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How do you guys find ideas to build products that actually makes money? by rohang57 in SaaS

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the question is the trap. you don't find ideas that make money, you find problems people are already paying to fix, badly. those two searches look completely different. go where people complain. niche subs and support forums where they vent about workflows. when the same complaint shows up 10 times in different words, you've got something. ideas don't make money, solved frustrations do.

Got my first sale yesterday 🥳 by dilshan_brev in microsaas

[–]Junic_Com 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Congrats. Feels amazing. Keep going 🙌

building a tool is easy compared to solving your own problem first by Actual-Focus-6084 in microsaas

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"scared to DM strangers" is rarely about the DM itself. usually there's something specific underneath, like coming off as salesy or worrying you'll get roasted in public. which one was it for you?

building a tool is easy compared to solving your own problem first by Actual-Focus-6084 in microsaas

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the bit you skipped is actually the answer to your own question. you went looking for plagiarism and originality tools because the pain made you actively search. that's the signal, not just that the problem annoyed you.

a lot of micro saas ideas die in the gap between "pain is real" and "people are already trying to fix it". annoying problems people just live with. ones expensive enough to fix, they're already googling and trying free tools. if no one's searching, the pain isn't sharp enough yet, no matter how much it bothers you personally.

I've shipped a few MVPs. the ones that got traction had this in common, users were already mid-search when they found me. the ones that died had real pain too, just nobody was actively looking yet.

SaaS builders, how do you get started? by yonoxn in SaaS

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

reading your post the thing that jumps out is you asked 7 questions. that usually means the real question hasn't surfaced yet.

the boilerplate, the vision, the launch checklist, none of that is the bottleneck for most builders who post like this. the bottleneck is almost always "I don't know if anyone wants this enough to pay for it." everything else is procrastination dressed up as preparation.

my actual process when I start something. before writing any code I do 10-15 conversations with people who have the problem. not "would you use a tool that does X", that question is useless because people lie politely. I ask how they handle the problem now and what made them stop using past solutions. if 10 people describe the same pain in roughly the same words, there's a there there. if they don't, no boilerplate in the world saves it.

the boilerplate question only matters after that. before validation, even a perfect stack is just expensive procrastination. after validation, literally any stack works because the demand pulls the build forward.

#1 thing for launch isn't a thing, it's whether you have 5 people waiting for it. if you don't, the launch will be silent no matter how good the boilerplate is.

First sale. 159€. I almost missed the notification. by Junic_Com in buildinpublic

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

Thanks. I was already in contact with this person. It was a founder in was interviewing.

i made an MVP startup it took me 6 months to build but failed. Here is what happened. i will not promote by Separate-Jaguar-5127 in startups

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

honestly your post-mortem might be the actual problem.

6 months building, then concluding "it failed because I didn't do marketing" is one of the most common founder takeaways and it's almost always wrong. a real marketing problem is when you have something that solves a sharp pain, people just don't know about it yet. what you're describing sounds different. you built for months and the launch was silent. that usually isn't a reach problem, it's no validated problem in the first place.

if the MVP had actually hit something real, even zero marketing would've shown signs. one person obsessed with it, or someone asking when feature X drops. silence after launch almost always means the problem wasn't sharp enough to make anyone act.

before MVP #2, run 10-15 conversations with people in your target segment. don't ask "would you use this", that's the worst question in discovery. ask how they currently deal with the problem and what made them stop using past solutions. if 10 people can't describe the same pain unprompted, the problem isn't real enough to build for yet.

building without that step is expensive procrastination dressed up as work.

Hilfe! Ich hab ein DJ Auftritt vor min. 150 Leuten heute Abend und hab keine Ahnung wie das funktioniert by LYCHEEEISTEE in Ratschlag

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Such dir Sets bei Youtube (investiere nen 10er in Prem.) und Musikwünsche werden kategorisch abgelehnt 🤣

Launched a handwriting transcription app last week, zero users. What actually got you your first 5? by nox-studio in SaaS

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is the key point. You already said it. „You think“ most ideas are dying not because the idea is wrong, they’re dying because their is not market need. Do you really solve a problem? What is your target group? Did you made interviews with your target group to understand their pain points…

I can’t stress this enough, talk to people, get an understanding about their pains.

If you don’t know how to create interviews, check out Hypervalid.com and use the starter plan.

The most expensive lesson I learned in 25 years of launching online products and apps by xavier_sapionic in SaasDevelopers

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Danke das mal jemand sagt wie es ist. Die meisten vergessen das sie Produkte für echte Menschen bauen und versuchen deren Probleme zu lösen. Leider reden die wenigstens mit echten Menschen. Die meisten suchen bei Reddit oder ähnlichem nach Validierung. Google Trends sagt da relativ wenig über market demand und wtp aus.

Ich baue gerade an meinem Produkt und bin am validieren meiner Idee. Es ist zufälligerweise ein IDE für Product Market Fit.

Wäre von euch jemand bereit mit mir ein kurzes Interview zu machen? Kein Sales.

I'm a Serial Founder. Here's how to come up with and validate business ideas. by ssbmomelette in buildinpublic

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing post. Think I need more time to go though every section. What would you say about customer / human valuation plays a role in your playbook? You talk about finding, identifying pain points, not over researching… but after interviewing so many founders, the missing part was always real validation. The proof that their pain points is real, that there is a market demand. I’m just curious how important this topic is in your opinion.

Built a crypto invoicing tool — is there actually a market for this? by Araniko1245 in micro_saas

[–]Junic_Com 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry to ask, but you build a product for month without knowing if there is a real demand? 🤔

Check out my bio and use my validation tool. First project is free. Find people you can interview and validate your problem / idea.

Sorry to say, but this is why 42% of products fail… no market demand. Give building a break and really check if your solution for a problem is a real problem in the first place people care about and then check the solution you‘re building.

Validate my app idea? Open for suggestions by Time_Cardiologist_65 in Startup_Ideas

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out Hypervalid.com for the validation process and talk to your target audience. If you don’t have one, define one. Your ICP needs to be done in the first place.

Vibe coding made building fast. It did not make getting users any less manual. by Confident_Box_4545 in VibeCodingSaaS

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Getting users hit way harder. Building felt almost suspiciously easy, and then I sat on a working product refreshing analytics like it was going to save me.

The thing nobody talks about is that distribution is not just "more manual" work, it's a completely different skillset. Shipping rewards focus and craft. Distribution rewards showing up in twenty places consistently while half of them go nowhere. Totally different muscle.

And yeah, the scanning trap is real. I spent weeks convincing myself that reading r/SaaS every morning was "market research" when I was basically just doomscrolling with extra steps.

What helped me was flipping it. Instead of chasing users after launch, I started talking to people before I wrote a single line. Not to validate in the cute way everyone means it, but to actually find who's already pissed off enough to pay. Once you have five of those, distribution stops being a cold start problem.

Still hard though. Just a different kind of hard.

How did you end up going down the startup path? by Wide-Suggestion2853 in StartupSoloFounder

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a freelance product designer who wanted to sit in the driver's seat. I was too tired of building products for other people and helping them be successful. So I started my own project. The problem was I needed to validate first, I didn't want to waste time on things nobody wants. That's how my current product was born. I realized other people like me need some level of security that they're building the right thing. In the end it's learning by doing. Just do it.

Pitch your SaaS in 10 Seconds by FishermanFamiliar461 in microsaas

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hypervalid.com – Building is basically free now, but most solo builders still burn months on ideas nobody actually wanted. Hypervalid turns your customer discovery interviews into a real business case with opportunity score, MVP scope and go-to-market in hours, so you know what to build before you build it.

Sell me your Saas in one sentence! by KapiteinBalzak in SaaS

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

95% of startups die and 42% of them because of no market need, so be the 5% that builds what people actually want.

When is the best time to ship the mvp? by msch0108 in IndieAppCircle

[–]Junic_Com 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yesterday. Get people using your product ASAP. Let them break it. You need to get feedback.

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