20 proven micro-SaaS ideas that you can build solo and earn $10k per month
20 proven micro-SaaS ideas that you can build solo and earn $10k per month
With examples and growth tips.
I know what stops you building your SaaS: a proper idea 😁
Here are 20 proven micro-SaaS ideas that you can build solo and earn $10k per month:
1/20 Web page builder
Make a website builder! Overcrowded niche? Oh yes. But not a problem if you niche it down! 🤓
Make a tool aimed for a small audience. Make this audience LOVE your tool. Yes, you will make your market x100 times smaller. But this handful of people will choose your SaaS rather than Wix or Webflow.
I did this in 2018 with @unicornplatform. I made a landing page builder tailored only for startup founders. I was able to outcompete the giants and grow it to $16k/m only because it was niched down.
2/20 link in bio
Easy to build, hard to grow. But if you get initial traction, it will grow faster and faster.
Just build the tool and start selling it to small bloggers. Choose the smallest, up to 1k subscribers. They will be easier to convert.
Once they start using your link-in-bio, they will become your free growth machine because your link will be constantly seen by their audience.
The market is huge enough for new players: 31M+ ppl use a link-in-bio service.
Inspiration: https://x.com/clarkcharlie03/status/1675516367825514497
3/20 blog builder
Blogs are not dead. Everybody wants to own the audience. Everybody wants "free" SEO traffic.
But blogs are hard to manage. I know it because I blog a lot. And I had to build my own blogging tool because I got so annoyed by wordpress 😁
Make a blogging tool. Make it simpler, make it smarter, make it AI-friendly. And you will find your customer.
Example: https://x.com/tibo_maker/status/1826626644825502173
4/20 form builder
Everybody needs forms. Forms will be there as long as the Web is there.
Big players such as Jotform and Typeform take the most of the market. But you do not need millions. You only need $10k/m. So do the same trick I did with my website builder. Niche it down!
How? Open jotform of typeform. Browse their templates. One template represents a niche. Choose a template. Make the whole product around this niche.
Inspiration: https://x.com/JhumanJ/status/1554807072646221826
5/20 job board
Talents need jobs. Companies need talents. Match them!
Once again, old good niching down can help you here. Make a job board for remote job only (like levels did with his remoteOK), or for blockchain jobs only.
Or even better. Make it ultra-niched: job board for remote nocode AI jobs for people in LATAM.
Example: https://x.com/rrmdp/status/1791428923831493066
6/20 Static web hosting
People still use static web hosting heavily. For simple pages, for presentations, for clients' demo.
How to start? Inspire from https://x.com/_baretto/status/1826548132034884022
Research the niches he covers and focus on one of them. Or cover the niches he is missing.
7/20 web analytics SaaS
Everybody hates Google Analytics.
Posthog is too complicated.
OK, make a new, simple one.
Here is your first client: https://x.com/that_igor_/status/1833097164257370584
8/20 text-to-tiktok
This niche is booming. Ride the wave. Make a text-to-video tool.
Inspire from this folk: https://x.com/tibo_maker/status/1828029214345347431
Use @Remotion for generating videos with code (I'm using it for @paracast_io)
9/20 testimonials board
Make a SaaS for gathering testimonials.
Inspiration: Olly's + Wilson's Senja https://x.com/helloitsolly/status/1832391382297686149
10/20 simple email campaign builder for SaaS
Loops costs a fortune. Others are complicated.
Make a simple email sequences builder for SaaS. I will be your first customer and bring you 10 more!
11/20 e-com site builder
People buy online more and more. E-com is not only amazon. Local shops, crafters, niched manufacturers need an e-com site to sell their stuff.
Pro tip: search for countries which does not have amazon, make an e-com builder for them. My friend make such a thing for Indonesia and sold his startup for millions in 2018.
12/20 AI SEO blog posts generator
AI SEO is booming now. @johnrushx's @seobotai is making thousands per month. His tech is breaking under the pressure of thousands of people wanting to use it.
Make your own AI blog post generator. It is a very young niche that will stay here forever.
P.S. Do not forget to add your tool to my free directory seoai.tools
13/20 AI SEO keywords generator
With AI SEO game is changed forever. We need new tools. AI tools.
Make a simple AI keyword generator.
Promotion strategy: find founders of companies on X. Generate keywords for them and post under their tweets. Any founder who is interested in growing their project will gladly talk to you and buy your product.
Inspiration: https://x.com/NafetsWirth/status/1837617876200837456
14/20 API screenshoting tool
Make an API based tool that takes snapshots of sites.
This tool is used by other services. E.g. a website builder uses it for generating previews of websites. Also I use it for @paracast_io to generate long screeshots of websites which I use in generated videos.
Example: https://x.com/DmytroKrasun/status/1836292255566696566
15/20 website pinger
Every founder wants to know when their website is down. Make an app for that.
My friend made such tool and sold it for 5 figures a few years ago (they asked me to keep his identity in a secret as a part of the deal).
16/20 waitlist generator
Waitlist are ⍺ and ⍵ of any new things. Every startup, every event, every idea starts with a waitlist.
Growth strategy: make hundreds of templates for endless topics: waitilist for msuic event, waitilist for a startup, waitlist for a newsletters (yes they exist), waitlist for a Product Hunt launch, waitlist for a pre-sale. Make each template as a separate tool and promote the tools individually.
17/20 simple product analytics for SaaS and apps
I find it absurd that the modern product analytics are:
so hard to setup. mixpanel, segment, amplitude. those take ages to figure out. i swear god i tried to install amplitude 2 times and failed.
have tricky pricing based on events amount. how do I know how many events do my user generate next month??? every bill is a surprise (usually unpleasant).
"book a demo" instead of pricing 🫠🫠🫠
So my idea: make a simpler Amplitude for small teams!
I like this idea so much that I actually started the SaaS 😁 (called @logbeat_com). It will be a simple all-in-one SaaS analytics for indie makers (up to 100k mrr). Sales, churns, sign ups, product events, critical errors — all the business core in one place. Flat priced.
18/20 public user feedback tracker
I usually track users feedback in my personal Notion page. I track the feedback privately because I like users telling me the same idea over and over again: it helps to involve them in the product. If they see their idea was already suggested, they will not report it.
There is a benefit of a having a public board though: people see what is coming next and likely to stay with me longer. But I still prefer to keep this a mystery and surprise my users when I ship something. It brings more emotions 👨🎤
So what about the SaaS idea? Shall you make a public user board? I advocate you not building it! Simply because the competition in the market is crazy.
People DM me asking to try their new user feedback tracker every week or so. Makers tend to build this kind of SaaS more often than others. May be because it is easier to build? I dunno.
Anti-inspiration: by @marc_louvion. He made a popular feedback collecting tool and it is 100% free. How do you compete what is popular and free? 🧐https://www.producthunt.com/products/insighto
20/20 live chat
Every startup needs live chat. I'd say, every website needs one! The market is huuuge.
A live chat became a common part of a website. Like a nav bar or a footer.
Make sure your users keep your badge on their websites (e.g. "Live chat by Y") to keep getting new sign ups from your existing users. This hack can provide you passive viral growth if done right.
Inspiration: @baptistejamin's @Crisp_im crossed 500k customers in 2023 (that is $12M+ MRR).
The end! Tell me if you want more startup ideas 🤓