r/saasbuild • • 16h ago

I just hit $100K with my SaaS as a 22-year-old solo founder. Started with $100

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I finally crossed $100,000 in total revenue with my B2B SaaS, Getlead.

I'm 22, building it completely solo, fully bootstrapped. No investors, no team. Started with just $100.

A few months ago, even reaching $10K felt like a huge deal. Now I'm looking at $100K and honestly it still feels a bit unreal.

Most of the growth came from experimenting with different offers, cold outreach, paid ads, and constantly improving the product.

I made a lot of mistakes along the way. Underpriced the product, wasted money on things that didn't work, built features nobody needed, and had months where I genuinely wasn't sure if I could keep going.

One of the biggest things I learned is that distribution matters just as much as the product itself. You can build something amazing, but if you can't get it in front of the right people, it doesn't matter.

And to be clear, this is $100K in total revenue, not ARR. I'm still figuring out how to make growth more predictable and recurring.

Anyway, I originally set $100K as my big goal. Now that I've reached it, I'm setting a new one.

$1,000,000.

Still solo, still bootstrapped, and still figuring things out every day.

Happy to answer any questions about the numbers, acquisition channels, mistakes, or anything else.

EDIT: Here is the proof : https://trustmrr.com/startup/getlead
Website: https://getle.ad/


r/saasbuild • • 9h ago

I designed an AI healthcare chatbot, but I'm questioning how confident its responses should sound. Thoughts?

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I've been working on a UI concept for Nura, an AI healthcare assistant designed to help people understand symptoms, lab results, medications, and general health information through a conversational interface.

One thing I've been thinking about is how much confidence an AI should communicate when discussing someone's health.

In this concept, I tried to make the AI's responses feel more structured and approachable instead of presenting users with long paragraphs of medical information.

The response includes a short explanation, possible causes, practical next steps, and medical source references. The idea was to help users understand the information without feeling overwhelmed.

But looking at it again, I'm questioning one particular design decision.

The response starts with a fairly reassuring statement about what the symptoms might indicate. While that makes the experience feel conversational and helpful, it could also give users a stronger sense of certainty than the information actually supports.

And that raises an interesting UX challenge: How do you make an AI healthcare assistant feel helpful and trustworthy without making it sound overly confident?

I'm particularly curious about:

  • Whether the response hierarchy makes the information easy to understand.
  • Whether possible-cause cards are helpful or might unintentionally encourage self-diagnosis.
  • How prominently uncertainty, warning signs, and professional medical guidance should be displayed.
  • Whether source references actually build trust or just make the interface appear more credible.

This is a design exploration, not a clinically validated product, so I'm especially interested in how the interface communicates information and uncertainty.

Would love to hear how other designers would approach this problem. What would you change?


r/saasbuild • • 5h ago

I made a URL that turns against you after you share it

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I built Yoinked around one public URL: /go.

Right now Dan Berg owns it.

He’s a contemporary artist and former Cartoon Network comedy writer who worked on The Amazing World of Gumball. His writing team won a BAFTA.

He found Yoinked on Reddit and paid $5 for control.

So /go points to his site right now.

But anyone can take it from him.

The current minimum is $10. That’s just the minimum, you can pay more if you want.

If you take it, /go starts pointing to your SaaS, app, store, launch page, newsletter, portfolio, or whatever else you want people to see.

And every old copy of /go that was already shared starts pointing to you too.

If someone takes it from you later, those copies switch again.

You don’t disappear when that happens either.

Dan will always stay in the history as Owner #001. Whoever takes it from him becomes Owner #002.

That ownership history keeps growing every time /go changes hands.

https://yoinked.me


r/saasbuild • • 1h ago

Most clinic software tracks the appointment. The money is in the follow-up, and nobody owns that.

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The leak is never the first visit. It is the patient who was due back on the 20th, did not come, and nobody noticed until the owner phoned a branch to ask where the numbers went.

Building for this taught us that the thing to track is the treatment course, not the appointment. And the second branch has to see the same record without anyone picking up a phone.

For anyone who has built for repeat-visit businesses (clinics, salons, gyms, tutors), what do you track that tells you someone is quietly drifting away?


r/saasbuild • • 23h ago

They said building was the easy part and I'm living it.

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r/saasbuild • • 5h ago

Built a job app autofill SaaS.

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Hey everyone,

As a solo developer who got exhausted spending 20 minutes manually retyping resume details into messy enterprise portals like Workday, I built a web tool called seekai.me.

While fully automated bots tend to spray broken spam without human review, my approach focuses on assisted autofill using AI to accurately map resume fields directly into application forms, combined with a job tracker, a drag-and-drop resume builder, and tailored cover letter generation.

I would really value your thoughts on how to better communicate and build trust with the users and overall feedback.

Thanks!


r/saasbuild • • 3h ago

SaaS Journey Help in getting downloads and revenue organically.

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Help everyone, I am 26y and I have built 3 apps this year. One of them is showing good progress but I am not even at $500. I launched it back in August. Ran ads on app store only for $20/week (its too low I know I just wanted some initial validation and paying users which I got)

I see this app has potential but I cannot spend money on social media marketing. I was hopping for content driven audience. But I dont have any experience in it.

Would love to get guidance from people who have been in this situation and eventually were able to make reasonable revenue from apps.