What I learned launching my first SaaS to 0 customers

4•meysamazad•2h ago

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.

Comments

cranberryturkey•1h ago

of 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•1h ago

I made the same mistake, but I learned that we always need to validate the idea first

meysamazad•1h ago

well 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/

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