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Re: Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

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post #8

All the ideas are good to generate money, but bad for mankind and civilization. There's already too much vendor lock-in and ausence of communication between platforms. We should aim for a single tool that would serve for all kinds of businesses. What's the difference between a CRM for salons and one for bookstores? Probably something that could be sold as a plugin, or -- if the underlying system is good enough -- imp…

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Re: Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

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The idea this generated for me is a "SaaS Generator" site. Rather than a random idea, user would select industry and service and business model, etc. and then click "generate my application". Generated app would have a polished placeholder responsive web site with multi-tentant IdP and drip email marketing and GA analytics Stripe and QuickBooks accounting, and ... - all the stuff you'd do for a SaaS business. Then add some copy and pricing and see if it sticks. Not not much Minimal Viable Product and "Minimal Viable Pitch". Generate a dozen businesses and then see which gets the most traffic. I think such a SaaS Generator site would be super helpful.

Re: Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

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This is barebones. What we also need is some market analysis and some SWOT analysis. I have been thinking of a crowdsourced website where each startup is profiled under the categories 1) SWOT 2)Market size 3)Competitors 4)what does it take to build MVP. I think such a site will be valuable

Sorry, what dues SWOT stand for ? Google search is giving something else hence asking you here lol.

Re: Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

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post #9

The oppsdaily.com mailing list has been nice to get somewhat random/niche ideas from. (I’m not affiliated)

HUGE ANNOYING problem with OppsDaily is that it FAILS to connect the makers with the "Wanters". See the comments on the top voted ideas for example. Most have 2 or 3 engineers / makers begging for contact info of the requestor / Wanters.

Good idea, terrible execution.

Re: Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

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This is barebones. What we also need is some market analysis and some SWOT analysis. I have been thinking of a crowdsourced website where each startup is profiled under the categories 1) SWOT 2)Market size 3)Competitors 4)what does it take to build MVP. I think such a site will be valuable

Sorry, what dues SWOT stand for ? Google search is giving something else hence asking you here lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfB0g_JDIds

"I've booby trapped the house with corporate resources." Everyone needs a Jared on their team.

[Edit] More detailed/serious explanation: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05.htm

Re: Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

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This is barebones. What we also need is some market analysis and some SWOT analysis. I have been thinking of a crowdsourced website where each startup is profiled under the categories 1) SWOT 2)Market size 3)Competitors 4)what does it take to build MVP. I think such a site will be valuable

Sorry, what dues SWOT stand for ? Google search is giving something else hence asking you here lol.

It stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Basically a matrix of [good/bad][internal/external].

Re: Show HN: Niche SaaS Idea Generator

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Meta idea: Have a web-page like this that splashes random words to generate ideas and measure the click rate of users hitting the refresh button. The longer the pause, likely the better the idea, at which point you flag that as a potential good one for yourself.
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