
12 days after launching my SaaS. No customers. Here's what I got wrong.
I have some basic understanding of code structure — learned BASIC as a kid, touched HTML and PHP years ago — but I'm not a developer in any practical sense. I built Pulso Bot — AI support bots for Telegram businesses — by writing specs and letting Claude Code do the actual coding. Took about two weeks of real work to get something live. Then I spent the next 12 days doing "distribution." That's the part nobody warns you about properly. The listing grind I submitted everywhere. Product Hunt, AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, Indie Hackers, TopTelegramBots, FutureTools — probably 15 sites total. Some approved in a day, some took a week, some are still pending. AlternativeTo took 7 days to approve. No traffic came from it yet. Product Hunt launched March 24. A few upvotes from people I don't know. Zero signups. I'm not complaining — I had no existing audience, no hunter with followers, nothing. The result makes sense in retrospect. The dev.to article got maybe 30 views. This one included. What I go
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