{"data":{"items":[{"id":"f75143e0-5804-45cc-9804-29edddd2bb8b","excerpt":"I finally got my first paying customers back in June after months of $0 — Back in June I got my first paying customer after months of $0 MRR.\n\n$9.99. $10.49 with VAT. \n\nI know that's not a lot, but that \"Woohoo! You made a sale!\" email after staring at $0 for months felt insane. Still one of the best feelings I've had ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vskyls/i_finally_got_my_first_paying_customers_back_in/","role":"pain","weight":1.1506196,"occurredAt":"2026-08-19T12:25:07.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SaaS","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.43214285,"sentiment":-0.14285715,"confidence":0.8034252,"matchedPatterns":["wish","terrible"],"statement":"I wish I did earlier.","title":"I finally got my first paying customers back in June after months of $0","body":"Back in June I got my first paying customer after months of $0 MRR.\n\n$9.99. $10.49 with VAT. \n\nI know that's not a lot, but that \"Woohoo! You made a sale!\" email after staring at $0 for months felt insane. Still one of the best feelings I've had building this.\n\nI've been trying to make SaaS work for almost a year. [Cloakly ](https://www.getcloakly.com)is a 1-click screen hider. You hit a hotkey and it hides your windows and desktop icons so you don't share something private on a Zoom call. Simple idea, but I overbuilt it for months.\n\nWindows version, blur modes, selective hiding. I kept telling myself \"one more feature then I'll market it\" while analytics showed barely anyone visiting. Way too much time building, not enough talking to people.\n\nAt some point I realized I was hiding behind dev work, because coding is easier than asking people to use your stuff.\n\nSo I started posting on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit and TikTok about screen-share fails. No product pitch, just relatable pain. That's how people found it.\n\nOne person signed up for free, actually used it, and gave me feedback on what was broken for his setup. I fixed it. Then I asked him directly if he'd pay once I fixed it. He said yes.\n\nJune 12th: first payment - Lemon Squeezy \"wooooooo! You been paid!\"  \nToday, Aug 19th: $420.58 total from June 1 to Aug 19\n\nNo huge launch. No viral tweet. Just one person with a real problem, talking to him, fixing what he needed.\n\nBiggest lesson: I spent months worrying about SEO, landing pages, pricing. Getting one person to care taught me more than all of that.\n\nStill very early. $420 doesn't mean I figured out SaaS. But it's a start after $0. Now I just need to do it again. And again.\n\nIf you're stuck at signups but no pays, talk to those people before building another feature. I wish I did earlier.\n\nHow did the rest of you get your first paying users? Was it one conversation like this or something completely different?","offTopic":true},{"id":"928ca30e-17db-417c-9a42-259a2422c910","excerpt":"How do you advertise your projects? And here what I tried so far. — Hey everyone,\n\nFor the past 2 weeks, I've been grinding on marketing my newly finished SaaS, but I’m struggling to get solid traction, signups, or usage.\n\n**The Product:** It’s a web tool that converts music/podcast audio files combined with a cover im","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vv2jyy/how_do_you_advertise_your_projects_and_here_what/","role":"request","weight":0.85515475,"occurredAt":"2026-08-22T04:34:13.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SaaS","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.62879026,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"For those who have launched similar micro-SaaS tools in the creator/music space, what am I missing?","title":"How do you advertise your projects? And here what I tried so far.","body":"Hey everyone,\n\nFor the past 2 weeks, I've been grinding on marketing my newly finished SaaS, but I’m struggling to get solid traction, signups, or usage.\n\n**The Product:** It’s a web tool that converts music/podcast audio files combined with a cover image into render-ready MP4s and uploads them directly to YouTube - eliminating the need to open Premiere Pro, DaVinci, or render files locally.\n\n**Target Audience:** Indie artists, beatmakers, record labels, podcasters, and developers looking to automate their audio-to-video workflow via API/integrations.\n\nHere is what I’ve tried so far:\n\n* **Directory Launches:** Listed on Product Hunt, SaaSHub, AlternativeTo, etc. (as backlink)\n* **Programmatic SEO & Web Setup:** Built SEO-targeted landing pages, meta tags, and set up GSC & GA4 tracking.\n* **Reddit Outreach:** Posted in niche subreddits (though a few got removed for self-promotion).\n* **Content:** Created a YouTube tutorial video and embedded it on the site.\n* **Reduced Friction (Auth Shift):** Removed the mandatory upfront Google Login - users now only need to authenticate when actually rendering/exporting to YouTube.\n* **UI/UX Refactor:** Streamlined the core app dashboard into a step-by-step wizard to reduce decision paralysis.\n* **Growth Hacks / Watermarking:** Added custom watermark options and allowed users to download watermarked MP4s for free if they share it on Reddit or X.\n* **Integrations:** Developed a custom n8n NPM package, published tutorial workflows, and posted on the n8n community forums.\n* **Cold Outreach:** Sent cold emails/DMs to \"useful websites you didn't know\" curators on Instagram/TikTok,\n* **Paid Ads:** Ran a small test Google Ads campaign ($5 / 2,000 HUF budget) targeting the US and UK.\n\n**What I’m planning to try next:**\n\n* Direct outreach (DMs) to indie artists and beatmakers on IG/TikTok.\n* Cold B2B/B2C outreach once my domain warm-up process completes.\n\nDespite all this, conversion is near zero. For those who have launched similar micro-SaaS tools in the creator/music space, what am I missing? What channels should I double down on?\n\nAppreciate any brutally honest feedback on the strategy!","offTopic":false},{"id":"bbb9781c-982a-4980-873e-0a07bb5cbc73","excerpt":"I’m non technical but built a product over 3 months to see if a could. No customers yet - looking for advice on how to get my first. — My background is finance and operations so I don’t code in my day to day. I’ve always been entrepreneurial and wondered if I could use ai to build a product over the course of a few mon","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vuv66h/im_non_technical_but_built_a_product_over_3/","role":"request","weight":0.82996637,"occurredAt":"2026-08-21T22:47:18.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SaaS","intent":"feature_request","painScore":0.36,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.61026937,"matchedPatterns":["missing_feature"],"statement":"I’m pretty proud of where I got to given my lack of technical knowledge (so please be kind if you have constructive feedback!) but nonetheless wanted ask how folks got their first customers.","title":"I’m non technical but built a product over 3 months to see if a could. No customers yet - looking for advice on how to get my first.","body":"My background is finance and operations so I don’t code in my day to day. I’ve always been entrepreneurial and wondered if I could use ai to build a product over the course of a few months. I’m pretty proud of where I got to given my lack of technical knowledge (so please be kind if you have constructive feedback!) but nonetheless wanted ask how folks got their first customers. I don’t want to spend a ton of money on advertising right away. \n\nThe product does rev recovery for failed stripe payments, essentially like a dunning. It’s free to use and charges 25% of recovered revenue. This isn’t an ad so I’ll leave it there but would warmly welcome feedback from people who know more than me.\n\nvalkyriemrr.com","offTopic":false},{"id":"2d272fc6-15ef-49db-9267-a806b3c700e9","excerpt":"650+downloads-100 registered users $0 Revenue-How do I get my first 10 paying customer. — Hey everyone, hoping for some outside perspective because I think I'm too close to this to see clearly anymore. I am a solo founder building Rubiwo, a CRA compliant expense tracking app for Canadian freelancer and small businesses","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vtnqns/650downloads100_registered_users_0_revenuehow_do/","role":"pain","weight":0.77484846,"occurredAt":"2026-08-20T16:07:25.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SaaS","intent":"howto_question","painScore":0.34454545,"sentiment":-0.6363636,"confidence":0.57629025,"matchedPatterns":["how_can_i"],"statement":"650+downloads-100 registered users $0 Revenue-How do I get my first 10 paying customer..","title":"650+downloads-100 registered users $0 Revenue-How do I get my first 10 paying customer.","body":"Hey everyone, hoping for some outside perspective because I think I'm too close to this to see clearly anymore. I am a solo founder building Rubiwo, a CRA compliant expense tracking app for Canadian freelancer and small businesses. Quick numbers;\n\n\\- C$ 700 google ad\n\n\\-C$600 reddit ad\n\n\\- c$400 meta ad\n\n\\- 650+total download across IOS/Android\n\n\\-100 registered free users\n\n\\- C$0 paid revenue ever.\n\nAlso Reached out to 25 accountants/bookkeepers for partnership Referral-All went unanswered.\n\n\\- generated 21 lead from a facebook lead-gen campaign- only 1 installed the app so far. despite three rounds of personal follow up.\n\nWhat I' am trying to figure out:\n\n1. is 100 free user simple too small a sample to expect any paid conversion yet, or is 0/100 a sign something deeper is wrong (pricing, positioning, product-market fit.\n2. what could I do to get the 100 users to actively use the app daily.\n3. for those who have gotten early B2B/prosumer to its first 10 paying customer- was it mostly outbound hustle or did something specific unlock it?\n4. Anyone dealt with cold outreach to accountants/bookkeepers for Referral partnerships. Mine has gone almost entirely unanswered and I 'm wondering if the channel itself is wrong, not just my messaging\n\nI 'm genuinely stuck and would appreciate any pattern- matching from people who have been through this stage. Happy to share more specifics in comments if useful\n\n\\--","offTopic":false},{"id":"6795a995-5b3d-49f4-bc35-62eafdb57396","excerpt":"11 days ago I posted “100+ users/day, but nobody will pay!”  today I got my first paid customer — 11 days ago, I made this post here:\n\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1viuhbg/100\\_usersday\\_but\\_nobody\\_will\\_pay/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1viuhbg/100_usersday_but_nobody_will_pay/)\n\nI was getting ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vsc27r/11_days_ago_i_posted_100_usersday_but_nobody_will/","role":"request","weight":0.7127356,"occurredAt":"2026-08-19T04:24:14.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SaaS","intent":"howto_question","painScore":0.09,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.65388584,"matchedPatterns":["how_can_i"],"statement":"Now I'm thinking about a different problem: **How do I make sure this isn't a fluke and keep this going?** I'm still getting 100+ countdowns created every day, mostly from Google.","title":"11 days ago I posted “100+ users/day, but nobody will pay!”  today I got my first paid customer","body":"11 days ago, I made this post here:\n\n[https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1viuhbg/100\\_usersday\\_but\\_nobody\\_will\\_pay/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1viuhbg/100_usersday_but_nobody_will_pay/)\n\nI was getting 100+ countdowns created every day on CountdownShare, mostly from organic traffic, but almost nobody was paying.\n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/jx0x8szmd9kh1.png?width=1681&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0de0f2522a2f7d8f34f5c0340cffd27ebe0e6b3\n\nI was genuinely starting to think maybe I had built something people wanted to use, but not something they wanted to pay for.\n\nToday, I got my **first paid customer**.\n\nThey bought the **$99 lifetime plan**.\n\nI know one sale doesn't prove anything, and it could still be a one-off. But after working on this for around 8 months, seeing that payment come through felt crazy.\n\nNow I'm thinking about a different problem:\n\n**How do I make sure this isn't a fluke and keep this going?**\n\nI'm still getting 100+ countdowns created every day, mostly from Google.\n\nI don't want to suddenly change everything because of one sale, but I also don't want to ignore whatever made this person decide to pay.\n\nFor people who have been through this stage, what would you do next?\n\n* Find out exactly why this customer paid?\n* Focus on getting more SEO traffic?\n* Improve conversion from the traffic I already have?\n* Reach out to the customer and ask what made them buy?\n* Double down on the lifetime plan?\n* Stop adding features for a while and focus only on distribution/conversion?\n\nRight now, I don't care about going from 1 customer to 1,000.\n\nI want to understand how to go from **1 → 2 → 5 → 10 paid customers consistently**, while also making sure the organic traffic keeps coming.\n\nWhat would you focus on next?","offTopic":true},{"id":"b4d4593f-fec9-4cd2-a268-80d70a04a3cc","excerpt":"Getting first users maze ! — Hey everyone , hope you're doing well \n\nI've just released my first saas , really great idea and i have amazing distribution channels .\n\n The problem is:\n\n HOW IT CAN BE GOOD IDEA IF NO ONE KNOW YOU ?!\n\ni've made a lot of research and nothing got me results : \n\n\\- Great offer + amazing deal","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vvpfjw/getting_first_users_maze/","role":"request","weight":0.6526814,"occurredAt":"2026-08-22T22:08:59.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SaaS","intent":"howto_question","painScore":0.09,"sentiment":1,"confidence":0.5987903,"matchedPatterns":["how_can_i"],"statement":"Question is : how do i know which marketing strategy is the best for me ?","title":"Getting first users maze !","body":"Hey everyone , hope you're doing well \n\nI've just released my first saas , really great idea and i have amazing distribution channels .\n\n The problem is:\n\n HOW IT CAN BE GOOD IDEA IF NO ONE KNOW YOU ?!\n\ni've made a lot of research and nothing got me results : \n\n\\- Great offer + amazing deals \n\n\\- impressive landing page,videos, and reels\n\n\\- organic marketing (SEO,GEO,blogs,tiktok...ect) : got me 1 user \n\n\\- Paid marketing : fake users , cost a lot but not really effective.\n\nQuestion is : \n\nhow do i know which marketing strategy is the best for me ? even if i don't know how to transform my targeted audience into clients ? 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I did not invest anything in marketing every traffic I generate is organic. \n\nPlease tell me what to do now? and ","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1vte8oy/just_got_my_first_paying_customer_that_i_was/","role":"request","weight":0.5743517,"occurredAt":"2026-08-20T09:08:29.000Z","sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","credibility":0.62,"venue":"SaaS","intent":"howto_question","painScore":0.09,"sentiment":0,"confidence":0.5269282,"matchedPatterns":["how_can_i"],"statement":"and how can I improve and get more customers?","title":"Just got my first paying customer that I was building for the last 4 months","body":"I thought I would cry, but I dont know how to react to this?\n\nTotal signed up users are 214 and got one paying customer finally. I did not invest anything in marketing every traffic I generate is organic. \n\nPlease tell me what to do now? and how can I improve and get more customers?\n\n","offTopic":true}],"breakdown":[{"sourceKey":"reddit","sourceName":"Reddit","count":7}],"total":7}}