$100+ revenue, 2 months after launching my SaaS solo

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https://preview.redd.it/zvvelj2k686h1.png?width=2312&format=png&auto=webp&s=078fb00be34cf844e2930868b051975c0679df8d Two months ago, I launched firsteyes AI . The idea came from something I kept noticing while scrolling on x and reddit. Founders spend weeks or months staring at the same website, tweaking copy, moving buttons around, redesigning sections, and gradually become incapable of seeing the product the way a first-time visitor sees it. We know too much. We know what every feature does, why every decision was made, and what every piece of copy is trying to communicate. Visitors arrive with none of that context. When I launched, I thought the hard part would be getting traffic. Like most founders, I assumed that if enough people landed on the website, everything else would start taking care of itself. What I discovered instead was that traffic is often the easy part. The difficult part is figuring out what happens after someone arrives. Why do they leave? What confused them? What made them hesitate? What stopped them from taking the next step? Over the last two months I've spent a ridiculous amount of time talking to founders. Some had traffic but no signups. Some had products they genuinely believed solved a real problem but couldn't understand why visitors kept bouncing. What surprised me was how similar the conversations were. Almost everyone had a theory about what was wrong. Very few actually knew. Most were changing headlines, pricing, layouts, features, and CTAs while essentially guessing which one was responsible. The thing that worked best for me wasn't a growth hack, a launch strategy, or some clever marketing tactic. It was simply talking to people. Reddit ended up becoming my most valuable channel, not because of launch posts or promotion, but because it gave me direct access to founders who were already experiencing the exact problems firsteyes AI was built to solve. One Reddit DM eventually became a paying customer. More importantly, hundreds of conversations helped me understand the problem far better than I did on launch day. The product itself has changed a lot because of those conversations. Several things I thought would be important turned out not to matter much. Other pieces of feedback that seemed minor at first ended up shaping major improvements. Looking back, the version that exists today feels dramatically stronger than the one I launched because real users kept exposing blind spots I couldn't see on my own. The biggest lesson from these first two months is that founders are usually far too close to their own products. I certainly was. After enough time spent building, your brain automatically fills in missing context and smooths over confusing parts. Visitors don't do that. They see exactly what's on the screen and make decisions based on that alone. That's ultimately why I built firsteyes AI in the first place. It basically finds out why first-time visitors leave your website before converting... Still very early, but I'm excited to see where the next months go.   submitted by   /u/koustubh18 [link]   [comments]