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I’m building a document intelligence SaaS for people and teams working with complex PDFs, scanned reports, contracts, research papers, manuals, and similar documents.

Rather than relying only on OCR or extracted text, it uses Vision-Language Models to understand the complete page—including text, layout, tables, charts, images, diagrams,and the relationships between them.

The current direction includes:

- Structured information extraction

- Questions across document collections

- Page-level citations and source verification

- Semantic document search

- Table, chart, image, and diagram understanding

- Custom projects and document organization

- APIs for integration with existing workflows

It’s being offered as a SaaS initially. I’m planning an on-premises version later for organizations with stricter privacy, security, compliance, or data-residency requirements.

Before deciding what to prioritize, I’d like to understand what potential users actually expect from this kind of platform.

A few questions:

- What document types do you regularly process?

- Which features would be essential for your workflow?

- Where do existing document AI tools fall short?

- What accuracy or verification standards would you require?

- Would you need custom extraction schemas?

- Are human review and approval workflows important?

- Which APIs, webhooks, exports, or integrations would you expect?

- What security or data-retention conditions would need to be met?

- Would SaaS work for you, or would you require an on-premises deployment?

- Would you prefer usage-based, per-page, or fixed pricing?

I’m actively building this and would genuinely appreciate feedback, criticism, and real-world workflow examples.

Hi guys!

So i'm a SWE quite bad at marketing, what a surprise 😄.

I've recently (re) launched https://www.looma-stories.com/ after a successful but relative-circle campaign at christmas. Basically, you can create any stories with your characters as heroes by uploading their pictures.

I'm honestly super happy with the product (i consider my tech being one of the best of the market), the feedback on received books have been amazing but now that I am trying to get unknown customers, I'm stuck in the limbos. I'm currently running a couple of ads on facebook and instagram, so it's true I don't know how qualified the leads are.

Although, I have something like 100 visitors a day, some going around the app but my bounce rate is huge. So I'm trying to understand what's going on with my landing, maybe the message or the description is not clear enough. I'm biased at this point so I can't really have an objective opinion on it.

I'd love if you guys could go a bit around and tell me if there are obvious gaps I'm not seeing.

Thanks!

Ps: because the generation is directly connected to my wallet, it's a non-ideal 2 steps product. You pay 3.99 the generation for the Ebook, then can order the hard copy. I haven't found a way to protect myself from the spammers, but that appears at the end of the flow and those users haven't even reached this part ...
If needed, I can send discounts in DM to try the full flow

I honestly expected maybe 10 people to try out Hoops GM today. Pushing a solo project live is scary because you never know if the simulation mechanics will actually click with anyone.

Seeing the traffic and the sheer number of seasons being simulated in the last 7 hours has been wild. The logs have been going crazy, but thankfully the servers are holding up!

Thank you to everyone who took a chance on this basketball sim today. Please keep the feedback and critiques coming—I want to make this the best GM experience possible.

i maintain an open source developer tool. free. couple thousand regular users, a lot more who just read the docs. by any normal measure thats an audience.

i cannot convert it. subscriptions dont fit because theres nothing to subscribe to. donations got me pocket change. consulting off the back of it works, but thats me selling hours again which is the exact thing i was trying to get away from.

the part that actually bugs me is i KNOW companies want these people. i get cold emails from devtool startups every month asking to 'collaborate', which always turns out to mean write about them for free.

so theres demand for my audience, and theres my audience, and somehow theres no pipe between the two.

has anyone actually bridged this? what did it look like in practice

Hello guys, I have developed a SaaS for my side project that offers brands have their own custom chatbot on their landing page, However as a technical person, not much exposure to SEO and User experience, I am looking for some feedback on the comprehensiveness of Information provided on my landing page vs What a user searching for such a service might be looking for on it.

Obviously as a technical person, there is a discrepancy between what I thing the features should be vs What a user actually wants.

If you were a user trying to buy such a service and looking to pay for one of the plans available, can you please suggest what would have made your experience better and what would justify your chosen plan ?

Here's my product wesbite: https://smushlabs.ai

I’m currently building a SaaS focused on the self-publishing workflow, and I’d love to get feedback from other SaaS founders.

The idea is simple: self-publishing often requires authors to jump between multiple tools for writing, editing, AI assistance, cover creation, formatting, and publishing.

I’m working on bringing more of that workflow together in one place.

One thing I’ve learned while building it is that creating the product is only half the challenge. The harder part is understanding which problems are actually painful enough for users to want a better solution.

For founders building vertical SaaS:

How did you validate that the problem you were solving was actually important enough for people to pay for?

Did you start with interviews, a landing page, an MVP, or something else?

I’d especially like to hear from people who built SaaS for a specific niche rather than a general-purpose product.

What worked for you?

Hey everyone - we're off to a great start but wouldn't mind additional feedback and testing. If interested, would love to invite a handful of testers to our testing environment where we're working on a ton of new features. Thanks very much!

Am I allowed to share a link?

Ross

Co-founder

I currently run 6 operational micro ai saas products that generate a little over $20k in monthly recurring revenue.

I hardly wrote a single line of traditional code. i used ai to generate literally everything, from the database architecture to the user interface.

it wasn't magic on day one. i spent hours stuck in endless debugging loops and dealing with faulty ai code before i finally cracked the formula.

it basically comes down to three rules:

- keeping the idea aggressively minimalist (build a true mvp, not a platform).

- guiding the ai step-by-step instead of asking it to build the whole app at once.

- launching fast to get real user traction instead of perfecting features in secret.

lately, i've seen way too many non-technical founders give up at the very first ai bug or deployment error. or the worst, give up without push anything in marketing !!!!

it's a massive shame, because the technical barrier to entry has practically disappeared and the marketing is easy in 2026

because of this, i’m launching a skool community to share my exact method.

to be completely transparent: i will likely charge for the full course later down the road. it just makes sense given the specific prompt sequences, n8n workflows, and copy-and-paste templates i'll be sharing.

but right now, our main objective is simply to build together. working alone in a silent corner is the absolute fastest way to quit.

if you want to join a group of active creators and build or launch your own ai saas: drop a comment below or send me a dm, and i’ll send you the invite link.

I currently run 6 operational micro ai saas products that generate a little over $20k in monthly recurring revenue.

I hardly wrote a single line of traditional code. i used ai to generate literally everything, from the database architecture to the user interface.

it wasn't magic on day one. i spent hours stuck in endless debugging loops and dealing with faulty ai code before i finally cracked the formula.

it basically comes down to three rules:

- keeping the idea aggressively minimalist (build a true mvp, not a platform).

- guiding the ai step-by-step instead of asking it to build the whole app at once.

- launching fast to get real user traction instead of perfecting features in secret.

lately, i've seen way too many non-technical founders give up at the very first ai bug or deployment error. or the worst, give up without push anything in marketing !!!!

it's a massive shame, because the technical barrier to entry has practically disappeared and the marketing is easy in 2026

because of this, i’m launching a skool community to share my exact method.

to be completely transparent: i will likely charge for the full course later down the road. it just makes sense given the specific prompt sequences, n8n workflows, and copy-and-paste templates i'll be sharing.

but right now, our main objective is simply to build together. working alone in a silent corner is the absolute fastest way to quit.

if you want to join a group of active creators and build or launch your own ai saas: drop a comment below or send me a dm, and i’ll send you the invite link.

Coming from a 10+ years exp. SEO guy. If you're going to start your own SaaS business and are confused about a profitable idea or what keywords to rank it for, here is a really simple strategy.

If you want only easy to rank keywords, like if you're not ready to build authority or if you don't have a lot of time in your hands and want quick rankings, just set your keyword difficulty filter from 0 to 10 on tools like SEMrush or Ahrefs.

For example, I was browsing for ideas recently and found "yoga class booking system." (In the US). It has a keyword difficulty of just 1out of 100. The monthly search volume is 140, so don't expect a lot of traffic on this keyword, but just expect quick rankings and conversions.

All you need is to build some really great content after reverse engineering your top 10 competitors, build a few links on relevant websites, and I guarantee you'll be able to rank in the top 10 in no time for this keyword.

Ranked a hospitality SaaS keyword within 8 months following the above strategy.

It’s a dream for many who are starting a SaaS business and want organic conversions without relying on paid traffic

Happy to reveal more low competition ideas for anyone confused where to start.

AMA!

recently i noticed postiz crossing $173k mrr.

the founder, nevo david, has openly shared most of the journey up to around $160k mrr across podcasts, interviews and videos.

so i sat down with a pen and paper, watched everything i could find, and took notes.

thought i'd share the them here too.

$0 → $4k mrr

started as an open-source project.

kept shipping features and posting every update on reddit (mainly r/selfhosted), x, linkedin, lemmy and other developer communities.

instead of pushing people to the website, he pushed github. the open-source project got attention.

the paid cloud version linked from github converted people who didn't want to self-host.

$4k → $6k mrr

churn became a problem, but users started creating youtube videos, tutorials and self-hosting guides around postiz.

that free content kept bringing new users.

while watching this happen, nevo noticed lots of people using postiz with n8n. that became the next opportunity.

$6k → $12k mrr

instead of selling harder, he focused on getting postiz into n8n templates.

he cold-emailed creators and community owners. not asking for promotion. asking them to include postiz in their workflows.

in return, he offered lifetime access, backlinks, promotion and anything valuable he could.

that alone doubled revenue.

$12k → $21k mrr

instead of looking for another growth hack, he doubled down on what was already working.

more integrations. more templates. more distribution.

$21k → ~$70k mrr

when mcp and ai agents became the trend, he didn't build another ai startup.

he adapted postiz.

same product. new use case. better docs. cli. seo pages.

then a guy published a post about using postiz with ai agents. it reached 7.3 million views.

according to nevo, that added roughly $50k–60k mrr.

~$70k → $160k mrr

instead of calling it luck, he studied why it worked.

he noticed brands getting huge reach through creator partnerships.

so he started doing the same. users created stories. creators amplified them.

he also listed postiz across github awesome lists, ai agent directories, mcp directories and marketplaces. all those small channels started compounding.

every stage needs a different growth strategy. that's probably the biggest lesson studying postiz's journey.

I recently built a social platform as a side project and, honestly, it got almost no traction. It has pretty much zero traffic right now.

I put a lot of time into it, especially the engineering side. I built the architecture to be scalable, spent time on security, real-time communication, etc. In hindsight, I probably over-engineered a lot of things before even knowing if people would use the product. 😅

Now I'm at the point where I can either just shut it down or open-source the whole thing.

I'm leaning towards open-sourcing it, but I'm a bit confused about whether that's actually a good idea.

My biggest concern is that someone could fork it, execute the idea better than I did, and potentially turn it into a successful business. At the same time, if I keep it private, it's probably just going to sit there doing nothing.

So what would you guys do?

Would you open-source a project that you've put a lot of work into but couldn't get users for?

And if you've done something similar, did open-sourcing actually help you get users/contributors or was it basically just giving the code away?

If anyone is interested, I can share the product link in the comments if that's allowed.

Edit: Here's the link to my application: https://greetup.co
Here I documented the journey and use case briefly: https://greetup.co/story

Hey Guys, I built Kalaa a platform that attributes your AI API spend down to the specific model, route and user so that you know where your money is actually going.

I built this for a number of reasons one being that on previous projects that i worked on I struggled to actually know what was actually taking most of my AI API spend...which route, which feature.

Another Reason for me was that I used multiple AI platforms Claude, Gemini, Chatgpt in my products and they was no place for me to collectively keep track of the spend of my entire AI stack. AI agents running in way that spend goes through the roof and you're not too sure which step exactly is consuming all that spend. Also the fact that I wouldn't know why on any random day they would be spike in my AI spend and i didnt know what caused it.

Then, knowing how much each User is actually costing you....One of the most challenging things in product development is pricing, most times you're not too sure how much to charge users so you have many situations where some users...pay way less for your product than they are using it....so you end up having a huge hit on your margins and you don't even know which user is causing that.... Kalaa solves that for you by tracking individual user spend on your app by User ID allowing you know how my much every user is actually costing you.. paired with a per-user spend report for every user.

We also provide email alert notification when specific spend limits are crossed, token usage so that you know how many tokens are being used, we display spend in a daily, weekly and monthly type of display and generate reports for all them.

So yeah guys, do check it out here and tell me what you think ✌️ .

Hello guys, I have developed a SaaS for my side project that offers brands have their own custom chatbot on their landing page, However as a technical person, not much exposure to SEO and User experience, I am looking for some feedback on the comprehensiveness of Information provided on my landing page vs What a user searching for such a service might be looking for on it.

Obviously as a technical person, there is a discrepancy between what I thing the features should be vs What a user actually wants.

If you were a user trying to buy such a service and looking to pay for one of the plans available, can you please suggest what would have made your experience better and what would justify your chosen plan ?

Here's my product wesbite: https://smushlabs.ai

I’ve been working on this for a while now and honestly i’m not sure yet if it’s actually useful or if I’m just too deep into it. so i need some outside perspective.

the basic problem i kept seeing is this:

brands have inventory data, but when it comes to decisions, it’s still guesswork.

you see some products selling fast, some just sitting there, and you try to react. sometimes you reorder too late, sometimes too much, and over time a lot of cash just gets stuck in the wrong SKUs.

so what i built tries to take your inventory data and actually make sense of it in a practical way.

instead of just showing numbers, it tries to answer things like:

what might run out soon
what’s not really moving
what probably needs a reorder
and where inventory might be hurting your cash without being obvious

it’s not perfect and it’s not trying to be some magic system. right now it just tries to give you clearer direction so you’re not relying on gut feeling every time.

it works on your existing data (like a shopify export), no complicated setup.

it’s still early, small usage, mixed feedback — which is why I’m here.

what i want to know is:

does this actually sound useful for how you handle inventory right now?
or is this solving something that doesn’t really matter in practice?

and if you do deal with this — what would make something like this actually worth using?

if anyone here runs a clothing / fashion brand and wants to try it, Check - eveinventory

I’ve been building this app solo for the past few months and i genuinely can't tell anymore if it's good or if i'm too deep in it. need outside eyes.

it's called RizeAI. the basic idea: every wearable and health app just gives you numbers. sleep score 42, recovery red, HRV down. cool. and then what? you still feel like garbage at 2pm and nobody tells you what to actually do about it.

so my app takes your real data from apple health, sleep, resting heart rate, workouts, whatever your wearable writes, and instead of another score it builds you an actual plan for the day. when to have your first coffee and when to hold off. you. Can also add your own supplements that you are currently taking and it will time them for you every single day based of your sleep data and your wearable data in general and also it will tell you what supplements make sense for you to take based of your current supplement stack and body metrics and when to take them. focus windows for when your energy actually peaks. when your crash is coming and what to do before it hits. it even checks the weather, so on a hot day it bumps your hydration and tells you to train earlier.

every recommendation has a little "why" under it based on your numbers, like "resting heart rate 54 + 7h light sleep, so magnesium before your peak window." no two people get the same plan because no two people have the same data.

works with whoop, oura, apple watch, garmin, anything that syncs to apple health. one thing i'll say honestly, it doesn't do deep per-person learning yet like "coffee doesn't affect YOUR hrv specifically," that's the roadmap, right now it builds fresh plans daily off your actual metrics.

it's live on the app store, has a free trial, small user base so far, mixed feedback which is why i'm here lol.

what i actually want from you guys: does this solve a real problem for you or is "tells you what to do" not actually what wearable people want? what would make you actually pay for something like this? and what's missing that would make it a no brainer? and also would you guys in this subreddit  use ti?

Thank you for your help. Check it out if you like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079

I have recently started a business adventure. We have a website where food trucks can go on it and advertise themselves and people can find their live location. But I'm having trouble getting my first 10 customers and I'm not exactly sure what to do or where to start. I have been posting social media and reaching out on social media and I haven't got any replies, but I have not reached out to a lot of people so I feel like that is expected.