3 Websites You Need to Know If You Want to Do SaaS

Building a SaaS company today is less about coding in isolation and more about navigating a dense ecosystem of tools, data, and community insight. Success hinges not just on product-market fit, but on pattern recognition — knowing what’s worked, what’s scaling, and where the landmines lie. Three websites, quietly indispensable to founders who move fast and learn faster, have emerged as the unofficial command centers for modern SaaS builders. None are flashy. None run ads. All are ruthlessly practical.

SaaS Pages (saaspages.com) The museum of what actually converts SaaS Pages is a curated archive of live, high-performing SaaS landing pages — no mockups, no dribbble fantasies. Every entry is a real product, often with traffic or revenue data attached. You can filter by category (developer tools, HR tech, no-code), pricing model (freemium, PLG, sales-led), or even headline structure. Why it matters: Most founders write copy based on instinct or competitor mimicry. SaaS Pages lets you reverse-engineer proven messaging. See how Linear positions itself against Jira (“Meet the new standard for software teams”). Watch how Retool layers technical credibility with business outcomes (“Build internal tools, 10x faster”). Study how newer entrants like Vercel or Supabase use open-source adoption as a top-of-funnel engine — then convert contributors into paying users. The real value isn’t in copying. It’s in noticing patterns: — How enterprise tools lead with ROI calculators — How PLG products bury pricing behind a “See Plans” button — How category creators invent new verbs (“Notionize,” “Loom it”) This is marketing as anthropology — learning the language of your buyers by watching what already moved them.

2. SaaS Hub (saashub.com) The unbiased buyer’s guide — and your stealth competitor intel SaaS Hub is a comparison engine where users rate and review software across 20+ dimensions: ease of setup, API quality, support responsiveness, integration depth. Unlike G2 or Capterra — where vendors influence visibility through paid placements — SaaS Hub’s ranking is purely usage- and review-driven. Why it matters: For founders, it’s a window into post-purchase reality. You’ll see exactly where competitors lose customers: “Great UI, but exports break on large datasets.” “Sales promised X, product delivers Y.” “Support vanished after onboarding.” These aren’t feature gaps — they’re churn signals. Smart teams mine SaaS Hub for: — Pricing sensitivity: What plans do users actually upgrade from? — Integration friction: Which connectors get the most complaints? — Onboarding cliffs: Where do users drop off? (Look for reviews like “Wish there was a guided tour for admins”) Most powerfully, SaaS Hub reveals category adjacencies. A founder building a CRM might discover that users of Close.io frequently also use Clay.com — not for enrichment, but for personalized outbound. That’s not a feature request. It’s a partnership opportunity.

3. Lenny’s Newsletter Archive (lennysnewsletter.com/archive) The institutional memory of modern SaaS Lenny Rachitsky’s newsletter isn’t just popular — it’s become the de facto playbook for product-led growth. But the real goldmine isn’t the latest issue. It’s the searchable archive: over 200 deep-dive interviews and essays with operators who’ve been in the trenches — on pricing, retention, hiring, scaling engineering, and navigating downturns. Why it matters: SaaS moves fast. Tactics decay. What worked in 2021 (growth hacking via TikTok) may be saturated in 2025. Lenny’s archive preserves context. You can read how Figma’s Dylan Field thought about freemium before the Adobe acquisition. How Notion’s COO structured early sales before enterprise deals. How Deel navigated compliance before global payroll became table stakes. Key evergreen reads: — How to price your SaaS (with real examples from 10+ companies) — The SaaS retention playbook (why cohort decay curves matter more than NPS) — When to hire your first sales rep (hint: it’s later than you think) This isn’t theory. It’s battle-tested doctrine — written by people who shipped, failed, iterated, and won.

None of these sites will build your product for you. But together, they shorten the learning curve — turning years of trial and error into months of informed action. Because in SaaS, speed isn’t just an advantage. It’s survival.

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