A Solo SaaS Founder Documents Repeated Bot Attacks After One Year of Building, Adding Email Verification via Resend as a Stopgap

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An r/SaaS post (94 upvotes, 63 comments) from a founder who has spent a year building slowly describes multiple rounds of bot attacks on the app, with email verification through Resend added as the most recent mitigation. The high comment volume relative to score suggests other solo builders are contributing their own defenses. Relevant now because cheap agentic tooling has lowered the cost of automated signup abuse against exactly the kind of small, thinly-defended apps that indie founders ship — the attack side of the same capability curve that is eating their pricing power.