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Thank you for that wonderful last sentence. Super motivating.

Spent 5 months on an enterprise deal, only to lose the deal to the CPO's buddy

I have a startup in the AI Agents domain, which is an extremely competitive space with 100s of similar products. However, we differentiate by focusing a bit more on enterprises, data compliance, PII encryption, and serverless / self-hosted setups. Because of this, we generally work closely with a client's tech team rather than their customer support team.In May, we received an inbound inquiry...

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Ask HN: Why does $50M buy just 10% productivity for Enterprises?

I read a report done by KPMG where they mentioned AI spent is above $50m for almost all tech companies above billion dollars and still productivity gain is 10%.What opportunities does it open?Source: https://www.fortuneindia.com/amp/story/technology/ai-adoption-is-near-universal-but-only-10-of-tech-firms-achieve-roi-at-scale-kpmg/154914

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Ask HN: Can I take Meta to court for banning business Insta or FB account?

Let's say I spend a considerable amount of money in Meta ads.I have followed all ruled but some automated system assume that I have done something wrong and automatically banned me.Now I understand that such systems exist to prevent bad actors. But outright banning a business that is spending money on your platform is a violation of customer service rules.There has to be a proper customer...

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Programmatic SEO is just noise based on my last 5 years experience

I have been doing programmatic SEO for over 5 years. I have done this for several websites till date.Usually we create pages based on use-case, industry, platform, country, alternative and so on.For an email marketing company, I would create pages like email marketing for restuarant or email marketing for hotel, email marketing in UK or email marketing in Shopify, MailChimp alternative or...

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Re:What web businesses will continue to make money post AI? on Sunday February 15, 2026 @11:21AM (#47024929)
More than 90% for web business will continue to make money.

We are a team of 4 people company and we use 15+ SaaS Web tools and we can code few of them but we see no reason to solve. Why would we replace Calendly already at just $12 per month? Or why would we will create an internal Outlook?

I am building sendzen.io. Would love to talk to you once.
What if you would have allowed the use for some more time without pivoting? I faced a spam issue from RMG companies and we allowed them to use at double price and after few weeks they stopped themselves.

Developer SaaS has one of the longest "effort before reward" curves

I’m sharing my experience building a developer-focused SaaS so that anyone still in the early stages understands that every SaaS product has its own journey before you see meaningful traction.Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) dictates how long that journey will be.A SaaS like Lovable can achieve rapid adoption because the learning curve is minimal and the primary use case of creating a website...

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I saw your website and the plans and offer you have.

I am not going to lie but for this agency to succeed, you need a lot of marketing muscle. Maybe narrow down to any one industry and do heavy sales.

Re:Show HN: PlantDiagrams – AI-powered PlantUML editor on Saturday September 20, 2025 @03:43AM (#45311322)
Its a good project.Maybe creating some kind of Confluence plugin or Linear.app plugin can give a boost to it.
Re:Ask HN: When was the last time you visited Stack Overflow? on Friday September 05, 2025 @09:10AM (#45138122)
I have almost stopped using Google Search for my programming queries. Its either ChatGPT (Text and C# related questions), AIStudio (AWS and DevOps), or Claude (UI-UX) that has become default search engines for me.

Ask HN: Building tools to make WhatsApp integration less painful for developers

So if you have some kind of experience integrating with WhatsApp Business API as a developer, you would already know how tough it gets. I am planning to build a tool that is specifically intended to solve the developers problem regarding the following specific things:1. Easy Onboarding with embedded setup with bank grade security (data encryption and security first approach)2. Secure and...

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Ask HN: How to acquire any open source project?

I am building something similar to Twilio but only for WhatsApp. For my Product, my target audience is software developer. Now as a developer, I personally hate any kind of marketing targeted to me.So for my Product, I am thinking of acquiring few open source project in some kind of messaging space and improve it by adding resources to it.I am not quite sure how acquisition happens for open...

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Re:Ask HN: What if I fail to make it? on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @10:02AM (#44798109)
I am 41 years old. I failed at almost everything till 35 in my career. I was down at my last $800 in my bank account with a dependent wife and a kid. Somehow I found a good job at 35 and I became financially stable. This stability gave me freedom to pursue few other projects and I got success in all other things. So success will definitely come to you over time if you stick and plan for it. The biggest skills you need to develop are resilience and not taking yourself too seriously. We are a very small blip in this massive Universe and our goal is just to try our best and leave the results to almighty.
Launchpad9.com is not available :-(. .I can take Launchpad8.com but it's now a distant 3rd option and so it's not appealing.
My Product is not related to AI and more about messaging and voice calling. Something like Twilio.
Thank you for such a lovely answer. I tried all LLMs - free and paid, used name generator, namelix.com but nothing seems to attract me or is not available.

I liked Launchpad from your suggestions but it's not available.

Ask HN: How do you name your product? Are there any standardized ways?

I am building an API based infrastructure tool for developers. I have been thinking for over a week to find a name but am just not able to find one. I have my UI design done, DB design done, APIs specifications ready but I couldn't come up with a name. I have thought of 1000+ names and cannot find it. I think I am now the worst person to name due to so much of overthinking.Since my Product is...

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Ask HN: Has any SaaS achieved success with Google PPC while under $50k MRR?

Theoretically, yes it should be possible. But practically it seems impossible to me as I see the CPC in US market goes almost as high as $80 per click and so if conversion rate is 2% the amount that needs to be spent for just a single order is $ 4000.So if the lifetime value is less than $ 4000, it seems impossible to get the ROAS.What have been your experience?

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Re:Ask HN: Solo Founder Tips? on Thursday September 07, 2023 @08:27AM (#37417930)
I've created 2 products in past as a solo founder — Growby.net and Robofy.ai — and I can share some tips from my previous experiences.

When you're running a startup on your own, it's tough to handle both product development and marketing at the same time. What worked for me was to alternate between the two. For instance, I'd spend one week focusing solely on coding and building the product, and the next week would be dedicated to marketing and search engine optimization (SEO). Some solo founders switch tasks every day, but I found that dedicating a full week to each area was more effective for me.

Another key point is to focus on high-impact, low-effort tasks. It's unlikely that you'll be able to master all aspects of digital marketing or build a groundbreaking product all by yourself. Concentrate on the most crucial tasks that will give you the biggest return on your effort. In other words, prioritize.

Lastly, keep direct communication with your customers in-house. Don't delegate this important task. However, it's okay to outsource more technical tasks like server management and coding to others.

I am planning to get the home page redesign.

I would share some data in case if it makes any sense:

So till now I have got around 5200 Visitors on website and 562 sign-up. Roughly 10.8% sign-ups for free trial.

Out of the 562, around 80 installed the chatbot on their website. Most of this 80 website were really ugly looking 1-pager website to be honest.

Out of 80, 14 converted to paying customers. 2 out of the 14 are resellers.

I spoke with all the 14 and they gave me some suggestions and I started including in the product development.

I would share some data in case if it makes any sense:

So till now I have got around 5200 Visitors on website and 562 sign-up. Roughly 10.8% sign-ups for free trial.

Out of the 562, around 80 installed the chatbot on their website. Most of this 80 website were really ugly looking 1-pager website to be honest.

Out of 80, 14 converted to paying customers. 2 out of the 14 are resellers.

I spoke with all the 14 and they gave me some suggestions and I started including in the product development.

I am looking for momentum now as I see few competitors doing amazing work with marketing.

I have a WordPress plugin. Will try to list on the plugin Store.

Regarding market size, I still feel that market size is huge and multiple new players are coming

Ask HN: Stuck at $500 MRR and Seeking Distribution/Marketing Advice

Hey everyone!I'm Milan, founder of Robofy, an AI chatbot tool I've poured countless hours into. Robofy is live for around 3 months now. Our Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) has been stagnant at around $500 for the last 3 months, which has been a tad frustrating. I rebranded in June to Robofy but still am stuck at $500 and I am looking for fresh ideas.One thing I've noticed is an extremely large...

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Ask HN: Any GPT use-cases that blew your mind beyond chatbots and content?

I see a lot of chatbot related products and social media content creation related products. In fact even I made one chatbot product.These products have become quite generic in just 2 quarters.Have you encountered any product that is doing things remarkably different and re-defining any existing large use-case. Would love to explore more.

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Re:Show HN: GPT-3 as a Spreadsheet Add On on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:50AM (#34064627)
The video's are good and the idea is useful as well. All the best.

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