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SaaS founder's 14-day sales test ends with zero purchases

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer relaunched UIPrompt as a buy-once product after a failed subscription model, setting a goal of 3 sales in 14 days. The relaunch got zero purchases and zero new organic signups. The founder concludes that demand, not pricing, was the core issue and moves the product to maintenance mode.

Meridian48 take
This post is a candid post-mortem that underscores the importance of validating demand before building, and the value of pre-committing to kill criteria.
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I gave my SaaS 14 days to get 3 sales. It got 0. Here's the math. →
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