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What r/SaaS is talking about this week

r/SaaS has 844,326 members and 94 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 19.3 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

844,326members
94posts in the last 24 hours, newest just now
19.3comments an hour right now, newest 4 h ago
1,163points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/SaaS this week

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Top threads this week

  1. “SaaS is dead”
    1,163 points71 comments5 d ago
  2. I just got my first sale ($149), yoooooooooooo!!!

    I was online all day and didn't even notice I made my first sale for 12 hours. I was just randomly switching tabs in Chrome and saw the $149 payment sitting there, and Alhamdulillah. After several...

    909 points249 comments6 d ago
  3. Sam Altman’s advice for getting your first 100 users

    came across an old Stanford talk by Sam Altman where he talked about how early stage founders should actually approach getting their first 100 users. he broke it down into 4 main paths, ranked...

    533 points97 comments2 d ago
  4. r/SaaS is bots talking to bots. I posted my real MRR got called a spammer.

    Wtf. I just spent an hour writing my ACTUAL story on getting to $18K MRR on this subreddit (it took me 2.5 years, mind you). Instead of engaging, people downvoted and called me a spammer. Wtf is...

    307 points142 comments3 d ago
  5. Stop building toy SaaS apps.

    It is time for indie hackers to think bigger. With AI, you now have the power to build products that can compete with big enterprise companies. You don't need millions of users. Even 1,000 paying...

    125 points98 comments5 d ago
  6. Everyone is vibecoding. But what do you think makes a succesful SaaS?

    Everyone builds apps now but i really wonder while the demand is decreasing everyday, who are actually going to make real money with their vibe coded apps? Founders with very unique product or...

    108 points171 comments4 d ago
  7. Is building a $10k/month solo SaaS better than chasing VC funding?

    Everyone seems obsessed with scaling, hiring, and raising funding. But I can't be the only one that likes the idea of running a small, profitable SaaS with no employees. Surely that sounds more...

    104 points73 comments6 d ago
  8. Finally got my first paying customer. Took way longer than I expected

    I've been building small SaaS projects for a while now, and most of them never really went anywhere. Some didn't get finished, others launched but barely got any traffic. A few months ago, I...

    87 points76 comments7 d ago
  9. I spent $6,000 and 7 months building an app. I have 4 paying customers. And somehow, I've never been more excited.

    7 months. $6,000. Hundreds of bugs. Countless redesigns. And 4 paying customers who have no idea how much they mean to me. Here's the crazy part. All 4 subscribed when my app looked like absolute...

    66 points68 comments2 d ago
  10. At what point do you stop building and accept that nobody wants your product? (3 months, 1,400 commits, 0 users)

    So for the past few months, I’ve been building a lighter version of Notion. I’m at around 1,400 commits, about 60,000 LOC and a desktop app. I haven’t done a mobile app yet because I think my...

    66 points145 comments6 d ago

Newest posts

  1. Transform your identity. Change your life.
    1 points0 commentsjust now
  2. I built an AI leadership team that writes down every decision and checks on it a month later. Looking for beta testers
    1 points0 comments33 min ago
  3. Toolkits for options trading
    1 points0 comments47 min ago
  4. asked 8 AI assistants which help desk to buy, 10 different ways. the specific questions are where the list actually changes
    1 points0 comments1 h ago
  5. How long did it take you to get your first 10 users?
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  6. AI paradox - am I wrong?
    1 points0 comments3 h ago
  7. Building an AI tool for one niche (independent shops on Instagram): what I learned about pricing and AI costs
    1 points0 comments3 h ago
  8. Guidde - The worst tool for creating instructional videos.
    1 points0 comments4 h ago
  9. Got tired of searching "[song] slowed + reverb" on YouTube, so I vibe-coded a Mac app that does it live to my Apple Music
    1 points0 comments4 h ago
  10. Building a personalized digital gifts SaaS – how would you validate willingness to pay?
    1 points0 comments4 h ago
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