gazi nurul hasan

While preparing for our launch, we spent 3 weeks testing 3 organic growth channels instead of jumping straight into paid ads:

1. Building in Public on Twitter/X: Great for founder networking, but brought very low actual SaaS signups.

2. Niche Reddit Subreddits: High intent users, but required 100% value-first posting without promotional links.

3. Interactive Micro-tools: Created a free 1-page tool that solved a small subset of our main product's problem. This drove our highest conversion rate.

When building web applications, page speed directly impacts conversion rates. Research shows that every additional second of loading time can drop conversions by over 4%.

While developing our core dashboard features, we noticed our initial response times were creeping up to 2.8 seconds mainly due to complex database queries and unoptimized assets.

Here are 3 quick optimizations that brought our page load time down to under 1 second:

1. Redis Caching for User Data: Cached non-critical session data and frequent query results instead of fetching directly from the database on every route change.

Hey Product Hunt community!

As our team prepares to launch our first SaaS product built entirely in-house, we spent the last week running end-to-end usability tests on our onboardings and product assets.

Coming from an engineering background, we initially focused heavily on code stability. But user testing quickly showed us that UX friction kills conversion faster than minor backend bugs.

3 specific things we had to fix before going public: