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Creating a SaaS that makes a couple grand a month is really easy. Extremely easy. The problem here is that you want a "cool" idea. SaaS is inherently uncool. I
by wayn3 10y ago
Creating a SaaS that makes a couple grand a month is really easy. Extremely easy.
The problem here is that you want a "cool" idea. SaaS is inherently uncool. Its the antithesis to something "cool" like an Oculus. SaaS is soul crushingly boring.
The easiest lifestyle saas businesses go like "scrape this website, present the data, sign up people who think software is magic".
Then understand compounding. Google it right now and ponder on it for a couple hours. Understand that no matter how abysmal your growth may be, it will always end up at a pretty neat number that you can comfortably live on, after a couple months.
1k/month is 10 clients. Its impossible to not find 10 clients if write some software that is not complete ass. You don't need something cool. Just write anything that remotely adds value to someones business and tell them its 100 bucks. Then when they're signed up, ask them how to make it actually useful.
- aosaigh 10y agoWhile I really like the attitude of it being easy to do, I have personally found that the difficulty lies in finding those actual business problems.
- altern8 10y agoYes, that's the problem I'm facing. I've build some apps that I thought they were useful, but not a lot of people agreed with me.
- wayn3 10y agoFind a dad, or some uncle, or some person that is 50+ and always whines about this one thing at his job that has always been done this one way that is really annoying. Make that go away. Business problems are easy. You live in a bubble of software awareness that most people don't have access to. Normal people are not aware of how easy to fix these things are. The other day I made hundreds of internet marketers drool over displaying a "(1)" in the title like Facebook does when you have new messages. Literally 2 lines of javascript and we all know how to do these things. I could easily sell a $20/month subscription to this and just pretend it was difficult. A major part of my girlfriends masters thesis right now is sifting through data - manually. We solved that problem by invoking the dark arts: " import pandas data = pandas.read() data.sort() " 4 months of work done in a single instant. What we do might as well be called magic. Normal people very much don't get how easy their problems are.
- borplk 10y agoThe problem is I find it hard and expensive to get traffic coming in. So what if I find a useful app but it is getting 5 visits per day? My personality is not terribly compatible with the type of marketing that I see some people do nowadays like social media stuff or dumping an ad about their startup as a Quora answer or writing "How I learned blah ..." posts on medium.