Building vertical SaaS fast is easy; customer acquisition is not
An indie hacker built a SaaS product for personal trainers in under a week but discovered that distribution and customer acquisition is the hard and slow part. The post highlights a recurring founder pattern where time-to-build shrinks with AI tools but time-to-revenue does not.
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