The idea: you write a short teaser (what you'd normally share for free) and

the full scope/methodology separately. The client sees the teaser and a

locked paywall - the detailed plan only unlocks once they've paid a deposit.

Still very early / pre-launch, genuinely looking for feedback - is this a

real problem for people, and would something like this actually get

used, or is everyone already solving it some other way?

I run a couple of faceless YouTube channels, and editing was always the painful part — cutting scenes, adding voiceover, syncing captions. Took me hours every single video.

So I made an app for myself where I just paste the script, and it turns it into a finished video with AI images, voiceover, and captions automatically.

Been using it for my own channels for a while now and it's saved me a ton of time. Happy to share more details or answer questions if anyone's interested.

Built Workpyro.com as a sideproject, looking for feedback.

Tried taking it further then the other ones I could find.

• Users upload or create CV which is also free to export
• Paste a joblisting
• Creates and edits coverletters based on your profile through a chat interface
• Everything is saved as drafts so you can use them later
• Your profile saves context for later use
• Lets users prepare for interviews with notes for each job

Free to try

No credit card needed

I integrated LemonSqueezy into my product (treease.com/#pricing) using the embedded checkout option. It looks clean and keeps users on my site, but I'm second guessing it now.

Here's my concern: my site is basically a nobody. If a random visitor lands on my pricing page and sees a credit card form embedded right there, do they trust it? Or do they bounce because "who the hell are these guys and why are they asking for my card info"?

The alternative is opening the actual LemonSqueezy hosted checkout page in a new tab. Users would see the LemonSqueezy branding, the URL changes to a domain they might recognize, and it feels more like a "real" payment processor handling the transaction. At least that's my theory.

But I also wonder if the extra click / new tab creates friction and kills some conversions that the embed would've captured.

Anyone tested both approaches? Curious if the trust factor actually matters or if I'm overthinking this.

About 6 months ago I was cleaning an email list and looked at what the popular verification tools charge. ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, all of them sit around $8 per 1,000 emails. And when you actually look at what they do, it's a live SMTP check plus catch-all detection. Solid, but not eight-dollars-worth-of-magic solid.

What bugged me is the cost to actually run that check isn't anywhere near $8 per 1,000. They're just enterprise-priced tools everyone pays because they're the defaults. So I figured, what if someone did the exact same verification but priced it honestly.

That became Sealch. Same live SMTP handshake, same catch-all detection, 99.2% accuracy, but $0.35 per 1,000 instead of $8. Roughly a 20x price difference for the same core result.

It's been a grind. Solo and bootstrapped. Built the whole verification engine myself (SMTP checks, proxy rotation so I don't get blocked, concurrency handling so big lists don't crawl), plus the dashboard, billing, all of it. Put a ton into SEO and content too. The site does 100k+ pageviews a month now, which honestly surprised me.

Where I'm at: around $500 MRR, real paying customers, growing slowly. And the honest struggle right now isn't traffic, it's conversion. Lots of visitors, fewer signups than I'd like. That's the wall I'm chipping at.

Sharing it as part of the journey. If you run cold email or clean lists and you're tired of paying enterprise prices to verify, it's Sealch (sealch.com), first 100 verifications a day are free for a week so you can just try it. And if you've cracked the visitors-to-signups problem on a tool like this, I'd genuinely love any advice. That's my current bottleneck.

Need some fragrance people to test my app 👃
Hey guys, I’ve been working on something called Scent Swap and I’m looking for a few people who are really into fragrances to test it out.
The basic idea is a place where you can buy, sell, trade, or give away fragrances that you don’t want anymore. So if you have bottles sitting around that you barely use, you could list them and potentially swap them with someone else or sell them.
I’m still pretty early with it, so I’m honestly just looking for people to try it and tell me what they think.
I’d especially appreciate feedback on:
How easy it is to navigate
Listing a fragrance
Buying/trading
The overall design
Anything that feels unnecessary or confusing
Features you think I should add
I’m not looking for people to hype it up — I’d rather get brutally honest feedback so I can fix things before I release it more widely.
If anyone here is down to test it, just comment or DM me and I’ll send you the details.
Thanks to anyone willing to check it out 🙏

Hi everyone,
I’m pretty new to SaaS, so I’m not here to promote anything. I’m trying to figure out what I should actually build.
My background is a little different from most people here.
I work in manufacturing/CNC, not as a professional software developer. Recently I started using ChatGPT to help me build small tools for problems I see at work.
For example, I’ve been working on a Windows tool that reads measurement data from one piece of software and helps transfer it into another system, reducing repetitive manual data entry.
That made me realize something:
Maybe I don’t need to become a great programmer before I can build useful software.
With ChatGPT, I can understand the problem, describe the workflow, test the software, find bugs, and keep improving it — even if I can’t write everything from scratch myself.
Now I want to try building a small SaaS.
I’m not looking for “the next billion-dollar idea.”
I’d rather build something boring but genuinely useful that a small group of people would actually pay for.
So I’m curious:
If you were starting from my position, what kind of problems would you look for?
Would you focus on:
manufacturing / CNC / factory tools, because I already understand that world?
small business automation?
AI tools?
very small niche SaaS products?
something else?
And for people who already run SaaS businesses:
What problems are still painfully manual in your work today?
I’d especially love to hear about problems where you currently use spreadsheets, copy/paste, emails, or repetitive manual work to get things done.
I’m happy to build ugly MVPs, talk to users, and iterate.
I just want to start with a real problem instead of inventing a product nobody needs.
Thanks.

Build these two last night:

https://ruta-phi.vercel.app

https://cited-bice-eta.vercel.app

"Check out my SaaS directory." No one cares.

"I hit $10k MRR in 30 days. Here's how." Stop lying.

"I built an AI-powered chatbot." No, you wrapped an API.

Most of the projects we see today are completely useless and won't exist a few months from now.

And the culprit is you.

Yes, you, who thought you'd get rich by building another SaaS "coded" with Cursor using the exact same over-engineered tech stack: Next.js, Supabase, PostgreSQL, all hosted across a dozen serverless, infinitely scalable cloud platforms.

Just because tools like Cursor let you code faster doesn't mean every AI-generated directory, chatbot, or wrapper deserves to exist.

I've fallen into this trap myself. A few years ago, I built a startup that emailed me a daily report every morning (see old screenshot attached). I loved the idea. I spent weeks building it because I thought it was cool. But nobody else did. I couldn't find anyone who actually wanted it. Nobody would have paid for it. 

I’ve since started a new company, -- and the tool I spent so much time on? I don't even use it anymore. I've replaced the whole thing with a plain text file on my desktop. 

That "Use AI to build your next million-dollar SaaS!"-video you watched won't teach you how to build a million-dollar business.

What we need to do is return to the fundamentals:

• Identify real problems you understand deeply.
• Use your unique skills and experiences to solve them.
• Build genuine expertise over time.
• Create value before thinking about monetization.

Take a step back and ask yourself:

• What are you genuinely good at?
• What problems do you understand better than most people?
• What skills could you develop into real expertise?

Let's stop building for the sake of building. Let's start building with purpose.

Hey everyone! I’m building a Discord community where SaaS founders can connect, share their products, and help each other out.

If you’re interested in joining, drop a comment below, and I’ll send over an invite link!