"I analyzed why 90% of SaaS products fail before launch. It's always the same mistake." from Reddit r/saas, ranked #1. By Low_Mulberry_5220, 19 score, 9 comments. Data from Daily Trends.
I analyzed why 90% of SaaS products fail before launch. It's always the same mistake.
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- Low_Mulberry_5220
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- 3/24/2026, 10:35:51 PM
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- 3/25/2026, 12:00:00 AM
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I've been in software engineering for 10+ years and I've watched so many founders (myself included) make the same fatal error. They fall in love with an idea. They disappear for 3 months to build it. They launch. Nobody cares. Then they blame marketing. Or timing. Or competition. But the real problem? They never checked if anyone actually had the pain they were solving. I started paying attention to what the successful founders do differently. And it's stupidly simple. They don't start with an idea. They start by lurking. They spend time in subreddits, forums, and communities reading posts like: \-"I've tried every tool for X and they all suck" \-"Why does nobody build a simple solution for Y" \-"I'd honestly pay money if something just did Z" Each one of those is a validated business idea handed to you for free. The problem is doing this manually takes forever. Reddit alone has thousands of subreddits with millions of posts. You can't read them all. So I built someth...