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SaaS Founders Build Features Before Validating Demand

A recurring pattern among SaaS builders is spending months on product polish before establishing any distribution or customer feedback loop. The cost is wasted development cycles on features nobody wanted. Community wisdom thread — not a discrete buildable problem.

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