SaaS Research
SaaS Founder Research: What Public Founder Posts Actually Show
3 evergreen studies built from 180 public founder posts, covering how solo SaaS founders get their first customers, what they earn, and why they fail.
Cumulative patterns mined from real public founder posts, not a single week's snapshot. Every claim links back to the discussion it came from.
How Much Do Solo Founders Actually Make? 38 Real Revenue Numbers
Concrete MRR, ARR and first-dollar figures founders posted publicly on Reddit. Every figure links to its source. Updated July 2026.
60 founder posts reviewed · 2026-W09–2026-W30
Why most indie SaaS fails: patterns from founder post-mortems
What founders said went wrong, in their own words, across dozens of shutdown and failure threads.
60 founder posts reviewed · 2026-W09–2026-W30
How Solo Founders Get Their First Customers: What 603 Founder Posts Reveal
We analyzed 603 founder posts from r/SaaS and r/Entrepreneur (Mar–Jun 2026): the channels, the cold outreach numbers, and what actually got the first paying user.
60 founder posts reviewed · 2026-W09–2026-W27