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Day 13 of testing 10 SaaS ideas with ₹0: still zero signups

Loopkit Labs — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:33:05 +0000

Quick honest update.

We put up 10 waitlist pages (5 B2B, 5 for women's health/routines) with prices shown, no code written. After ~2 weeks of free channels: 0 signups.

Pinterest: 13+ pins, ~169 impressions in a week, 0 outbound clicks (as of last check).
Quora: 12+ answers, ~47 views, 0 engagement.

Lesson so far: new accounts on free channels get almost no reach, and a waitlist form isn't enough to earn trust.

Next: final tally on Oct 22, then pick one idea or drop them all.

Disclosure: this is Loopkit Labs' own experiment.

Day 6 of testing 10 SaaS ideas with $0: still zero signups

Loopkit Labs — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:32:13 +0000

Honest update. 10 waitlist pages, each showing the real launch price. Since Oct 7: 0 signups. Pinterest got about 170 impressions in a week and 0 clicks. 12 Quora answers got about 47 views. One directory rejected us because a form link isn't a real product URL.

Lesson so far: getting seen is the hard part, and "free" channels are slow for a brand-new account with no audience. Next: keep posting useful content daily until Oct 22, then decide.

If you've validated an idea from zero, what was your first channel that actually worked?

Day 2 of validating 10 SaaS ideas with ₹0: 0 signups, what we changed

Loopkit Labs — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:23:39 +0000

Yesterday we put up 10 landing pages, each with a price and a 'would you pay?' question. Result so far: 0 signups.

That's not a verdict, it's a traffic problem. Nobody has seen the pages yet.

What we changed:

Stopped posting the same link everywhere. Communities hate that.
Started answering real questions on Quora and Pinterest with useful tips first, link last, with a clear disclosure.
Queued free launches on TinyLaunch and Launching Next.

Rule we're keeping: build only the idea that gets 5+ people saying they'd pay.

If you're a freelancer who chases late invoices, which tool would you actually pay for? Our pages are linked in the first post: https://dev.to/loopkitlabs/were-testing-10-saas-ideas-with-0-before-writing-any-code-3900

We'll post the numbers again in a few days.

We're testing 10 SaaS ideas with ₹0 before writing any code

Loopkit Labs — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:48:01 +0000

We're Loopkit Labs, a one-person lab. Before writing any code, we put up 10 one-page pitches, each with a real price and a signup form. Whichever gets real "yes, I'd pay" answers gets built. The rest get dropped.

Our rules: spend nothing until someone wants to pay, show the price up front, no free trial, and only post where a community's rules allow it.

All 10 ideas with links: https://redd.it/1wzqga1

If one is your problem, tell us what you use today and what annoys you about it.