My #BuildInPublic Journey: Building 3 AI SaaS Tools from $0 Revenue 👇

Video Flow AI isn’t about flashy ads. It’s about helping small businesses speak up. When tech amplifies real voices, it becomes powerful.

Lessons from building Presentation Palette 🧵 Don’t design for designers. Design for their workflow. The best features are invisible. A good tool should feel like a teammate, not software.

Every time I simplify Palette’s UI and add features, usage goes up. then goes down again. Most design problems are just communication problems.

lessons from building StageLensAI solo 🧵 Focus on one market → Indian real estate. Build in public → feedback comes faster than validation. Don’t chase new features, chase smoother experiences. The best marketing is real screenshots. Calm growth > viral spikes. Keep it

Good AI tools don’t feel like “AI.” They feel like a shortcut that makes sense. If users notice the AI, the design failed.

When I started StageLensAI, I thought tech would be the hardest part. Turns out, it’s patience. You can’t rush trust from users, or from yourself. What’s something you learned only after slowing down?

Building 3 AI tools simultaneously taught me this: Your first 100 users will teach you more than 1000 hours of market research. Ship fast → Listen deeply → Iterate quickly Currently: ₹4K combined MRR, 20+ active users across all tools. The journey is messy, but

The best marketing videos don't look like marketing videos. They look like real people sharing genuine experiences. Video Flow AI creates exactly that - authentic, social-media-native content that converts. No fancy studios. No expensive equipment. Just results. What's your

Small business owner dilemma: Need 10 video ads but can only afford 1 freelancer. Video Flow AI solves this. Generate UGC-style testimonials and product demos in minutes, not weeks. Currently at ₹2400 MRR. Early, but the problem is HUGE. What marketing bottlenecks are

Upload floor plan...Select style...Watch magic happen. This is Presentation Palette turning a simple floor plan into a client-ready presentation. Notice how it interprets spatial relationships, suggests furniture layouts, even generates mood boards that match the architecture.

Interior designers spend 6-8 hours creating client presentations. Presentation Palette does it in 1 minutes. But here's the thing it's not about speed. It's about giving designers their creative time back. Instead of formatting slides, they're now designing spaces. What

Watch this empty Mumbai apartment transform in 30 seconds This is what happens when AI understands Indian aesthetics. Not just furniture placement cultural context. Notice the brass accents, the handwoven textiles, the way natural light complements traditional patterns. Real

Building 3 AI tools in public = brutal honesty about the numbers: Total MRR: not satisfied Total costs: double to revenue Sleep hours: ~5/night User feedback responses: 247 this month Cups of chai consumed: Infinite ☕ The metrics that matter most? Not the revenue yet it's

Video Flow AI harsh truth: ₹2,400 MRR from 2 customers. Each customer generates-25 video ads per month. That's ₹5 per video. One freelance video costs ₹5,000+. The value is obvious. The pricing psychology isn't. Small businesses think in project costs, not subscription

This month's Presentation Palette reality check: ✅ 15 interior designers signed up ❌ Only 8 completed the onboarding 🤔 6 are actively using it weekly The "aha moment" happens when they see their floor plan become a mood board in 30 seconds. How do I get more users to that

Presentation Palette numbers that surprised me: 47% of interior designers spend 3+ hours creating client presentations Only 12% actually enjoy the process But 89% say presentations are crucial for closing deals We're solving a problem people hate but can't avoid. Perfect.

Real talk: StageLensAI hit ₹2,000 MRR this month 📊 But that comes offline money.😉 3 customers churned (ouch), but 2 new signups came from word of mouth referrals. The Indian interior design training data is finally paying off users are saying our staging looks

60% of my StageLensAI users are in Delhi/Mumbai, but 80% of my feature requests come from Tier-2 cities. Small town real estate agents want staging for ₹500/month. Metro agents pay ₹2000/month without blinking. Should I build two products or find the middle ground?

Small business owners spending ₹25,000+ per UGC video? That's insane. ViralVid AI generates 10 social-media-native testimonial videos for ₹2,500. Same quality. Same conversion power. 90% less cost. Just launched this week. Early users getting 300% better ad performance.

Confession: I built Presentation Palette because I was terrible at client presentations as a designer. My floor plans looked like engineering drawings. Clients couldn't visualize the magic. Lost 3 big projects in 2023 because of bad presentations. Now? Our AI helps designers