Igor Aleksic

Why I priced JD Intelligence at $29/mo (and not $99 or $9)

The honest breakdown:

Affinda (the main alternative) is ~$800/mo with a sales call. Enterprise only.

I could've gone $9 to grab volume, but that signals a toy. Job board operators have real budgets — they spend more than that on hosting.

$99 felt like I was guessing at value I hadn't proven yet.

$29 is:

• Instant "worth trying" for any developer

• Low enough for solo builders and indie job boards

• High enough to take seriously

• 500 parses/mo — plenty to validate before scaling

7-day free trial, no sales call, instant API key.

Will I raise it? Yes, once I have 10 paying customers and understand who's getting the most value.

Pro tip for developers building with AI:

When your LLM hits a fallback case, have it document exactly how it would handle that fallback scenario. Then implement what it suggests.

This turns every fallback into a permanent improvement (and saves tokens long-term).

Example: LLM fails to parse a weird phone number format → fallback triggers → gets captured in the project's Fallback folder → it suggests regex + validation + logging → gets fixed.

Bonus: Create a dedicated "Fallback" folder with Markdown files (LLMs love MD). Have the LLM write professionally named documentation and update the status prefix as you resolve things (FIXED, ROADMAP, etc.).

Here’s how I structured the Fallback folder in one of my projects:

Attention app builders!

All apps made with Gemini are starting to look the same. It's not a major issue, BUT if we want to build something with our own identity, we should try applying different color palettes or using another AI specifically for front-end and design. (Any suggestions are welcome!)

Let's keep building great stuff!

The home page of my project works but it's still very SaaS standard. Does anyone have good examples of cool or at least more engaging SaaS websites? Be interested to learn or take some good learnings from them.

Keen to try Framer as well. I've built a bunch of websites on Squarespace and Carrd so interested to try another platform.

Hey,

I’m starting a new SaaS project with two developers, and I wanted to share it here early instead of waiting until everything looks polished.

We’re building an AI lead research assistant for small B2B teams, agencies, consultants, and founders.

The product is not finished yet.

Right now, we are in the early validation/build phase. The plan is to build in public and share:

what we’re building each week

what we’re learning from potential users

what assumptions turn out to be wrong

how we think about pricing

what actually helps people enough to pay monthly

mistakes and pivots along the way

The first version will likely include:

ideal customer profile setup

company discovery

fit scoring

reasoning for why a company matches

lead prioritization

eventually some kind of workflow for reviewing and improving lead quality

We’re thinking about starting with simple free monthly beta plans instead of one-time payments, something like:

Starter Beta for solo founders / consultants

Growth Beta for small B2B teams

Agency Beta for agencies managing multiple client profiles

The goal is not to pretend this is a finished SaaS.

The goal is to find out whether small B2B teams would actually pay monthly for better lead research and prioritization before we overbuild.

I’d love honest feedback from other SaaS builders:

Does this positioning make sense, or is it still too generic?

Would you focus on one niche first, like agencies or SaaS founders?

Would you show pricing before the product is live?

What would you need to see before joining a beta for a product like this?

Any obvious traps in this market we should avoid?

I’ll keep sharing updates as we build.

No polished launch post yet — just the beginning.