I've been building a SaaS in a very saturated market for a while. I had an idea of how to make it different and more valuable, so I decided to give it a shot. I launched it, and after a couple of months, I started questioning everything. Was I building the wrong product for the wrong audience? I was targeting indie hackers, people who can probably build their own solution in a day. It made me wonder how much value my product could really offer. I left it running without paying too much attention to it. And then, out of nowhere... I got my first paying customer! I can't even explain how good that felt. This was my first paying customer ever, not just for this SaaS, but for any of my own projects. That one customer gave me a lot of new motivation. I started working on new features, talking about the product again, and putting more effort into it. But I still have doubts. Even with my first paying customer, I keep wondering if this is something that can survive long term. If your target audience can build a replacement in a day, what's stopping them from doing exactly that? Maybe customers stay for a month or two and then move on to their own solutions. I'm super happy about getting my first customer, but I'm also trying to be realistic about the future. What do you think? Do most small SaaS products eventually disappear because they're too easy to replace, or am I overthinking this?   submitted by   /u/OldLie1102 [link]   [comments]