r/microsaas

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I’m 32 and tracked my fiber for a week mostly out of curiosity.

I was getting like 12g a day.

The recommendation is 25–35g, which honestly explained a lot. I always had mid-afternoon crashes, bloating, and just random stomach stuff I never really thought about.

The tracking apps I tried didn’t really help either. MyFitnessPal tracks fiber, but it’s buried behind calories and macros. Cronometer felt way too detailed for what I wanted.

I basically just wanted an app that told me one thing:

Did I hit my fiber today or not?

So I built one.

It has a daily ring for your fiber goal, barcode scanner, 200+ USDA foods, and a plant diversity score. That last part was kind of surprising to me. A lot of gut health research points to variety per week, not just total grams.

A few honest surprises after using it for ~6 months:

  • Getting to 30g isn’t that hard once you realize where fiber actually comes from. Beans, oats, raspberries, chia, avocado, etc.
  • Plant diversity was harder for me than the actual fiber goal.
  • A lot of packaged “high fiber” foods are not as useful as they make themselves sound.

Free, iOS only, on device, no account.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6760719879

Would genuinely love feedback on the food database or anything that feels off.

u/esilacynohtna — 3 hours ago
▲ 76 r/microsaas+63 crossposts

This sub gets the assignment better than most so I'll be direct.

The no-code movement solved half the problem. You can build almost anything now without knowing how to code, which is genuinely incredible and wasn't true five years ago. But there's still a gap that nobody talks about. Even with the best no-code tools you still have to know which tools to pick, how to connect them, how to write copy that converts, how to set up ad accounts, how to source products, how to structure a funnel. The learning curve didn't disappear, it just moved.

Most people in this sub know exactly what I mean. You've spent a weekend deep in Zapier trying to get two things to talk to each other that should just work. You've rebuilt your Webflow site three times because the first two didn't convert. You've watched your Notion dashboard get more elaborate while the actual business stayed the same size.

That's the gap Locus Founder closes.

You describe what you want to build. The AI handles everything else. It sources products directly from AliExpress and Alibaba (or sell YOUR OWN digital services, products, or content), builds a real storefront around them, writes conversion-optimized copy, then autonomously creates and runs ads on Google, Facebook and Instagram. No Zapier. No Webflow. No piecing together eight tools that half work. Just a running business.

If you don't have an idea yet it interviews you and figures out what makes sense for your situation.

We got into YCombinator this year and we're opening 100 free beta spots this week before public launch. Free to use, you keep everything you make.

For the people in this sub specifically, this isn't a replacement for no-code tools for people who love building. It's for everyone who wanted the outcome but never wanted to become a tools expert to get there. Big difference.

Beta form: https://forms.gle/nW7CGN1PNBHgqrBb8

Happy to answer anything about how it works under the hood.

u/IAmDreTheKid — 11 hours ago

$20k/mo because he refused to pay $2,500/month for something "easy"

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Everyone wants to build the next big SaaS product.

Nobody wants to be the plumber fixing someone else's broken pipes.

Martin was building a tiny mobile app in CapacitorJS. Nothing fancy.

He needed fast updates. Simple feature, right?

The only solution? $2,500/month.

For something that seemed "sure easy to do."

So he did what any frustrated developer does – he built it himself. Open source. Just for his own app.

Then other developers found it. Started using it. Asked if he'd make a paid version.

He said sure.

Today he's at $20k/month. 85% net margin. $0 spent on ads.

What actually worked:

Free plugins as lead magnets

– He builds GitHub plugins people actually need. They find him organically. No cold emails. No Twitter threads.

Support = sales

– Every GitHub issue he fixes is a potential customer. He treats open source support like customer development.

Be the expert in a room full of beginners

– His customers "know nothing about native." He's not competing with experts. He's solving problems for people who are lost.

The lesson everyone ignores:

The best businesses aren't solving sexy problems.

They're solving the $2,500/month annoying problems nobody else wanted to fix.

Full story here

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u/iamfra5er — 7 hours ago
▲ 50 r/microsaas+6 crossposts

No decks. No demo calls. No "we help companies leverage synergies."

Just: [Link] + what it does.

Scrap.io : Pull every business from Google Maps and turn it into a lead list in seconds.

Your turn. Drop yours below 👇

u/Due-Bet115 — 1 day ago
▲ 35 r/microsaas+23 crossposts

I developed Weather World because I wanted a simpler, more helpful way to stay ahead of the forecast. I truly believe that a weather app should be a tool that makes your life easier, not a source of distraction with ads and confusing menus.

How it helps you: The core of the app is all about visual clarity. I’ve focused on creating intuitive graphs that let you see temperature shifts and precipitation trends at a single glance. Instead of reading through long lists of numbers, you can visualize exactly how your day will unfold. It’s minimalist, lightweight, and built for speed—perfect for anyone who values a clean Android experience.

I’d love your support! Please give it a try and see if it helps your daily routine. If you find it useful, please recommend it to your friends! As a solo developer, your support and word-of-mouth are what help me improve and grow.

In compliance with the community rules, I’ve shared the link via IndieAppCircle. Check it out there and let me know what you think!

Find it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danie.pocasisveta

u/Tough_Deer_3756 — 1 day ago

Decent traffic no subscription yet

I’ve been getting lot of insights from this sub so thank you before i get started w my questions :)

I built this site out of my own frustrations and it’s getting decent traffic. I thought “planner” tool on the top right might be most useful but usage has been surprisingly low.

I haven’t turned this into any subscription just yet (as it was meant to be my personal project) but wanted to see what this group thinks when it comes to develop fully into microSaaS (but Activity Hero is a dominant player in the space already).

Thanks!

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u/Deep_Log_6624 — 1 day ago
▲ 416 r/microsaas+9 crossposts

I vibe coded a LinkedIn outreach automation tool from scratch, and made ~$2k in the first month 🫨

It started out as a random idea I had when talking to Claude, and I had no idea I could even build it, but I gave myself no choice.

Last year I decided to register a business, even though all I had was the website and a dream.

That way I felt forced to actually create the LinkedIn automation tool itself, simply for legal/taxation reasons if nothing else.

I knew I had a unique idea as the tool itself automates via a browser, instead of automating via the cloud or with a plugin, making it significantly safer when it comes to possible LinkedIn suspensions from automating.

I had no idea what I was doing at first and it was super buggy for a while, but over time I learned step by step and through trial and error how to build (mostly) effectively with Claude and how to build on top of LinkedIn’s code too (which is extremely challenging).

I was confident enough in the tool to launch it on April 1, and a month later I’m almost at 100 users. Most of them are on free trials but so far I made $2k from paying customers, which covered the costs of actually building the platform and then some.

It took a few months of 12 hour days and late nights but now it feels like it’s finally starting to pay off.

Hope I can inspire anyone else starting out to just keep going with whatever you’re doing/building 🚀

u/Downtown_Pudding9728 — 3 days ago
▲ 42 r/microsaas+4 crossposts

a customer messages your instagram store at 11:47pm.

they want to know if the hoodie comes in XL. if you have fast shipping. if you can hold it for them.

by the time you wake up and reply, they've already bought from someone else.

this is the problem we kept hearing from merchants using Stacks. so we spent the last 10 weeks building a Messenger Agent, AI that replies to instagram DMs, WhatsApp messages, and Facebook messenger automatically, 24/7.

it reads your product catalog, answers questions, and drafts the order for you to confirm. you stay in control. it just never sleeps.

we're in beta, keeping it tight - looking for 20-30 store owners to test it and give us honest feedback before we open it up.

if you run a store and lose sales to unanswered DMs, drop a comment or join the waitlist here

what's your current system for handling messages after hours?

u/bassamtg — 3 days ago
▲ 32 r/microsaas+3 crossposts

I built a web app that puts your entire calendar on a timeline | ~20+ languages now supported & ~40 users in 4 weeks

Hey, I built Line Cal - an timeline (linear calendar) that you can sync your existing calendars on to turn them into a linear timeline by signing in, or use immediately without signing in. It integrates notes and a Kanban task board seamlessly, is mobile-optimized (with native apps coming relatively soon), and localized across 21 languages. I've seen steady growth just through Reddit alone, and have gotten great feedback that has only improved the product.

Feel free to check it and you can use the code PH3MONTHS at checkout for the next few days for a free premium subscription that lasts 3 months.

u/dellydoesitpa — 4 days ago
▲ 6 r/microsaas+4 crossposts

It's a platform designed to help people find the perfect gifts using AI-powered recommendations. You describe who you're shopping for (like "tech-savvy dad" or "creative teenager"), and the AI suggests personalized gift ideas.

https://prezntai.lovable.app

what do you think?

u/Someone0_1 — 4 days ago

$85k/mo selling leads everyone else thought were worthless

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Everyone's scraping Apollo and praying their cold emails land.

Romàn was doing the same thing.

Then he ran one test that changed everything.

He split his outreach into two groups: high-intent leads showing actual buying signals vs. random scraped contacts from Apollo.

Same offer. Same copy. Same everything.

The high-intent leads converted 4x better.

Most people would've just nodded and moved on.

Romàn built a whole SaaS around it.

Here's the kicker: his MVP wasn't even software.

It was a PowerPoint deck. He sold Excel sheets of leads.

No code. No fancy dashboard. Just validated demand before building anything.

(This was their second SaaS — they learned the hard way the first time that you sell before you build.)

The launch was messy. Month two? Churn rate was "absolutely horrible." But they iterated fast and it stabilized.

Today GojiberryAI does $85k/month. 50% net margin. 95% organic traffic.

His customer acquisition playbook:

- Reddit execution breakdowns (3x/week) - this post you're reading? That's the strategy.

- 5-6 LinkedIn posts daily across multiple accounts - lead magnets 6 days, founder story 1 day. Reply to every comment.

- YouTube long-tail videos - targeting competitor keywords to capture high-intent search traffic.

- Manual DMs to warm engagers - using their own tool to scale conversations.

No fancy attribution. No paid ads at scale. Just showing up consistently where B2B buyers actually hang out.

The lesson most founders miss:

- Your leads probably aren't bad.
- You're just targeting people who have no reason to care right now.

Full story here

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u/iamfra5er — 5 days ago

$2.7k/mo automating the part of sales everyone hates (but still do manually)

https://preview.redd.it/7zxddnzxjy0h1.png?width=754&format=png&auto=webp&s=f0445c4573b0d72b60bbb19510d498bb119dc3d9

Everyone talks about building products.

Nobody talks about the hell of actually selling them.

Jakub had the same problem every builder has: he could ship. But getting customers? That was the real grind.

So he built the tool he wished existed.

Leadverse scans Reddit and X for people literally asking for what you built. Then automates the outreach.

Sounds obvious, right?

Except nobody else was doing it.

His first 10 customers came from a Reddit post where he just... asked what people were building. Then he ran their products through Leadverse and sent back 5 posts of people asking for their exact tool.

Most signed up. Some paid.

That was the MVP. One feature. Automated Reddit and X lead discovery.

He added more later - auto DMs, competitor analysis, real-time alerts. He even tried Bluesky scanning.

That flopped. Turned out nobody asks for tools on Bluesky. He killed it.

The growth strategy?

Post high-quality content on Reddit, LinkedIn, X. Blueprint-style posts work best. Plan ahead so you can stay consistent.

CAC? $0. Every customer came organically from Reddit.

The brutal part:

He almost quit multiple times. Bootstrapping solo meant doing everything - dev, marketing, support, SEO. Months in, he wasn't sure if the time was worth it.

He kept going anyway.

Now he's at $2.7k/month. 70% margin. Zero ad spend.

The lesson:

People don't want to spend time on outreach. They want it automated with trackable results.

Quality leads > spray and pray.

Next goal? $10k MRR and sub-30% churn.

Full story here

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u/iamfra5er — 6 days ago
▲ 164 r/microsaas+3 crossposts

Hi everyone,

I’d love to hear about your startups. Drop a link + a few words about what you are building.

I am building StartupLibrary, and if you have not already, submit your startup to www.startuplibrary.net for a chance to be featured in our weekly newsletter.

Currently we are one of the fastest growing directories, and let’s keep the momentum going this week 🚀

u/Legitimate-Peace-583 — 9 days ago
▲ 11 r/microsaas+4 crossposts

I kept delaying building a portfolio because it felt like copying my CV into a website and tweaking layouts for hours. So I built a tool to automate it (myseera).

You upload your resume and it extracts your experience, skills, and projects, then generates a site you can edit and publish.

What it does right now:

  • Generate a portfolio from a PDF or DOCX
  • Structure content into clean sections
  • Edit inline and switch between templates
  • Publish to a live link or your own domain

Some things were harder than I expected:

  • Resumes have no standard format so parsing is messy
  • AI sometimes changes wording or groups things oddly
  • Fitting real CV data into templates without breaking layout

Built this because most tools I tried felt too manual or asked for payment too early. Not sure yet if people would actually rely on something like this long term. Happy to get feedback or answer questions.

u/EmployerFrosty — 6 days ago
▲ 9 r/microsaas+7 crossposts

I’d love to see what everyone is building + how you’re getting your first users.

I’ll start:
I built an AI resume builder that generates resumes, cover letters, and portfolios from a prompt. - cvcons.com

Still early stage — currently focused on getting my first users and feedback.

What are you working on?

u/ButterscotchNo6885 — 7 days ago
▲ 58 r/microsaas+5 crossposts

Pitch your product in 1–2 lines and drop a link below.

I help founders get their first 1000 users,

We handpick the best from the tools directory and give them free exposure to 55k+ subscribers (each week): https://tools.launchllama.co/

u/SaltPhotograph8506 — 10 days ago
▲ 7 r/microsaas+6 crossposts

My iPhone keeps yelling at me that storage is full, but every time I try to clean it I get stuck.

I’ve got thousands of photos, screenshots, short videos, duplicates, random stuff I might need later. Bulk delete feels risky, and doing it one by one is painfully slow, so I usually just give up and buy more iCloud storage.

I’m curious what actually works for people long term:

Do you clean your photos periodically or only when storage is full

Do you trust Apple’s built in recommendations

Do you use third party apps or just manual cleanup

Or do you just keep upgrading storage and ignore it

I ended up building a small on device app for myself that lets me review photos and videos one at a time so I don’t accidentally nuke anything. No accounts, no uploads, everything stays on the phone.

But honestly I’m more interested in how other people handle this. What’s actually worked for you without regret?

u/This-Counter-5996 — 8 days ago
▲ 5 r/microsaas+2 crossposts

so we built TimeKnot for our own design team because every time tracker we tried felt either too basic or way too over-engineered...

also just shipped an AI agent inside the app that handles task creation, time logging, day planning, and reports automatically. recorded a quick walkthrough showing how it all fits together.

we also made sure to make barrier for entry 0, so its free to start and super simple to use timeknot.app - Any feedback would be great (Especially from this subreddit! - You guys are awesome <3)

u/Dry-Resource6903 — 5 days ago

$25k/mo solving the problem nobody wanted to talk about

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Everyone wants to build "AI companies."

Nobody wants to deal with the messy data underneath them.

Danny was founding engineer at a vertical SaaS startup building AI for grocery stores. Cool, right?

Except 80% of their actual problems had nothing to do with AI.

It was parsing broken CSVs from SSH servers. Building custom SOAP XML servers for ancient on-premises software. Ugly, unglamorous work nobody wanted to touch.

The company kept calling itself an "AI company" and kept ignoring the real problem.

That's when Danny saw the gap.

First attempt: He built a generic data orchestrator. Burned out fast. No users, no feedback, just building into the void.

Second attempt: A friend connected him with a startup needing one very specific thing - a QuickBooks Desktop integration.

He almost said no. Too niche. Too small.

He said yes anyway.

Today he's at $25k/month. 90% net margin. $0 spent on acquisition.

Every single customer found him.

What actually worked:

  • GitHub SEO hack - had friends star his SDK repo so it ranked for niche searches. Janky. Effective.
  • Watch your API logs - he'd spot struggling users and reach out proactively. One customer called it "the best support I've ever had in my life."
  • Boring solves real problems - nobody dreams of building QuickBooks integrations. That's exactly why nobody else built it.

The lesson nobody talks about:

The "AI" part of your product probably isn't your hardest problem.

The unsexy data plumbing underneath it is.

Full story here

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u/iamfra5er — 7 days ago