Launched a SaaS one year ago that have zero traction. Haven’t touched it in 6 months. Now it gets ~600 users/month.

I launched my first SaaS product in Feb 2025 (almost to the day). It is just a simple online PDF tool site. Compress PDF, merge PDF, that kind of thing. I kept it simple and boring just to understand and learn the process.

Part of the process was learning sales. I had zero idea how to market or grow. So I spent money on ads, tried social media marketing, etc. And nothing really worked. I didn't have a single sale.

For the first 8 months, I had around 1,500 users come and go, with no sales. Link for proof. This was spending so many hours each month working to get users with no sales. I basically burned out and gave up on the site and pivoted to a new tool.

The new tool automatically created blog posts targeting keywords to grow SEO/GEO presence. I figured why not, and set it up for my PDF site. All I did was target keywords I figured people might search for around PDFs. The system publishes 3 posts per day.

That setup was the last time I touched it. No promotion, not new features, nothing.

Since that setup in Oct 2025, my site averages around 600 users per month - link to proof

The best part of it, I've made three sales. I know it isn't groundbreaking, but it covers the cost of the site and is very cool to see still new to building and shipping. It is very ironic that when I stopped working day and night for users is when I got actual paying users lol.

Happy to answer any questions, but figured a post like this might help some of you that are stuck with no customers. One year later after essentially abandoning it and I have actual paying users. Just insane.