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B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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I work directly with founders of B2B SaaS (run a design a [1] UI/UX design company with a focus on dev teams) which gives me a good idea of the landscape. The biggest opportunities seem to be in the edtech space, remote working and any other type of category which facilitates remote work. If you are looking for opportunities, try to map out where your skills and interest can contribute in a remote / wfh economy. I’ve…

You mentioned remote work, I'm curious for your opinion on nomadlist?

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone who spends their free time building a single SaaS tool for other indie hackers needs. Then struggling to gain any traction and deciding to repeat the process over and over.

Wait, why is it exclusively „other indie hackers needs“?

It's not exclusively, but you find a lot of "indie hackers" come up with business opportunities based on following/reading/speak to other indie hackers and then market to other indie hackers and so the cycle continues

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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I work directly with founders of B2B SaaS (run a design a [1] UI/UX design company with a focus on dev teams) which gives me a good idea of the landscape. The biggest opportunities seem to be in the edtech space, remote working and any other type of category which facilitates remote work. If you are looking for opportunities, try to map out where your skills and interest can contribute in a remote / wfh economy. I’ve…

You mentioned remote work, I'm curious for your opinion on nomadlist?

Their numbers seem to be going up as well: https://nomadlist.com/open

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mentioned remote work, I'm curious for your opinion on nomadlist?

Their numbers seem to be going up as well: https://nomadlist.com/open

Which is surprising as I assumed not many people would be travelling at the moment.

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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I work directly with founders of B2B SaaS (run a design a [1] UI/UX design company with a focus on dev teams) which gives me a good idea of the landscape. The biggest opportunities seem to be in the edtech space, remote working and any other type of category which facilitates remote work. If you are looking for opportunities, try to map out where your skills and interest can contribute in a remote / wfh economy. I’ve…

FYI there is a typo in the CTAs. It should be "Request Availability" instead of "Request Availibility". I'd fix that because it doesn't look very professional. Otherwise the concept is nice, makes a lot of sense.

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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Can someone please tell me what is an 'indie hacker' ?

This site is where the term came from: https://www.indiehackers.com/

People define it differently, but generally I think of indie hackers as people, usually technical, who are building or are aiming to build smaller tech businesses. They generally either bootstrap or raise small amounts of money. A lot of indie hackers are would be happy with a business that makes 5-10k USD per month per founder

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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I work with Salesforce,so I'm quite familiar with the ecosystem. I think a lot people on HN would have a hard time believing the kind of apps that exist on AppExchange and the number of companies that are willing to spend money on them.

I've not worked with Salesforce for a long time, but it used to have the worst language I've ever used. Some sort of crazy Java/SQL hybrid. And the dev tool for it was written in Adobe Air.

Is it still like that or have they moved on?

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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We do a lot of work with SaaS businesses helping them with product design and if needed capital and development. Our primary work is in remote work for non-desktop people and educational/video space plus live ecommerce which seems to be the areas that are really thriving right now. Even if covid passes organizations will still be looking for tools that makes them resillient to that kind of disruption again. So plenty…

That's interesting, could you expand on this line a little more:

"Our primary work is in remote work for non-desktop people and educational/video space plus a live ecommerce"

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their numbers seem to be going up as well: https://nomadlist.com/open

Which is surprising as I assumed not many people would be travelling at the moment.

Although many people might be dreaming about it and hoping to do so with no real followthrough (myself unfortunately likely included)!

Re: B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers

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I work with Salesforce,so I'm quite familiar with the ecosystem. I think a lot people on HN would have a hard time believing the kind of apps that exist on AppExchange and the number of companies that are willing to spend money on them.

I work at one of the mammoth consulting firms doing Salesforce implementation work for Fortune 50 enterprises, and you would be amazed at the amount of client value derived (and the # of licenses sold) utilizing the AppExchange
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