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Ask HN:Ideas for an easy service/SaaS to reverse engineer to profit

1 points by rayluxem 7y ago

I am an experienced full-stack engineer with a great career and I am looking to build something to generate income. I am not looking for large income I currently own anime streaming website which is 3 months old with 6k users a month using server-side rendered react and Kubernetes with micro services to do jobs for the app. The app is young and doesn't generate any income yet and I want to move on to a different type of project while the anime app is growing. I would love to hear suggestions from you guys.

jascii 7y ago
Maybe I'm reading your question wrong, however: Reverse engineering someone else's work for profit seems lazy, asking help deciding who to rip-off seems extremely lazy. Have you considered doing something interesting/useful with your life?
- rayluxem 7y ago
  Maybe I should have explained better. I am not looking for some original ideas to copy. More like some common service where there is a lot of competition anyway. Besides, you can bring a service to a local market or provide a better experience more features and so on. Just looking for a base. I see your point of view well but considering that you see duplicates of the same thing all over the place is real there is no shame in starting as a copy and becoming better.
  - jascii 7y ago
    Fair enough :D When I lived in China, I inadvertently ended up running a VPN service. It started because I needed a connection out of China myself and ended up getting more and more customers because I was proactively keeping the connections across the great firewall alive. I guess a VPN service would qualify: easy to start, already quite a bit of competition, up to you how you'll set yourself apart from said competition ;) Good luck!
    - rayluxem 7y ago
      I have been thinking about it lately, though I didn't look up the whole infrastructure of how VPN works in detail. It seems like a solid idea with proper user experience and good resource management it can be very profitable.
sharemywin 7y ago
This was just on here a few days ago: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validating_product_ideas https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validatin...

1 points by rayluxem 7y ago

jascii 7y ago

Maybe I'm reading your question wrong, however: Reverse engineering someone else's work for profit seems lazy, asking help deciding who to rip-off seems extremely lazy. Have you considered doing something interesting/useful with your life?

rayluxem 7y ago
Maybe I should have explained better. I am not looking for some original ideas to copy. More like some common service where there is a lot of competition anyway. Besides, you can bring a service to a local market or provide a better experience more features and so on. Just looking for a base. I see your point of view well but considering that you see duplicates of the same thing all over the place is real there is no shame in starting as a copy and becoming better.
- jascii 7y ago
  Fair enough :D When I lived in China, I inadvertently ended up running a VPN service. It started because I needed a connection out of China myself and ended up getting more and more customers because I was proactively keeping the connections across the great firewall alive. I guess a VPN service would qualify: easy to start, already quite a bit of competition, up to you how you'll set yourself apart from said competition ;) Good luck!
  - rayluxem 7y ago
    I have been thinking about it lately, though I didn't look up the whole infrastructure of how VPN works in detail. It seems like a solid idea with proper user experience and good resource management it can be very profitable.

sharemywin 7y ago

This was just on here a few days ago: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validating_product_ideas https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validatin...