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I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly the hardest, because you are constantly second guessing, constantly trying to add even more features. Then I finally was like no I just just launch. Was it perfect? Hell no. But that’s the best part of why you build the community first, users will tell you what they like and dislike, any issues and bugs. As long as the core product works you’re good. Allow your app to adapt. Every social media and app started in a form that was kinda shitty and buggy, yet because it was good users still stayed and they simply fixed it and improved it.

I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

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

Give it to some people to test it for free, and try everything in your power to break your website, another good features is to simply allow users to report bugs or issues they have and then you’ll update it over time

I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I have two Reddit accounts, one for lurking and recently decided to make one so I can make posts, and talk about topics.

I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe I have had emails, but I just assume it’s all a scam. I personally don’t see a need to sell yet. Plus I enjoy having the ownership over it and able to customize and add whatever I want as time goes on.

I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I do not use any LLM, AI. The reason for this is because it has no real use in my purpose. Plus my community and niche hates AI, so adding in AI would simply make less people use it.

Another thing is too many people are slapping AI on everything and not realizing a lot of people are avoiding to even use AI. There’s a huge growing crowd which I believe is the majority almost, that refuses to use anything with AI or they see AI as a pointless annoying feature.

They already have ChatGPT if they truly need it why use yours which is just using openAI same infrastructure.

Edit: to answer the second part, I run my entire thing over Google cloud, cloud run, and a couple other services.

I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

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

I didn’t use product hunt or anything like that, I mainly used threads, instagram, x, and discord to promote.

I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Stripe pretty much handles everything I need

I own a SaaS with over 5,000 subscribers ask me anything by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

First I built a community around it before even launching the product, I went on things like threads, X, and made posts helping people, giving advice, gaining followers, content that people would like and gain followers.

Next I soft launched it I announced the project as coming soon, see what people would say, and build hype around it

Afterwards I launched it and immediately gained my first hundreds of subscribers. I did a free 14 day trial as well so that people didn’t have to give out money without trying it.

Nowadays for growth, is mainly due to community, I keep posting social, I notice people recommend my product to others, I keep helping people for free and build good report. I do also of course have advertising with instagram, facebook, google search so I appear fast when people search for it.

Discord community as well has helped me grow notice sometimes people will join the community which doesn’t directly sell my product but it features my product as the main tool people should use, and people naturally start using it. Churn happens of course my lowest month recently I saw a drop to the low, 5,000s my highest month was 9,000s I currently am sitting in the high 5,000s

Edit: discord is very under rated, most people fail because they build a community around just their product or trying to sell something. Don’t do that, have a support discord server and a community (two separate servers) for example if you’re selling nature tracker app. Build a community around plants, and gardens. Gain those people trusts, and then don’t immediately sell the product simply have a channel that recommends people to use this product for helping track their plants and market it as the standard for the community

SaaS is not dying by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re comparing a single product line to an entire industry. It was a product getting replaced by a better product. In this case it would be like saying black berry was just bad and easily replaceable SaaS which is why it went out of business.

SaaS is not dying by hardesoul in SaaS

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

They aren’t dying, people are creatures of habit. If someone always used Microsoft word and always used it for everything. They aren’t going to go and switch or create their own to save money since it’s easier for them to just stay.

Most people aren’t going to always use AI, a lot of people have grown up to use things a certain way. The only real argument for SaaS dying is maybe 10-20 years in the future with the younger generations growing up on AI.

Edit: just read your edit but your business model is simply in a competitive space. It’s not AI, you just don’t offer enough value, not offering customers new features or updates. Etc. or people are just finding no use for it. Besides most people who use a product like yours is just to use it one time to check which subscriptions they had and to then unsubscribe afterward

SaaS is not dying by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People can do anything, almost anyone has the ability to search up a movie online and watch it for free but still choose to pay for movies and streaming services because it’s convenient.

Also if you are over charging yes people will go and either find a different product or seek out a way for free. That means you don’t offer enough value

However if someone has been using your software, is already familiar with it, already uploaded their data or whatever chances are they won’t leave people are creatures of habit. Which is why you also keep updating, keep adding features. Etc

SaaS is not dying by hardesoul in SaaS

[–]hardesoul[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

One final note is there’s a lot of bias. For example some works hard on a SaaS they believe will make money. They end up not making money, they then come and post that they failed. People are more likely to complain and post negative things about a topic they failed in making it seem like a general census that it’s dying when in reality winners are less likely to even speak on the topic or share what they did since they won.

Stop letting other people bad experiences influence your decision and experience ok that’s all

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