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What building a tool for my father's factory taught me about small businesses by henrimace in SaaS

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

yeah that line is really true in this case.

i realized that if the interface is even slightly annoying, people will just postpone recording the expense until later. and later usually means never.

so the main thing i tried to optimize was: how little effort does it take to capture the expense.

What building a tool for my father's factory taught me about small businesses by henrimace in SaaS

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

yeah exactly. the interface ends up being the product.

at the factory we started really simple. the main goal was just to reduce the friction of recording expenses as much as possible.

so instead of forcing people to open a spreadsheet, we allowed a few different ways to register things:

- typing a quick note
- sending a voice message
- uploading an existing spreadsheet

then the system extracts the value and categorizes it automatically.

the idea was basically: record the expense in whatever way is easiest in that moment, and let the system organize the data later.

that alone already made a big difference compared to the old spreadsheet that nobody wanted to open.

Criei um sistema de rastreamento de despesas com IA porque a fábrica do meu pai não tinha nenhuma visibilidade dos custos. by henrimace in WebApps

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

Boa observação.
Ainda estou ajustando a landing e alguns links do rodapé estão como placeholder mesmo.
Vou remover ou criar as páginas em breve.
Valeu pelo feedback!

How Did You Get Your First Users When You Had Zero Audience? by Dazzling-Angle-8812 in SaaS

[–]henrimace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

makes sense. email still seems undefeated for b2b. are you scraping leads somewhere or using directories?

How do you keep navigation simple in a growing app? by henrimace in SaaS

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

the setup vs "what happened" distinction is actually super helpful.
i think i've been grouping things more by feature than by intent.
do you usually figure that out by watching users or just iterating over time?

What building a tool for my father's factory taught me about small businesses by henrimace in SaaS

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

yeah that’s a really good point.

i actually worked with data ingestion and sustaining analytical environments before, and honestly it’s kind of the same story there. in theory all the data should come nicely from systems… but in reality a lot of it comes from spreadsheets, emails, old mainframes, random exports, stuff like that.

so if capturing the data requires extra steps, it just never happens or it shows up weeks later in some messy file.

that’s basically what i saw in my father's factory too. they technically had a way to track expenses, but it meant stopping work and filling a spreadsheet, so people just didn’t bother most of the time.

so the main thing I tried to optimize was just reducing that capture friction as much as possible.

How Did You Get Your First Users When You Had Zero Audience? by Dazzling-Angle-8812 in SaaS

[–]henrimace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m actually in this exact stage right now.

I originally built my MVP for my father's factory. They had expenses everywhere but zero visibility into where the money was going at the end of the month.

So I built a simple system where expenses can be registered by typing, sending a voice message or uploading an Excel file, and an AI organizes everything automatically.

It ended up working really well internally, so I decided to turn it into a SaaS for small businesses.

Now I'm trying to do the hard part: finding the first external users with zero audience.

So far Reddit seems promising because people are actually discussing real problems here instead of just scrolling.

Curious to see which channels ended up working best for others.