I actually pay freelancers to build apps from my requirements on upwork. You just need to be really good at parceling things out to people. A web scrape here in

I actually pay freelancers to build apps from my requirements on upwork. You just need to be really good at parceling things out to people. A web scrape here in Singapore for $10, some node.js there for a couple hundred and presto you have a SaaS application. Selling it is a whole different story.