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What I learned launching my first SaaS to 0 customers
Technical founder here. Built a B2B SaaS (findforce.io - business email finder) for 2 months. Clean architecture, 95% accuracy, competitive pricing. Zero customers, zero revenue.
Key lessons:
- Distribution beats product quality
- PMF isn't negotiable (perfect tech + no demand = failure)
- Customer interviews are the actual work, not optional homework
- Audience-first approach matters more than I understood
Also became a father this year (never wanted kids). Interesting contrast: failed at what I planned for, succeeded at what I didn't.
Pivoting to audience-first for next attempt. Curious if others have similar experiences with first product failures and what you did differently the second time.
- cranberryturkey 1y agoof course distribution is everything. why is it companies like SAP, Oracle, IBM have been production shit-tier tech for 30+ years and they are still billion dollar companies?
- maitrongnhan99 1y agoI made the same mistake, but I learned that we always need to validate the idea first
- meysamazad 1y agowell I can't add any links to this submission anymore but here's the longer version: https://meysam.io/blog/what-i-learned-turning-31/ https://meysam.io/blog/what-i-learned-turning-31/