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

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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.

Founder @ Shaynly | AI Automation | Building Brands | SEO | AEO |

As the Founder of Shaynly, I leverage over five years of experience in AI-driven brand marketing strategies to deliver innovative solutions that empower businesses. By implementing advanced SEO practices, our team has achieved a 50% increase in brand visibility while optimizing marketing campaign efficiency by 30%.  

Shaynly specializes in aligning AI-powered technologies with tailored marketing strategies to drive impactful results for clients. We are dedicated to providing data-centric solutions that enhance market presence and help organizations achieve sustainable growth.

Sivanandan N.

The One Question That Tells the Whole Truth

We love numbers.
Metrics. KPIs. Dashboards. Postmortems.

But there’s a better measure I keep coming back to—
one that cuts through all the noise.

It’s just one word:

Again?

You can run detailed performance reviews…
Or you can ask:
👉 Knowing what we know now, would we hire this person again?

You can schedule endless retrospectives…
Or you can ask:
👉 Would we do this project again?

You can rationalize a decision that “made sense on paper”…
Or you can ask:
👉 Would I make that decision again?

I ask it everywhere:

Would I work with this team again?
Would I work at this company again?
Would I build this product again?
Would I take this path again?

And what’s powerful about “Again?” is this:

It doesn’t just measure outcomes.
It measures experience.

Something can look like a failure on paper
…and still be a yes.

Because it taught you something.
Because it opened doors.
Because it was worth it in ways numbers can’t capture.

And something can look like a huge success
…and still be a no.

Because it drained you.
Because it cost more than it gave.
Because you wouldn’t choose it twice.

Both answers are valid.
Both are honest.

“Again?” tells the truth metrics never will.

It captures results and reality.
Wins and wear-and-tear.
Growth and cost.

If you’re stuck, overwhelmed, or evaluating a big decision—
try asking just that one word.

You’ll know the answer faster than any spreadsheet will tell you.

What’s one decision in your life or career that became clear when you asked yourself “Again?” 👇


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Sivanandan N

The One Question That Tells the Whole Truth

We love numbers.
Metrics. KPIs. Dashboards. Postmortems.

But there’s a better measure I keep coming back to—
one that cuts through all the noise.

It’s just one word:

Again?

You can run detailed performance reviews…
Or you can ask:
👉 Knowing what we know now, would we hire this person again?

You can schedule endless retrospectives…
Or you can ask:
👉 Would we do this project again?

You can rationalize a decision that “made sense on paper”…
Or you can ask:
👉 Would I make that decision again?

I ask it everywhere:

Would I work with this team again?
Would I work at this company again?
Would I build this product again?
Would I take this path again?

And what’s powerful about “Again?” is this:

It doesn’t just measure outcomes.
It measures experience.

Something can look like a failure on paper
…and still be a yes.

Because it taught you something.
Because it opened doors.
Because it was worth it in ways numbers can’t capture.



🗣️ I used to think leadership meant being impressive.

The sharpest mind.
The strongest voice.
The final word in the room.

Then I worked with a leader who completely rewired that belief.

She didn’t intimidate.
She didn’t posture.
She didn’t collect credit.

She listened.
She trusted.
She backed her people—quietly, consistently.

And here’s the part that stuck with me:

Her team didn’t just perform.
They protected her.
They would’ve gone the extra mile without being asked.

Not because they had to.
Because they wanted to.

What many leaders still get wrong

Kindness isn’t softness.
It’s courage.

Empathy isn’t inefficiency.
It’s fuel.

Service isn’t weakness.
It’s influence.

People don’t give their best to fear.
They give it to leaders who make them feel safe, seen, and trusted.

And yes, the data agrees

• Most people stay longer for leaders who care
• Teams led with compassion outperform those led by pressure
• Talented employees will take less money to avoid toxic leadership

But honestly—you don’t need a study to know this.
You’ve felt it.

A simple pause every leader should take

Before your next decision.
Before your next message.
Before your next “I need this now.”

Ask yourself:

Am I trying to control—or to enable?
Am I protecting my authority—or my people?
If my title disappeared tomorrow… would my impact remain?

Leadership isn’t about being in charge.
It’s about being responsible for human beings.

That’s the job.
Everything else is noise.

💬 What kind of leader changed your perspective?

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What are you actually waiting for?

Permission?
Perfect timing?
Someone to finally say, “Yes, you’re ready now”?

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
That moment isn’t coming.

The biggest thing standing between you and what you want isn’t lack of skill, luck, or opportunity.
It’s belief.

Or more accurately—the lack of it.

Most people don’t fail because they can’t.
They fail because, deep down, they don’t think they’re allowed to try.

They’ve absorbed:

Other people’s doubts
Old labels
Past failures

Loud opinions that were never theirs to begin with
And over time, those voices become their own.

But here’s the part we forget:

🧠 Belief is not fixed.
It’s a decision.

You can change your mind.
You can stop outsourcing confidence.
You can decide—today—that you’re done playing small.

Fear feels real.
But most of it is imagined, recycled, and rehearsed.

And every day you wait, fear gets louder…
Not because it’s right—but because it’s unchallenged.

So consider this your nudge.
Your sign.
Your quiet (or not-so-quiet) reminder.

You don’t need to see the whole path.
You just need to take the jump.

Messy is fine.
Imperfect is normal.
Doubt can come along—but it doesn’t get to drive.

Sometimes the bravest move isn’t confidence.
It’s saying, “I’m scared… and I’m doing it anyway.”

💬 What’s one thing you’ve been waiting too long to start?
♻️ Repost if someone in your network needs this push today.

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What are you actually waiting for?

Permission?
Perfect timing?
Someone to finally say, “Yes, you’re ready now”?

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:
That moment isn’t coming.

The biggest thing standing between you and what you want isn’t lack of skill, luck, or opportunity.
It’s belief.

Or more accurately—the lack of it.

Most people don’t fail because they can’t.
They fail because, deep down, they don’t think they’re allowed to try.

They’ve absorbed:

Other people’s doubts

Old labels

Past failures

Loud opinions that were never theirs to begin with

And over time, those voices become their own.

But here’s the part we forget:

🧠 Belief is not fixed.
It’s a decision.

You can change your mind.
You can stop outsourcing confidence.
You can decide—today—that you’re done playing small.

Fear feels real.
But most of it is imagined, recycled, and rehearsed.

And every day you wait, fear gets louder…
Not because it’s right—but because it’s unchallenged.

So consider this your nudge.


Is your website quietly hurting your sales? 🌐

Not because it looks bad.
Not because traffic is down.

But because the internet itself is changing.

We’re moving from the “crawlable web” to “queryable commerce.”
And that shift changes everything.

Here’s the simple version 👇

For years, success meant:
→ Get users to visit your site
→ Rank with keywords
→ Hope they click “Buy”

That era is fading.

What’s actually changing?

1. Your website may no longer be the storefront
AI agents will soon:

Find products

Check real-time inventory

Compare prices

Complete purchases

All without ever visiting your website.

No clicks.
No sessions.
No landing pages.

2. AI won’t scrape anymore. It will ask.
Instead of guessing from HTML, AI systems will query your data directly via APIs.

If your systems can’t answer clearly?
You don’t get shown.

3. SEO is being rewritten (quietly).
The new winners won’t be those with:
❌ The best copy
❌ The most backlinks

They’ll be the ones with:
✅ Clean product data
✅ Structured information
✅ API-ready systems

Search visibility becomes data visibility.

The uncomfortable question

Are you building:
🧾 A digital brochure…
or
🤖 A system machines can understand, trust, and transact with?

Because hoping customers “visit your site” is starting to look like leaving flyers on a table and wishing someone picks one up.

The real takeaway

For unprepared brands, this is an existential risk.
For prepared ones, it’s a massive advantage.

The future won’t ask:

“How good is your website?”

It will ask:

“Can your systems answer clearly, instantly, and reliably?”

💬 Curious how ready your product data actually is?
♻️ Repost if this changed how you think about ecommerce.

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SEO as you know it is quietly dying.

Not announced.
Not tweeted.
Just… replaced.

And most businesses didn’t even notice.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth 👇
You’re still optimizing for humans who click
while Google is optimizing for agents that don’t.

We’ve entered the era of Agentic Search.

Google isn’t waiting for you to submit data anymore.
It’s observing you.

Watching your socials.
Scraping your videos.
Calling your business.
Comparing what you say with what you do.

If there’s friction, confusion, or inconsistency—
you disappear.

Why this breaks the old SEO playbook

Updating meta tags.
Polishing your Google Business Profile.
Chasing rankings.

That game already ended.

Today’s search engines don’t reward optimization.
They reward clarity, speed, and certainty.

Welcome to the zero-click reality.

The 3 rules to survive what’s coming

1. The “Lazy AI” rule
AI agents have limits.
If your pricing or services are buried three clicks deep, they won’t dig.
They’ll move on.

👉 Make critical info one click away—everywhere.

2. Design doesn’t impress machines. Data does.
Humans admire your layout.
AI sees bloated code and confusion.

If it can’t extract answers instantly, your trust score drops.

👉 Clean structure beats beautiful design.

3. Google is already testing you
AI now plays secret shopper.

If someone asks your team for a price and hears uncertainty?
Your business becomes “unknown.”

Unknown = invisible.

👉 Train for precision. Confidence is data.

The real shift most people are missing

Google is no longer asking:
“Who optimized best?”

It’s asking:
“Who can I trust without clicking?”

That’s a massive difference.

So ask yourself:

Are you still building a digital brochure
for a world that no longer browses?

Or are you building a data pipeline
that machines can query, verify, and act on?

Because the future of search won’t reward effort.
It will reward machine-readable truth.

💬 Are you preparing for agentic search—or still playing the old SEO game?

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Stop Guessing. Start Engineering Your Reach.

Most growth advice sounds like this:
“Post more.”
“Be consistent.”
“Add value.”

All true.
All vague.

But here’s the shift most creators miss:
👉 Growth today isn’t creative intuition. It’s system design.

When you look at the X algorithm through an engineering lens, the fog clears fast.

The first truth that changes everything

Not all engagement is equal. Not even close.

A like feels good.
A reply changes your distribution destiny.

Here’s how the system actually thinks:

• Likes = background noise
• Retweets = mild signal
• Profile clicks = intent
• Replies = relevance
• Replies you engage with = authority

One meaningful reply you respond to can outweigh hundreds of passive likes.

📌 Translation:
If you’re chasing likes, you’re optimizing the wrong outcome.
If you’re building conversations, you’re playing the real game.

The second uncomfortable truth

Posting more can hurt you.

High-frequency posting doesn’t signal value.
It signals spam.

Each post you drop in the same day quietly reduces the reach potential of the next one.

The algorithm prefers:
→ One clear signal
→ Over many weak ones

📌 Translation:
One strong post > five average ones.

Why most posts never go viral

Virality doesn’t start globally.
It starts locally.

Your followers are the gatekeepers.

If they don’t engage early, the algorithm doesn’t trust your content enough to release it wider.

📌 Translation:
If you can’t move your own audience, the platform won’t move strangers.

Two paths, depending on where you are

If you’re early-stage:
You don’t have leverage yet. Borrow it.
Thoughtful replies on relevant posts teach the algorithm who you are and who you belong next to.

If you’re established:
Your job isn’t just posting—it’s staying present.
The first hour matters.
Your replies multiply your own reach.

The metric no one talks about enough

Time.

Not impressions.
Not likes.

Time.

The longer someone stays with your content, the more valuable it becomes to the system.

📌 Translation:
Depth beats speed.
Threads beat throwaways.
Substance beats loops.

The real takeaway

Growth isn’t a mystery anymore.
It’s a set of signals, weights, and behaviors.

Creators who win aren’t louder.
They’re clearer.

They don’t post more.
They post with intent.

💬 What surprised you most about how distribution actually works?


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