u/outrageous-humanist

Got my first user yesterday on my SaaS HarkPost. They signed up, went through onboarding, then nothing. No actual usage yet.

Has anyone been through this with their early users? Signed up, onboarded, then didn't come back to actually use the thing?

Curious what you did about it, if anything.

Shipped a few days ago. No customers yet.

Anyone here interested, or been through this stretch recently? Curious how others got their first one over the line.

I've been trying to reduce the friction of posting on social media to get visibility for my SaaS, and I wanted to share where I landed because I'd love feedback from people stuck on the same problem.

First attempt: full automation. AI generates the content, AI posts it. The output was bad. Repetitive, unnatural, clearly written by something that didn't actually understand what it was posting about. It didn't feel like me.

So I figured the process at least needs to be connected to my actual thoughts. Around then I caught myself for the thousandth time rambling at ChatGPT about some idea or problem, and I realised there's zero friction in that. I'm always happy to talk through what's in my head and see what comes back. That's the part of the loop that already works.

So I built around that. You record a voice memo, ramble about whatever you want, and it generates enhanced posts curated for X, LinkedIn and Reddit from your ideas. The thinking stays yours, the formatting and platform-fit is handled.

This post is actually a voice memo I recorded (and it was not as well articulated). Two clicks later, here it is.

If you're a founder building in public, or anyone who keeps meaning to post and never does because of the friction of sitting down to write, I'd love to hear how you currently handle it and what's broken about it for you. Honest feedback welcome, including if you think the premise is wrong.

I tried fully automating my SaaS social posts, and it technically worked.

But it felt dead.

I’ve been trying to stay consistent on social while building SaaS projects, without turning content into a second job.

My first attempt was obvious: let AI generate posts on a schedule so the account never goes quiet. On paper, that solved the consistency problem. The posts were readable. Some were even decent.

But when I looked at them later, they had that strange polished-but-empty feeling. No real frustration, no specific lesson, no fingerprint. It sounded like someone summarizing founder life from behind museum glass.

So I changed the role of AI.

Instead of asking it to invent posts, I started using it to clean up thoughts I already had.

When something happens while building, a product decision, a failed experiment, a customer objection, a positioning problem, I brain dump it first. Sometimes it’s a voice note, sometimes it’s just a messy paragraph. Then I use AI to turn that into a few possible drafts, and I edit manually before posting.

That difference matters more than I expected.

The raw material comes from me, so the post still has some texture. The AI is not creating the opinion, it is just helping me get past the blank page. It feels less like “content automation” and more like turning founder notes into usable posts.

Curious how other solo SaaS founders handle this.

Are you writing everything manually, batching posts, using AI drafts, recording voice notes, or just posting whenever something major happens?