Trend 1
Get a strong ideology. It sells.
Example: Plausible. Their ideology is to keep your data private.
Marko Shares Insights On Growing Plausible Analytics to $100K+ MRR in Just 25 Months
Trend 2
The small digital assets market is booming.
So what?
Earn cash by producing assets (newsletters, side-projects).
Or buy an existing project with traction and grow it. Skip the building and validation steps.
Trend 3
Product Hunt hate. People are tired of endless 'support my launch' promotions.
Do you still bet on Product Hunt? Find a new way rather than sending your link everywhere.
Trend 4
One-time payments instead of subscriptions.
Why?
Users are tired of paying for subscriptions and not using them.
Makers are seeking new business models to outcompete existing market winners.
Examples:
John Rush is making thousands on his numerous tools.
Marc Lou is making $75+/m with one-time fee products
A Next.js Startup Boilerplate made by Luca reaches $15,000 in total sales having 126 customers.
Trend 5
Marc Lou made 2 small startups and sold them for $10k each.
Build-to-sell is a strong trend now.
So what?
If making long-lasting products is not your thing, consider building apps for selling.
Trend 6
Vercel took down all the projects and confiscated all the domains of the creator of 12ft.io, the online paywalls bypasser.
So what?
Vercel looks cool, but at its core, it is just a bunch of stakeholders and directors aimed to earn millions. It is not a party of good geeks. One should not trust them.
Trend 7
Discover local Product Hunts and launch your SaaS there. Here is a Korean one.
Trend 8
The SaaS boilerplate market is booming.
Examples:
Marc Lou is making $75k/m with Shipfa.st.
Dan made 200 sales of Shipixen.
And there are hundreds of less successful boilerplates out there.
Why does this happen?
Makers want something that will promise them success.
They need something to spend money on to get a feeling of increasing their chances.
A SaaS boilerplate is a tool for procrastination. Makers get a feeling of getting closer to success when they buy such tools (which is not a bad thing! It is a part of the game).
So what?
Sell shovels, of course!
My friend made a directory of SaaS boilerplates. People beg him to sell ad places.
Trend 9
Growth and marketing tools have always been a trend. But today it gets enormous because it is harder to grow than ever:
More and more people make startups.
Google Ads are overpriced.
Spammers everywhere. People are tired.
SEO is dying, comments are dying (thanks AI).
Content production was never easier (thanks AI).
So what?
Help others grow, and make money.
How?
You can make a SaaS. Examples: John Rush, creator of ~20 projects. Each of them helps others grow, I working on a video generator that helps SaaS grow.
Or you can make a no-code product for that. Examples: Michael sells access to a private chat where people boost each other on 𝕏, James sells a list of 1000 tech tiktokers.
Trend 10
Call your free plan "free lifetime access" and get more sign-ups. Example:
Trend 11
Google displays the follower count in SERP.
Having followers is even more important now.
Trend 12
4.79% of Product Hunt's traffic comes from Turkey 🇹🇷
So what?
Those are only English speakers.
Now imagine how many more Turks there would be if the website was translated into Turkish.
Translate your texts into the top 20 world's popular languages and get additional traffic. Now it is easy with GPT. Even not so powerful GPT3.5 makes much better translations than Google Translate.
Be the first to gather new audiences!