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Docufy @docufy·Docufi 4h

Convert any document into structured JSON in minutes. Define the JSON you need, upload a document, and Docufy extracts the data for you. Save that JSON to your database or any data source effortlessly.

I Built an AI Document Scanning SaaS. 7 Users. $5.02 Burned. Almost No Revenue.

I've been building a product called Docufy.

The idea sounded simple:

I thought the hard part would be OCR.
I was wrong.

Today I opened my admin dashboard.

Total users: 7

Total API calls: 46

AI cost: $5.02

Revenue: $0

Profit: -$5.02

The painful part is realizing that building the product was easier than finding people who actually need it.

As developers we often believe:

They don't.

People don't wake up looking for AI document extraction /scanning software.
They wake up trying to solve a business problem.

I'm slowly learning that distribution matters more than code.

Right now I'm not giving up.

If you've built a SaaS before:

what I want to do?

Would genuinely love to hear your story. #docufy