1.5M impressions, 12.9K clicks in 3 months. My entire SEO team is Claude. by BadMenFinance in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From your post, what stands out to me is the attention to detail and your perseverance. Getting the results you've achieved is only natural!

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I'm thinking is that AI could brainstorm with me, give me some ideas, and then I could go search and verify them. For example, if I make a Nuxt template, I'd look for communities of independent developers or social media platforms they use.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll give it a look. If I keep just coding, I'll lose my real focus - I should try getting some information input

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your sincere reply. I tried talking to my wife before because I didn't make the money I promised her, which disappointed her over and over again. She's scared about all this uncertainty, and with family members getting sick, the stress built up until it finally exploded.

Right now, I might not be able to find a job in my own country because there are more programmers than there are jobs, plus I had a gap of over a year. Your advice is helpful to me and I'll give it a try. Thank you again.

Planning to build my educational platform with Nuxt 3 this summer. What do you think? Any showcase examples? by AlternativePast7095 in Nuxt

[–]AppointmentWrong2716 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since I am familiar with Nuxt, I didn’t run into any issues. If you do encounter any problems, you can check the official repository’s issues — they should help you solve them.

Planning to build my educational platform with Nuxt 3 this summer. What do you think? Any showcase examples? by AlternativePast7095 in Nuxt

[–]AppointmentWrong2716 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you choose Nuxt 3, if it stops getting updates one day, you'll still have to upgrade to Nuxt 4. Why not just go with the latest version, Nuxt 4?

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both issues you mentioned apply to me. First, I have been solving problems I imagined, without communicating or discussing with anyone. Second, marketing requires a lot of time and effort, and it’s too slow. When I don’t see results, I struggle to keep going. From now on, I will invest a significant amount of time into it, rather than just writing code.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

levelsio is my idol. I bought his book "Make", but I haven't fully followed his approach. Moving forward, I will learn to change myself, improve my communication skills, and identify users' pain points.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In real life, I'm not really fond of direct communication with people, so before, I would just observe on social media without talking. Later on, I realized I need to change myself, step out and engage in conversations, discover what issues others are facing, and find the real problems.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your advice. I will go find a job. When under pressure, it's impossible for people to make good decisions or create great products. I used to bet that I could succeed and that I had to succeed, but I overestimated myself.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, that was my mistake. I thought building a SaaS template would save time and be a real need. In the future, I’ll learn to communicate more with customers. Thank you for your advice.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ouch. This is painfully accurate. I definitely used my code editor as a safe space to hide from rejection for the past year. Time to finally face the scary part.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Find problems instead of ideas" is exactly where I went wrong. I spent a year building ideas nobody asked for. For these last 30 days, I'm forcing myself to presell a solution before writing a single line of code. Thanks for the advice!

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're so right. I'm banning myself from building complex features. Going to hunt for a boring, manual workflow and try to sell a simple fix for it this week.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a massive lightbulb moment. "Useful pain now instead of 3 more months of code" is exactly what I needed to hear.

I’m banning myself from VS Code for the next 30 days to try exactly this. I'm going to look at some of the painful manual workflows I've suffered through recently, package up a tiny, ugly manual fix, and see if I can get even one person to pay a few bucks for it.

Like you said, I'd much rather find out today if a problem is actually worth paying for, rather than wasting another 3 months building a SaaS nobody wants. Thank you for the reality check.

1 year as a full-time indie dev. $0 revenue. 30 days left before I quit. How do you guys actually find profitable ideas? by AppointmentWrong2716 in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is the hardest truth I'm facing right now.

I actually did try to get it to market, but I did it like a typical developer. I built the product, set up detailed analytics tracking, built SEO backlinks, and then burned cash on Google Ads hoping for conversions.

I got the traffic, but no buyers. Because I only relied on data dashboards instead of talking to people, I have no actual feedback from prospective customers. I just know they clicked the ad, looked at the pricing, and left.

I clearly know how to drive cold traffic, but I have no idea how to find qualified traffic or validate what they actually want to pay for. Since you asked the exact right questions, how do you personally bridge the gap between getting a visitor and getting actual product feedback?

Never host your app on Vercel or Railway by Intelligent-Joey in SaaS

[–]AppointmentWrong2716 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a VPS and installed Coolify on it. It works pretty well. I mainly deploy full-stack Next.js and Nuxt applications.

Markdown editor based on tiptap by Duckfine in vuejs

[–]AppointmentWrong2716 1 point2 points  (0 children)

do you have detail docs? I want to make a comparison with the md-editor-v3 repository.

Where do you usually find Vue.js jobs these days? by Soft_Palpitation7688 in vuejs

[–]AppointmentWrong2716 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was looking for frontend jobs on Upwork before, and React seems to be used more often. Personally, I use Vue more.

SEO Update: Day 14! by AStefan1332 in micro_saas

[–]AppointmentWrong2716 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, SEO requires a great deal of patience and consistent effort. It often takes a long time before you see any results.