I launched my first SaaS today statusembed .app here's the honest breakdown

I'm a CS student. I built StatusEmbed in 3 weeks.
It's live today.

The product:
Embeddable status pages for indie founders.
No separate subdomain. Auto incident notifications.
Free plan available.

What I got right:
→ Talked to an IT ops veteran on Reddit before
finalizing the product — he reshaped everything
→ Kept pricing brutally simple:
free forever / $15 / $49
→ "Powered by StatusEmbed" on every embed =
organic acquisition built into the product

What I got wrong:
→ Built 2 weeks without talking to anyone
→ Almost shipped a fake-urgency trial system
nobody asked for
→ Thought the technical problems were the hard part

The real hard part: distribution.
I still don't know if people will pay for this.

MRR today: $0
Goal in 30 days: 1 paying customer

If you've ever handled an outage with a pinned tweet,
I built this for you → statusembed .app

What's the one thing that surprised you most
about your first launch?