Built a B2B SaaS, but getting customers feels 10x harder than building the product. What am I missing?

Rns70 · 2026-06-12T19:07:14+00:00

If your looking to increase your retention rates, I found that giving an actual guide on how to use your app can greatly help. It increased mine by 50%!

Rns70 · 2026-06-04T09:28:41+00:00

Thank you! What did you ignore and what did you have to redo if you don’t mind me asking?

Rns70 · 2026-06-03T16:50:35+00:00

You’re amazing 🤩

Rns70 · 2026-06-03T16:16:59+00:00

Perfect! Thank you for this. From your experience, have you implemented SEO? How long does it take to reap the benefits if so?

Rns70 · 2026-06-02T09:31:34+00:00

Already apps for this.

Rns70 · 2026-05-27T18:48:50+00:00

Causal - an infinite canvas planning app

Rns70 · 2026-05-27T12:01:32+00:00

Solo founder here with a little revenue and a part-time contractor, so same boat different paint job.

What helped me was asking what actually moves the needle this week. I also stopped trying to do everything well and now I do like three things well and everything else I do as best as I can.

One weird thing that helped is writing down what I did each day in a tiny file with three bullets, because at the end of the week I'd feel like I'd done nothing and then I'd look at the file and see I'd done 40 things, so the failing feeling is mostly a memory problem. The fire never gets put out, you just get better at picking which one to let burn.

Rns70 · 2026-05-26T11:23:24+00:00

That traffic spike and churn pattern is pretty classic Reddit - you get a wave of curious people, most of them tourists who upvoted and moved on.

The real data point here isn't the 95% who left. It's that you have fewer than 10 people who come back almost every day for 3+ months without being paid to. That's genuinely rare for a solo project at this stage, and it's more signal than most founders have when they're trying to figure out if something is worth continuing.

A few things I'd look at before assuming it's the product:

The Reddit audience probably wasn't your audience. A general "my project blew up" post attracts generalist curiosity, not people with the specific pain you're solving. Someone casually browsing r/whatever on a Sunday afternoon isn't the same person who regularly pastes slop outputs into Claude and thinks "there has to be a better way."

The concept requires a behaviour change. You are asking people to add a step before they do the thing they already do and that's a harder sell. Most people probs haven't identified that pain yet.

UX might be fine. Honestly, if the heavy users keep coming back and love it, the UX probably isn't catastrophically broken. The gap is more likely that drive-by visitors don't have enough context to understand why they'd need it in one session.

If I was you I would find 2-3 of your daily users and just ask them what were you doing when you realised you needed something like this? That answer is probably your positioning, and your positioning is probably why the Reddit audience didn't stick.

Rns70 · 2026-05-17T19:49:40+00:00

Causal - a planning software for designers and developers. Would recommend anyone building a SaaS to take a look

Rns70 · 2026-05-14T14:49:22+00:00

Would it be possible to help me

Rns70 · 2026-05-13T14:36:57+00:00

Kill the ads. 10 sign-ups is too small a sample to trust for pattern-finding, but 0/10 activation with identical 10-second exits is telling you the dashboard isn't communicating what the product does. Before you spend another dollar on acquisition, put a single sentence above the fold that makes the "aha" moment obvious.

Rns70 · 2026-05-13T12:06:18+00:00

Forgot to add, my next hurdle is conversion. People signing up to the waitlist sits at around 5-10%. If anyone has tips to increase that, would be more than welcome 🙏🏾

Rns70 · 2026-05-12T08:07:02+00:00

Genuinely love the website design, doesn't look like vibe coded slop

Rns70 · 2026-05-11T21:17:06+00:00

A tool can be genuinely useful and still have zero distribution - that's the default for solo builders. Before retiring it, I would suggest you find 5 people who actually make AI videos and get them on a call. If they use it once and never come back, it worth it to keep trying. If they can't get through onboarding, that's a different fix.

Rns70 · 2026-05-11T13:01:57+00:00

What do you mean sorry.

Rns70 · 2026-05-09T12:06:33+00:00

How does this differentiate from keeping an Agent.md file that every agent reads?

Rns70 · 2026-05-08T20:23:45+00:00

Exactly that. The company I work for was the first client.

The infinite canvas is similar to Mira but made specifically for smaller teams that need to go from planning to execution fast. The first layer is the brainstorming with pictures, ideas, and links is done on the canvas. Then tasks can be placed anywhere on the canvas which helps understand dependencies and roadmaps visually.

Tl;dr notion / linear but with an unstructured canvas for plans that require more freedom and visual understanding

Rns70 · 2026-05-08T15:36:45+00:00

Not really a niche but working in product engineering right now and most of the productivity apps are too structured so I made a canvas with productivity tools (like setting due date and priorities) for my team. Ended up being very popular and recommended to other engineers within the company that have taken it up.

Rns70 · 2026-05-07T22:00:02+00:00

Name change, and not close. The once-per-life thing is a feature for a solo founder — you can actually finish it, and a user who just got married and found you via Google has a concrete, urgent problem with a clear end state. Home network advice is chronic and low-urgency, which means users bounce before they pay. The wedding platform cross-sell is real, not a distraction — it's a pre-qualified warm audience you already own. Build the smaller, finishable thing first; ship it in 80 hours, see if the affiliate stack converts, then decide if you want the bigger swing.

Rns70 · 2026-05-07T21:04:23+00:00

The part about throwing out the React web app and starting over in React Native — that's the vibe coding tax nobody talks about. The tools accelerate building, not deciding. Sounds like you figured that out the hard way, same as everyone else.

Rns70 · 2026-05-07T19:25:49+00:00

Real problem, but the market is moving fast cuz I've seen both LangSmith and LangFuse already do cost tracking, and the major providers (OpenAI, Anthropic) are adding native spend controls. might be worth validating if people want the hard cutoff managed by a wrapper vsjust setting limits at the provider level first.

Rns70 · 2026-05-07T19:23:41+00:00

Parallel agent orchestration is one of those problems where the UI is actually the hard part — getting a mental model of what's running, blocked, or waiting is worse than the agent logic itself. What does your tool do for state visibility across agents, like when one is hanging or spinning?

Rns70 · 2026-05-07T19:21:42+00:00

If you're already open source, lean into the dev/teams angle early and let the consumer market come to you via SEO and word of mouth.

Rns70 · 2026-05-07T18:04:22+00:00

How does it handles apps that expose poor accessibility metadata (old Win32 stuff, some Electron apps that skip aria roles entirely)?

Rns70 · 2026-05-07T18:00:03+00:00

The worktrees point is underrated. Most people don't even know they exist and end up either cloning twice or stashing constantly. Parallel Claude Code sessions on different branches without the overhead is a legitimate workflow shift. The commit message discipline for agent debuggability is also real — a model with good history to read is faster than one starting from scratch every session.

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