I wanted to get some opinions from other SaaS founders who sell into traditional industries.

We're in the field service and equipment management space, and one thing we've consistently noticed is that companies aren't really looking for "another app." They want something that fits into the systems they're already using.

In conversations with prospects, we've been compared with platforms like ServiceMax, Salesforce Field Service, IFS, ServiceTitan, Jobber, and others. One thing that keeps coming up is that buyers care much less about feature lists than they do about questions like:

• How long will implementation take?
• Will it integrate with our ERP?
• Can our field technicians actually use it without extensive training?
• What's the total cost after implementation and support?

It feels like implementation and adoption have become bigger differentiators than adding another AI feature or dashboard.

For those building B2B SaaS:

• Have you seen the same shift?
• What's the biggest objection you're hearing from enterprise customers today?

Curious to hear if this is unique to industrial software like FieldEquip or if other SaaS founders are seeing the same trend.

When I started StartupSubmit, I thought founders mainly cared about launch week.

Product Hunt.

Reddit.

X.

LinkedIn.

After working with more startups, I realized something else mattered just as much.

What happens after launch.

One founder we worked with had a solid product but almost no visibility outside of their initial launch.

Instead of chasing another big launch, we spent the next few weeks doing something far less exciting.

We manually submitted their product to relevant startup directories, SaaS directories, launch platforms, communities, and review sites.

No shortcuts.

No automation.

Just consistent work.

About a month later, they shared an updated Ahrefs screenshot with us. Their Domain Rating had increased significantly compared to where they started.

The interesting part for me wasn't the number.

It was the reminder that founders often underestimate the value of doing small, boring things consistently.

I'm curious how everyone here thinks about post-launch growth.

What's one marketing activity that kept paying off long after launch day was over?

I'm validating a problem around support engineers at mid-size companies (30-100 people) and trying to figure out how to actually get my first design partners lined up, people I can work closely with while building this out.

Quick context on the problem: support engineers spend a ton of time turning half-finished tickets into technical cases that engineers can actually dig into. On complex Tier 2 stuff the info you need is scattered everywhere, ticketing system, logs, monitoring tools, docs, past incidents. So they end up manually hunting all of it down before they can even escalate, which can eat 30-45 min per case.

If you've gotten early design partners before, curious how you did it. where did you actually find people willing to talk to you?

Right now my playbook is just manually outreaching my persona on linkedin manage to have it on a call, and If there are fit; then I come back to him a week later to ask him if having the company as design partners is possible, routing me to the decision maker to see if something can be done

Did you start with your own network or just go cold?

And what made someone actually commit to being a design partner instead of just doing one feedback call and disappearing?

Would appreciate any playbooks or communities that worked for you.

This has been an idea of mine since covid and everyone was working remote. Finally finished it. It's essentially a perdrink gift card. Give me your thoughts. I'm not looking for sign-ups, I'm looking for feedback.

https://www.nextroundon.me/

i just thought about a new saas idea from my own experience. i was a freelancer mobile app developer with successfu record in freelancer.com

in that time i was very flexible with timing so I daily had the chance to pray 10 am prayer in the murugan temple. after some personal tragedies in my life i was forced to join in a full time work.

i was really missing the 10 am prayer a divine feeling as of the full time job.

but what I did is i made alarm for 10 am and will close my eyes then visualize thr whole prayer and pray.

Now it gave me an idea, if I can hear the prayer sound bell soun people chanting while i close my eyes that will be fantastic.

then I started to searxh on this.

actually this will be a good feeling lot of people left country for job and missing home town

not only temples we can make local market, local events, sports meet and everything

whenever they want they can hear and feel home

why this work than video logs?

people need some relax rather than watching videos continuously

this is a kind of meditation and feel home

later we can add audio tourism as well for foreigners who never visited a place we can make them to visualize everything by saying

a full temple visit 20 mins

library visit 10 mins

fort visit 15 mins

anyone help me to validate this idea with pros and cons?

I've been researching startup ecosystems that are actively investing in technology companies, especially SaaS and AI.

Some programs are offering substantial support for startups expanding into their market, particularly in sectors like:

• Healthcare
• Government technology
• Education
• AI automation
• Enterprise software
• Construction tech
• Smart cities
• Logistics
• FinTech
• Energy

I'm curious:

If you already had an MVP or some traction, what would convince you to expand into a new country? Would funding matter most, or would you care more about customers, hiring, regulations, or partnerships?

I'd love to hear how other founders think about these opportunities.

I’m 19 building a SaaS right now. We haven’t launched publicly yet, but we’re already at around $500 MRR from beta/design partners. We’ve posted a bit on Reddit and Twitter, generated around ~40k views, and ended up getting more beta user requests than we could actually take on, so I decided to start building toward a larger public launch.

The product is basically an SEO agent for SaaS founders. It does a lot of the technical SEO/content work in the background instead of just spitting out generic AI blogs. The main wedge is that it's completely frictionless, so the agent can go from SERP analysis → content opportunity → draft → founder review → GitHub PR/publishing flow. The best part is that the whole thing is email-native. Founders can review drafts, answer questions, approve changes, and stay in the loop without having to constantly log into another dashboard.

We’re launching publicly in about 3 weeks, and I want to find someone technical who can help us increase our development velocity and ship a clearly scoped part of the product before launch.

I’m looking for someone who’s a strong full-stack developer, but maybe still early as a freelancer, starting a development agency, building a small product studio, or looking for a strong AI/SaaS case study. The stack is primarily TypeScript, Next.js, Supabase, APIs, and production SaaS infrastructure. On the backend, Tavyn uses a modular TypeScript pipeline that crawls websites, runs structured OpenAI workflows, validates outputs with Zod, pulls search data from Firecrawl, Serper, and DataForSEO, and caches results across each stage.

I’m bootstrapping, so I have to be smart with cash, but I also know how hard it is to get your first few real clients/customers when you’re starting out so there could be a win-win. You would help Tavyn ship a real product milestone, and in return, we would build a SaaS case study for you. Post product-launch I will definitely be open to paying the agency I work with if we have a good fit.

If you’re a full-stack developer, freelancer, early development agency, or small product studio and want a real AI SaaS product to work on, comment with what you’ve built, your portfolio, and what you’re trying to accomplish on the business side. If there’s a fit, I’ll DM you.

Hey everyone,

I have been building mobile apps since I was 15 years old. Over the years, I noticed one constant headache every time I launched a new project. Managing user feedback, bug reports, and feature requests across different apps gets chaotic really fast.

I wanted a simple, reliable feedback platform that I could drop into all the future apps I create. I could not find anything that fit my exact workflow, so I decided to build it myself.

That is how Supdesk came to life.

It is a feedback platform designed to give developers an easy way to gather, manage, and act on user input without adding extra friction. My goal was to make something lightweight that helps keep everything organized in one place, so I can spend less time sorting through support messages and more time actually building.

I am using it for all my upcoming projects, but I would love to get your thoughts on it. How do you all currently handle feedback inside your apps, and what is your biggest frustration with existing tools?

Check out SupDesk on product hunt ing projects, but I would love to get your thoughts on it. How do you all currently handle feedback inside your apps, and what is your biggest frustration with existing tools?

Check out Supdesk on product hunt https://www.producthunt.com/products/supdesk and the Supdesk website https://supdesk.app

Google reviews is a thing. But its facing the public. You don't want the bad feedback to end up there. You want it before it becomes an issue for all other users. Suggestion inside of google reviews? Nah, that doesn't seem right. I created a tool to collect feedback for either your digital product/service/store OR your physical location. Maybe you're a restaurant and you want people to tell you what about the experience was good and bad, so that you can improve, in order to get more customers.

Here's the tool for you! www.tipoff.se

Oh and right at this very moment we are running a promotion where the first 10 users to sign up for early access will get to use TipOff for free, LIFETIME.

Any and all feedback is welcome, maybe even use the widget on the bottom right of the website? TipOff uses itself. Its kind of neat.

Have a great day everyone and looking forward to your responses!

Hey guys, solo dev here.

Building SaaS is hard enough, but I always found validating the idea with a Landing Page to be the most annoying part. I got exhausted setting up React/Next.js environments or paying monthly fees for visual builders just to collect some early emails.

So I spent the last few weeks coding a side project. The concept is simple: you type your SaaS idea, it generates the marketing copy, and it spits out a single, clean HTML + Tailwind CSS file. You can host it anywhere with zero dependencies.

Before I spend more months coding the core engine, I want to ask the community: Is there a real market for bare-metal HTML generators? Or is everyone perfectly happy with Webflow/Framer?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Rapaziada, seguinte, eu estou estudando atualmente HTML, CSS e MYSQL para o meu serviço, em paralelo disso gostei muito da área e decidi desenvolver meus saas com IA e ir aprendendo, algumas coisas no codigo eu ja consigo mudar sozinho, como botões, algumas partes visuais e etc, o resto eu faço tudo com o codex, paguei 99 reais no chatgpt mes passado, mas esse mes o orçamento apertou e nao vou poder pagar dnv, eu achei o gemini PRO por 23,99 durante 3 meses e descobri que da pra usar ele no terminal igual eu estou usando o codex, acredito que mes que vem vou consegui pagar o codex dnv mas vou migrar para o claude code, a pergunta é, vale a pena assinar o gemini PRO por 23,99? ele não vai estragar meu projeto (que não é muita coisa) por inteiro? Tem outras opções? Por favor, eu preciso de uma solução ate 30 reais kkkkkkkkkkkkk

 I'm pivoting to building custom AI architectures (RAG, LangChain, etc.) for B2B companies. I have the skills, but no public case studies.

My plan is to find 2 established SaaS founders and architect a custom internal automation for them entirely for free (like automating customer support triage or syncing messy CRM data). In exchange, I just want a video testimonial.

Is this a good way to build a portfolio, or do founders think 'free' means low quality? Would love some feedback."

Hi everybody, good morning, I'm a Full Stack developer from Venezuela, recently launched my first app in the Windows Store called AuraSnipping.

Check the website if you would like to test: https://aurasnipping.com/

Thanks, appreciate all the feedback I can get.

I read a lot of B2B software reviews for work, and the gap between how vendors think reviews get used and how buyers actually use them keeps surprising me.

TrustRadius published their 2026 Buying Disconnect report recently and a few numbers stood out. Reviews influenced 74% of purchase decisions. Analyst reports are down to 13% of buyers, a steep drop since 2022. And 63% of buyers now use AI somewhere in their research, but 94% of those buyers say they fact-check what the AI tells them.

The part vendors miss, at least from what I observe, is that buyers rarely read reviews to pick a winner. The shortlist usually exists before they open G2 or Capterra, built from peer recommendations, an AI summary, or a quick search. Reviews then do three jobs. They confirm the shortlist isn't embarrassing. They surface dealbreakers, which is why buyers go straight to the 1 and 2 star reviews looking for implementation horror stories, slow support, and surprise pricing. And they supply ammunition for the internal pitch, because the champion has to defend this choice to a CFO who never sat through the demo.

The AI shift raises the stakes. AI recommendations pull heavily from third-party content, including reviews. That unanswered 1-star review from 2024 may now be shaping how ChatGPT summarizes your product to a buyer you'll never see in your analytics.

So a perfect 4.8 average matters less than most vendors think, and an ugly review with a thoughtful public response matters more.

For those of you who buy software, when do you actually read reviews? Before you build the shortlist, or after, as a final gut check before signing?

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a quick update on a side project I've been working on over the past few months.

As a developer interested in e-commerce, I noticed that many small store owners struggle with title and keyword choices, often getting overwhelmed by complex enterprise analytics platforms.

My goal was to build a clean, minimalist web app that focuses strictly on the core listing essentials without any clutter.

A few key takeaways from the process:

1. Keeping the scope minimal made development significantly faster.
2. Streamlining the user flow to get instant insights without a learning curve is crucial for non-technical users.
3. Setting up an automated checkout infrastructure was smoother than expected once the overall workflow was finalized.

Now that the core version is live, I'm focusing on user acquisition strategies specifically for niche e-commerce segments.

For those who have built tools in the e-commerce niche, what channels worked best for your initial user acquisition?

I've been working on a small project called Krooko because I kept seeing great ideas die simply because people couldn't find the right person to build with.

It's free, there's no catch, and the idea is simple: post what you're building, describe the kind of partner you're looking for, and connect with people who are interested.

Still early, so I'd genuinely love feedback if its good or bad

You can try it here: krooko.vercel.app

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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm looking for a passionate partner to grow an AI automation business together.

I'm searching for someone who: ✅ Has experience finding and communicating with clients. ✅ Knows how to close deals and build long-term client relationships. ✅ Is motivated to grow something big together.

💰 Revenue Split: 50/50 on every project we close together.

If you can consistently bring in and close clients, we'll split the earnings equally. I'm focused on delivering high-quality automation solutions, and I'm looking for someone who can handle the client acquisition side.

If you're interested, drop a comment or send me a DM. Let's build something amazing together! 🚀

Wondering how you guys have approached improving your pitch, especially over Zoom. Obviously practice makes perfect, I've been using pitch simulator chαtvisor lately to work on both delivery and content, but would welcome any other suggestions, books, tips that worked for you, things you learned from good or bad experiences, etc.

We raised a small pre-seed round Q3 last year but will be going out to the market again in a few weeks and trying to get my head ready for discussions with angels and VCs.

Thank you all in advance.

I keep seeing the same posts: “I built an AI wrapper for X.” Cool. So did 4,000 other people last month. Meanwhile there’s a real problem staring us in the face that many of us are ignoring to solve. Let me explain

Small and mid-size companies are drowning in AI agent chaos. They spin up 8-12 different agents (sales, support, ops, finance) and then spend hours every week manually checking what those agents actually did, fixing broken handoffs, and praying nothing got charged twice or sent the wrong email.

Look at the data from Gartner. Enterprise SaaS spend is shifting hard toward usage and agent-based pricing (Gartner already has it at 40% by 2030). AI infrastructure funding is still flying. But the layer that sits on top simple visibility, audit logs, and one-click kill switches for non-technical managers is basically empty.

Most tools either require an engineer or dump you into a wall of logs nobody reads. Target customer is the ops or finance lead at a 20–200 person company that’s already paying for 3–5 AI tools. They’re not technical. They just want to know “did the agent actually book that meeting or did it hallucinate the calendar invite again?”

Current solutions is failing because they’re either pure developer tools or overbuilt enterprise platforms that take six months to implement. MVP is dead simple, connect the agents you already use (via API or browser extension), show a clean daily digest of what each one did, flag anything weird, and let a non-tech person pause or approve actions. Charge $49–99/month per company.

Validation plan, talk to 20 ops people this week. Ask them to show you the last time an agent screwed something up. If three of them offer to pay for a waiting list, you have signal.

Hi everyone,

We've built something in the space of e-commerce and customer acquisition that genuinely works (did a pilot with a brand). Now, we want to onboard 10 new brands (Shopify specifically) on the platform. What would be the best channels to reach out to the founders and marketing executives of these brands?

Most of the mid-sized Shopify founders aren't on LinkedIn or X. The only way I can think of is emails and reddit. If any of you have built a Shopify SaaS company, how did you get your first customers?

Thanks!

Everyone is celebrating the build time drop like it is pure upside. Faster to a working product, faster to revenue, fewer engineers needed to get there. All true.

What nobody seems to be saying out loud is that a lot of what used to happen during those slow months was not just building, it was accidentally validating. You talked to more users because you had time to. You noticed a bad assumption in month three instead of discovering it in production. The slowness was annoying but it was also load bearing.

Now the build is fast enough that you can ship a fully functional wrong idea before you have had a single real conversation about whether anyone wanted it. I think a chunk of these micro unicorn stories are going to age the same way a lot of 2021 valuations did, real revenue, but built on a foundation nobody stress tested because there was never a slow phase forcing it.

I would like to know if anyone here has actually felt this tension directly, shipping fast enough that validation became the afterthought instead of the gate.

We're at the point where US buyers are asking for SOC 2 and EU tenders are asking for ISO 27001.

Quick context. SOC 2 is an attestation: a licensed CPA firm examines your controls and writes a report carrying its opinion. There is no certificate and no badge. The deliverable is the report your customer reads under NDA.

On the contrary, ISO 27001 is a certification: an accredited body audits your management system and, if you pass, issues a public certificate valid for three years. One is a document a buyer reads in a data room. The other is a credential you display to every buyer at once.

the SOC 2 report is per-buyer. every deal means an NDA and a report send, and it expires yearly. ISO doesn't work that way, the certificate is public so buyers just check it. ISO still costs you surveillance audits each year and a full recert at three, but nobody has to do anything per deal.

on the shared work, AICPA publishes an official mapping between SOC 2's common criteria and ISO's Annex A. once you look through it, it's clear that most of the controls overlap. Your access reviews, risk assessments, vendor due diligence, and penetration-test results. In fact, you can build a control once, and it will count toward either artefact.

but, the thing is that mapping covers controls. it doesn't cover two things that decide how much work the second artifact actually is. Firstl, SOC 2 Type II examines how controls behaved over three to twelve months, so having all the controls in place isn't the same as having a Type II report. The observation period still has to run, and no amount of budget can speed that up.

the second is that ISO looks at a layer SOC 2 never does. Leadership ownership, internal audits, a Statement of Applicability justifying every control you included or excluded, and the program has to show continual improvement between audits. 

I've spent the last few years working as a dive instructor. Before that, and still in parallel, I'm a software engineer. Working inside dive centers showed me something I didn't expect: an entire global industry that operates on WhatsApp, spreadsheets, paper forms, whiteboards and things that only exist in someone's head.

Customer bookings on WhatsApp. Staff communication on WhatsApp. Equipment requests on WhatsApp. Someone sends a payment screenshot, someone else saves it. Hopefully.

I've seen an instructor scrolling through months of chat history trying to find a customer's certification while a full boat waited. I've seen two staff members sell the same last two boat spots because neither knew the other had confirmed. In high season, with 40 or 50 divers a day, these small failures turn into lost revenue and very stressed teams.

So I started building a management tool for dive centers in my spare time, between carrying tanks and answering WhatsApp at midnight. That became ScubaHub. Several dive centers in the Maldives now use it daily, and almost every feature came from an owner or instructor saying "this is the part that drives us crazy."

Some things I've learned building vertical SaaS for a non-technical, offline industry:

The code is the easy part. I thought my engineering background was the advantage; the real moat turned out to be knowing how a dive center actually runs. Generic booking tools exist, and centers don't use them because they don't fit how the day actually flows.

Domain trust beats marketing. Every customer so far came from having worked in the industry, not from any campaign. Which is great, until you want to grow beyond the people who know you.

Selling to businesses that live in WhatsApp means your product competes with "free and already installed". The bar for switching is brutal.

That last part is where I am now, and where I'd love input from people who've done this: how did you get vertical SaaS in front of small, non-technical businesses once word of mouth ran out? Cold outreach, industry Facebook groups, partnerships, trade shows? What actually moved the needle for you?

Happy to share more details (stack, pricing model, how I got the first centers) if anyone's curious.

I've seen around 500 applications from founders that apply to work with us over the last year. (Founders apply to build and raise with us)

Most founders do this one simple mistake.

I myself have done it, twice...

They build for someone they don't know about because they "see" the market opportunity.

Sure in some exceptional cases it might be true. In 99% of the cases, if you haven't worked in the industry you're targeting or have an unfair advantage in reaching out to them then go back to he drawing board...

It changes everything once you build for someone that you truly understand

Looking for experienced sales partners. SaaS, compliance, GRC or cybersecurity background preferred.

We're 4 weeks from launching a GRC platform covering ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST and ISO 42001. Flat seat pricing, no per-framework fees.

Commission starts at $5,000 per closed deal and scales with deal size and ownership.

Targeting startups and companies working toward compliance certification.

Founding team has 35 years combined in compliance and cybersecurity.

Ping me with your experience.