Solo Founders Struggle to Differentiate in Saturated SaaS Categories
An aspiring solo SaaS founder describes cycling through idea-validation frameworks (subreddit complaint mining, G2 review analysis) but repeatedly getting distracted and abandoning half-built projects before settling on a saturated category (social media scheduling) already dominated by well-funded incumbents like Buffer and Metricool. This surfaces a broader challenge: solo builders lack a reliable way to pick and validate a niche where they can realistically compete.
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