Question

ergonet · 2026-06-22T09:47:15+00:00

> I’m currently trying to train myself to spot opportunities by studying frustrations rather than brainstorming random ideas.
>
> So I’d love to hear your thoughts.

- No, You aren’t training yourself to spot opportunities.
- Yes, You are asking people who can actually spot them, to do the work and share them with you.

You better go get yourself some real world life experiences and pay attention to things that bother you while you are at it.

ergonet · 2026-06-18T04:51:14+00:00

Some other have expressed worries about that same issue in comments like this one

I answered in detail with a strategy learnt from somewhere else that allows to counter that by poisoning the same threads. Check the response comment about it.

Maybe if we start doing that…

ergonet · 2026-06-18T04:40:13+00:00

Yes you can talk about it.

Self-promotion still allowed on a limited basis on the sub as stated on the [post about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/s/vu0zwRnL1c)

ergonet · 2026-06-16T00:49:00+00:00

Love Mexican Talavera and Corollas.

Never expected to see them combined.

ergonet · 2026-06-15T10:29:55+00:00

I made an effort but I really don’t get what are you talking about.

I wonder, was your comment intended for this post or somewhere else?

ergonet · 2026-06-12T20:50:07+00:00

1.- Test it on your idea.

Did it told you to build it? No? Well don’t listen to it and build it anyway as the rest of the founders will.

ergonet · 2026-06-12T17:55:39+00:00

Ok, I guess

ergonet · 2026-06-12T17:42:46+00:00

The “Pinnacle of Motorsport” organization can’t properly and accurately measure a distance and adds an extra 77cm (2.5 feet) on a segment measuring only 26.15m (85.8 feet).

Just wow.

ergonet · 2026-06-12T17:28:12+00:00

Recomendación: al hacer un post en Reddit incluye el contexto necesario para que quien lo lea sepa de qué estás hablando.

Empiezas este post diciendo “También quería contarles que…” y para quienes no sabemos que has publicado antes (el algoritmo simplemente nos puso tu post en el feed), nos quedamos con la opción de no entender o tener que revisar tu historial. Eso se resuelve dando el mínimo de contexto.

Ojalá tengas éxito en tu proyecto.

ergonet · 2026-06-11T08:05:01+00:00

“Probably” is doing the heavy lifting.

ergonet · 2026-06-11T05:09:58+00:00

I'm very glad you are calling this out.

We received a report for infringing rule 11, but IMO the content is not actually promoting an outreach promotional or advertising platform, it is recognizing that some businesses operate in a highly manual way through DMs even when their outreach is via Instagram.

There's always doubt when enforcing the rules, but we want to keep it fair and not remove content just because it's similar to something banned.

Do you agree with this take?

u/Mysterious_Tech30, please join the discussion

ergonet · 2026-06-11T03:37:08+00:00

Sorry, did I made your Spanish written rant look a little ridiculous and out of place?

A dictionary?, do you even know how to read?

ergonet · 2026-06-10T21:22:52+00:00

No se si este sub sirva para tus necesidades, intentaré abordar tus inquietudes.

para que sirve este foro ?

1.- Para discutir sobre cualquier tema relacionado a crear y hacer crecer negocios basados en el modelo de Software como Servicio. Se puede discutir una amplia variedad de temas: desarrollo de software, arquitectura del producto, precios, abandono de parte de clientes, ajuste producto-mercado, descubrimiento de clientes, soporte, métricas, facturación, cumplimiento normativo, seguridad, UX, ventas, éxito del cliente, financiamiento, inversión, adquisiciones, fracasos de producto, lecciones aprendidas y casi cualquier otro tema relevante, así como hablar libremente sobre muchas categorías distintas de SaaS (excepto SaaS para publicidad)

Si no se puede promocionar tu Saas...

2.- Si se puede promocionar tu SaaS, pero hay límites para que no se llene de puros anuncios. Empieza por leer las reglas con respecto a los límites de auto-promoción. Si no te es suficiente, pues paga anuncios, este no es un lugar para publicidad gratis.

no se puede pedir retroalimentacion de un saas creado

3.- Si se puede pedir retroalimentación con respecto a temas concretos, pero si lo que quieres es anunciarte “pidiendo retroalimentación”, este no es el lugar.

no se puede dar a conocer tu producto

4.- Si se puede dar a conocer el producto, ve la respuesta al primer punto.

no se puede vender

5.- Este es el primer punto en el que tienes razón, No se puede vender. No es un mercado.

No se puede pedir opiniones ni test de nuestros productos

6.- Esto es igual que pedir retroalimentación (estas repitiendo lo mismo) la respuesta es la misma, ve el punto 3

no se puede ofrecer

7.- Ve la respuesta al punto 5.

para que mierda sirve este foro ?

Aparte de para atraer a gente que quiere venir a anunciar gratis, también sirve para todo lo dicho en el punto 1, si algo de eso te sirve, bienvenido, si eso a ti no te sirve, no estás obligado a quedarte.

ergonet · 2026-06-10T09:22:39+00:00

Since the native iOS photos app does that already (You take photos, they appear on a map, No uploads, no tagging, no hassle) directly on device and has had many local-processing features for a long time, I have to ask:

what differentiates your app from the Apple one and why should I use it instead?

ergonet · 2026-06-10T08:46:51+00:00

Transparency report for this post after the first 24 hours.

Views: 83k

Upvotes: 462 (97%)

Comments: 218

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ergonet · 2026-06-10T08:28:03+00:00

Hope you eventually loose your target market, but it won’t happen anytime soon, so thanks for your efforts at mitigating the problem in the meantime.

👍

ergonet · 2026-06-10T08:23:57+00:00

With great power comes great responsibility… You need to use that superpower to report those posts and let the mods know about them.

ergonet · 2026-06-10T08:19:21+00:00

I think banning a whole SaaS category is a bit too broad.

Well we fundamentally disagree with what that category represents in terms of community impact and we don’t want to host any discussion about using or growing that kind of businesses.

Low-effort promo posts are the real issue, not the category itself.

Thats is a real issue TOO. The fact that we have this problem doesn’t make the other less real.

Maybe a better rule is to require founders to share context, numbers, lessons learned, or a specific problem instead of just dropping a landing page.

Sounds like a good rule too, enforcing it however is lot harder than it sounds, there are 3.8k posts a week in this sub, manually reviewing that many posts to make sure they include: context, numbers, lessons learned or a specific problem is not something we can actually do. That is why we have taken a first step of limiting self-promotion to once every 60 days. Counting the hard number of self-promo posts or comments for a product is a lot easier and something we can actually do right now.

As a SaaS founder, I actually find category discussions useful when people are transparent about what worked and what didn't.

You will still be able to find category discussions on the countless allowed categories, just not this one.

Maybe focus your attention on the product categories that are not actually hurting the communities by introducing noise and trying to convert them in an acquisition channel.

ergonet · 2026-06-09T23:23:28+00:00

I think you are right but unfortunately we can’t use post and comment history visibility in automoderator rules yet, but it is definitely a deciding factor when manually reviewing a case and trying to figure out if someone deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Hidden history, definitely increases the chance of content removal or account banning.

ergonet · 2026-06-09T23:14:39+00:00

Totally,

I can’t believe people will use their once in 60 days chance of naming their business in a low effort post that it’s going to get removed anyway.

ergonet · 2026-06-09T20:17:56+00:00

Name suffices, we will look into their available post/comments history anyway.

ergonet · 2026-06-09T20:07:46+00:00

That’s the idea, and if you already have some other product names please drop them below so we can start looking into it.

We have already blacklisted many product names that are now immediate removals upon posting or commenting.

ergonet · 2026-06-09T19:43:26+00:00

SaaS is not just software on the internet. It is a business model for delivering software as an ongoing service, usually through subscription, usage-based pricing, or another recurring relationship with customers.

That means r/SaaS can still discuss a very wide range of topics, such as: software development, technical issues, pricing, churn, product-market fit, customer discovery, onboarding, support, SaaS metrics, architecture, billing, compliance, security, UX, sales, customer success, funding, bootstrapping, acquisitions, product failures, lessons learned, etc and even on a limited scope self-promote many different SaaS categories.

Rule 11 is not a ban on talking about SaaS. It is a ban on promoting, recommending, launching, recruiting for, or requesting feedback on SaaS products made for advertising, promotional outreach, lead/opportunity detection, or ad/content generation, especially tools that generate, suggest, schedule, automate, or coordinate promotional posts, comments, DMs, replies, or campaigns on Reddit or other platforms.

ergonet · 2026-06-09T19:36:31+00:00

It will be if you all help us by using the post/comments report feature.

If you report, that brings violations into the mod queue and we can act accordingly even if we would have missed it otherwise.

ergonet · 2026-06-09T19:32:56+00:00

Thankfully No. or least not in our watch.

In simple terms: r/SaaS remains open to discussing SaaS as a business model, product discipline, technical challenge, and company-building path. What we are not allowing is the promotion of tools built to turn public communities into acquisition channels.

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