SaaS Distribution and Customer Acquisition Remain Hard Despite Easy Building
AI tools have made building a functional SaaS product fast and cheap, but converting strangers into paying customers is as difficult as ever. Founders can ship in hours but still struggle with the fundamental challenge of earning trust and driving self-serve signups without a sales-heavy process. The bottleneck has fully shifted from technical execution to acquisition and conversion.
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