Help us build the next chapter of SaaSHunt

Why we’re raising funds

We’re raising $5,000 to help SaaSHunt move from an early-stage platform into a stronger, more reliable home for SaaS founders, makers, and early adopters. SaaSHunt is being built around a simple idea: launching a SaaS product should be about more than submitting a link and hoping people notice it. We want founders to have one place where they can launch their products, build visibility, attract early users, climb community leaderboards, receive feedback, build an audience, and even raise funds directly from supporters through crowdfunding and perks. The foundation is already being built, but turning SaaSHunt into a platform founders can confidently use requires more than development alone. This funding will give us the resources and runway to improve the product, keep the infrastructure running, bring founders onto the platform, attract our first active community of users, and build the systems needed to support real crowdfunding campaigns. Our target is intentionally modest: $5,000. At this stage, we want to stay lean and put every dollar toward areas that directly improve the platform or help it grow. We plan to use the funds across the following areas: • Product development and improvements — approximately $1,500 We’ll continue improving the SaaSHunt experience, including product launches, crowdfunding, perks, founder dashboards, campaign management, leaderboards, notifications, user profiles, analytics, moderation tools, and other core platform features. • Hosting, infrastructure and third-party services — approximately $750 Running SaaSHunt requires reliable hosting, databases, file storage, transactional email, domains, monitoring, APIs, backups, security tools, and other infrastructure. This funding gives us several months of operating runway while the platform grows. • Marketing and user acquisition — approximately $1,250 A marketplace is only useful when people are using it. Part of the raise will be used to introduce SaaSHunt to founders and early adopters through content, communities, social media, launch campaigns, partnerships, newsletters, and carefully tested paid promotion. • Founder acquisition and launch support — approximately $500 We want the first group of founders on SaaSHunt to have strong launches. Funds will help us directly onboard promising SaaS products, support launch campaigns, create promotional material, and build relationships with founders who can help establish the platform. • Trust, safety and verification — approximately $500 Because SaaSHunt includes crowdfunding, trust is extremely important. We plan to invest in identity verification, fraud prevention, campaign review, moderation, payment safeguards, and other tools that make supporters more confident about backing founders on the platform. • Legal, business and operational costs — approximately $500 Part of the funding will help cover the less visible but essential parts of building a real business: company operations, compliance, policies, professional services, software subscriptions, and unexpected costs that arise while launching and operating the platform. This round is not about building a huge team or spending aggressively. It is about giving SaaSHunt enough runway to prove the model. Our immediate goals are to: • Build a reliable platform founders enjoy launching on. • Bring the first meaningful group of SaaS founders onto SaaSHunt. • Grow an active community of voters, supporters and early adopters. • Launch our weekly product leaderboard and newsletter. • Help founders successfully raise their first crowdfunding rounds on the platform. • Improve trust and safety around crowdfunding. • Test sustainable revenue streams including platform fees, premium launches, featured products and founder tools. • Use what we learn from early users to shape the next stage of SaaSHunt. We’re also building SaaSHunt itself on SaaSHunt because we believe we should use the same platform we’re asking other founders to trust. This campaign gives us an opportunity to prove that the crowdfunding system works with our own product first. If SaaSHunt can help fund the next stage of SaaSHunt, that becomes one of the strongest demonstrations of what the platform can eventually do for thousands of other founders. Every contribution helps extend our runway, improve the product and get us closer to building a platform where great SaaS products don’t just launch — they get discovered, supported and funded. Thank you for backing SaaSHunt at the beginning.