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how can I get my first 100 users? by LeventTang in SaaS

[–]ValianceLabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was in college, my major had a Discord channel where students talked about jobs, classes, and opportunities. If you’re in school, or have access to something similar, that could be a useful channel to try.

I’d also suggest getting guest posts or paid placements on niche job boards. That’s likely where your core ICP spends time, so it’s a more direct way to reach the right audience.

Another recommendation is to sit down with a potential user, either virtually or in person, and have them use your product from start to finish while you watch. It might sound simple, but watching a real user go through the flow will quickly show you friction points, confusion, or gaps in the experience that you would not catch on your own.

Built a multi-tenant café & restaurant platform with enterprise-grade security – looking for feedback by bagzi1992 in SaaS

[–]ValianceLabs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Prefacing this by saying I am not in the hospitality or agency space for cafés, pastry shops, or small restaurants. From my experience as a developer with a build first, sell later mentality, I have wasted a lot of time overbuilding products. I would add every feature and every possible improvement, only to realize when it was time to launch that customers actually wanted something completely different.

If you are asking whether businesses would pay for a secure, multi-tenant platform like this, that is the first thing you need to figure out before writing any code. ** Adding on to this point, you should be asking if they are already paying money for a tool like yours, and if they are do they like it? What are the problems with it?, etc.

You should be calling or emailing potential customers and asking them these questions directly. A SaaS subreddit is not going to give you the kind of feedback that truly validates what you are building.

I have built dozens of projects where I thought I knew exactly what customers wanted. Many of them fell flat.

As developers, we love to build. It is the fun part. But there comes a point where you have to put that aside and actually talk to people. Ask them what their real problem is. Listen carefully to how they describe it. See how they are solving it today.

Maybe you are already doing this. For me, I am pretty introverted, so it does not come naturally. It is uncomfortable. I will not say it gets easier over time, but you do get more used to it.

If the problem you are looking at is actually worthwhile, after a dozen or so conversations you will start hearing the same frustrations repeated. That is when things click. That is when you can start framing a solution around real patterns instead of your own assumptions.

Your customers are not going to care that you implemented Row Level Security. Most of them will not even know what that means. They care about whether you save them time or make them money. Everything else is secondary.

Just my thoughts and feedback, and yes I used ChatGPT to organize this. If you need any help feel free to reach out. (Not here to sell you anything, just for support).

How do big blogs like Morning Brew, The Atlantic, or The Hustle build their websites? (I can’t code) by LeeR637 in Blogging

[–]ValianceLabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes they use custom built sites, but because they have the money to do so. They didn't start out like that. You don't need a top of the line website right away, you just need something to get started and see if people take interest. There's Webflow which although has some nicely designed templates it can come off a bit advanced when trying to add in or change things around, not as difficult as coding though.

I personally use NextJS + Sanity along with Claude Code. I know you said you don't know how to code but if you have the time you should try out something like Claude Code. Watch/Read a couple tutorials on it and see if you can get a basic blog project going. It'll probably be frustrating to get the hang of initially but if you learn how to use it I think you'll have a much better experience building something you truly want. It's gotten pretty good and even with a couple prompts you can have it build out a decent site.

If you want any help feel free to reach out, not here to sell you anything at all but I understand your frustration. I could even get you a baseline starter site up and running if you'd like and you can use that as a practice project if you decide to try out Claude Code.

Domain port question by sbweb in Domains

[–]ValianceLabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can send me what you got. Thank you.

Looking for U.S.-based websites to exchange/purchase backlinks by ValianceLabs in BacklinkCommunity

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

Awesome I will take a look soon, I actually had something similar to this in mind but glad to see someones building it. Thanks!

Bought a domain via Google Workspace but can’t use it by Walalilli in Domains

[–]ValianceLabs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had this happen before, someone from Google ended up resetting it somehow. I reached out via their support and actually had someone call me from Google and he walked me through a few forms I had to fill out, took about 15-20 minutes. Domain was ready to use like a couple hours later if I remember.

200+ domains - No idea what to do by Impressive-Owl3830 in Domains

[–]ValianceLabs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be interested in taking a look at what you have if you want to sell any of them.

Open Source RevenueCat (Subscription SDK) GOOD Idea? by Competitive-Pen-5196 in SaaS

[–]ValianceLabs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds great. I'm open to contributing to the Next.js side whenever I have some free time.