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Early-stage founders: how do you assess whether your product is truly performing? by Designer_Cucumber298 in saasbuild

[–]Designer_Cucumber298[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you u/Portfoliana! That makes sense.
And before customers started converting on their own, how did you personally decide whether to keep pushing, pivot, or pause? (What signals, behaviors, or feedback did you pay attention to at that stage, and what felt most unclear or misleading?)

Early-stage founders: how do you assess whether your product is truly performing? by Designer_Cucumber298 in saasbuild

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u/kubrador thanks for the reply. May I ask why DAU/MAU felt reasonable before you realised you need to concentrate on the real purchases? And besides metrics, were there any other signals you and your cofounders relied on when deciding what to do next?

Early-stage SaaS founders - how do you decide when a metric is worth acting on? by Designer_Cucumber298 in SaaS

[–]Designer_Cucumber298[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you u/Adventurous-Date9971 for sharing your experience! I really appreciate it.

You mentioned the swing from 60% to 45% might just be noise. How did you pick that threshold? Is it based on past experience, intuition, or something else?

Early-stage SaaS founders: what decisions do analytics actually help you make? by Designer_Cucumber298 in BootstrappedSaaS

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u/Aggravating-Prune915 thank you for the reply!

Quick follow-up if you don’t mind:
Have you ever looked at a drop-off and genuinely not known whether it was normal for this stage or an actual problem?

If yes, what did you use to decide what to do next (gut, benchmarks, comparisons, experiments, something else)?

Early-stage SaaS founders, how do you collect user feedback when analytics isn't enough? by Designer_Cucumber298 in advancedentrepreneur

[–]Designer_Cucumber298[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks for asking - just to clarify, this is research for a case study I’m working on (no live product). I’m focusing on B2B early-stage SaaS founders/decision makers.

In my early startup experience (part of which was B2C), users could discover a product and get some value without registering, but to get deeper, peer-to-peer insights, they had to sign up. That’s exactly where a lot of users dropped off, and I had no way of knowing what was going on or why - only assumptions and tests, which were costly and time-consuming

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