There was a lot of talk in 2023 and 2024 about startups using a one-time payment model, but earlier this year, I started to see founders going back to subscriptions. What do you think?
I am attempting to observe what you use for coding. I have come across many tools on Product Hunt + Web, but I am fairly certain I have missed quite a bit. I divided them into "traditional" and "specialised".
Hey everyone, I m currently building a small SaaS product, and I started thinking seriously about monitoring. Most tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.) feel built for larger teams. Powerful, yes but also complex and expensive. So I m curious: What do you actually monitor in your small or solo SaaS? Do you track uptime only? Do you track latency? Do you rely on logs? At what point does monitoring start feeling like overkill? I m trying to understand what is truly essential vs. what is just enterprise noise . Not selling anything just genuinely curious how other indie builders approach this. Would love to hear your setups.
I've read a lot of conflicting views on this ... I'd love some advice.
We're about to relaunch our news platform ... which has been locked behind an "invite code" for a few months in ~beta state ... and we'd like to create some buzz!!..
The first week felt like validation. 340 customers, $50K in the bank, near the top of the charts. I thought I'd solved the cold start problem.
What I hadn't worked through: I'd acquired 340 customers who paid once and had no incentive to churn. Which meant I had no recurring signal on what actually needed fixing. The feedback was noisy because everyone bought at different price points with different expectations. Support was immediate and permanent. When I raised prices six months later to attract monthly subscribers, existing LTD holders treated it as a personal betrayal.
