Ask HN: How to get a B2B SaaS idea, and get cutomers?

1) Find a market that (a) is using software (b) make $100K a year and (c) is reachable 2) Reach out to business owners telling them you are doing research and are looking for business problems. 3) Get on the phone with these people and talk about their problems. 4) Once you have found a problem build a quick MVP and share it with them.

Some ideas:

Look at tasks for which Excel is being used, but not really built for

Find a successful product that is desktop based, make a web version of it

Find a successful product that is not well designed (it is successful maybe because it was first) and do it better

Find tasks that are done manually, but can be automated, and automate them

Look at "traditional" biz rather than software biz - these businesses are likely to be less tech savvy and probably use outdated tools and tech.