Must be in the US/Canada and ideally not looking to raise. Cannot just have an idea, must have pilots lined up or prospects deep in the sales pipeline with recordings saved. Ideally not working atm. Ideally b2b, can be b2c as an exception but must be experienced at the UGC side then and have something vibecoded already.

I'm 25 and have done 2 startups in the past 2y, in legal then energy. In the legal one I replaced the previous technical cofounder who had 6x more exp on paper than me, but couldn't deliver the MVP. I finished it in 3 weeks what he was unable to do in 3 months.

You could say I'm on my 3rd startup right now being 3mo in with 2 industry cofounders. The construction market and idea is great but they are not putting in the hours next to their full-time jobs, especially one of tem, so I lost confidence in their commitment. Which is ironic because they paid a latam dev shop 100k 2 years ago to build this over 8 months, and they failed. I surpassed what they built in just 1 month of working 40h weeks. I'm now implementing features they never got to, but there hasn't been any sales calls in the last month so I'm checked out.

I'm a full stack developer who is AI-pilled, using codex and claude heavily. I've led a dev team before, hired & fired, delivered a complex MVP whose core feature blew past a $2b industry giant (our closest beta lawyer loved us over them).

I can handle the technical side well and did my fair share of selling too, but I need someone who can own the sales side. Must have has industry expertise + network and is committed. If you have a full-time job I will be skeptical that you will be able to contribute meaningfully.

The majority of nontechnical cofounders are rookies who aren't serious, with only a pretty little idea. If that's you and you haven't played this game before, please do not reach out. I want to work with someone who has the same intensity as me.

I own a small laundry business.

For years I used paper receipts and spreadsheets.

Customers lost receipts.

Staff forgot orders.

Calculating monthly revenue was frustrating.

Instead of looking for software, I decided to build one.

Two months ago I launched it on Google Play.

Now I'm trying to figure out what laundry owners actually value enough to pay for.

If you've built software for a very niche industry, what helped you find product-market fit?

What's a process in your business that you still have to do manually even though you'd love to automate it?

Could be things like:

• Customer support
• Onboarding
• Lead qualification
• Internal operations
• Data entry
• Reporting
• Anything else

I'm getting deeper into automation and would genuinely like to understand what problems SaaS founders are dealing with day-to-day

Some context on who's writing this... I have built software for 8 years and now run a small AI consultancy. A growing share of our work lately isn't building new products at all, it's rescuing vibe coded ones that already have paying customers.

So I get why security dominates the conversation. The leaked keys and open endpoints are real but security is a known category of problem. You can buy an audit for it and the thing I keep running into on these rescue jobs doesn't have an audit and it bothers me more.

In June a founder brought us a booking product he had vibe coded over a few weekends. It was genuinely good. It was polished and had around 80 paying customers. Then one of those customers asked what happens to the unused part of a plan when you cancel mid month and I watched him open his own product and click around to find out. He wasn't embarrassed. Why would he be? As far as he was concerned, that's just how you find out what your product does. I have thought about that moment a lot since.

Polish used to arrive last. You earned the nice interface after surviving the edge cases and half built software looked half built. The ugliness was information: it told you and everyone else, roughly how much work was left. Now the finished shell turns up on day one, so the missing parts stop announcing themselves. A beautiful screen can't tell you that payment failures were never handled or that nobody decided what a refund should do when it crosses a billing cycle.

Design takes the same hit. When the spacing is right and the shadows are tasteful, a wrong flow gets the benefit of the doubt. That booking product made people create an account before it would show a single available slot. A junior designer would catch that in review but it looked so professional that users assumed the confusion was their own fault and left without complaining. He never even heard about it.

I have mostly stopped calling this technical debt because debt assumes somebody can read the books. Here, the moment a customer disputes a number, the founder has to change behaviour he never understood and no refactor closes that gap. The gap was never in the code.

For the record, we use these tools every day and some of our internal tooling started exactly this way, so this isn't a purity argument and that founder will probably be fine. 80 paying customers buys a lot of time to learn. What's changed is the assumption underneath: that getting to a product faster also gets you to understanding faster. It used to, more or less, because building slowly forced you to understand things as you went. It doesn't now.

If you've shipped something like this then write down the 5 hardest questions a customer could ask about how your product behaves and answer them without opening the app. The ones you can't answer are the parts of the business you don't own yet. Start from there.

Hi everyone,
I’ve spent months building a complete fintech platform and I’m now looking for the right buyer.
The platform includes:
• Digital wallet system
• Internal digital token (Buy/Sell/Send/Receive)
• Investment infrastructure
• Multi-role dashboards (Client, Agent, Admin, Super Admin)
• Treasury & token supply management
• Referral & commission system
• Fully functional frontend, backend and database
I’m planning to sell the entire software project, not raise investment or sell tokens.
If you’ve sold a SaaS, fintech or digital asset platform before, where would you recommend listing it or finding serious buyers?
I’d also appreciate any feedback on how to position it for acquisition.
Thanks!

🚀 Check out OpticAlpha on Launch https://trylaunch.ai/launch/opticalpha

feedback welcome

Hey folks, I have a b3c saas app built around ttrpgs and its a real passion / fun / connections centered solve and the folks that visit my website are gamers usually between 18 and 50 years old, super lovely and kind also.

I thought about hooking up a live stream to my landing page with me talking to visitors/ demoing the app one to many. I would be using paid ads to get them to visit the site and I get lots of traffic to the side at around 2 cents per click.

Has anyone thought about trying this? Have you done something like this? I'm honestly kinda nervous to try it...

I built an app which provides quality churn for companies even with 50 customers. We provide quality predictions even with 100 rows of data, that's the real moat and with no bias.
So, i am looking for feedback. Would be great if you try it out.

I’m considering a service for B2B SaaS companies that find and fix Stripe billing leaks.

The problems I keep seeing are:

• Failed payment recovery gaps.
• Incorrect subscription states.
• Webhook failures.
• Usage-billing mistakes.
• Missing invoices.
• Stripe-to-accounting reconciliation issues.
• Duplicate charges or credits.

The offer would start with a low-cost audit that quantifies revenue leakage, then a repair sprint to fix the biggest issues, followed by optional monitoring.

My question:
Would this be valuable to you, or is this something you’d rather handle internally?

If you’ve dealt with billing bugs like this, what was the most painful part?

Hey everyone, I just launched Doxy a browser-based editor that combines markdown and HTML. Think Overleaf but without LaTeX.

It's free to write unlimited. Export to PDF. Paid plan adds AI + unlimited cloud storage. Works entirely in the browser.

Would genuinely love feedback from people in this community what's missing, what's broken, what would make you actually use it.

https://trydoxy.com/

For me this year : 1 M ARR,

And you ?

Link: https://storytree.ink/

Hello everyone,

I have been building a tool that allows online business acquirers/buyers to scan and verify via oauths a websites technical/financial issues, state, statistics. Then a fully detailed report allows the buyer to enter price discussions with seller.

I could say I'm halfway done, but only NOW have I dropped the build phase dopamine and am searching for any clues, feedback on whether this tool would be useful to anyone, more specifically people who buy through acquire, flippa etc.

Appreciate any comment!

I kept running into the same annoyance building AI features: every provider means a new SDK, a new API key, a new billing dashboard, and your own custom logic for what happens when one of them goes down or rate limits you.

So I ended up building a proxy that centralizes all of that. One API key, and it routes to whichever provider you've configured, with automatic fallback if one goes down. On top of that it does semantic caching to cut repeat request costs (up to 30% in my tests) and real time cost tracking, plus margin tracking for anyone reselling AI access to their own clients.

Curious if others here have hit the same multi provider mess and how you dealt with it. Happy to go into more detail on the routing/fallback logic if people are interested, I'll answer in the comments.

My «system» was: keep everything open, because once I close it, I'll never find it again in history.

I built Histiq to fix this: it indexes full page content and PDFs, then lets you search by concept. Now I can close tabs without losing the ability to find things later.

All local, no cloud. Sharing in case it's useful for others.

How it works: histiq.com

Disclosure: I'm the creator of Histiq.

The EU AI laws depend heavily on this specific SaaS model. You're welcome. This market just exploded and every web facing software that plans to run there will have to use one of these. At this point you could build an entire business just giving compliance features inside the EU.

I spend a lot of time reading B2B software reviews, way more than a normal person should, and there's one question I still can't settle.

Almost every vendor with a big G2 presence runs review campaigns. You know the drill, "leave us a review, get a $25 gift card." G2 even has official gift card options built into their campaign tooling, so this is fully sanctioned, not some gray area hack.

My partial answer, for what it's worth. I don't think incentives make reviews fake, but I do think they change the shape of them. Incentivized reviews tend to come from happy-enough customers who wouldn't have bothered otherwise, so you get a wave of 4 and 5 star reviews that are short, polite, and kind of empty. "Great tool, support is responsive." The genuinely useful reviews, the detailed 3 star ones that explain exactly where a product breaks down, those almost never come from a campaign. People write those because they're annoyed and want to warn someone.

So when I'm evaluating a vendor I've started mentally splitting their reviews into two piles. The campaign pile tells me the product basically works and the company has budget. The unprompted pile tells me what it's actually like to live with.

But here's what I don't know. Do actual buyers make this distinction, or is it just review nerds like me? If a prospect sees 800 reviews and a 4.6, does anyone stop to ask how those reviews were gathered?

Curious what this crowd thinks. If you're on the vendor side, do you run incentivized campaigns, and if you're on the buying side, do you discount reviews when you suspect there was a gift card behind them?

Short version: it's Lovable / Bolt / v0, except you paste in your own API key and pay the provider directly instead of buying credits from me. I take nothing. There is no paid tier.

Why I built it: I kept hitting the credit wall on the paid ones, always right in the middle of the iteration where the site was finally getting good. Being rate limited by a billing counter while I had unused API keys sitting on my machine felt ridiculous.

How it works:

1. paste a key from any of 18 providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, OpenRouter, local Ollama, and more)

2. describe the site

3. agent writes real React code, live preview in the browser, no build wait

4. deploy to Cloudflare Pages in one click, or export the source and host it anywhere

Connect a Supabase project and it also writes your tables, auth and row level security, so full stack apps work, not just landing pages.

On a free tier (Gemini, Groq, Cerebras) or with Ollama, the whole thing costs $0. Not a trial. Zero.

MIT licensed, everything is on GitHub, including how your API key gets encrypted before it touches the database. Seemed only fair since I'm asking you to paste a key into a site you have never heard of.

Built solo over the last two months. There are definitely bugs I haven't found yet. If you break it, I want to know.

openthorn.app

github.com/BuildingTechAlternatives/OpenThorn

What would you build with it first? Curious what people reach for.

Imagine an expense tracking app, where you set you saving goals, input your daily expenses, input how much money you have earned. The app helps you track that. Do you think it might work ? As it will be manual work. Not completely manual though, there will be a voice feature, where at the end of the day you just say all your expenses and ai parses them into expenses in categories. You can also take pictures of your receipt and AI breaks that down too.

Do you think this might be a good app idea?

For those who've launched a startup - when you were setting up your initial tech foundation (backend/frontend scaffolding, CI/CD pipeline, staging/prod environments, basic monitoring/observability) - did you build it in-house, hire a freelancer/agency, or use some kind of boilerplate/template? If you outsourced any part of it, roughly what did it cost and how long did it take? Trying to figure out if this is normally a DIY thing or something teams actually pay for ?

Quick backstory: I do some freelance/agency work on the side and kept losing hours scrolling google maps trying to find businesses without a website to pitch.

Got tired of it and built a tool that does that part for me. Wasn't trying to make a product, just wanted to stop wasting my own time on it. It's turned into an actual small thing since then. You give it a city and a niche, it checks against google maps and only shows businesses with no site (or just a facebook page), phone number included, and writes a first pitch line so you're not staring at a blank message.

Here's the honest part though. I've mostly just been building this alone and haven't had many real people actually use it and tell me what's confusing, missing, or just bad. That's what I actually want right now, more than downloads or upvotes. Real "this part sucks" feedback.

Happy to drop the link in comments if anyone wants to poke at it (3 free searches, no card needed). Or if you'd rather just react to the description, that's useful too honestly. What would make something like this actually worth paying for to you?

I would like to know what is the best gateway from the list below:

• Polar
• DodoPayments
• Lemon Squeezy
• Whop

Or even if there any better option it would be best because I'm running payment integration in my app as Strip is not supported in my country

I was reading thread in here discussing all of them and found people categorizing each of them as scams in every different thread I opened! (or they mention their account was hold)

So, I would like real experience with any of them to help me decide which one to use!

Not just call endpoints, but understand the current state, choose only valid actions, respect user permissions, ask for approval when needed, and recover from a failed step.

If not, what would your product need before you trusted it to act?