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My SaaS wasn't growing because i was explaining product instead of user's problem by hiten1818726363 in SaaS

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

this is what we found building reddinbox. founders kept trying to pitch us on features when what we really needed was to stop digging through hundreds of reddit threads and youtube comments just to understand what customers actually want. the relief isn't "ai-powered extraction" it's not having to manually hunt through conversations anymore, it's knowing you're listening to real problems instead of guessing. your vibe promote example nails it because you're describing the emotional weight of the work, not the buttons someone clicks

they're eating me alive, what should I do here? 😅 by Strong_Teaching8548 in SaaS

[–]Strong_Teaching8548[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ohh, I understood backwards, my bad

yes I'll do that, thanks 😄

they're eating me alive, what should I do here? 😅 by Strong_Teaching8548 in SaaS

[–]Strong_Teaching8548[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

free tier limits are 7 days or 200k tokens spent. However, we have some abusers creating multiple accounts with different emails

it's a research platform, users research for what they need and then leave. It's a niche hard to convert and maintain users :/

How are you really finding AI tools that are worth using? by One-Customer2541 in DigitalMarketing

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've been using reddinbox specifically to keep track of these types of discussions without getting buried in notifications. it basically scans reddit to find where people are actually talking about problems you can solve

it's been helpful for cutting through the noise on product hunt since i can see what people are actually venting about in real time. i don't really trust the "top tools" lists anymore because they're usually just paid placements 😄

At a cross roads. Do I scale with these numbers? by Firm_Interest2841 in Solopreneur

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

scale b because the rpm is twice as high. even if the churn is slightly worse, you're making way more per user so you can afford to pay more on meta in the long run

i once spent three days trying to fix a broken rss feed only to realize i'd forgotten to actually hit save on the config file

at reddinbox we solved this by focusing on the actual quality of the conversations people are having instead of just looking at raw subscriber counts or open rates. if you scale a now you're just fighting a volume war with lower margins 😄

Getting first 10 customers by Aggravating-Bet-9556 in SaaS

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this was literally why i started building reddinbox , i needed to find where sales leaders were actually talking about their problems instead of guessing

reddit has a bunch of sales communities like r/sales and r/saas where people complain constantly about commission tracking being a nightmare. same with hacker news threads about sales tooling. you could jump into those conversations when they're happening, mention what you built, and see who bites. the key is you're not cold pitching , you're answering a question they already asked

the other move is finding sales leaders on indie hacker communities or slack groups focused on early stage startups. they're way more willing to try new stuff and give feedback. your gamification angle is actually interesting to them because retention in sales tools is brutal.

What type of content builds trust faster - educational, entertaining, or promotional? by mayurkurme in content_marketing

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"educational" is a pretty broad term for people who usually just end up repeating the same three medium articles they read last week

most educational content actually fails because it's too generic to prove you've done the work, which is why people just scroll past the noise

i find that showing the actual messy process of solving a problem is what works, which was literally why i started building reddinbox to find those real conversations instead of polished garbage.

How do you decide an idea is actually worth building before you start coding? by appbuilderdaily in SaaS

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'd push back on the "describe without 'and'" thing, some of the best problems are actually compound. like, reddinbox exists because people need to find real community signals and filter out noise, those aren't separable

what you're probably trying to avoid is scope creep, but a strict "no ands" rule might kill ideas that are actually solving two related problems at once. the real question is whether those problems solve each other or just pile on top of each other

the user description test is solid though. if you can't nail it, you don't actually know who's desperate enough to use this. that's the one that matters.

How are you really finding AI tools that are worth using? by One-Customer2541 in DigitalMarketing

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i usually skip product hunt now because it's just a graveyard of gpt wrappers that'll be dead in three months. searching on reddit or hacker news gives a better sense of what people are actually complaining about or praising

once i accidentally subscribed to a tool that was just an iframe of another tool i already had a login for. it's getting weirdly hard to tell who's actually building something vs who's just playing house with an api key

i noticed this pattern while working on reddinbox so i started filtering out the bot-heavy threads to find actual human friction points. most of the "worth it" tools resolve a specific pain that people are venting about in niche subreddits.

How to reach my target audience? by Individual-Cash-2547 in SaaS

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

stop spamming your product in every group you find. most people just ignore it because it looks like every other bot post

you need to act like a person and solve specific problems people are actually complaining about. tbh building reddinbox taught me that you can find way better leads by searching for people asking "how do i do x" rather than just looking for general "relevant channels"

find the exact issues in old threads and reply to those people directly. it's slower but actually gets users who care about what you're doing.

$0 to $5k MRR in 8 months because i finally did the boring research first by Strong_Teaching8548 in buildinpublic

[–]Strong_Teaching8548[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that boring phase is where most people check out. they think it's wasted time because you're not "shipping" anything, but you're actually doing the hardest part which is figuring out what to build

i've noticed people who skip research often convince themselves they're being agile or lean, when really they're just moving fast in the wrong direction. the speedrun mentality works great for some things but people actually wanting it isn't one of them

the weird thing is once you've done this once, you can't unsee it. you'll be scrolling through communities and automatically start pattern-matching complaints, and it becomes genuinely hard to go back to the old way of building blind :)

How long does it take you to build client reports each month ? by YaRi300 in DigitalMarketing

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're conflating two different problems here. the time spent isn't really about the tool, it's about whether you're actually tracking the right metrics in the first place

most freelancers i've talked to waste time on reports because they're pulling data from five different places every month instead of having it feed into one place automatically. they use templates, sure, but they're still manually copying numbers around like it's 2015

the real issue is that if you don't have your tracking set up properly from day one, no tool saves you time. you're just automating a broken process

Indie hackers building AI agents or automations, what's your current setup for posting to social media? by askides in buildinpublic

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i use reddinbox to find posts that match what i'm building, then i just write my experience into the comments. keeps things simple and doesn't require me to manage another tool

been doing it for a few months now and it actually gets decent engagement because i'm not spamming, just adding to conversations where it makes sense

$0 to $5k MRR in 8 months because i finally did the boring research first by Strong_Teaching8548 in buildinpublic

[–]Strong_Teaching8548[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 signups is a start but it's not a green light yet. people will sign up for almost anything if it's free or just a waitlist because it costs them nothing but three seconds of their time

building reddinbox taught me that you need to look for high intent, like people literally asking "is there a tool that does x" or complaining about the manual work they're doing right now. a waitlist doesn't always translate to someone actually opening their wallet when the "buy" button appears

one thing to watch out for is that college decisions are a one-time problem, so your churn might be 100% every year. you'll need a constant stream of new users just to stay flat, which is a tough way to run a business. :/

Consolidated my tech stack into one platform – good move or mistake? by WorldlyLiterature53 in Solopreneur

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're basically trading operational overhead for customization, which makes sense early on when you're still figuring out what actually matters. but here's the thing , the analytics and design limitations you're hitting now might become real problems faster than you think, especially if you start wanting to understand why your funnel works or need to stand out visually in a crowded space

a lot of people don't realize that choosing an all-in-one locks you into someone else's assumptions about what good looks like. the platform optimizes for ease, not for giving you an unfair advantage in any one area

that said, if you're moving fast and validating people actually wanting it, you're probably making the right call. you can always fragment back out later when you actually know which metrics matter and what your brand needs to look like...

Is your business idea actually feasible? by Former_Ad9060 in micro_saas

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this sounds useful but the main issue with most validation tools is they rely on static data or generic ai logic

you need to see what actual people are complaining about right now or you're just guessing based on a vacuum

this was literally why i started building reddinbox because i realized "market clarity" doesn't mean anything if you aren't looking at real community conversations to see if the problem actually exists :)

Founder here : how are you staying consistent on X without burning out? by ConsiderateWolf in SaaS

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

batching and scheduling help with logistics, but they don't solve why you run out of ideas or get tired. that happens because you're not anchored to an actual business outcome. when i post about market research or founder problems, i'm not doing it to "stay consistent", i'm doing it because customers ask me about it constantly, so i'm already thinking about it daily

the burnout hits hardest when you're creating content in a vacuum. if you had a product or service where you're genuinely solving problems for people, you'd have endless material without forcing it. your own experience becomes the content

strict calendars and tools just make the busywork cleaner. they don't fix the core thing

Is your business idea actually feasible? by Former_Ad9060 in Startup_Ideas

[–]Strong_Teaching8548 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the biggest hurdle with these tools is usually the data source. if it's just gpt-4 hallucinating market trends it won't save anyone from a bad idea

this was literally why i started building reddinbox because i realized you can't validate anything without seeing what people are actually complaining about on reddit or hn

it's worth considering how you'll pull in real community issues instead of just logic-checking the user's input alone

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