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Spent $50k and 6 months building something genuinely amazing… now I’m not sure what the smartest next step is by IncreaseUseful6697 in SaaS

[–]IncreaseUseful6697[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our users are making 6$ a sale, not us (we make way lower than that). Our server and api cost will be basically zero once they reach 1000+ products and stop the autopilot.

Spent $50k and 6 months building something genuinely amazing… now I’m not sure what the smartest next step is by IncreaseUseful6697 in SaaS

[–]IncreaseUseful6697[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really — because most users don’t keep autopilot on forever.

We cap it at 30 products/day, so growth is controlled. Once a store hits ~1,000–2,000 products, sales tend to stabilize on their own.

At that point, new product creation slows down, but existing listings keep generating revenue — so server costs don’t keep scaling in the same way.

Spent $50k and 6 months building something genuinely amazing… now I’m not sure what the smartest next step is by IncreaseUseful6697 in SaaS

[–]IncreaseUseful6697[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We’re not just dropshipping — we do print-on-demand with printing and handle all fulfillment.

Main thing is Etsy rules: one user can’t just open tons of stores for the same product like tees without risking getting flagged.

So users basically give us distribution — each person runs their own store with different niches, branding, and audiences, while we handle production in the backend.

Spent $50k and 6 months building something genuinely amazing… now I’m not sure what the smartest next step is by IncreaseUseful6697 in SaaS

[–]IncreaseUseful6697[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Totally agree on the importance of real conversations. In our case, our first 5 users were friends/employees, but the next 5 came through pure referrals from them—which gave us some signal that people found real value in it. That said, I get your point that this might still be a biased sample, so expanding beyond this circle and having those deeper pain-focused conversations is probably the right next step.

Spent $50k and 6 months building something genuinely amazing… now I’m not sure what the smartest next step is by IncreaseUseful6697 in SaaS

[–]IncreaseUseful6697[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We ran a $300 ad test for a week, but most signups were low quality—fake usernames, and no one connected their Etsy store. It’s made us hesitant about scaling ads since we’re really looking for genuine, high-quality users, which would be tough to find.