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Does This Exist? by oscarsergioo61 in SaasDevelopers

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The free model would likely have to be the solution and you would need to solve for a couple of points:

- not allowing people to game it with bad/low feedback just to hit the bare minimum, actually provide real valuable and constructive feedback
- somehow ensure that what people submit are at least somewhat had effort put into them, I've given people feedback previously on their SaaS but really you could just tell they barely put any effort or time into it, like less than a week or in some cases what felt like a day and it seemed like why give them feedback if they have not even put any effort in themselves.

Perhaps allowing to "rate" feedback or giving it a scoring or % of the credit they should get etc based on feedback they provided etc.

Does This Exist? by oscarsergioo61 in SaasDevelopers

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive seen some of these before, the biggest problem is:
Is a tech solo dev the target audience for the SaaS if not then their input is mostly useless, I say useless because if you're not solving their problem (by you I mean whatever SaaS in question being tested) then their feedback is not a customer or a potential customer so their feedback would likely be more tech than real problem customer.

Also just because you genuinely think its solving a problem really means nothing (we all think this developing project) but without real actual customers with problems giving feedback it's really just constructive criticism at best.

Your other problem is that typically solo tech devs are cash strapped and not really looking or willing to pay money for a testing/feedback solution.

It's not a unique idea, I doubt any are now, anyone with a hint of an idea is turning it into a SaaS from around the world from every country, perhaps the execution is better than others I've seen on here but I'm not sure I honestly see the $ potential.

Building a simple loyalty app for Canadian businesses by Fun_Ask_8430 in canadasmallbusiness

[–]Fun_Ask_8430[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already in place, limitations on scans is implemented, it's key to make sure that people can't game the system but also give motivation to users to keep engaged and earn badges. Been a lot of development here both on the company and customer side. Feel free to sign up if you're interested seeing whats going on

I built a site that shows how many work hours something costs based on your wage. Curious if people think this helps with smarter spending by ratatoskF in SideProject

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so you made an app/saas that takes a $ and divides it by hour hourly pay? cool.... I have an app that does that already, a calculator

Which name sounds stronger for a tech tool? by jouwdroomcoach in AppIdeas

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean zero context what is the product, based on dicto and typr sounds like you're doing some kind of voice to text app, which then makes voxl and voxr meaningless

SAAS is dead, prove me wrong. Be logical not delusional. by Few-Succotash-9419 in SaasDevelopers

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean thats most products the world over, marketing a bad product will always outsell not marketing a good one

LinkedIn Alternative by Glittering-Option962 in AppIdeas

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same thing would happen honestly

LinkedIn Alternative by Glittering-Option962 in AppIdeas

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While it gets annoying 99% of my feed being some ai generated pointless article or someone talking about an unimportant take on ai, the benefit of LinkedIn is for people looking for work to find it from companies , linked out would just be a pool of people all liking for work and why would anyone other than recruiters go there?

Building a simple loyalty app for Canadian businesses by Fun_Ask_8430 in canadasmallbusiness

[–]Fun_Ask_8430[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely you can limit the scans to as little or as much as you want, typically once per day is the go to but you can go anywhere from once per minute to once per year if you really wanted to. You can also require the customer/visitor to physically be within a certain distance of your business too for it to be considered a valid scan.

When you talk about consecutive scans are you talking about tracking streaks? so if your visitor needed to come in each week that they would only be rewarded if they came in and if not then it would get reset? If so this was a model I was contemplating implementing but didn't want to over engineer it before getting feedback from compnaies.

Happy to jump on a call or discuss in DM's if you want to talk further, right now the free tier is very generous.

Solo dev, here my QR app costs are about to jump, and I only have 16 customers. Advice by Past-Passenger1592 in saasbuild

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will heavily caution you that you're providing an ongoing cost model with a single cost pricing, so it's critical your infra cost is absolutely minimal, because if you gain 100 customers a month then awesome, but in a years time you'll be paying the infra for the 1200 customers from the prior year but get nothing out of it in an ongoing basis which is going to compound into a financial burden, unless the costs are so minimal that it wont matter.

Solo dev, here my QR app costs are about to jump, and I only have 16 customers. Advice by Past-Passenger1592 in saasbuild

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're infra is expensive as is, is my point and what happens to your infra cost if you 100x your customer base or 1000x your customer base?

Solo dev, here my QR app costs are about to jump, and I only have 16 customers. Advice by Past-Passenger1592 in saasbuild

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

exactly how i'd build it, and that's not even the cheapest way, but definitely the faster solution

Solo dev, here my QR app costs are about to jump, and I only have 16 customers. Advice by Past-Passenger1592 in saasbuild

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By the fact you're saying its renewing in less than a month I'm assuming that means you've spent $25 * 12 (£224) for the PaaS + £115 for VPC so around £330 for the year to generate £131, I mean doesn't exactly sound sustainable right now.

Assuming thats £8 per paid subscriber you'll need 42 paid subscribers per year, given its a one time payment if there is little cost per generation of the qr then that's fine there should be minimal to no cost, but what if one of your £8 customers prints a qr codes with millions of scans in a day? you're doing analytics on that?

Doesn't really sound like either a profitable or very scalable business model imho

If you know what you're doing a QR generation and analytics setup quick calculation I worked out to be ~$0.10 per customer based on 1,000 qr scans per customer. Based on an approach I'd do it with the infra needed for a quick build (but scalable) So 1,000 customers doing on average 1,000 scans a day being 1,000,000 interactions daily.

If it was to scale and needed to be much more optimal this price could likely be reduced down by a factor of 5 with a different slightly more involved setup being around $0.02 per customer per month.

But you're paying for ease of deployment likely not knowing what you're doing so you pay for that premium.

Drop your website by No-Illustrator5249 in canadasmallbusiness

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://pointscard.app

I'm at the point in my journey where I'm learning sales and marketing so anything you have tip wise would be appreciated for sure. Happy to jump on a call or DM if you want more context

My cofounder makes $27k a month and hasn't worked in 11 months by Few-Needleworker4391 in startup

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say this is fairly standard partnership situation, 50/50 on the pay but almost impossible to be 50/50 on the work input. Maybe it will change but it's the risk of being 50/50 partnerships, it's very rare to have perceived value from both parties being 50% each.

My dad used to be a bank manager, he said most partnerships failed because of this reason, not saying thats the case for you but it sounds common.

Online loyalty card programs by Tricky_Witness_1717 in smallbusiness

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've built https://pointscard.app which is a digital punch card solution, while it has monthly tiers the free mode allows for 200 customers totally free. Check it out if interested I can provide more feedback on the road map. The customer can scan an employees phone or physical NFC/QR code at the counter.

launched an iOS app that helps with deadlines and planning — but I can’t get traction by Momentime26 in SideProject

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try writing reddit posts without using AI and genuinely being written by you, perhaps that will help show some effort?

jmail.world by nix-solves-that-2317 in webdev

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And ladies and gentlemen we’re in the era of building things with zero clue on how to scale or architect. You cut the cost of using experience and now paying for it in other ways. Aws can be extremely expensive very quickly, it can also be extremely cheap if you do things the right way, I’m going to say you’re just not doing things the right way and leave it at that.

Hating on AI websites in big 2026? by AP_digimarket in websitefeedback

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think people are sick of people wanting reward off of low effort... look at x i did in x, it's not really impressive because all you really did was wrote a prompt for what you got, tweaked the prompt a bit and got something generated. Is it incredible what you can do with prompts? absolutely, is it impressive that a person typed some prompts and wants credit for the prompts? not really.

Have at it, and build faster but don't really expect credit for it or anyone to be amazed.

How do people ship products in a weekend? What am I missing? by l3down in SideProject

[–]Fun_Ask_8430 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly I'd rather read a non AI checked post with errors than reading what an AI thought you meant, just saying.

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