From drug addiction to shipping a SaaS product in 20 months — no coding background, just Claude and stubbornness

I'm Joey. I spent 20 years in civil construction working my way up to operations manager. Then addiction took over ruined everything i hade external and internal.
I left everything to focus on getting clean through AA and CA.

20 months sober. No job. No income beyond Universal Credit. A 4 year old daughter back in my life. And an abundance of time.

So I started learning. i Love AI im a bit of a sci-fi geek so i played around with LLms Not coding exactly, I can't write code from scratch. But I learned how to build with AI. Claude Code, GitHub, Vercel. Prompt by prompt, error by error frustration anger hallucination nearly throwing my laptop calling Claude all the names under the sun for leading me down garden paths around houses into cul de sac's serioulsy this has been an emotional roller coaster BUT ive remained clean and sober through it all as an addict i use on my emotions

Three weeks ago I had an idea. Small businesses waste thousands every year on duplicate software subscriptions they've forgotten about. I've had small businesses my self and the subscriptions as an addict well as a normal person are hard to keep track of i think i was paying about 250 - 300 a month on mine. so i did some market research i noticed that all the saas auditors were going after enterprises, Nobody was looking out for the underdog the little guys. nobody has built a simple, no-friction tool for the 1-20 employee market. So I built one.

Here's what I built:

SaaSAuditorPro.com — finds duplicate software subscriptions for small businesses. No bank connection required. Drop in a bank statement CSV or type your tools. It cross-references against a database of 335+ business tools, finds every overlap, and shows your exact annual saving in 30 seconds. One-time £29.

Here's what I discovered building it:

Most small business owners don't know what they pay for software. Their accountants focus on tax and compliance not savings. And nobody wants to connect their bank or sign up for yet another subscription. SaaS fatigue is real. That's the friction nobody talks about

Where I am now:

- Live product deployed on Vercel

- Google indexed the site this week

- ChatGPT is already recommending it in search results

- Zero marketing budget

- Zero paying customers yet

I'm building this to fund my real passion — Constructive Mind, an AI mental health companion specifically for construction workers. Construction has one of the highest suicide rates of any industry. I've lived that world and I've lived addiction Ive lived suicide thoughts and lost people to suicide in recovery . That's the product I actually want to build.

But first I need SaaSAuditorPro to work.

If you've solved the onboarding friction problem — getting users who don't know their own software stack to run an audit — I'd genuinely love to know how.

And if you know anyone wasting money on duplicate software tools, send them to saasauditorpro.com.