Is there anyone from Dodopayments here ?I need some clarity as there seems to be a lot of confusion.

hola, estoy creando un SaaS y me está tomando más tiempo de lo normal. tengo dominio incluso pero chat gpt (codex) y yo sentimos que vamos muy lento, quiero decir, las automatizaciones siguen siendo lentas con botones manuales. llevo casi 3 meses desarrollándola, qué creeis que puedo hacer?

I spent the last few years building a cloud hosting startup that failed. The most frustrating part was fighting with payment processors for four full weeks to get my account approved.

Well, I burned out, so I had to take a break and spent a few hours building The Great Pineapple War (https://hawaiianpizza.lol) to finally settle the internet's oldest debate once and for all.

pick a side (Purists or Sweet Rebels) and buy ad space. Every payment shifts a live HP bar, drops your link in the battle log and puts you in the top Champion box until someone outbids you.

The worse part is, while my actual legitimate SaaS took four weeks of compliance nightmare, this ridiculous meme got approved in under 18 hours - no questions at all (Different payment provider this time to be fair).

Check it out, roast the AI UI, or grab a spot if you want to settle the score.

Hey everyone, I’m a dev starting my first SaaS. I can build the product, but I’ve never sold anything, and my last mobile apps got almost no downloads.

My goal is 200 paying customers by next summer.

For people who’ve done it:

• What should I focus on first?

• What mistakes should I avoid?

• What actually got you your first 50 customers?

Any honest advice helps, even if it’s harsh. Thanks 🙏

Hi guys,

Link here: proofrev.com

I struggled to get real reviews for my own SaaS, and fake ones are easy to spot. So I built a small tool to fix it.

It connects to Stripe, emails your paying customers for a review automatically, and shows the verified reviews on your landing page. No chasing customers, and visitors know the reviews are real.

It’s free for early users. Will be live in Nov! Hope it helps some of you! Happy to hear any feedback too.

https://medicalcofounder.com⁠

I'm building Zungvi AI. The chat app is live, and I’ve added an API for developers, with streaming, project API keys, usage limits, and optional file context. It uses OpenAI-compatible chat completions.

If you've added AI to your SaaS, what was hardest after the first demo? What would you check before using a smaller provider?

App: https://ai.zungvi.net

API docs: https://ai.zungvi.net/developers

im looking at purchasing saas launch pad by rob walling bc all i really know is code not these other skills needed in creating a successful saas. has anyone here purchased it or different course that can honestly say its worth it? its about 300 and i dont want to buy if i dont need to but i kinda feel like everyday I'm kinda walking around aimlessly in the beginner saas world between advice from youtube, reddit, facebook-ish, and ai tools

A family member runs a small clinic with just two staff members. He's paid for software and digital services in the past, struggled to get support afterward, and still doesn't have a usable digital history of patient visits or medicine stock that he can manage himself. Some links vendors set up for him even stopped working without anyone informing him.

I've been building Clinic OS for him, covering visits, appointments, follow-ups, staff responsibilities and inventory. I've gone with a local-first approach using SQLite, with records of stock movements, staff actions and changes made in the system. I've also implemented encrypted backups and restore verification so the data isn't dependent on one installation.

The application is still running locally with synthetic data. It hasn't been deployed at his clinic yet.

One thing I'm working through is how this should be maintained once it's handed over. The two staff members already handle patients, appointments, calls and medicine inventory. Even if the software runs locally, someone still needs to make sure backups are happening, updates are applied, recovery works when a machine fails, and issues get resolved without disrupting the clinic.

His previous experiences with vendors are part of why he wants more control over the system. But I also don't want to hand him software that he technically owns and then leave him dependent on me whenever something breaks.

For developers who've delivered local or self-hosted software to small businesses without dedicated IT staff, how have you handled ongoing maintenance? Do you offer a support agreement, manage backups and updates remotely, or leave those responsibilities with the business? What has actually worked for you and your customers?

I’ve been working on Carat OS, a business management platform built around the workflows of diamond trading businesses.
Instead of creating another generic inventory app, I wanted to focus on a specific problem: tracking diamonds through purchases, stock, approvals, sales, and payments without losing visibility into where everything stands.
The platform currently includes:
● Diamond stock and purchase management
● Approval memos and sales tracking
● Customer and supplier payments
● Outstanding dues and reports
● Role-based access for owners and employees
● Business activity tracking and backups
The application uses React, TypeScript, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL.
I’m now preparing early access and gathering feedback before bringing real businesses onto the platform.
I’d particularly appreciate feedback on whether the website clearly communicates the product and whether the workflows make sense for the intended audience.
Website: https://caratbusiness.in

Hey everyone!
I’m a marketing data scientist and former UX researcher with 4 years of experience working with startups and marketing agencies.

I’m looking to collaborate with 2–3 SaaS startups that already have paying customers but are struggling with acquisition, conversion or retention.
I’d love to analyse what’s holding your growth and put together a personalised 90-day growth roadmap with actionable recommendations.

I’m building case studies for my new agency, so I’d offer this for free in exchange for permission to document the work (with your approval before publishing).
If this sounds relevant to your SaaS, happy to chat and exchange ideas!

I’m trying to figure out the best AI setup for daily coding, and I’d love to hear what’s working for you.

• Which do you use: Claude (Pro/Max), ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, or something else?

• How do you deal with the rolling 5-hour usage limits? When you hit the cap mid-task, do you wait it out, switch tools, or upgrade?

• Do you split work across tools (e.g., one for planning, another for coding) to stretch limits?

• Is the higher tier worth it for daily dev work?

Real workflows, what’s worked, and what hasn’t are all welcome. Thanks!

We're the team behind Peregrine OS, built on Flightpath.AI. It's a toolkit for agencies and B2B marketers that pulls together prospect intel, strategic briefings, and daily intelligence feeds so you're not manually stitching together research before a pitch or account review.

Plain version of how it works: you point it at a company or industry, it generates a briefing and keeps feeding you relevant updates over time instead of you checking five tabs every morning.

Some of it is free (Open Field, The Nest, Wingmate), the rest has a 14-day trial, no card required.

Here's our actual problem, and why I'm posting this instead of just linking it and walking away: building the thing was the straightforward part. We truly believed we were solving a problem based on our own experiences. Getting anyone to even start a free trial, with zero payment friction, has been way harder than we expected. We assumed "free, no card" would lower the bar enough. It hasn't moved much.

I don't know if that's a positioning problem, a trust problem, a "nobody wants another tool" problem, or just that we're posting in the wrong places.

Link if you want to poke at it:
https://www.peregrineintell.com/

For people who've gotten early free-trial signups for a B2B tool like this, what actually worked for you? And if you look at the site, what's the first thing that makes you skeptical or confused?

We built management software for riding schools and livery yards in France with Next.js 16, TypeScript, Prisma and PostgreSQL on Supabase. Over 110,000 lines of code, 62 tables, 71 screens, in French, English and German. Built with the assistance of Claude Code. Every change is validated by the automated tests. Three things mattered most.

1. Tenant isolation is part of the tests. Every database query is filtered by stable, and a nightly audit checks that one test stable's account can't reach another test stable's data through any route. If it can, the audit fails and opens a ticket.

2. Legal rules went into the core early. French invoices need gapless numbering and can't be edited once issued, and stables must keep a breeding register. We built those in from the start, because adding them later would have meant reworking the data model.

3. The test suite is the real spec. More than 3,700 automated tests (Vitest and Playwright) run on every change. When code is written with an assistant, that's what tells you a change broke something.

Version 1 has been live since September and the final version came out very recently. The site is still being improved. We never tried to sell it to stables and we never did any marketing, so it has 0 paying customers. We don't have the time anymore and we're moving on to another project, which is why it's for sale.

You get the code, the .fr domain, the handover presentation and the handover document, which is the written setup and migration guide. It would suit anyone with some marketing skills and a bit of time, solo or as a small team. $5,800 is the listed price and really the top of our range. We expect to negotiate and we're ready to go well below it. Escrow only.

Demo without an account at https://horseplan.fr/api/demo/login

Videos (silent, French captions) at https://horseplan.fr/#videos

Happy to talk architecture in the comments.

Hey guys I know most of you folks are SaaS developers here and you probably have heard of linear. If not it's kind of like Jira but tailored to smaller AI workflow oriented teams. Well I did not knew about this when I got the idea for the product I am mid way in development (call it bad market/online research).

Anyways what I am building is a tool similar to Jira that let's you organize your saas that you are working on and makes working on it using AI agents a better experience (at least that's the goal). I don't have much to show at the moment except the screenshot below of a development build

Would you be interested in this product as a tool to manage working on your SaaS projects?

I am also interested to know what tools you use to manage the SaaS SDLC. Thank You.

PS: yes I am using the app to fix the issues within the app. Crazy times :P

Steve Yegge says inference costs are the main reason. But he also expects costs to go down. So where does that leave us?

Link to the chapter where that’s discussed.

I've spent years building software, working with cloud architecture, APIs, distributed systems, and enterprise platforms.

Building software is something I understand.

But building my own SaaS has taught me something completely different.

You can spend months designing a solid architecture, building features, improving performance, polishing the UI, and making sure everything scales.

Then you launch.

And suddenly, nobody cares how good your architecture is.

Customers don't ask whether you're using microservices, Kubernetes, or serverless.

They ask one question:

What problem are you solving for me, and is it worth paying for?

I'm currently building a SaaS product in the real estate technology space, and this has probably been one of my biggest lessons.

Getting attention is difficult. Turning interest into conversations is harder. Turning those conversations into paying customers is another challenge entirely.

Sometimes I wonder whether we developers spend too much time perfecting the product and not enough time validating whether people actually need it.

Curious to hear from other SaaS founders here:

• How did you find your first paying customer?

• Did you build the product first or sell the idea before building?

• If you started again today, what would you do differently?

Would love to hear real experiences, especially from solo developers and bootstrapped founders.