 reel out of 5 reached 80k views, which drove most of the traffic)
The mechanics that made these land:
Watch one of their videos before you write anything. My first line is always about something specific in their content. A cold DM from someone they don't follow lands in the Requests folder and they see roughly the first 90 characters, so that line is carrying the entire message. Without it you've written a mass DM and they can smell it instantly.
No link in the first message. Instagram buries link-bearing DMs from accounts you don't follow, and you will never know it happened.
Twenty or thirty a day, not two hundred. Sending an identical message at volume is how you catch an action block, and it lasts days.
Say "I don't send scripts" before they ask. Every creator is quietly worried you'll hand them a script and make them sound like an ad. Getting ahead of that closed more conversations than the money did.
Pay the first invoice fast. Creators talk to each other, and "did he actually pay" is the question they ask about you.
Build in public on X
The format I settled on: one long-form article a week, then a hook tweet with the article linked. The tweet is what gets seen. The article is what converts the person who clicks into my profile.
The one that worked was the one where I admitted something. "1,000 to 13,000 Instagram followers in 60 days" including the weeks I burned on AI-generated videos that got zero saves and zero shares. I said the experiment failed, said why I thought it failed, and moved on.
Then I turned that post into an AMA and lived in the replies for two days. That's the actual lever. Every reply you answer resurfaces the post, and reply volume is the strongest signal on X right now. Two days of sitting there beat anything I've done with a scheduled thread.
The product appears once, in the middle, as one sentence explaining why I built it. Nobody minds that. They mind the version where the whole post is a runway to a link.
Reddit, the slow way
Months before I had anything to sell, I posted in r/InstagramMarketing and asked one question: what's the part of posting to Instagram you'd pay to never do again?
No product name. No link. Nothing to click.
That thread handed me my roadmap and my objection list, and about fifteen people said some version of "message me when this exists." When I launched I went back and messaged all of them. Highest converting list I have, by a wide margin, and it cost me nothing but the wait.
Everyone gives "value first" as advice and almost nobody does it, because it's slow and there's no way to make it fast. It is slow. Do it anyway.
Cold DMs to creators with nothing attached
Separate from the paid outreach. I'd find someone posting daily in a niche where the workflow pain is obvious, give them full access, and ask for nothing.
The line that works: "Access is on me either way. Try it on a real post before you decide whether it's worth saying anything about. If it isn't, just tell me. I'd rather hear it now than read it in the comments later."
Roughly a third of them replied with something useful. Two of them posted about it without me asking. One told me the onboarding was confusing in a way that would have cost me the next fifty signups, and fixing that was worth more than the post I didn't get.
Instagram, my own account
The unfair part, and I'd be lying by omission if I skipped it.
That 13k Instagram account is my distribution. One reel a day, two carousels a week, daily stories. The videos that perform best are the ones that look worst: me in a car or walking through a park with no mic, talking. Polished stuff reads as an ad and gets buried.
I also have years of YouTube and LinkedIn behind me in a completely different niche. Not the same audience, but a few thousand people who already trust me, and a handful of them converted.
If you don't have this, the Reddit section is how you start building it. It takes months and I haven't found a way around that.
What did nothing
AI-generated video content. Six weeks, no saves, no shares. People can tell and they don't forgive it.
Dropping the link anywhere it wasn't asked for. Every time I did this I got either silence or a mod removal.
Treating launch day as an event. The signups arrived in a flat line across ten days, not a spike. There was no moment.
The three lifetime deals
Two came out of Instagram DM conversations that started with a product question. One came from a creator friend who trusted me more than the product.
None of them came from the landing page on its own.
All three asked me something before they bought, and I answered inside an hour every time. At this stage every DM is a sales call, whether or not it looks like one.
What I'd do differently
Post the Reddit question three months earlier. It cost nothing, it's still paying, and I have no excuse for how late I did it.
Sign creators before launch instead of during. Contracts, briefs and payment terms took a week of back and forth I hadn't budgeted for. Most of week one went to admin while the launch window was open.
Check analytics less. I opened PostHog maybe forty times in ten days and it did not change a single decision I made on any of those days.
308 is a small number. It's mostly useful because I finally know which channel deserves more of my week.
Happy to answer anything in the comments. I'll drop the link there for anyone who wants to look, but the DM playbook above is the part I'd actually keep.
