Pedro Reis

We launched a SaaS recently and noticed a cluster of accounts created within minutes of each other that never confirmed email or returned after signup. We want to keep our user table healthy without accidentally deleting real users.

Curious what other founders do in practice, more specifically:

• Do you auto-delete accounts after X days without email confirmation? If so, what timeframe worked for you?

• Do you keep soft-deleted rows for analytics or GDPR reasons? Any retention windows you recommend?

• If you have automated detection, what signals did you use (IP clusters; identical metadata; signup rate spikes)?

We know this situation exists, but not many people are openly talking about it.

Being in a highly competitive entrepreneurial environment is challenging on many levels... not only in terms of sales and business growth, but also legal responsibilities, administration, and often handling most things independently, all while managing family and personal stuff.

The AI tool graveyard in my dock is embarrassing. I've downloaded and abandoned more "game-changer" tools in the last year than in the previous five combined.

But a few have genuinely stuck. The ones I still use daily without thinking about it:

• Claude for anything that needs actual reasoning or long context

• - Cursor for coding - it's changed how I write code, not just sped it up

• - Perplexity for research that I'd previously just Google-and-pray