47 SaaS founders reached $10K MRR — and only 3 of them followed what the “gurus” teach.

I came across a Reddit post today that hit me hard.
It was about how 47 SaaS founders reached $10K MRR and only 3 of them followed what the “gurus” teach.

That post made me think deeply about how most of us build products.
So here’s what I learned and what I’m now doing differently:

What everyone says to do:
→ build an audience first
→ perfect your funnel
→ post content every day
→ raise funds to grow faster

But what actually worked for most of those founders:
→ they sold before building anything
→ they had real conversations, not just landing pages
→ they got people to pay upfront — then built exactly what was needed

One founder even got 8 prepayments at $500 before writing a single line of code.
Another ran everything manually for 3 months before building the product.

That’s when it clicked for me, validation isn’t about asking.
It’s about creating demand and seeing who’s ready to pay now.

If you’re stuck waiting for “the right time,”
start with one conversation that makes you uncomfortable.
That’s where the real validation starts.