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r/SaaS · 2026-09-24

A SaaS product that was free with limited features and was put behind a paywall,…

▲ $1.4K/moRevenueCredibleCredibility 65/100

A SaaS product that was free with limited features and was put behind a paywall, generating $900+ in revenue in the first 20 days using organic traffic from the founder's audience.

Market. SaaS

How it makes money. Paywall (paid customers), likely subscription or one-time payments (not specified)

Claimed. $900+ in first 20 days

Why we believe it · 21 comments read

Poster reports concrete short-term revenue ($900+ in 20 days), describes a long-standing audience (200K followers, 5M monthly views), and commenters treat it as a believable creator-built SaaS milestone rather than calling it fake or clearly promotional.

“5 million in views and 900$ in revenue is straight garbage dude, you should be doing hundreds of thousands, what niche is this” ▲ 80
“Another slop directory” ▲ 60
“directories without traffic is just waste. codehype gets 2k avg users per day and this is just first month of launch. already surpassed all directories in terms of traffic except product hunt” ▲ 50

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