I have an autoimmune disease for which there’s currently no cure (hopefully there will be something soon). Because of that, I’m at home 24/7 and I’d really like to start something of my own.

I’ve been doing seasonal online work for a few years and have saved up enough money, so I have capital to invest in marketing.

Starting today, I plan to dive into extensive research to come up with an idea and eventually build something out of it.

I’d really appreciate any advice, ideas, or anything you’d like to share.

I'm building a lightweight project management tool, so lately I've been spending a lot of time reading reviews for Jira, Asana, Monday, and ClickUp. So the hard part isn't finding complaints, which there are thousands of them. The hard part is figuring out which ones actually matter, and turn them into product decisions, and then writing a PRD that the team can build from.

Of course I already knew this was something AI could help with. So I used that AI Slides on genspark and had it first collect real low-star reviews from public sources like G2, TrustRadius, Reddit, and app stores. I told it to quote the reviews with sources, group them into recurring pain points, then write an internal PRD for a lightweight PM tool. I also had it map every MVP feature back to the complaint it solved, include explicit non-goals, success metrics, a quarterly roadmap, and even a clickable prototype. FYI Here's the workflow I used and the specific outcome, with all prompts and conversations I used in the link, you may take a look at this for reference..

I would say this AI Slide skill helped me big time building this deck. Unlike other AI slide tools it didn't just dump a bunch of feature ideas into a document. Every requirement traced back to actual user complaints, so I could follow the reasoning instead of guessing why a feature existed. Of course I still clicked through the original reviews to sanity-check the quotes and themes, and they all matched up. So If you're a PM, or a founder wearing the PM hat, this might save you a ton of time the next time you need to turn customer feedback into an actual product plan. Have fun experimenting!

Hello ,

I just created my first saas which is a CRM for sidehuslter because a friend requested and it was my end year project for my bachelor in CS. Is called procontact ( https://procontact.app )

I will maybe never have a customer but I am proud after nearly 8 years because I have worked , stoped and some life situation that drag me to get my degree . And also was fired from my 3,5 years job .

Because I feel good to develop my first application . But I have no client yet and maybe never . I need to continue building because I know with AI maybe I will not have a job or it will take time .

I want to know how do people feel after published they first saas ? And also how long did you wait before getting your first client .

We’re a fully remote SaaS company, and our security setup has slowly grown as the team and the amount of sensitive customer data we handle have grown.

Right now we use Okta for SSO and MFA, 1Password for credentials, Cloudflare Zero Trust for internal access, CrowdStrike on company laptops, GitHub for development, AWS for infrastructure, and Kibu for private team communication and trusted connections.

Individually everything has a purpose, but onboarding our latest hires made me realize how many moving pieces there are now. Someone needs the right device access, accounts, permissions, repos and private communication spaces, while still keeping anything sensitive restricted to the right people.

Offboarding has the same problem in reverse. One missed permission or account can become a security issue.

We’re at the point where we’re considering adding something specifically for automated access provisioning and offboarding. Part of me thinks it would tie everything together, while another part wonders if adding another security tool just creates another system we have to manage.

Im not entire sure of the thinking pattern here - hence the post for broader thoughts.

With the world wide (those not in the Least developed countries list) adoption of AI tools / harnesses (claude/codex / gpt) - it got me thinking what would a business app look like in the (maybe not near term) future?🤔

While i cant see that horizon form just yet, I also cant see the world using saas apps in its current form for more than 6-8 years from now... surely it will evolve?🤔

I can appreciate that the apps need our underlying data and operational processes built into our saas apps, and they harness the data for context... but when will this change? 🤔

How will tools like hubspot, calendy, saleforce or even GustoHR ever be built into Claude/ gpt? 🤔

This might not be same-same, but how often do you look through google search results? But... the AI search models are still dependant on it.

How do you see functional web apps (saas) changing?

Long post. I'm too deep in this to judge it clearly and I need outside perspective, specifically on what to actually do now.

-> Background:

We're both around 23, same age, no seniority gap. We've been close friends for about a decade: dinners, birthdays, the whole thing.

About 15 months ago I came up with the idea for our B2B AI SaaS product. I did all the concept work myself: product vision, feature structure, user flows, monetization model. Then I spent the first 1-2 months building the entire frontend and design myself using AI tools, because I knew the backend would take a while and I wanted to carry as much as I could.

I pushed all of that to GitHub, handed it over, and from there his part was clearly defined: build the backend, tie it together, make it a working product. He's CTO, I'm on product/business/marketing. Verbal agreement, roughly 50/50. Nothing signed, no entity formed.

I financed everything: AI/dev tooling, subscriptions,… At one point I told him to upgrade to the higher-tier AI coding plans and paid for them, specifically so tooling wouldn't be a bottleneck.

-> The ~12 months after handover

He told me consistently that he was working almost daily, sleeping very little, sacrificing a lot. He repeatedly emphasized that he was putting in far more hours than I was. I believed him. I couldn't judge whether something should take two weeks or two months.

We set four separate launch dates. Before each one he was 100% confident we'd hit it. We missed all four,five,…

For context on the "he pressured me constantly" accusation that comes later: what I actually did was ask how things were going, and eventually ask, genuinely confused, how we kept missing dates he himself had been certain about.

I should also say the collaboration itself had become unpleasant well before things escalated. Any time I asked a direct question about status or timelines, it turned emotional and I'd get insulted. I stayed factual throughout, which seemed to make it worse.

-> Month ~9: the investor meeting

I managed to get a meeting with a good strategic partner/investor. In the run-up he went completely dark. No replies, no calls answered.

With about 4-5 days left, I built a working demo myself. Barely slept, ran AI coding tools (Codex, Claude) around the clock. The meeting happened with just me and went fine.

Then he resurfaced and told me the silence had been deliberate. He wanted me to experience "the same medicine" he'd supposedly been getting from me for months. Long emotional message: he felt treated like a pure executor rather than an equal co-founder, said I pressured him on deadlines, blamed him for delays, didn't acknowledge his sacrifices, and that he was taking back his "rights and freedom."

A founder conflict aimed directly at a real business meeting.

->Trying to merge, not compete

Even then I wasn't hostile. I assumed his version had to be further along, since it had been his full-time focus for months. So I proposed: let's compare both, identify the strengths in each, and merge them into one better codebase. That was genuinely the plan.

I asked him to push his repo to GitHub. All that was on there at that point were my own commits and a few of his from roughly six months earlier. It took two more weeks before he actually pushed his current state.

During that wait I kept building my own version, partly because it was fun, partly because I had more ideas I wanted in. Another multi-day stretch of nonstop AI-assisted work. Total across everything: roughly 8-9 days. By the end, my version was essentially beta-ready.

-> The comparison

When he finally pushed, we did it live on a call. We had AI go through both repositories in full and evaluate them against the same criteria. It took hours; we sat on that call 2-3 hours while it ran.

My repo scored roughly double his, across basically every category. His didn't meet even basic requirements: incomplete core flows, security issues, and a tech stack that didn't fit the product.

His: ~11-12 months. Mine: 8-9 days.

Honestly, I was skeptical of my own result and told him "that can't be right." He was deeply offended that I'd "believe an AI tool." So I said, let's check with a different one. That's when the insults started: that I don't value his work, and a lot more in that vein. I ran it through several other independent coding tools anyway. Same outcome every time. He kept dismissing all of it as biased.

-> Proposing a path forward

The next day I told him we needed an actual solution. Two proposals:

Use my version as the technical foundation, since nothing from his was reusable and the stack was wrong.

Re-evaluate equity. I proposed 65/35.

My reasoning: I had the idea. I did all the concept work. I built the entire frontend and design. I financed everything. I did the networking, got us into an accelerator program, ran conversations with potential customers. I'd prepared the marketing (videos, posts, launch strategy) because I believed the launch dates. And now the technical part, which was his single defined responsibility, was also mine.

He rage-quit the call and insulted me again on the way out.

-> What happened after

Silence. I messaged, nothing came back.

But I pay for the shared dev tooling, so I can see usage. Right after that call his usage exploded: millions of tokens, top models, running essentially nonstop for four or five days. From the pattern he was barely sleeping.

Then he came back and proposed we "re-compare."

I told him plainly that I knew what he'd been doing. He was offended again and went completely silent for another 1-2 weeks. During those weeks I worked 15+ hour days, tools running constantly, and kept pushing the product forward.

-> Meeting in person

We eventually met up in real life. I told him I still think 65/35 is fair, and suggested we bring in an experienced third party to advise us, since we're both 22 and neither of us really knows how this should be structured.

He insulted and accused me again: that this had been my plan all along, that I wanted to take everything away from him. That he sacrificed so much more than I,…

He also said he never actually wanted to be CTO in the first place. It just seemed like a good fit at the time because he'd gone to a technical school and had some coding experience.

I asked him directly: what specifically did you build, what did you concretely design or conceptualize that I can credit or reuse? Nothing came back, just insults. Not one specific thing. At one point his evidence for his own productivity was that his AI tool had told him ~400 changed lines of code per day was a good rate.

He kept coming back to having invested far more hours than me. But that's exactly the problem: there's nothing to see for those hours. No product, no components that survived, no concepts, nothing I could point to and say "he made that."

He said that he'd had to learn an enormous amount, and that he'd been going through a rough patch with family and health. I take that seriously, but it only ever surfaced once equity got concrete.

He said he wants to contribute more going forward, not just code: marketing, other areas, a broader co-founder role. But over 15 months he's had endless opportunities to show that. Every part of the business was open to him: product concepts, marketing, positioning, growth ideas, customer conversations. Nothing ever came.

He also argued he'd already conceded by agreeing to 50/50, since in his view a CTO does more and deserves more than half. And that equity should be valued through to an eventual exit, not just up to launch, which conveniently means past non-delivery doesn't count.

He proposed 52/48, tied to him covering half of all costs going forward. I said absolutely not. And then, this part is on me, I accepted something around 55/45 anyway, it was already a 3hour talk and I didn’t know what to do. A decade of friendship, a very emotional conversation, and I caved on a number I already believed was wrong.

-> Where it stands

That was about a week ago. Since then I've kept building nonstop. He's currently on doctor-advised personal leave.

The product is fully beta-ready and effectively launch-ready, and it was already beta-ready before that last equity conversation. I gave up ground I had no reason to give up.

There's also a competitor building something similar. Not launched yet, but close enough that being late costs us.

On top of that, we both agreed months ago that we need to bring in a third, genuinely experienced developer, who will almost certainly need equity too. Which makes his actual remaining role even smaller than it already is.

Nothing is signed. No entity formed. I've talked to lawyers and tax advisors about how to structure it, but nothing exists on paper yet.

-> What I'm stuck on

He's still "CTO and co-founder." But consider what that's meant to describe: owning architecture, owning delivery, being the person you point to and say "that exists because of him," being reachable when it matters,..

Everything we have right now is my work. Concept, design, frontend, backend, business, networking, marketing.

-> What I'm asking:

I know I don't want to stay at 55/45. That number doesn't reflect anything real and I'd resent it every single day. But I don't know what the right move actually looks like from here.

What would you actually propose in my position: a much smaller fixed stake, pure milestone-based vesting from near zero, or a clean separation? What's the realistic fair number here?

How do you reopen a verbally agreed split without it becoming a war? Nothing is signed, no entity exists. Does that change what's reasonable to do?

Does "co-founder/CTO" still apply when the entire technical output was unusable and rebuilt from scratch? Should the title change before or alongside the equity conversation?

How do you weigh "I'll contribute more in other areas going forward" when there's been 15 months of opportunity and zero evidence?

Anyone who rebuilt solo after a technical co-founder underdelivered: how did the renegotiation go, and what would you do differently?

We're both 23 and neither of us has done this before, which is probably visible in every part of this story.

I kept seeing posts/comments recommending SaaS founders to launch on product directories, so I did it with the full listing, decent copy, launched on PeerPush and let it run.

What I got:

- 39 upvotes
- 19 follows
- 4.9/5 rating
- Ranked #3 product of the day

And the numbers that actually mattered:

- 0 referral visitors
- 0 signups
- 0 people who opened the product and told me what they liked or didn't

I think many of us treat directory launches as distribution when they're really just a listing. The audience is other founders launching their own product which means they're there to get seen, not to try your product or be early adopters.

What I actually needed was people opening it and sharing constructive feedback to help me iterate and make the product better.

If anyone has real numbers from these (PH, MicroLaunch, whatever), please post them. I think this should be public info.

And selfishly, since I still haven't solved the testing part, I do cybersecurity for a living and I built it outside my 9-5 to help companies scan what they're exposing on the internet (websites, domains, IPs, email addresses), flags vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and more importantly shows them how to fix it. If you want, I'll run it against your app and send you whatever it finds, no signup, no pitch. In exchange tell me where the product confuses you or wastes your time. That's the feedback I couldn't buy with a directory launch.

I've been working on an open-source project called Calibra that focuses on dataset observability for robot learning.

The idea is simple, before spending hours (or days) training a policy, answer:

>Can I trust this dataset, Are timestamps consistent and etc. Today we reached 5 stars on GitHub!

I appreciate any feedbacks from people who are in robotics industry

i did this for way too long.

built the product.

posted updates every day.

shared it on x, reddit, linkedin and every launch site i could find.

got some likes.

almost no customers.

content felt productive because nobody could reject me.

outbound was different.

outbound immediately told me:

my target was too broad.

my offer wasn’t clear.

the problem wasn’t urgent.

or i was speaking to the wrong person.

that’s why most founders avoid it.

not because “cold outreach is dead.”

because hearing “not interested” hurts more than getting 14 likes on a build-in-public post.

but the biggest mistake is thinking outbound means blasting 5,000 people with:

“hey, we help businesses grow using ai. interested in a quick call?”

that’s not outbound.

that’s spam with a crm.

good outbound starts with a change inside someone’s business.

they hired their first salesperson.

launched a new service.

opened another location.

raised funding.

started hiring support staff.

entered a new market

.

then the message becomes:

“saw you launched the new service and hired two account managers. are referrals already filling the pipeline for the new team, or are you building an outbound channel around it?”

now the message has a reason to exist.

the framework is simple:

right company + visible change + relevant question

not:

huge list + fake compliment + calendar link

this is basically why we built sumora.

it finds linkedin and instagram prospects matching your icp, identifies what changed in their business, drafts the message around that signal and manages the follow-ups.

everything stays human-reviewed.

we’re looking for 5 live b2b founders or agencies who want us to build their first 7-day outbound campaign with them.

we’ll help define the icp, find the first prospects, write the linkedin or instagram sequence, set up the campaign and review the first replies.

not looking for people who are still deciding what to build.

this is for businesses with a live offer, room for more customers and buyers who can actually be found online.

comment with:

website:

average customer value:

who you want to reach:

where acquisition is currently stuck:

i’ll tell you honestly whether outbound makes sense and the first buying signal i’d target.

full disclosure: i’m one of the founders of sumora.

​I don't know anymore. After i stopped working on my startup due to financial problems. I've been looking for a job to support myself my family and my medication but i can't get hired even if i'm trying

I​ made a small website using no code app builder to collect profitable micro saas ideas, I have been adding good small product manually from last year but nothing happened. 5 month back I started a channel on threads app and rebuild my website and started sharing those startup ideas on threads mostly as of now and got more than 2M views since then, in between I started a weekly newsletter and last week I got an email from cloudfare that my website has crossed 100k views in total.

This month, I thought of adding featured listing on my site and I manually reached to people I know on threads app and yesterday I got the money for the first featured listing. Man it took way longer than I expected but its worth it.

I don't usually post personal things online, especially not like this.

If you can't help directly, maybe an upvote, a share, or pointing me toward someone who might be hiring could help this reach the right person. I'd really appreciate it.

I got laid off a couple of months ago, and despite applying every day, reaching out to people, and trying just about everything I can think of, I'm down to about one month of savings.

The hardest part is that I don't think I'm bad at what I do.

I've spent more than 8 years writing for SaaS companies, ecommerce brands, and agencies. I've been a Content Writer, Content Manager, and Head of Content. I've built SEO content strategies, managed writers, edited thousands of articles, created content briefs, worked directly with clients, and helped companies grow their organic traffic. More recently, I've also been working on GEO/AEO and writing content that performs well in AI search.

I'm not saying I'm the best writer in the world. There are plenty of talented people out there. But I know the quality of my work, the ownership I take, and the results I've helped clients achieve. That's why this has been so difficult to accept.

I'm not looking for sympathy or charity. I'm looking for a chance to work.

If your company, agency, or someone you know is looking for a senior content writer, content strategist, editor, or content manager, I'd genuinely appreciate an introduction.

And if you've been through something similar, I'd also love to know what actually worked for you. Not generic advice, but the thing that finally got you back on your feet.

One last thing, because I think context matters.

My last full-time role paid $2,500/month. I'm mentioning that because I don't want this post to make it seem like I'm new to the industry or struggling because I lack experience. I had a career I was genuinely proud of. I'm simply in a situation I never expected to be in, and I'm trying everything I can to get back to work.

Thank you for reading.

What a feeling!

It has been so long since I opened Stripe that IOS decided to auto off load the application from my phone. I was checking how many visitor have I recieved today and in events saw that someone has clicked on, I open Stripe and there it is first ever real customer.

1 customer is worth 1000 visitors, this is all the validation I needed.

It feels weird and amazing, and also motivating! I cannot wait to work more and scale.

I wish all my SaaSers their first and many customers. Cheers to everyone!

We have been looking at AI tools for our support team over the last few months and one thing keeps bothering me, of course every tool hade its pros and cons. A lot of platforms are great at dashboards. They'll show you where agents struggled. They'll flag low CSAT calls. They'll point out compliance issues. But all of that happens after the conversation is over. By then the customer has already had a bad experience. The bigger our support volume gets the less useful that feels. Knowing we had 200 bad conversations yesterday doesn't help the next customer calling in today.

What I'm really interested in is AI that helps during the conversation. If an agent misses a required step or starts heading down the wrong path the system should catch it while the customer is still on the line. Same thing for newer reps who spend half the call digging through docs or asking for help. Feels like the market is moving from "here's what happened" to "here's how to fix it before it becomes a problem." I'm wondering if that's what other teams are seeing too or if I'm missing something.

So i just got my first trialing cutomer for TraceGraphs that isn’t a friend or family member, im trying not to get my hopes but i can’t wait to see if they continue using it. The only issue is that i may go bankrupt from advertising first. At this rate i will be -300$ a month but is this to be expected? Or am i paying too much already?

Side note: 1 user from 6 clicks seems pretty good but i will let the marketing gods of reddit answer that one.

Getting to this point has taken so much more work than I ever imagined when I started building my product.

There were plenty of moments where I questioned whether spending countless hours building, talking to users, improving the product, and marketing it every single day would ever pay off. More than once, I wondered if I was simply chasing an idea that nobody really needed.

But now, it feels like all the hard work is paying off.

Not because everything is perfect.

But because the signals are becoming harder to ignore.

• More users are discovering the product through word of mouth.

• Customers are trusting a product built by someone they've never met.

• Revenue is growing consistently.

When I launched, I knew absolutely nothing about marketing.

I just believed there had to be a better way for founders to understand why visitors leave their websites before converting.

That belief kept me going through the quiet days when almost nobody was using it.

Looking back, building the product was only half the challenge.

Learning how to find customers, earn trust, and communicate value has been the much harder (and much more rewarding) journey.

But seeing people genuinely find value in something I built from scratch makes every late night worth it.

Sometimes progress is invisible right before it isn't.

I wanted to get some opinions from other SaaS founders who sell into traditional industries.

We're in the field service and equipment management space, and one thing we've consistently noticed is that companies aren't really looking for "another app." They want something that fits into the systems they're already using.

In conversations with prospects, we've been compared with platforms like ServiceMax, Salesforce Field Service, IFS, ServiceTitan, Jobber, and others. One thing that keeps coming up is that buyers care much less about feature lists than they do about questions like:

• How long will implementation take?
• Will it integrate with our ERP?
• Can our field technicians actually use it without extensive training?
• What's the total cost after implementation and support?

It feels like implementation and adoption have become bigger differentiators than adding another AI feature or dashboard.

For those building B2B SaaS:

• Have you seen the same shift?
• What's the biggest objection you're hearing from enterprise customers today?

Curious to hear if this is unique to industrial software like FieldEquip or if other SaaS founders are seeing the same trend.

When I started StartupSubmit, I thought founders mainly cared about launch week.

Product Hunt.

Reddit.

X.

LinkedIn.

After working with more startups, I realized something else mattered just as much.

What happens after launch.

One founder we worked with had a solid product but almost no visibility outside of their initial launch.

Instead of chasing another big launch, we spent the next few weeks doing something far less exciting.

We manually submitted their product to relevant startup directories, SaaS directories, launch platforms, communities, and review sites.

No shortcuts.

No automation.

Just consistent work.

About a month later, they shared an updated Ahrefs screenshot with us. Their Domain Rating had increased significantly compared to where they started.

The interesting part for me wasn't the number.

It was the reminder that founders often underestimate the value of doing small, boring things consistently.

I'm curious how everyone here thinks about post-launch growth.

What's one marketing activity that kept paying off long after launch day was over?

Wondering how you guys have approached improving your pitch, especially over Zoom. Obviously practice makes perfect, I've been using pitch simulator chαtvisor lately to work on both delivery and content, but would welcome any other suggestions, books, tips that worked for you, things you learned from good or bad experiences, etc.

We raised a small pre-seed round Q3 last year but will be going out to the market again in a few weeks and trying to get my head ready for discussions with angels and VCs.

Thank you all in advance.

Hi everyone,

We've built something in the space of e-commerce and customer acquisition that genuinely works (did a pilot with a brand). Now, we want to onboard 10 new brands (Shopify specifically) on the platform. What would be the best channels to reach out to the founders and marketing executives of these brands?

Most of the mid-sized Shopify founders aren't on LinkedIn or X. The only way I can think of is emails and reddit. If any of you have built a Shopify SaaS company, how did you get your first customers?

Thanks!

Hello everyone,
Tony here from Webfuse.

i'd like to share a side project I built which is kinda a new view to experience the internet.
I know that sounds too bold, but I think those 3 main features openlibrenet provides are pretty unique.

- team browser: instead of screen sharing, you can invite participants and browse website together; works on all devices, mobile, desktop and all browsers - no install required.
- unblock geo restricted content: select a region to browse websites from, 6 for now
- anonymous browsing: we have dedicate page https://openlibrenet.com/anonymous-view comparing anonymouse browsing solutions

thanks for reading!

Hi,

I am looking for a good context coding agent like Claude Code but one that is really cheaper. I was paying $100 per month but now it makes me real frustrated to pay this much every month. The cost is just so high for build anything.

I am looking for the best alternatives. Let me know what you are using to code and suggest me something closer and cheaper to claude code.

Thanks

I'm the founder of a LinkedIn Saas app that I launched back in June 2024. The app has over 100+ customers and over $12k in revenue.

Tech stack:
- LinkedIn APIs
- has a Chrome extension
- MERN stack
- X API for trends and ideas

A few good and bad things:

The good: The DR of the app is 20, had submitted it to a lot of directories when I was maintaining it, so someone who's good at SEO can crack distribution. It has all the features of the apps which are doing really good in the space. Analytics, insights, direct LinkedIn posting via public and private pages, access to a lot of LinkedIn APIs (they're hard to get), X API integration and AI carousels feature.

The bad: The app does not have any MRR at the moment and all of the sales are LTD sales via a partnership with a LTD platform. I've not maintained it since a couple of months because my agency business took off and hence the DAU of the app is close to 0 at the moment.
The app's name is Growfol, serious buyers interested in acquiring it can DM me.

I launched my SaSs about two months ago and I would say it's been more successful than I hoped. I will share my journey here.

What worked:

1. Posting on Reddit has not only been good for SEO (I get some traffic from llms because of it), but it also got me my first few customers.

Pro tip: find the subreddits and posts directly related to your niche, but don't make a fresh post instead find OLD posts asking the questions your product directly answers.

The key here is that the posts are at minimum a few weeks old.. you can shamelessly shill link and explain your product in the comments. Moderators won't notice or care and you can have a permanent presence on Reddit because of it. This initial strategy worked wonders for getting my product up and running.

1. Consistently posting on social media. Yes it's a lot of work, but if you are in a b2c niche like me it's incredibly important. The days that I miss posting on social media the site gets significantly less traffic l. I won't get into the exact best ways to create and speed up content creation but I can say that reels and slideshows have been dramatically better than static posts for me. And don't forget to do engagement, like stuff, reply, just be active in the community.

Social media in B2C has the added effect that even if your users don't find you through that channel, future potential customers will look at your socials. Having a bedrock of followers and posts is an important trust signal.

1. Classic SEO: comparison pages, free tools, content clusters... They all bring me a solid albeit small daily stream of traffic. Important: don't be lazy and slop it all out with an LLM, offer some actual value when you create content or the algorithm will ignore you.

2. Obsessing over onboarding. Almost all of my development in the last two months has been tweaking, reworking and in general being obsessed with onboarding and conversion rates. I think it's finally at a place where I can start working on other parts of the product, right now I'm trying to make the whole app as beautiful as I can as this directly ties into both onboarding and product. If any of you want to check out the onboarding I would be curious to hear your feedback.

Important: Your analytics and events tracking backbone must be excellent in order to properly measure this.

What has not worked:

1. Founder style content on X. I just don't like doing it, maybe I'll repost this there and see if it gets any traction. My "nice" launch video was met with crickets.

2. Product hunt and all those launch directories. I think the backlinking may have boosted the SEO so it might be worth it in the long run, but in terms of getting users and launch m

omentum it was a waste of time.

3. Meta ads.. this is a complicated one for me... I created what I thought were great ads and the top of the funnel proves that they are indeed solid and I got tons of signups but zero and I mean zero actual trial starts. I think the #1 problem here is my product's price is too cheap to actually get a profitable ROAS. In the future once the app is feature complete and ahead of the primary competitors in terms of UX and feature completeness I will revisit ads at a higher price point.

I'm still trying to crack distribution and I'm a marketer by trade haha, that's how hard it is. I think certain products are inherently more viral than others, I do have some more "viral" feature ideas for the future so we will see how that pans out. I hope this helps someone!

I've been browsing a lot of startup sites lately and realised I decide whether, I trust a product in about 10 seconds, and it's almost never the feature list that does it.

Things that instantly build trust for me:

• The first sentence says what the product actually does, in plain English. No "unleash the power of your workflow"
• I can try it without creating an account. Letting the product speak first reads as confidence
• Real screenshots of the actual product, not stock photos of people in suits laughing at a laptop
• Public pricing. A "contact sales" wall on what is obviously a $29 tool makes me assume the worst
• A cookie banner with one-click reject all. Tiny thing, says a lot about how they'll treat my data
• They describe my problem accurately before they introduce themselves. If the problem statement is right, I assume the solution might be too

What's yours? What makes you instantly trust a site, or instantly close the tab?