MIcro SaaS - How do you decide and start working on an idea?

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I have been struggling to pinpoint an idea and before diving deep into it.

Vincenthaywood · Accepted Answer

@fabian_maume agree. 
I’ve been consulting clients on digital marketing for years now and have a note book of all the pain points. I’ve slowly built some internal MVP’s via code, nocode and automations. This then shows me what I should put my energy into based on the clients usage of the build

Fabian Maume · Answer

Can you provide the SaaS as consulting service first?
That is what I used before launching https://www.qapop.com/. I offer the data as part of a consulting service to check the potential. That allow you to have a mvp without landing page and start collecting user feedbacks.

Pritam Chougale · Answer

hey I was listing to the Kunal Shah the founder of CRED and I remember one of his line. Pitch/tell your idea to your friends and family and Ask if they will pay for it. (You can replace friends/family with any community here.) Don't look for ideas over the internet.

CutAwayGuy · Answer

Hey Akash, I am building a Saas to solve the very problem.

Due to the current quarantine situation, we are not able to explore & get new ideas.Also, if the process of finding ideas left for epiphanies or scratching personal itches; it'll make the hustling a bit stagnant.So, I decided to build Eurekea for solving this.

We at Eurekea are providing a dataset of 250K+ Saas, apps & sidehustles from last decade to get you inspired.I've listed few use cases in FAQ section to help the guys stuck on "IDEATING" in Sass.

Do checkout the site & share your feedbacks : https://www.eurekea.org/

Akash Wadhwani · Answer

@pritam91 @patelnachiket Makes sense. Absolutely!

Amit Tank · Answer

Hey Akash, I started working on Pigeon 🐦 in September 2020. I observed the need of the product in the market. Asked about 200+ people for feedback that if we make such product would they use it. We got good response and started building the SaaS tool. You can have a look as our product is live. SaaS is the new tech in next decade. Check : joinpigeon.com

Nachiket Patel · Answer

@pritam91 Yes. Validation is very important.

Dmitry Begovatov · Answer

Hi, Akash! 
First of all you need to make a database with your ideas. I made one in Notion where every idea has a type: 
- Fantasy - my own "it will be nice to have" idea doesn't connected with the real people wishes and problems.
- Problem post/comment - what I found browsing Internet accidentally or talking with people, but not with the straight goal.
- Copy+Paste - the other maker's solutions that I liked and want to try to compete.

and her majesty 🥁....
- Validated idea - I took an idea from the list of other typed ideas and investigate it like a first class detective.

For Fantasy you need to dive deep in Market Reports, Competitor Analysis, Customer Discovery Interviews and Surveys.

For Problem post/comment you can start with the Interviews and talk to the author for more details. We’re going to try to identify which ideas are simply annoying to people, and which ones are burning pains that they’ll pay to solve. Than find similar people among the author's friends.

For Copy+Paste try to find out is the other maker's solutions a profitable story, how many competitors are in this field, what negative feedback they have, how you can compete on your local market or worldwide.

It's a long way to the top, my friend!
Good luck and have fun!

Akash Wadhwani · Answer

@aayush4vedi Eurekea, seems like a brilliant idea and does fill the necessary GAP.  But, I have my reservations about paying for a list of apps. Admire the hard work, genuinely!

Abhishek Singh · Answer

@pritam91 I think a better question would be "How much they could pay for it at max?" :)

MIcro SaaS - How do you decide and start working on an idea?

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