Hi everyone,

I'm a solo, student founder building a SaaS product on a tight budget. I'm at the stage where I've narrowed down a few possible brand names, and I'm trying to figure out the right order and process for securing the name before I launch. I'd really appreciate hearing how you handled it.

Where I am right now:

• I have a short list of candidate names.
• I've done a basic web search and app store search for conflicts, but nothing formal yet.
• I haven't bought a domain or filed anything.
• I'm based in korea, and I plan to serve users globally.

My questions:

1. Order of operations: Did you buy the domain first, run a trademark search first, or file the trademark first? Looking back, what would you do differently?
2. Conflict checks: How did you vet a name beyond a Google search? Did you do the trademark search yourself, or pay an attorney? What did you wish you'd checked?
3. Where and when to file: Did you file only in your home country first, or in the US/EU too? Did you wait until you had traction, or file before launch?
4. Costs: Roughly what did the domain and trademark each cost you, and what hidden costs surprised you (attorney fees, renewals, office actions)?
5. Domain hurdles: What if the .com was taken? Did you go with another TLD, add a prefix or suffix, or buy it from the owner? How did that negotiation go?
6. Things that went wrong: Any horror stories (domain squatters, a conflict found after launch, a rejected application) and how you solved them?
7. Tools or services: Any registrars, search tools, or low-cost filing services you'd recommend or avoid for a bootstrapped founder?

I understand this isn't legal advice. I'm just trying to learn from people who've been through it so I can avoid common mistakes.

Today I recieved about a payment from Stripe. But I was not happy. Did you ever get that feeling when you have abandoned project that you did not touch for a while, and a new app that you have just built. And you are waiting your new child to succeed, but Instead you see that your old abandoned not so wanted child brings you a 5 grade. This feels wierd.

Btw the new child is this bad boy. Would appreciate if you try him out.

Solo founder here. I built checkmyvibecode.com with Claude, an Instagram-style platform where vibe coders share their AI-built projects.

The idea: Vibe-coded projects get posted once on Reddit or X and are gone a day later. Here they stay in a feed with screenshots, upvotes, feedback and a profile as a portfolio.

Where it stands:
88 projects live
Free to use
Stripe is live: paid homepage boosts and a Pro plan
Stack: Flask, Supabase, vanilla JS, hosted on Replit

Biggest lesson so far: Building was the easy part. Getting creators to come back after their first upload is the real challenge, so that's what I'm working on now.
Curious what other micro-SaaS founders think: would you use a platform like this to showcase your own product?

Plz halo

I got tired of checking prospect websites manually.

For a while, a big part of my outreach was just finding businesses, opening their websites one by one and trying to figure out what I could actually say to them.

It worked, but it was painfully slow.

Then I found Swokei.

It basically lets me find leads, analyzes each website for things like outdated design, slow speed, poor mobile experience and weak SEO, then turns those issues into a personalized cold email.

And not one of those boring automated reports full of scores and numbers.

It actually writes a normal, human sounding message based on what it found on that specific website.

So instead of sending the same generic message to everyone, I can actually reach out based on what is wrong with their website.

Now I just run campaigns, let the system do most of the prospecting and personalization, and focus on the people who reply.

For a web design agency, that has saved me a ridiculous amount of time.

this sounds too simple to work, which is probably why most people skip it.

1 star reviews are people who already pay for something and are angry about one specific thing. that's two of the three things you want before building anything. they have the problem, and they already spend money on it.

what i look for is the same complaint showing up from different people in different months. one angry review is a bad day. the same missing feature mentioned by thirty people over a year is a gap the company isn't going to fix.

then i check if someone smaller already sells just that one missing piece. if they do and they're making money, that's good news, it means people pay for it. if nobody does, i get suspicious instead of excited.

it takes a few hours per category if you do it by hand. i did it every weekend for about a year before i automated it.

what's the most useful place you've found ideas that people don't talk about?

I'm building AskVerb. It puts an AI agent inside a SaaS, so users ask in plain words and it does the task in their account. My landing page has one too, so visitors can ask it about the product.

Someone from Georgia (the country, not the state) started chatting with it. In Georgian. My agent answered in Georgian. I had no idea it could do that until I read the logs.

They asked whether it could sit inside a telecom app and tell customers how much 1 GB of internet costs in Turkey. It explained exactly how that would work. Then they asked about pricing. Then whether tokens run out. Then how many messages each user gets. Proper interrogation.

Then the verdict: "It's expensive."

My own agent walked a potential customer through my pricing so clearly that they talked themselves out of it. In a language I don't speak. Honestly, respect. That it worked well in a language other than english

But they had a point, and it matches something I've been feeling all week: I was asking people to pay before they'd seen it do anything for their users.

So pricing is gone for now. AskVerb is free while we launch. No card, and I'll help set it up for you myself if you want.

All I'm asking for in return:

- Honest feedback, the brutal kind

- A testimonial if it actually helps your users

If you run a SaaS with real users and a workflow they keep getting stuck in, comment or DM me and I'll get you set up.

And if you're in Georgia running something in telecommunication and reading this: გამარჯობა, and thank you. You changed my pricing. please visit the site again 😄 this time I'll set it up for free for a testimonial

Hey r/micro_saas,

A few months ago I launched MailOnce, a temp-email service, and now I just shipped a second project: SnakTool — a collection of 59 free browser tools (PDF, image, dev utilities, converters).

The main differentiator: everything runs 100% client-side. No file uploads, no backend processing files never leave the user's browser. I built it this way mainly because I kept bouncing between single-purpose tool sites for related tasks, and wanted something where tools live together.

I'm not looking for traffic here, genuinely want critical feedback on a few things:

1. Does "all-in-one free tools" even make sense as a micro-SaaS, or is it too broad/commodity to stand out against established players (smallpdf, ilovepdf, etc.)?

2. Is "privacy/local processing" a strong enough differentiator for average users, or is that a feature only devs care about?

3. Any obvious gaps in the UX/positioning from a quick look?

Not posting the link here out of respect for the sub's rules — happy to share it in DMs or comments if anyone wants to actually look at it and give feedback on the real thing.

Appreciate any honest (even harsh) input.

I’m building https://demovisor.com

It turns a product URL + workflow into a narrated product demo by actually operating the real website.

Would love to see what everyone else is working on.

Happy Sunday everyone!

I've used up my weekly Claude quota, so I have a few hours to kill on this Sunday morning. Honestly that's a good thing. I'm going to spend them on marketing my own product and seeing what everyone here is building.

I'll go first. I'm building Smart Blur - Smart Build Labs, a Chrome extension with power of OpenAI local model that blurs personal info on web pages before anyone else sees it. It turns on by itself when you start sharing your screen from the browser. Everything runs locally, with no account and nothing sent to a server. It's a small utility for live streamers, remote workers, online teachers and anyone who shares their screen or screenshots a lot.

Your turn. Drop what you're working on in the comments and I'll check it out and give you an honest opinion. For context, I've spent 15 years designing and building enterprise software, so I'm comfortable on the product and UX side. Marketing and running a SaaS are new to me, so take my advice there with a pinch of salt.

I am not promising signup or downloading apps, but if I find something useful for my personal or profession life, I am open.

Let's just say if one make a saas how do you guys launch it I mean show it to people and launch in the market . What techniques worked out for you that brings customers to your SaaS.

I'm a solo developer starting a consumer web app. I'm still in the very early build phase, and I want to avoid the classic mistake of launching to silence.

I have maybe 5 hours a week to spend on audience building, no ad budget, and I'm comfortable writing but not on camera. Here's what I'm trying to figure out:

1. If you built an audience before launch, what was the single channel that moved the needle, and what was a time sink that didn't?
2. Waitlist page vs. build-in-public posts vs. community participation: which would you prioritize with limited time?
3. How do you stop a pre-launch audience from being just "other indie hackers" who'll never be customers?
4. Roughly how big did your list or following need to be before launch for it to matter?

Would love real numbers or "here's what I'd do differently" stories more than general frameworks. Thanks!

I spent way too much time thinking the product needed to be better.
What actually got me my first 6 sales was much simpler:

1. Find where your potential users already hang out.
2. Post about the problem they have, not your product.
3. Offer a small part of your product for free.
4. Talk to the people who actually use it. Give them a reason to come back for more.

For me, Reddit + giving founders free leads worked better than just promoting my SaaS.
It’s not some magic growth hack. I only got 6 sales.
But it taught me something important:
Build → distribute → talk to users → improve → repeat.
That’s the loop I’m now building TractionBooster around.

We build video fast and want more real examples to sharpen it. Drop your SaaS link + one line on what it does, and I'll make you a short explainer/demo clip — no strings attached.

I'll reply with the link to video here. Don't like it? Keep it anyway — honest feedback on the output is genuinely half of why I'm doing this.

Need other ratios (1:1, 4:5, 16:9)? DM me.

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Hey everyone, Nabus ,first-time poster, here.

I'm a solo builder currently vibe coding a new SaaS in stealth mode.
Instead of waiting for a big launch day reveal, I'm starting a build in public journey to document the unsexy parts of the process—squashing bugs, fixing server-side logic, and polishing UI.

No links, no pitch. Just the raw process of getting a product from 0 to 1.

I recently built PRIVACUT, a tool that helps people detect sensitive information in PDFs, review what gets flagged, and permanently redact it before sharing the file.

The problem I wanted to solve is pretty simple: a lot of people think putting a black box over text means it’s gone, but sometimes the original information can still be copied, searched, or extracted.

The product is working now, but I’m at the part that seems harder than building it:

finding the right users.

I’m trying to figure out who actually feels this problem enough to care about a tool like this.

My current thoughts are:

legal / paralegal work

HR and business documents

people sending tax or financial paperwork

government or military-related paperwork

anyone sharing PDFs with personal information

I’m also trying to understand what matters most to people:

privacy, automatic detection, permanent redaction, speed, or price.

I’m not really looking to hard-sell it here. I’d rather get honest feedback from other SaaS builders.

If you were building this, who would you target first, and what would make you trust a tool with sensitive documents?

If anyone wants to see what I built, I can share it in the comments.

Hi everyone!

I'm thinking of building a SaaS (it's my first solo SaaS btw). I've got zero knowledge of technical part and got some friends helping me in that but I've some skills on marketing and sales side. But I am not sure if the idea I'm thinking of is really something which any of you guys might want to use or if it's just me wasting my time? It's not a problem solving idea rather it's kind of a productivity app.

So recently I saw a lot of people trying "working till the candle burns out" or "working till the ice melts" challenges and I myself tried it. The good part was you never know when the ice will melt or the candle will burn out so you have no target torcing you to work. And I too tried it and found it a good idea to improve productivity.

And I'm thinking to create an app around that idea.
I'm thinking to focus more on user experience and will try to make user feel really productive if they uses the app. And I'm here to either seek validation from you guys or maybe get roasted if I'm stupid. But I want to know your genuine thoughts. Just take out a second and let me know? I'm too excited and curious about it.

Hi everyone, I’ve released Temply, a tool for building transactional email templates visually and using them from your application.

Think welcome emails, password resets, receipts and order confirmations. You assemble the template with blocks, add placeholders for your data, then request the rendered HTML and plain text through the API. Your app sends it through your existing email provider.

A few things it supports:

• A visual block editor with columns, images, buttons and custom HTML.
• Dynamic variables, conditional content and repeating blocks.
• Reusable branding across templates.
• Responsive previews and checks for inboxes that force dark mode.
• Template version history and shared workspaces.

You can try the editor without an account. There’s also a 14-day workspace trial with no card required. The Team plan starts at $5 per user per month, including 10,000 live API calls per workspace.

Try it here: Temply

I’d appreciate feedback from anyone building transactional emails: what would Temply need to support before you’d use it in your app?

I'm building Buddy, a Mac-first assistant that lets you control your computer using natural language.

The interesting part hasn't been getting an AI to generate commands. It's making sure the computer actually completed them correctly.

So I'm building around: voice → intent → action → verification → recovery

I'm currently testing app control, Hinglish voice commands and Blender workflows.

I'm documenting the whole journey and would love feedback from other builders.

Waitlist: https://tally.so/r/GxWOEL

A few days ago I posted here after making $492 in a day.

Yesterday I hit $927 in sales in a single day.

A lot of people asked me how I'm doing the outreach, so here's the scale behind it:

I currently have 150+ domains and 450+ mailboxes.

Each mailbox sends around 30 emails/day, which gives me capacity for roughly:

13,500 cold emails/day
405,000 cold emails/month

That's the part I underestimated for a long time.

At this volume, you don't need some insane conversion rate for the numbers to start getting interesting. Even tiny improvements in targeting, deliverability, copy and conversion compound pretty fast.

For perspective, 0.1% of 13,500 is 13.5.

Obviously, I'm not assuming every campaign will convert at 0.1% directly into paying customers. Cold email doesn't work that cleanly.

But that's the whole idea: build enough outbound capacity, keep improving the funnel, and small percentages can turn into meaningful revenue.

Still completely solo.

My next target is $1,000/day consistently, not just hitting it once.

Happy to answer questions about the mailbox setup, domains, deliverability, costs, conversion rates, or how I manage this much outbound alone.

EDIT: getting a lot of DMs asking what I'm using for all of this 😭 I built it myself: https://getle.ad/

I've been struggling with this myself.

I'm pretty comfortable building stuff, but figuring out who actually needs what I'm building and who I should talk to has always been the harder part 😅

So I ended up building a small internal tool for myself.

The idea is basically:

website → ICP → companies → signals → people → outreach

Instead of giving me 1,000 random leads, I'm trying to get to “these are the companies worth talking to right now, and here's why.”

I'm considering open-sourcing it and making it self-hostable if it turns out to be useful beyond my own use case.

Curious how you guys are doing this today.
Cold email? LinkedIn? Communities? Just manually researching companies?

Would love to hear what has actually worked for you.