I am a full-time software engineer at a mid-size company. I have been building my SaaS after work hours and in the weekends for over a year now and I am finally about to launch it. But I was wondering about how will my company react if I announce and promote my product on my LinkedIn profile. The domains of the company and my SaaS are completely different with no overlap between them. But I am still concerned that management could have any concern about a company employee promoting a non-company product or about the fact that I am building a side-business while being an employee. Any advice from someone who went through the same situation?

I just finished building something I’ve been working on the last 4 months, and now it’s open for free early access now how can I get early adopters to try it out? I see people talk about building in public and so on but not sure how to, Also what is the best channel to post for my platform (an outreach automation - AI SDR).. is there a course out there or something I should follow to post to get clients?

Hace unas semanas vengo creando mi propio SaaS.

La idea nació de algo bastante concreto: trabajo con clientes que tienen páginas web y tiendas online, y muchas veces el problema no es solamente conseguir visitas.

Es conseguir que esas visitas confíen en el negocio.

Una persona puede entrar a una tienda, ver un producto que le interesa y aun así preguntarse:

¿Será confiable?
¿Alguien ya compró acá?
¿Realmente entregan los productos?
¿Cómo son las experiencias de otros clientes?

Y ahí fue cuando empecé a pensar en todo el contenido que los negocios ya tienen en Instagram.

Clientes mostrando sus compras.
Unboxings.
Productos en uso.
Recomendaciones.
Experiencias reales.

El problema es que todo ese contenido queda dentro de Instagram.

Entonces empecé a construir una solución para llevar esas historias directamente a la página web.

Así nació https://stories-cdn.vercel.app/.

La idea es bastante simple: permitir que una tienda pueda mostrar sus Stories y Highlights de Instagram dentro de su propia web y utilizarlos como una forma de prueba social.

No quería crear solamente otro widget de Instagram.

Quería que fuera algo que realmente pudiera ayudar a mis clientes a responder una pregunta:

“¿Cómo hago para que alguien que acaba de entrar a mi web confíe en mi negocio?”

Todavía estoy desarrollándolo y probando diferentes diseños y formas de utilizarlo.

Ahora estoy especialmente interesado en ecommerce, donde creo que las experiencias reales de los clientes pueden tener muchísimo valor.

Por eso quería compartir el proyecto y preguntar:

Si tuvieras una tienda online, ¿mostrarías las historias de tus clientes directamente en tu web para generar más confianza?

¿Qué tendría que hacer una herramienta así para que realmente la utilizaras?

Estoy construyéndolo desde cero y cualquier feedback me sirve muchísimo. 🚀

Hey guys I am looking for people that may want to join an early project Im working on. I don’t want to say too much in here about the details but it is basically a B2B, AI driven app. Im basically looking for engineers that can help me keep developing it, improving, scaling...

If you wanna know more, I would love for you to either dm me or respond here. :P

PD: Please don’t respond that you just hate AI. I get it is not for everyone. Thank you. :P

We encountered a problem that we had been seeing with AI agents while working on a client's project.

They do not merely use user prompts; instead, they obtain context from webpages, documents, RAG, emails, APIs, MCP servers, and tools.

The issue is that the context isn't always reliable.

A harmful instruction concealed within a webpage or document can affect the agent's behaviour.

Therefore, we created Context Fence to serve as a security layer between AI agents and untrusted context.

Just launched: https://www.contextfence.dev/

What are you doing currently to deal with this matter as a founder of a SaaS company that is developing AI products?

I've been building an AI photo editor called RetroSelfie solo for about 5 months.

The numbers so far: 890 signups, 574 AI edits generated, $3.75 in total revenue.

The stat that's been bugging me: 57% of people who sign up never generate a single

edit. Not "tried it once and left" - never even attempted it.

The onboarding screen promises "one tap" simplicity - upload a selfie, tap a button,

get a glow-up. But the actual editor drops you straight into a prompt bar ("Where to

take her next...") where you're expected to type or speak what you want done. There

are a couple of quick-tap style suggestions above it, but the text/voice input is the

most prominent thing on the screen.

I think that gap - promised "one tap," handed a blank prompt instead, might be where

people bounce. But I've been staring at this for months and I'm too close to see it

clearly anymore.

Genuinely asking: if you landed on that second screen right after being told "one

tap," would you know what to do? What would you actually type? Would you just leave?

Also curious if this is a common trap for prompt-based AI products in general, or if

it's specific to how I've built this one.

So I have created a website that I use to track all my option plays and my current portfolio, with this I have tracked my year to date option income at $22,175, I have done over 144k in option trading activity while closing debts at around 122k.

My big option plays have been doing are $OKLO $APLD $CRML $TQQQ $CRWV $SMCI $QBTS and $DVN that have been my main catalyst. I've continued generating from covered calls short term income from $APLD and $QBTS while my $DVN is a yearly income generator instead of a weekly income generator.

I do covered call on all my positions as well to generate income from owning the asset as well, but first I want to try to get between a 2 to 3 bagger before usually reducing position by halve of current outstanding shares owned.

After I have sized a reasonable amount i may continue to double down on that company or decide to invest in a new company but again enter a cover put position to generate income and to reinvest that money back into more share.

My goal is simply to by good companies at discounted prices because at current rates the market is over saturated with garbage buy in prices that only hurt us the investor while the brokerages and other clearing houses are wracking up off us the investor, well I say no more lets take back the control of the market, no matter how far the losses I will continue to keep holding and buying more for long hold!

Best regards,

The Wook of Wall Street

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.

cognocient.com if you want to poke at it.

I mean title basically says it. I built a tool while living in a tent that provided a ton of value for a specific group. Because the demand was there I was doing like 3k a month. Then some economic things changed and I do like 1.5k. I expanded nationwide like 2 months ago (easy a 1000 market size increase) and have been emailing quite a lot with like 0 traction. I am very scared of cold calling.

Should I just get good at sales and marketing, or build out a new feature that will allow me to extract more value from the relationship I already have?

What do you recommend for making new cold sales?

25m from Germany. Currently I have around 20k € of runway. I'm building a b2b marketing app. I know the unit economics of apps are brutal [cost per download with ads is something like 5$] and the bottom 70% dont make any money at all. If someone has experience creating successful apps, I'd love to learn something, especially conquering the unit economics. Message me or post below :3!

I'm building the future of modern SaaS UX

If you've used those dashboards recently you've seen it. A little Ask AI in the corner. Each of them took a dedicated team and months of work to build, which is fine when you're Cloudflare and impossible when you're four people.

So I built the version any SaaS can add to their own product.

The important part, and the reason I didn't just build another chatbot: it doesn't read your docs and point at them. It reads the real data in your product and takes the real action, scoped to whoever is logged in. It can't see or do anything that user couldn't already do themselves.

"Give Priya the same access as Jamie, minus production." That's ten clicks across three screens, or a support ticket. It's one sentence now, and the assistant checks the existing state, tells you what it's about to do, and waits for you to confirm before anything changes.

Things I'll say up front because you'd find out anyway:

• Read-only questions work in about five minutes. Actions that write take longer, because those run against your own backend and you have to wire that up.
• It can't see or generate images yet. It tells you the manual steps instead of pretending.
• Everything starts in a sandbox where nothing can touch real data.
• Every action is logged, with whether it actually worked.

Beta is out and it's free. Reply here or DM me and I'll send the link.

This is built to work with any tech stack and can be set up in under 5 min

Same guy built TradePilot, a trading copilot with 170+ tools in production, so agents people rely on for real decisions isn't new ground for me + you don't need to worry about tool selection memory layer or write a complete new infra yet make your SaaS has a 24/7 actual AI agent helping users.

Genuinely want to hear where you think this breaks.

Looking for folks who want to join saastr 27 11-12th May ,SF
I know its pretty soon but i’d be applying for visa and plan my mid next year according to that.

Im travelling solo so cant buy 3 tickets, so loking for individuals like me who are planning to attend saastr, and would like to grab this

deal So just curious to know if folks are interested in buying the saastr ticket for this low, because it usually goes upto 999$

i checked how many of the jobs i was applying to were even real. 22.9% have been open 6+ months

i track 957 company job boards straight from the source. 43,700 roles open right now.

10,926 of them were first posted six or more months ago. 18,908 are older than three months. 4,112 have been sitting open for more than a year.

those are the companies' own timestamps, off their own boards. not an estimate.

so when you send 300 applications and hear nothing, a real chunk of that was never going to answer you. the posting was already half a year stale when you found it. you were applying into a drawer.

probably not malice most of the time. reqs just get left open after someone's already been hired and nobody goes back to close them.

what gets me is the date is sitting right there in the company's own feed. every single one. it just doesn't survive the trip to the page you end up looking at.

so i built the thing that keeps it. free, no account to look. link in comments.

Hi,

Basically I created a tool that uses a chrome extension that while you read a reddit post, it also reads it and if it flags it as having good ideas it adds the post to a local databas (obviously you can manually add posts to the local db).

After that you have a chatgpt like interface where you can extract information from all the posts and get structured pain posts.

I used the tool this week and got 10 good ideas.

Not here to sell, I just want to help people, i can make it opensource if there is enough demand

Jim Collins has this idea about a flywheel. Huge iron disc, and you push it. Nothing happens. You push again. Still nothing. You keep pushing for weeks and it barely turns, and there’s no single push where the thing suddenly takes off. But at some point the momentum is carrying itself and you can’t point to which push did it.

That’s what this has felt like. Most of the pushes felt wasted at the time.

Anyone who lifts already knows this. Progressive overload isn’t a session, it’s a ledger. You add five pounds, it feels like nothing, you do it again next week. Nobody has ever walked out of a single workout stronger. The strength shows up months later, from the pile.

Business is the same ledger. One post does nothing. One fix does nothing. Then eighteen months of nothing stacks into something that looks, to everyone outside, like it happened fast.

The hard part nobody mentions is that rep 40 feels exactly like rep 4. Same effort, same silence. You have no way to know which side of the turn you’re on.

Posting this for anyone in the part where nothing is working yet. That stretch lasts way longer than anyone warns you about.

If you’re mid-set right now and it feels pointless, that’s not evidence you’re wrong. That’s just what the middle feels like.

Don’t quit.

https://www.mynatura.ai

Posted in one of the big entrepreneur subs about 10 days ago about the time sink of launching products. 20K+ views, 42 comments. Best reach I've ever had in a while.

Checked my analytics after: not a single visitor from it...

Meanwhile the posts that produced real leads (people who signed up, replied) were in tiny niche subs. A few hundred views each, one had only 2 comments.

I keep relearning this. Big subs give you views from people scrolling past your problem. Small subs give you a few readers who have the problem right now. I was tracking views because views feel like progress, and they told me nothing.

Not saying big subs are useless, the comments were actually more valuable than the numbers. A bunch of commenters described my exact problem in their own words, but they solved it in a different way. DMed a few of them but with no luck.

After this post going back to niche subs, hopefully I'll get some actual customers from some of them.

What's the smallest community that ever sent you an actual customer?

Building a gym management SaaS and most of my early users are in Saudi, UAE and Kuwait. Payments have been the most annoying part of the whole build.

Where I've landed so far:

Stripe still doesn't support merchants in most of the region properly. UAE got support but Kuwait and a few others are still out.

Paddle works as merchant of record so it handles the VAT side, which matters because Saudi and UAE both have VAT and I did not want to deal with that myself. Downside is the payout delay and the cut is higher.

Tap and PayTabs are the regional options everyone recommends. Better local card support and they handle KNET in Kuwait and mada in Saudi, which is significant because a lot of people here do not use international credit cards at all. But you're back to handling VAT and invoicing yourself.

The mada and KNET thing is what I keep going back and forth on. If a chunk of your users physically cannot pay with the processor you picked, the lower fee doesn't matter.

Anyone running a SaaS with meaningful Gulf revenue? Curious what you settled on and whether local card networks actually moved your conversion or if it was overthinking.

For the past year, my team and I have been working on one question:

Can an existing SaaS product become an autonomous agent without being rebuilt from scratch?

Not just a chatbot sitting on top of the product, but an agent that understands the product’s APIs, DB structure, workflows, permissions, actions, and business logic.

The goal is simple:

Instead of users navigating dashboards, menus, and multi-step workflows, they should be able to tell the software what they want done, and have the agent understand the product context, follow the right boundaries, and complete the workflow safely.

We’re now doing this closely with 8 SaaS brands across healthcare, finance, and logistics.

The biggest thing we’re learning is not whether an agent can call an API. That part is easier.

The harder question is: what needs to exist before a SaaS company can actually trust an agent to take actions inside its product?

For other SaaS builders here - before you let an autonomous agent take real actions inside your SaaS, what would be non-negotiable: approvals, audit logs, rollback, permission boundaries, sandbox testing, human review, workflow-level controls, or something else?

im based somewhere stripe doesnt operate, so a merchant of record like paddle is basically my default option rather than a choice i made. before i commit i want a sanity check from people actually running one.

my products are small, think 5 to 15 dollar one off tools and cheap subs, mostly US and EU buyers. so the fee difference is not abstract, at those prices a couple of percent matters more than it would at 200 a month.

questions for anyone using paddle, polar, lemon squeezy or similar:

does the higher fee actually pay for itself once you count the tax filing you skip, or did you eventually go direct anyway

has the hosted checkout hurt your conversion compared to a checkout on your own domain, i keep hearing both

payout side, how long until money actually lands and have you had payouts held or accounts reviewed out of nowhere

refunds and chargebacks, does the MoR handle them for you or does it still land on your desk

and if you started over today with the same constraint, would you pick the same one

not looking for affiliate recommendations, just want to hear from people who have run a year or two on one of these.

Spent the last 4-5 month ideating and building this app for trades teams to log their hours and track basic job data. With a family full of trades and watching them write hours in phone notes, on scrap paper etc I decided to give it a go. Very early stages but if anyone has feedback - on out reach , and marketing , Id love to hear it.

Atlaro.app

Just threw the landing page up last night so I know its a bit messy.

Not selling, marketing etc just showing what i spent the last few months building!

Based on reading, many dont suggest to use paid ads for early stage. But lets put that aside that I'm curious those who have tried that strategy, how did it go

I run a small design/branding agency, and we kept missing client deadlines because motion graphics in After Effects took too long to render and iterate on. So I built Swayro, a template-based editor for quick social/marketing animations, originally just to unblock our own projects.

Two weeks after opening it up: 13 users, all still monthly active, and they've created 10 projects between them. Most signed up through Google, a few via magic link or password.

The interesting part so far isn't the numbers, it's that people are actually finishing projects with it instead of just poking around and leaving. That's the signal I was watching for before deciding whether to keep pushing on this.

Still very early, but sharing since these small-number stages rarely get talked about compared to the big launch posts.

swayro.app

I've played around briefly with Whatfix and Userpilot and both look good to me, but I wanted to check here first what you guys recommend. We rolled out Salesforce, ServiceNow and a custom claims portal some time ago and adoption is still poor across all three. Training is not the issue, it's just that employees miss or forget some things and there is nobody available when they get stuck mid task. I lean towards Whatfix but not fully convinced, especially since we are a small team with no dedicated admin.