A solo SaaS build has no paying users after over a year
A spent more than 12 months, with breaks, creating for a very narrow healthcare market. They started without coding experience and without real knowledge of the healthcare field.
Instead of checking first whether customers would pay, they tried to judge demand while building the product. Conversations with people and answers from ChatGPT made continuing seem reasonable at the time.
The product now exists, but it still has zero paying users. The main issue is that too much time went into building before payment demand was proven.
Key points
- The product targets a narrow healthcare market.
- The builder had no coding and no healthcare knowledge at the start.
- Customer demand was checked during the build, not before it.
- from people and ChatGPT made the project feel worth continuing.
- After more than a year, there are still no paying users.