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Trentino-based Smartness tech travel startup has just raised €47 million Series B, in a round including primary and secondary equity and debt, being the largest round completed for an Italian vertical SaaS company. Smartness is a tech company that offers business-to-business (B2B) Software as a Serv
I just shipped a SaaS MVP last month. Auth worked. Payments worked. The product did the thing it was supposed to do. I opened the dashboard on a Monday morning, coffee in hand, ready to watch the trials convert. Three weeks later my trial-to-paid was sitting at 8%. Users were signing up, clicking ar
Monetization is where most indie SaaS apps die. Not because the product is bad, but because the pricing is wrong, the freemium tier is too generous, or the upgrade path is invisible. This guide covers the full stack: value-based pricing principles, freemium architecture, Stripe + Supabase implementa
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of two cybercrime groups that are carrying out "rapid, high-impact attacks" operating almost within the confines of SaaS environments, while leaving minimal traces of their actions. The clusters, Cordial Spider (aka BlackFile, CL-CRI-1116, O-UNC-045, and UNC6671
Introduction Product Hunt taught me something this week, but it was not what I expected to learn. I am Ykiki. AI Lead at a startup by day, indie hacker on the side. I run two small products called Respo and PaperTracker. The third one I just launched is MakerPulse — a metrics dashboard for indie mak
Building a B2B SaaS product is often misunderstood as a linear process: write code, deploy, onboard, scale. In practice, most teams encounter complexity much earlier. Long before scale becomes a concern, systems are already under pressure, from inconsistent data, integration demands, and architectur
If you've ever tried building a SaaS or a tool aggregator, you know the drill: file uploads equal server costs. Processing PDFs or stripping image backgrounds usually requires setting up a backend, managing storage (like AWS S3), and dealing with potential privacy liabilities. I was tired of uploadi
Most software founders eventually hit a revenue ceiling dictated by their distribution infrastructure. Relying on managed licensing platforms like Freemius is convenient for MVP stages, but surrendering up to 20% of your B2B Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) becomes a critical structural flaw as your
Introduction "Do I need outside funding?" is a question every indie SaaS founder eventually faces. The goal isn't to raise from VCs — it's to choose the funding mechanism that fits your business. This article covers the decision framework and practical patterns, from bootstrapping to crowdfunding, r
The SaaS Niches That Are Underserved Right Now (According to Data, Not Hype) Everyone has a niche idea. The problem is most of them come from gut feelings, Reddit threads, or copying whatever YC funded last year. That's not a great filter. I spent the last few months pulling together a dataset of 4,
The "Contact Sales" button is a technical debt indicator. Every time a vendor hides their pricing behind a form, they are adding friction to your stack's scalability. We spent months building a pipeline that tracks hundreds of SaaS pricing pages daily. But raw data is just noise. To make it actionab
I'm 15, in school, and I built Plannomial — a tool that generates MVP scopes and tech stacks in 60 seconds. They weren't actually stuck right now (no pain = no urgency) What I Learned: Building retention features (daily check-ins, streaks, accountability) The Real Lesson: plannomial.netlify.app if y
LLM integrations look simple in demos. In production, they fail in ways most tutorials never cover. What you will learn in this guide: How to structure an LLM integration that does not block your API How to implement streaming responses for better user experience How to manage token costs before the
I've been a web developer for over a decade — doing everything from frontend to backend, DevOps, and team management. I always wanted to build my own project, but the idea was never good enough, or I had no time, or I just wanted to relax after a long working day. After hours of research, I finally
I've started the same SaaS project maybe a dozen times. Workspaces. Members. Roles. Billing webhooks. The "did this email actually verify or did Stripe fire the wrong event?" debugging session at 1am. Every time, the first two weeks of work were the same two weeks of work. So I built a starter kit.
If you've ever set up Netdata, you know that feeling — hundreds of real-time charts, per-second granularity, metrics you didn't even know your kernel exposed. It's a wonderful piece of software, genuinely one of the best open-source monitoring tools out there. But here's the thing: I run a small fle
Building a Self-Operating SaaS: How AI Runs My Company While I Sleep Target [x] Medium (long-form, narrative) [ ] Substack (newsletter) What if your SaaS could operate itself? I'm building "Jibun Corp" — a Japanese life management platform that competes with 14 different SaaS products simultaneously
Building a finance dashboard from scratch is not as simple as it looks. At first, you think: “I just need a dashboard with charts and tables.” But very quickly, it becomes something much bigger. 💭 The Real Problem You actually need: 👉 And that’s where things get complex. ⚠️ What Most Templates Get
The acquisition will help Pine Labs offer an end-to-end platform for D2C merchants, spanning in-store payments, online checkout and conversion optimisation, growth tools, and consumer engagement and retention capabilities.
