Issue #132: Building $1K-$10K MRR Micro SaaS Products around AI Task Scheduler, Boilerplate for Automated Job Boards, AI-powered Photoshoot Tool, Leaderboard Creation and more- Part 1
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Kareem reached $600MRR with Principal. It’s AI-powered platform that consolidates financial accounts, tracks investments, and provides personalized financial insights.
Santiago has grown DataWars to $250K ARR in 1 year. It’s a platform that focuses on data science education with hands-on projects.
Mkdirs by Javayhu generated $10K in 40 days with 80+ customers. Mkdirs is directory boilerplate, packed with Listings, Payment, Submission, CMS, Blog, Authentication, Newsletter, SEO, Themes.
Alexandru made $105,550 in November 2024 from AI Emojis, an AI Emoji generator. This includes $99.4k from App Store after fees and $6.1k from Stripe web purchases.
Seline.so by Kostya reached $400 MRR and 20 paying clients after 4 months of launch. Seline is a simple & private website and product analytics tool.
Lifestack by Nao, Hayato and Tom and crossed $1,000 in monthly revenue. Lifestack combines calendar and wearable data to help build the perfect day.
Choudhary has grown SuperDev Pro to 6000+ users with paying customers from 43+ countries. It’s a browser extension for developers and designers to inspect and fix UI issues on a website. Choudhary started working on it in June 2022 and got first 8 sales after within 3 months of launch.
Keepthescore by Caspar hit $120,000 ARR. keepTheScore enables users to create and share real-time leaderboards, scoreboards, counters, and goal trackers.
Robin made $5K in 2.5 months with NativeExpress, a comprehensive React Native starter kit. Robin started with $700 in pre-orders this September.
Revive.so by Jacky reached $2.8k in monthly revenue. Revive.so is a WordPress plugin that uses AI to refresh and republish old content for improved SEO.
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⛳ 💡AI Task Scheduler Powered by Personal Wellness Data
Many people struggle with completing their to-dos and optimizing their schedules, often feeling overwhelmed due to mismatched priorities and fluctuating energy levels. We can develop an AI-powered app that tailors the daily plans and todos to match the user’s natural energy rhythms. By integrating with wearable devices, it can collect and analyze data such as sleep quality, activity levels, heart rate, and stress patterns, providing a personalized approach to productivity. This app uses this data to predict energy peaks and troughs throughout the day. High-focus tasks would be scheduled during peak energy periods, while routine or less demanding activities would be reserved for low-energy time. The app would learn from the user’s patterns over time to refine its predictions and task recommendations. It would also recognize specific activities that reduce stress and incorporate them in the scheduling suggestions. To streamline workflows, the app should integrate with popular tools like Google Calendar, Outlook, Todoist, and Trello, consolidating schedules and tasks in one place. For inspiration, see Lifestack that crossed $1,000 in monthly revenue.
⛳ 💡 Boilerplate for Automated Job Boards
Boilerplates are gaining traction as they provide a quick and reliable foundation for building apps. Whether it's for directories, AI-powered apps, or SaaS tools - boilerplates offer essential features that developers can customize and launch with minimal friction and cost. For example, Mkdirs is a directory boilerplate that generated $10K in 40 days with 80+ customers. Startkit.Ai is another example of a successful boilerplate used by 75 developers for building AI SaaS. ShipReady is a boilerplate for Shopify apps that crossed A$2400 within a week of launch. Similarly, NativeExpress, a React Native starter kit generated $5K in 2.5 months. These and many other such examples show the demand for boilerplates. A Boilerplate for Automated Job Boards builds on this concept, providing a ready-to-use framework for creating automated job board platforms. This boilerplate would include all the essentials: dynamic job listings, search and filtering options and automated job posting feeds that pull data directly from Indeed, LinkedIn etc. Provide monetization options and integration with popular payment processors for paid job postings and subscription plans.
⛳ 💡AI-powered Photoshoot Tool for the Furniture Industry
Creating eye-catching product images is an important part of marketing in the furniture industry. Traditional photoshoots are expensive and take time to showcase products in a variety of settings or styles. You can build an AI tool that enables furniture brands and retailers to produce professional-grade images easily, without the need for physical photoshoots. The tool would allow users to upload basic product photos and the tool would automatically create realistic settings, adjust lighting, and customize backgrounds to match branding or marketing themes. Users could showcase their furniture in various environments such as modern, rustic, or minimalist. Provide options to customise product colors, textures, and accessories making it easy for the users to have multiple variations of the same item. Provide integrations with e-commerce platforms like Shopify and WooCommerce to streamline the workflow. Presti is doing well in this space with 100+ brands using it. It was founded in November 2022 and recently received $3.5M in funding.
⛳ 💡Micro SaaS for Leaderboard Creation
Scoreboards and leaderboards are essential for keeping track of progress in various scenarios including classroom competitions, team challenges, live streams, fundraising activities, sports events etc. Build a tool where users can quickly create and manage customizable scoreboards and leaderboards with logos, themes, and personalized layouts. Each board should generate a shareable link as well as the option to let users easily embed it in a website without coding. Provide integration with popular streaming software such as OBS, Streamlabs etc. to enable real-time overlays during live broadcasts. Keepthescore is one such player in this niche that has reached $120,000 ARR.
⛳ 💡 No-code Store Locator tool for websites
Every business with numerous branches or multiple locations requires a store locator. Creating a store locator isn't particularly challenging, but maintaining it by regularly updating addresses and Google Maps markers, and subsequently updating online pages, can be quite challenging. Consequently, many businesses opt for automated solutions to simplify the creation of store locator pages. It doesn't make sense for businesses to expend engineering resources and engage developers to construct a store locator page when they can easily acquire an automated solution, especially with NoCode platforms, by paying a modest fee. Storerocket is one good product in this space trusted by 1000s of businesses across the world. Storepoint is also another good product used by thousands of small businesses, enterprises. The products in this space should also support integrations with Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion and similar products so that business owners can organize their data easily and connect the data to the store locator.
⛳ 💡Micro-SaaS for Employee Pulse Survey [B2B SaaS]
Employee Pulse Survey tools helps companies understand how their employees feel about their work. It's like a quick check-in to see if employees are happy and engaged. When employees share their thoughts, companies can make improvements. It can boost morale and productivity. It shows employees that their opinions matter. Over time, it can help reduce turnover and attract new talent. It's a way for companies to create a better work environment for everyone, and it's a win for both employees and the company. Some products like OfficeVibe Pulse Survey and Teamspective Pulsemade good progress into this. This can be either a standalone product by itself or can be Slack plugin or a Google Workspace addon. These products charge around $5/month/user and with an organisation with 100-1000 users, every new customer would bring in $500 - $5000/m.
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