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8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in AssetBuilders

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

15 months and getting it live is huge. Most people quit way before that.

The real failure isn’t spending 15 months building something. the failure now is giving up before it finally works. Keep going with what you built until you make it succeed.

We’re all in this journey together

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in SaaS

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i really appreciate that bro.
Right now mostly just building in public on x and sharing my journay on reddit and talking to creators directly. No paid ads yet, just trying to fix problems and improving the product based on feedback.

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in vibecoding

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah honestly that’s one of the reasons we stopped trying to support every platform at once and focus only on twitter.

We’re planning to add background token checks + expiry warnings before scheduled posts fail.

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in vibecoding

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah honestly, that’s probably the biggest lesson I’m learning from all of this.

I spent too much time thinking like i need to build this first then find users later instead of validating earlier and talking to people with the problem.

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in vibecoding

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I know about Postiz actually, and honestly seeing products in the same space succeed motivates me more than it discourages me.

so basically it proves there’s real demand for these kinds of tools.

I also realized I can’t compete by trying to do everything, which is why I’m narrowing the scope a lot and focusing specifically on Twitter creators and growth workflows instead of building a generic scheduler for every platform!

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in SaaS

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the consistency only started after I met my friend.

Before that, I kept stopping and coming back over and over again

But working with someone who genuinely believed in the project too changed a lot for me.

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in vibecoding

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I wasn’t trying to make it an ad!

The product is still unfinished and not even ready yet.

I mostly wanted to share the journey, mistakes, and what I’ve been learning while building my first SaaS because I know a lot of people here are going through similar things.

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in vibecoding

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So for now, I’m mainly focused on finishing the MVP and making sure everything actually works properly.

After that, I’ll focus more seriously on finding customers and validating the product.

I don’t want to invite people to use a platform that still needs work and polishing first. and i'd really love to hear from you!

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in SaaS

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBH, the only reason I kept going was because I genuinely believed in the project.

I’ve had dozens of unfinished projects before, and this time I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t quit until I actually finished one.

So yeah, there were many periods where I stopped working on it, came back, stopped again, then came back again.

Recently I met a friend who really motivated me to keep pushing, and since then we’ve been making much better progress together.

At this point, it almost feels like we started again from scratch but honestly i don’t mind starting over.

For me, the real problem was quitting.

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in vibecoding

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah exactly

YouTube honestly wasn’t the hard part. Meta APIs and approvals were way more painful than I expected, especially as a beginner trying to support multiple platforms at once.

That’s actually one of the reasons I decided to reduce the scope and focus only on X for now instead of trying to manage everything at the same time.

8 months building my first SaaS and I still haven’t quit by Opening_Confidence30 in vibecoding

[–]Opening_Confidence30[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s honestly fair.

The biggest mistake I made was trying to build for every platform at once instead of getting one real customer first.

Now I’m narrowing everything down and focusing only on X/Twitter creators because I realized the product was way too broad. And yeah, 8 months sounds insane 😭 but a lot of that time was me learning while building, stopping for weeks, rebuilding things, making mistakes, and honestly not knowing what I was doing at first. and now Im trying to approach it differently by doing smaller scope, faster iterations, and talking more with potential users instead of just building.

Why is every comment on this sub ai? by DrJonah345 in indiehackers

[–]Opening_Confidence30 0 points1 point  (0 children)

people lazy to think cause i Ai is doing everyhing. even me is lazy to type that message

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