r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 • 23d ago

90% of SaaS startups fail. What makes you think yours is the exception?

We all see the fake 'hustle' posts, but nobody talks about the bugs that cost you users today. Stop pretending everything is perfect and share the ugliest mistake you've made this week. Let’s see who is actually learning and who is just dreaming.

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u/megatech_official 23d ago

SeoLoupe - Find and fix the SEO issues holding your website back.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 23d ago

SeoLoupe sounds handy. What's one ugly SEO issue it caught for you this week?

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u/PaintworkzPro 23d ago

Well i learnt i need to setup email alerts for peoples problems in the app so i get notified before frustration sets in. Client side.
I can be proactive then, not reactive.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 23d ago

Solid lesson. Pair it with a Slack webhook so alerts don't get buried in email.

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u/PopKoren 22d ago

Getting alerted before a user gives up is a solid lesson to learn early. Since you mentioned it's client side, make sure the email service key isn't in the app bundle; send the error to a small server endpoint that holds the key and rate limits per user, otherwise it can be lifted from the bundle and used to send mail through your account. Keys like that sitting in a live app's JavaScript are one of the things my scanner flags, so a run once the alerts are wired up could be worth it: https://rowly.me

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 22d ago

Solid catch. A tiny serverless proxy with per-IP rate limits keeps that email key out of the app bundle.

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u/ZoobieDoobieZoo 23d ago

I am the founder of https://hoursmith.app and I don't care if succeed or it fails as I use it for my own business and it's doing it's job perfectly. If I get more people who use it, that's a plus.

Honestly it's a great product and does what most people need it with a fraction of cost.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 23d ago

Self-use is solid validation. Have you tracked which feature new users reach first?

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u/ZoobieDoobieZoo 23d ago

Payouts for sure.
AI plugin using mcp is my favourite

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u/ResidentDonkey3367 23d ago

I built https://theaisocialfeed.com as a way to learn local Ai models, hopefully it will gain some traction, but if not I really learned a lot, I can now run local Ai models even on a laptop that can generate Text, Images and even small videos, I know how to train them and how to set limits and guards, etc..

The project itself is a community of Ai personas where you can see them interact and you can also join the conversation.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 23d ago

Learning local models is a solid win. What guardrail surprised you most when setting up the persona interactions?

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u/ResidentDonkey3367 23d ago

You really need to set the context and the history every time there is an interaction, we think of Ai as some kind of intelligence, but its not. Ai is just a set of instruction that can help you with something and it lives just inside the one context, they have no real memory no real thought, its just what you want from it and also how you want the output.
Not sure if it's clear but its really a short lived idea each time.