Issue #124: Building $1K-$10K MRR Micro SaaS Products around Cron jobs, Testing AI Voice Agents, AI-driven Personalized exam Preparation, Multiple Wordpress Website Management & more- Part 2
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Pēteris reached $14K MRR with Healthchecks.io. Healthchecks is a tool for monitoring cron jobs and and scheduled tasks. It was launched in July 2015 and is still a one-man business. Healthchecks currently has 652 paying customers
SuperX by Tibo crossed $600MRR. SuperX is a X (Twitter) analytics tool that provides insights for your X (Twitter) activities and engagements. It’s available as a Chrome extension with 2,000 users.
Jacob hits $215K MRR with Rezi, an AI-based resume builder and cover letter writing tool. It comes with white-label options.
Timebox by Rohan reached $314 from 16 sales after launching on ProductHunt. Timebox is a deep work planner based on Cal Newport's timeboxing method. It includes drag and drop scheduler, to-do lists, accountability tracker, Notion-style notes, and Google calendar syncing. It was featured 7th on ProductHunt with 205 upvotes.
Michael and Andy crossed $41K MRR with BasedLabs, a collection of AI image and video apps.
Mailwip by Vinh crossed $800 in revenue. Mailwip is an an email forwarding service that lets users receive and send emails using unlimited addresses from their own domain.
Sajid reached $24,925 MRR with his productised service for creating high-impact ad creatives.
Reverse Contact by B. Iliès hit $55.8K/month revenue. Reverse Contact is a tool to provide reliable professional information about a person and their companies based on their personal or professional email address.
Illumtori by Steven and Jennifer has grown to $300/month revenue. It is an all-in-one productivity app with encryption and more.
JR grows Telemetry to $18 MRR. Telemetry provides an abstraction layer that simplifies data logging and querying.
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⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for Monitoring Cron jobs and Script Execution
Developers and system administrators rely on cron jobs and scripts to automate critical tasks such as data backups, report generation, system maintenance etc. However, these processes can fail silently, causing significant disruptions to business operations. Build a tool that offer real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics to ensure that the scheduled tasks are running correctly. The app should include a user-friendly dashboard where users can create and manage their cron jobs and scripts. The app can also provide detailed logs and execution history, allowing users to troubleshoot issues quickly. Additionally, the app can offer integrations with popular channels such as Slack, Email etc. to ensure that users receive timely alerts when a check fails. Healthchecks.io with $14K MRR is a good example to take inspiration from. Also check Cronitor that provides uptime monitoring for cron jobs, websites and APIs It has reached $290K annual revenue with 1K customers.
⛳ 💡 Platform for Testing AI Voice Agents
With AI-generated voices sounding more realistic than ever, there’s a growing trend of building AI voice agents for inbound and outbound calls for various scenarios like appointment scheduling, order taking etc. Manually testing these AI voice agents is challenging, particularly due to the non-deterministic nature of LLM responses and the need to account for natural conversation elements like pauses and interruptions. A platform enabling AI voice agents to interact with each other in simulated calls offers a powerful solution for builders of AI voice agents applications. Users should be able to create diverse personas for these agents and adjust parameters such as speech patterns, accents, vocabulary levels and even personality traits like patience or assertiveness. This would allow for testing across a range of potential user interactions. For inspiration check Hamming which is backed by Y Combinator. It provides automated voice testing, prompt optimisation for AI voice agents.
⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for Multiple Wordpress Website Management
Digital agencies and freelancers managing multiple clients and projects have to do repetitive tasks such as updates, backups, security checks and performance monitoring across dozens of Wordpress websites. A tool that provides a centralized dashboard for managing all the clients Wordpress websites via a unified interface would be quite helpful. It would enable users to perform bulk actions like perform updates for plugins and themes, automated backups, monitoring for website performance and errors across multiple sites. WP Umbrella, a WordPress management tool for agencies, is bootstrapped and recently reached $500K ARR
⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for AI-driven Personalized exam Preparation
Build an AI-powered platform that helps users prepare for a specific professional certification or standardised tests like SAT, GRE, MCAT, PMP etc. The tool would assess each user's knowledge and skill level and then create a customized study plan that adapts in real-time as the user progresses. The AI-powered tool should provide practice questions based on the user's performance, gradually increasing difficulty as proficiency improves. The platform can also feature an AI-powered study assistant that can answer questions and explain concepts. As an example, see Educato, backed by Y Combinator, which is being used by thousands of students to prepare for various tests.
⛳ 💡 Markdown Presentation Software
While there are tools to create presentations manually, many businesses want to build presentations at scale programmatically based on the data/text they want to use in the presentations. These businesses want to generate presentations dynamically from real-time data or the latest data in some cases. Build a Micro SaaS solution that can create presentations from APIs and Markdown text. For starters, Markdown is a widely accepted format to create text in different styles. Many word processor tools support Markdown already. Implement the same and leverage the markdown style to create presentations just from the markdown text. Having something like this means, users can just create these markdown files programmatically and these markdown files, in turn, generated the actual presentations. The markdown should allow configs like templates, colors, fonts, styles, etc. See Slidev for inspiration. Slidev is massively popular and many products use Slidev behind the scenes.
⛳ 💡 Podcast Membership Platform
One of the biggest problem for any one running podcasts is finding a way to monetize. People running podcasts will be happy to be part of membership platform that does the heavy lifting for them with respect to getting sponsorships. Create a Podcast Membership platform that offers a powerful toolkit that enables podcast owners to monetize their shows effectively. By offering exclusive content and perks to loyal listeners who become paying members, podcasters can generate a sustainable income while fostering a dedicated community. In addition to revenue generation and increased engagement, Podcast Membership Platforms can also offer valuable analytics and data insights. These analytics enable podcasters to better understand their audience, gain insights into member behavior and preferences, and make informed decisions to enhance their content and offerings. Podfan and Glow are a few products in this space. Podfan has reached 1000+ users. Glow: Founded in 2019, it received $2.3M in funding and was acquired by Libsyn. Listen App is another example in this space (not just for monetising but for handling the events, building relationships with audience and engaging fans).
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