I Tried to Solve a Problem My Users Didn’t Have — Reddit Fixed My SaaS

I’m building TryThemOn, a small SaaS around fashion images.

The initial idea was simple (and very logical… or so I thought):

“Help people imagine how clothes would fit on them.”

Virtual try-on. Models. Projection. The usual.

The product worked. The tech worked.

The traction didn’t.

So I did the uncomfortable thing: I stopped tweaking the landing page and went where users actually talk.

Reddit.

The Reddit thread that slapped me in the face

I posted and interacted in a few threads around buying clothes online, especially on Vinted and second‑hand platforms.

At some point, I asked a very naive question:

“Am I the only one who gets bored of clothes photographed lying on a bed or a table?”

I expected people to agree.

They didn’t.

Instead, I got answers like:

“Flat-lay lets me understand the garment without the noise of a model’s body.”

“I can instantly tell if a pair of jeans will work: rise, waist, leg shape, hem width.”

“Models introduce a variable that is visually dominant — and very different from my body.”

And then this hit me:

They don’t want to imagine themselves in the clothes. They want to understand the garment itself.

The uncomfortable realization

I wasn’t solving their problem.

I was solving mine.

As a guy, my mental model was:

• Put clothes on a body

• Project yourself

• Decide

But many women think differently:

• Remove the body

• Read the garment

• Decide

Same goal. Opposite path.

I had built noise… where they wanted signal.

The real positioning (thanks Reddit)

The real angle of the product isn’t:

“Imagine how it fits on you.”

It’s:

“Understand the garment without the noise.”

That sentence wasn’t written by a marketer.

It was written by users. In comments. For free.

The product pivot

Instead of fighting this insight, I leaned into it.

TryThemOn is now evolving toward two complementary modes:

1️⃣ Virtual Try‑On

For people who want projection.

2️⃣ Without Mannequin

Take a photo of a garment worn on a model and extract the clothing into a clean flat‑lay style view.

No body. No pose. No bias.

Just the cut.

Same image. Two mental models.

What I learned

• Users don’t describe problems the way founders imagine them

• “More realistic” is not always “more useful”

• Sometimes the value is not adding information, but removing variables

And most importantly:

If your product isn’t clicking, stop polishing. Start listening — somewhere uncomfortable.

What’s next

I’m rebuilding the messaging, the onboarding, and part of the product around this insight.

All because I asked a bad question on Reddit.

Worth it.