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   WeLinkly: combines multiple links into one shareable project URL

   Finally created my first SaaS: Connecting multiple links to one URL Sharing multiple long URLs isn't exactly clean. They take up space, get lost in conversations, and when you're sharing something with a client, colleague, team, or even friends, sending a wall of links doesn't look particularly professional. That's why I built WeLinkly. WeLinkly lets you combine multiple links into a single organized Project with its own shareable URL. Instead of sending: • one link to a document • another to a website • another to a video • another to Google Maps • another to a shared resource you send one WeLinkly URL containing everything. But I didn't want it to be just a page full of links. Each link can have its own title and description, so the person receiving it knows what they're opening before they click. Projects are also saved and can be organized into folders, so you don't have to search through old messages, bookmarks, or notes to find them again. How I built it I built WeLinkly as a web app and have been developing it feature by feature rather than trying to build everything at once. A big part of the process has been keeping the creation flow simple while gradually adding things like custom Project URLs, different link display modes, folders, QR codes, collaboration, analytics, and a Chrome extension. One thing I've learned while building it is that adding features is the easy part, keeping the product simple as the feature set grows is much harder. I'm now trying to be much more selective about what I add instead of turning it into a collection of unrelated link tools. Some early numbers So far: • 23 Projects • 10 new users • 0 paying users I've also started testing Google Ads: • 520 impressions • 70 clicks • €1.28 average CPC • €89 spent It's obviously still very early, but I'm sharing the numbers because I think the building/marketing side is just as interesting as the product itself. The goal with WeLinkly is simple: Make sharing multiple links cleaner, more organized, and more professional. You can check it out here: welinkly.com I'm actively working on it and would really appreciate your feedback — both on the product itself and on how I'm approaching the build. What would you improve? Also I would love your feedback on the Google Ads!

   u/kostasa124 · Productivity

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   FranklyMail: affordable email with extra account protection

   I didn’t make $1M in first 45 days. But 39,000 people told me why they wouldn’t trust my SaaS. 10 days ago I posted my $9/year email service here. That post got 39,000 views surprisingly. I was very happy about that for roughly five minutes. Then I started reading the comments. "This is too cheap to trust." "At $9/year, expect spammers." "How are you even covering the hosting costs?" They were all fair lol. When you build a normal SaaS, people worry about wasting $10. When you build an email service, people worry about losing password resets, invoices, customer conversations and years of business history. Cheap gets attention. It doesn’t automatically get trust. So instead of working on another landing page or trying to squeeze more signups out of the traffic, I spent the next week on the boring stuff. Every FranklyMail mailbox can now have its own 2FA, backup codes and separate passwords for mail apps. A company can also require 2FA for everyone on its domain. Adding the 2FA screen wasn’t actually the difficult part. The difficult part was introducing it without breaking the logins of roughly 1000+ existing mailboxes. We started with one of our own domains, found an old account edge case, fixed it, iterated couple time, heavily tested it in our staging environment and only then opened it to everyone. Nobody had to reset their password or suddenly found themselves locked out. I didn’t 10x revenue this week. There is no beautiful MRR screenshot that shows I became millionarie :D But 39,000 strangers showed me the biggest reason they wouldn’t buy, and 10 days later the product is better because of it. Honestly, that made me felt like a win. Yet our paying users exceeded 100 as today which is a huge milestone for me. And best thing is that having feedback from them even without asking that saying it is a simple and nice product and that really made me happy. I started FranklyMail thinking the message was: "Business email shouldn’t cost this much." Now I think it’s: "Affordable email still has to earn your trust." I am curious what’s the harshest Reddit comment that actually made your product better?

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   Quickbeam: transfer photos and files between phone and computer

   I got returning users for a problem that was probably already solved. How do I find more of them? I built a very simple photo/file-transfer site because I wanted an easy way to move photos from my phone to whatever computer I happened to be using. Things like getting receipt photos onto my company computer for reimbursement. To be fair, this is probably a problem that has already been solved 500 times, but I thought it would be fun to build my own solution 😆 Still, it now does around 20–100 file transfers a day after being online for a year or so, and some users actually keep coming back. Google Search Console shows about 2.5k impressions with a 5.1% average CTR over the last 27 days, and Analytics shows both new and returning users from all over the world. So apparently there is a small group of people who, despite all the alternatives, actually like this thing. It is free for up to five photos/files per session and I originally charged $9.99/year for unlimited use, which went about as well as expected :D So I just dropped it to $2.99/year. Doubt it will help but lets see. My questions are: - How do I find more of this demographic, because there must be more since I have returning users? - And how would you convert some of them to paid users? The million dollar question I guess? My wife already bought it out of mercy and my kids got it for free, so that growth strategy is exhausted 😂 Feel free to roast or toast the idea. This is definitely not the most important project in the world for me, but I'd find it satisfying if it could at least pay its own $5/month Railway hobby bill. Dont worry though, I'm going to support the free tier for as long as I can afford the railway services for $5/month and the name server fee of $20/year. You can check it out here if you are interested: https://quickbeam.app And if you give me a genuinely good idea - I'll be the judge here 🧑🏼‍⚖️, I'll happily give you a year of Unlimited for free :) That's an $2.99 worth offer no one can refuse i think. Cheers! PS: It also have free AI analysis of the images transferred with one prompt per image but that is hardly used by anyone.

   u/GenJeppo · Productivity

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   A solo desktop app with subscription and one-time plans

   Solo desktop app, 55k downloads in a year, two subscription tiers and a one-time plan. Ask me about the parts that did not work

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   A sample tracking tool for biotech labs

   how a 4 sentence cold email got our tiny biotech saas from 0 to 11 pharma clients in 14 months (long post, lessons at the bottom) using a throwaway since a few of my old coworkers lurk here. so about two years ago my cofounder and I launched a small software tool that tracks biological samples through freezers, shipments and handoffs. think package tracking, but for tissue samples and cell lines. the problem is super real. labs lose samples or break the cold chain all the time, and every lost sample can mean weeks of rework. we had a working product, zero clients and roughly 8 months of runway. what didn't work we started out doing it the "normal" way. linkedin ads, a webinar that literally nobody showed up to, and these long emails listing every single feature we had. I sent something like 300 of those in the first month. got 4 replies. two were unsubscribe requests and one guy asked if we were hiring lol what changed everything one night I was venting to my sister about it, she's a lab manager at a university. she just laughed and said "nobody in a lab reads vendor emails. but if you asked me about the time a courier left our samples on a loading dock over a holiday weekend, i'd write you a novel." that stuck with me. scientists don't care about software. they care about the disaster they're still angry about. so I rewrote everything. the new email was literally 4 sentences: Hi Dr. [Name], quick question from someone who builds sample tracking tools: what's the worst sample loss your lab has had in the last year? I'm not selling anything in this email. I'm collecting stories to understand where things actually break. even a one line reply would help a lot. that's it. no link, no attachment, no logo. results sent it to 180 lab directors and ops managers at mid size biotechs. 41 replied. some of them wrote 3 paragraphs. one guy sent me a photo of a thawed shipping box. I replied to every single one with an actual follow up question, no pitch. after the 2nd or 3rd back and forth, about half of them asked what we were building. that's when I told them. out of those 41 convos we got 17 demos, 6 pilots and 4 paying clients within 5 months. two of those clients referred us to their partners at bigger pharma companies. 14 months in we were at 11 clients and break even. lessons I'd pass on to anyone doing outbound in biotech or IT - ask about their pain, not your product. people love telling war stories - keep it short enough to read on a phone between experiments - actually mean the "not selling" part. if you switch to a pitch in your first reply you lose them - reply to everything personally. the follow up convo is where the trust actually gets built - your best prospects are usually angry about something specific. find the anger and you've found the budget happy to answer questions in the comments

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   A web app for running farms in aquaculture

   Pricing my niche farm software: first client pays $400/month and now wants custom sensor integrations I've been building a web app for running farms in aquaculture. My first client used paper logs and a mess of Excel files. Now their day-to-day work lives in one place: stock, feeding, water conditions, losses, plus dashboards and reports. They've been using it daily for about a month and pay $400/month for now/ Now they want more: connect a bunch of different sensors and change the software to work with them. That's real custom development on top of the product. The software is mine. I'm not selling the code, I want to offer it to other farms too. Most potential customers still run on Excel and paper. There are a few competitors, but none of them publish prices, it's all "contact us for a quote", so I have nothing to compare against. Questions: Is $400/month per farm too low, too high or about right for this kind of product? How do I charge for the sensor work? Hourly, a fixed price per integration, or a higher monthly plan? The client pays for these integrations, but I want them to stay part of my product so I can reuse them. How do you usually handle that? Numbers from your own experience are super welcome. Thanks!

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   A tiny Chrome extension with 600 users

   I just crossed 600 users for my tiny Chrome extension. 1,000 is next.

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   SlidesClock: attendance tracking for teams

   Small SaaS win today :) Someone found the attendance app I’ve been building organically, created a company workspace, and started inviting their team. No ads or outreach involved. It’s only 2 users so far, but seeing a real company actually start using something I built feels way more exciting than just seeing signup numbers. First little sign that maybe I’m building something people actually need. Website: https://slidesclock.com App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slidesclock-attendance-app/id6804278786

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