A real estate investor in Hawaii just shipped their first SaaS product. It analyzes deals in under 60 seconds, turning what used to take hours (or days) of spreadsheet work into instant go/no-go decisions. The tool exists because the founder got tired of spending weeks on due diligence for deals that never worked out. What makes this interesting isn’t the AI or the speed. It’s the approach: build for a hyperspecific market (Hawaii real estate),… Building a Vertical SaaS in a Niche Market: What a Hawaii Real Estate Tool Teaches Us

The bot problem isn’t just about bots. It’s about collateral damage. Every SaaS founder obsesses over fake signups polluting their metrics, wasting credits, and skewing analytics. But here’s what actually kills companies: overly aggressive bot protection that blocks real users. Think about it. You reject someone’s work email because it “looks suspicious”? That’s a lost customer. You flag a VPN user as a “datacenter IP”? That’s a frustrated paying user who’ll churn. You force phone… How to Protect Your SaaS Signups from Bots (Without Killing Real Users)