Ferenc Fekete

Helping non-tech Founders transform Ideas into SaaS products @ VeryCreatives | Product Agency, SaaS & MVP Development | Startups

I've watched many startup founders fail at the same exact point: turning their validated idea into actual software.

They waste months (or even years):
→ Trying to hire the right developers
→ Burning cash on poor planning and execution
→ Second-guessing every technical decision along the way

Meanwhile, competitors move faster, investors demand traction, and the pressure to deliver keeps building more and more.

After watching this pattern destroy countless promising startups, we built VeryCreatives to fix it.

But here's what makes us different:

We don't just build your MVP and disappear. We're product people who think like founders, not just developers who code to spec.

👉 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵: We start by pressure-testing your assumptions before writing a single line of code. If the market doesn't want it, we'll tell you straight.

👉 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗲: We build like it's our own startup, obsessing over user experience, scalability, and investor readiness from the first sprint.

👉 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱: Whether you're at napkin sketch or Series B, we've been there. We've helped founders go from zero to acquisition, and we stick around for the entire journey.

For the past 14 years, we've built products for venture-backed startups, fast-growing scale-ups, and globally recognized brands like Red Bull, Nestlé, and Philips.

The startups we work with have:
✅ Launched investor-ready MVPs in under 90 days
✅ Secured funding from top-tier investors and VCs
✅ Scaled from first users to thousands of paying customers
✅ Successfully exited to strategic acquirers

Got a SaaS idea that's been sitting in your head for months? 
Let's map out your 90-day path to launch → https://verycreatives.com/book-a-call

Co-Founder

At VeryCreatives, we are a team of expert developers who create powerful SaaS apps that solve problems and drive growth for founders with initial funding. We believe in empowering our clients with innovative software that helps them achieve their goals and stand out in their industry.

Our audience consists of driven and ambitious founders who have just received initial funding for their startup. They are looking for a software development partner who understands their vision, can help bring their ideas to life, and deliver results that will help them achieve their business goals.

Founders with initial funding have a pressing need to build their product quickly and efficiently to maximize their chances of success. At VeryCreatives, we understand this need and are dedicated to creating high-quality SaaS apps that not only meet their requirements but also exceed their expectations. We are committed to delivering value and results that help our clients succeed.

VeryCreatives stands out in the market for our ability to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions that meet the needs of our clients. Our unique approach to software development, coupled with our expertise and commitment to excellence, is what drives us to provide outstanding results to our clients.

Industries our clients operate in, using the SaaS products we've built: 
- Digital marketing, Event marketing & Influencer marketing SaaS
- Foodtech & Delivery 
- Fintech, Banking & Investments
- 2-sided marketplace platforms
- Agriculture & Livestock management
- Packaging compliance & Waste

Markets we cover: UAE, EU, UK, US.

Your product isn't the problem. Your budget split is.

I've built countless SaaS products and apps over the past decade for some of the biggest brands in the world. Here's the biggest mistake I see first-time SaaS founders make that kills their product:

They map out their entire product budget... and allocate 100% of it to development.

They're planning to build the full product, launch it, then HOPE customers show up.

But the problem is, a good product is only 50% of the equation. The other half is getting it in front of the right people (which costs a lot of money too).

Especially in B2B, you'll need to spend some cash to speed up your learning curve and learn:

👉 Which channels work
👉 What messages resonate
👉 What makes your ideal customers actually convert

Some founders ignore this until it's too late. And by that time, they've burned through their development budget and launched something that MIGHT be great without anyone actually knowing it exists.

That's why whenever we work with clients, we often help them adjust the product scope before building anything out. Because we want to free up budget for marketing, user acquisition, and proper positioning so they can actually get customers and scale the business.

You could have the best product in the world. But if nobody knows it exists, it won't mean a thing.

Before you finalize your budget, ask yourself:

What's my plan to get 100 people to see this?

Helping startup founders & innovation labs validate and scale ideas into exit-ready products @ VeryCreatives | 🔥 Two decades in tech

You created your own bad developers.

I have seen this pattern too many times.

Founder says:

"My devs are slow"
"They do not get it"

Then we look closer.

And see a decision vacuum the team is trying to survive.

There are three calls only you can make as the founder.

If you dodge them, even a strong team will look useless:


👉 Decision 1: Who is our primary user right now?

One founder I worked with tried to serve agencies and tiny solo founders at the same time.

Sales promised custom features to big accounts, product built self serve onboarding for tiny ones, devs got whiplash.

Nine months of work, nobody truly happy.


👉 Decision 2: What is the next business outcome we are willing to bet on?

MRR from a segment, activation rate, expansion from existing customers.

If this is not written down, every feature feels urgent.

You ship a lot of stuff and still cannot answer why revenue or usage is flat.


👉 Decision 3: What constraints are non negotiable?

Time, budget, compliance, integrations.

If these move every week, scope will quietly double and your v1 will arrive six months late.


Which of these three have you been dodging?

Most failed software projects don't fail at the finish line.

They fail in week 2, when the team realizes the core feature can't actually be built.

That's why one of the smartest things you can do as a SaaS founder, before writing a single line of code, is build a proof of concept.

Not a full product or MVP. Just enough to answer one question: "Can we actually build this thing?"

We've gone through this exact process hundreds of times for both our clients and our own internal tools.

Here's how it works:

👉 Proof of Concept (PoC): Does this work technically?

This is where you test your riskiest assumption. Can it even be built the way you imagine? It's not going to be pretty, and it's not public-facing. But it's real.

Skip this, and you're three months into development before realizing your AI feature needs data you can't legally access.

👉 Prototype: What will it look and feel like?

Map the user flow, add just enough UI to walk someone through it, and start shaping the product experience.

Skip this, and your dev team builds something technically correct that no user can figure out how to use.

👉 MVP: Will people actually use and pay for it?

Now you're testing the market. You've built something lean and functional to prove there's demand and that your positioning makes sense.

Skip this, and you spend 18 months perfecting a product nobody asked for.

A good proof of concept helps you spot technical roadblocks early and gives stakeholders the confidence that your idea is real.

It's faster (and cheaper) to find the cracks now than to rebuild everything later.

What's the riskiest technical assumption you've had to validate before building?

Your first 10 customers are friends.

Your next 100 are stress tests.

Most MVPs crack right there.

And it's rarely the thing you're watching for.

Not because of one big bug.

Because of 4 invisible gaps almost every founder forgets:


1. Role and permission basics

A single login is fine at the very start.

Then a bigger account asks "Can my team have different access levels?"

If the answer is no, that deal quietly dies.

👉 By month 6, if you don't have this, you'll start losing deals you never knew you lost.


2. Bulk actions for power users

Clicking one by one feels fine with 10 records.

At 1,000, people hate your product.

They will export to Excel and never come back.

👉 By month 6, if you don't have bulk edit or export, your power users are already halfway out the door.


3. Password reset that does not melt support

In the early days, you just "help people manually."

At 150 accounts, your inbox turns into "I cannot log in" hell.

👉 By month 3, if you don't have a clean self-service reset flow, your support load will bury your roadmap.


4. An internal admin tool

If every tiny change needs a developer, your roadmap will stall.

You cannot build new features and play support at the same time.

👉 By month 9, if you don't have a simple internal panel, your engineers are stuck doing data cleanup instead of shipping.


Audit your stack against this list. What's missing?

I Spent 6 Months Building a Product Nobody Wanted. Then Buffer Launched for $5.

Around 2010, we worked at a media agency.

We saw the chaos every day: social media posts bouncing between marketing, legal, and clients. Approvals lost in email threads. Deadlines missed.

So we decided to build the solution ourselves.

We went all in:

• Multi-tenant account management
• Multi-platform posting (Facebook, Twitter)
• Custom approval workflows
• Notifications, previews, media library
• Analytics dashboard
• Unified posting interface

Six months of nights and weekends. Thousands of lines of code.

We never talked to a single customer.

We thought we knew exactly what agencies needed. We worked in one. We lived the problem.

That was the trap.

While we were perfecting our approval flow logic, Buffer launched with a single post scheduler and a $5 beta signup.

They validated demand before building anything else.

We validated nothing. We just built.

Here's what I learned the hard way:

👉 Working in an industry doesn't mean you understand the market

Your experience is one data point. Not a business case.

👉 Features don't prove demand

Nobody cares about your feature list if they never asked for it.

👉 Skipping customer development is not a shortcut

It's the longest, most expensive path to failure.

The product died quietly. No dramatic crash. Just silence.

If you're building something right now, ask yourself:

Have I talked to 10 people who would pay for this?

If the answer is no, close your IDE and pick up the phone.

Life Transition Coach | Author | Speaker

With a career spanning almost three decades in the banking sector, my journey has been about more than finance—it's been about PEOPLE. 

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝:
I never set out to become a motivational speaker or publish books that would touch lives around the world. But over time, life transitions—some welcome, others painful—showed me the power of storytelling, resilience, and human connection.

What began as a personal need to process change became a calling to help others do the same. I started writing to make sense of life’s challenges and soon discovered that my words resonated with others going through their own transformations.

That’s how my journey as an author began, not with a plan, but with a purpose. Today, I speak to audiences with one goal: to remind people of their inner strength and help them find clarity, courage, and meaning in the middle of uncertainty. 

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐦𝐞:
Because I don’t just talk about change—I’ve lived it.

My books and talks are rooted in real-life transitions, deep reflection, and a sincere desire to uplift others who feel lost, stuck, or uncertain. I speak from experience, not theory.

I know what it’s like to rebuild, to question everything, and to search for meaning when the path forward seems unclear. That’s why people connect with my words—they’re honest, heartfelt, and practical.

If you’re looking for someone who can inspire transformation with warmth, clarity, and purpose, that’s where I come in..

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩:
I help people navigate life’s transitions with greater clarity, courage, and self-belief. Whether you’re facing a personal setback, a career shift, or a moment of doubt, my mission is to offer perspective and hope through words that resonate.

Through my books and speaking engagements, I share stories and insights that inspire action and emotional resilience. And every day on social media, I post short, thought-provoking messages to spark reflection, motivation, and a renewed sense of purpose.

If you’re looking for daily encouragement or a voice that reminds you of your inner strength, I’m here—one story, one post, one moment of inspiration at a time.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐞:
📩 Send me a DM here
📧 Visit my website: estebanpolidura.com
👍 Follow me on Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Facebook

Esteban Polidura

Anxiety used to follow me.
Here's how to soften it.


✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

Comparison is more dangerous than you think.
It can kill your soul.


✨ I help you believe in yourself.
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📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

Q: Why do I feel anxious all the time?
A: Your mind is doing its job.


✨ I help you believe in yourself.
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When anxiety hits, use this tool.
It works immediately.


When anxiety rises, your body acts like you’re in danger, even when you’re safe.

"Square breathing" is the fastest tool I use when anxiety hits. It works because it resets the nervous system.

👃🏻 You inhale slowly for four seconds.
🤐 You hold your breath for four seconds.
👄 You exhale slowly for four seconds.
😐 You hold again for four seconds.

That completes one square. You repeat this cycle four to six times.

By keeping all four phases equal, your breathing becomes steady and predictable. 

This sends a signal of safety to your body, slows your heart rate, relaxes muscle tension, and helps your mind settle. 

Sometimes you don’t need answers. You just need a calmer body.

Keep this tool close. It works.

✨ I help you believe in yourself.
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Can't stop comparing yourself to others?
Here's how to stop it.


❌ Most people think comparison means admiration.

But it usually appears in the areas where your self-belief is thin. That’s why it hurts more than it should. It exposes the places where you feel behind or uncertain.

✅ Next time comparison hits, ask yourself, “What part of my own life needs attention?” 

That way, comparison becomes a signal instead of a punishment. You stop judging yourself and start understanding yourself.

Remember, comparison isn’t about others. It’s about you.

🚨 Who are you comparing yourself to right now? What do you feel you are missing?
Focus on building that, and your self-confidence will start to come back.

✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

Q: How do I stop comparing myself to everyone? 
A: Pay attention to patterns.


✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

Stop measuring your life against others.
Here's how to focus on yourself.


When your own direction is unclear, other people’s lives feel louder.

Here’s a tool that helped me stop comparing myself to others. It works because it gives your mind direction.

It's called "The personal scoreboard" and works like this:

🏅 Define three personal metrics that truly matter to you and that are fully under your control, like effort, learning, or consistency. 

📝Review them every week and adjust your actions if needed. 

💯 After a few months, pause to notice how far you have come and take the time to celebrate that progress.

When you measure yourself against your own values instead of other people’s outcomes, comparison loses its grip, and self-confidence starts to come back.

💗 Focus on what you value and what you can control, not on someone else’s version of success.

And remember: most of what you see online is staged or exaggerated. Do not measure your life against curated images that hide the full story.

✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

One simple thing helped me lower my anxiety.
Let me share it with you.


Anxiety grows when you keep everything in your head. 🤯

Your thoughts speed up. A small worry becomes a whole story. Suddenly, your mind feels louder than your life.

Say this out loud: “I feel anxious.” 📢

Naming the feeling signals safety to your body. When your body stops guessing, your mind calms down.

Naming the feeling reduces its weight. 🫧

Try it now. What's your mind racing about?

✨ I help you believe in yourself.
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You're not alone with this.
Here's a quiet voice in the storm.


Check my books here: https://lnkd.in/edt7wtJW

✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

Something feels off...
...and you can’t explain it.


✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

When life changes...
...this is the guide you want.


Check my books here: https://lnkd.in/edt7wtJW

✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

I used to be my worst enemy.
My own toughest critic.


✨ I help you believe in yourself.
➡️ Find out how: www.estebanpolidura.com
📌 Follow me for daily inspiration.

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