Issue #133: Building $1K-$10K MRR Micro SaaS: Digital Biographies, IT/DevOps Incident Management, AI Assistant for Interviews, E-Commerce App for Embedding Social Feeds & more- Part 1.
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Laurence has grown Rapidely to $38K MRR . It’s an AI-powered social media management platform that streamlines content creation, scheduling, and team collaboration.
JobBoardSearch by Rodrigo generated $55K in total revenue. It’s a meta directory of job boards. Rodrigo launched this project in 2022.
Marco Vinciguerra, Marco Perini and Lorenzo have grown ScrapeGraphAI to $780/month revenue. ScrapeGraphAI is an AI scraping API designed for web data extraction to power LLM applications and AI agents .
ParakeetAI by Jure crossed $15k in monthly revenue. ParakeetAI is an AI-powered tool that provides real-time, tailored responses during job interviews on video platforms. It was launched in September 2024.
InStatus by Ali reached $32K MRR. Instatus is a tool for businesses to set up a custom fast-loading status pages. It took Ali 5 years to reach this milestone.
Ashraful reached $18K MRR with MailBluster. It’s a cost-effective email marketing platform using Amazon SES to deliver campaigns.
Inspector Dev by Valerio reached $5K MRR. Inspector Dev is a real-time web application debugging tool for developers
OpsDuty by Eirik crossed $300/month in revenue. OpsDuty is an incident management platform that helps organizations quickly respond to and resolve IT and operational issues.
Dylan crossed $8K MRR with RCKit. It’s a third-party app to keep track of your RevenueCat reports
Chris has grown Designpulse to $10k MRR. It’s a productized service for MVP development, product design, and website creation
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⛳ 💡 AI-Powered Tool for Creating Digital Biographies
AI models have become quite good for having interactive real-time conversations. We can use this to create a tool that makes it easy for anyone to preserve the life stories of their loved ones with a special focus on the senior citizens. The AI would guide users through personalized interactive video interviews by asking thoughtful and adaptive questions that encourage meaningful storytelling. Users can upload additional photos, videos, and documents, which the AI integrates and generate a cohesive narrative. The final output is a polished, multimedia-rich digital biography that can be viewed online. See Remento which turns spoken words into a personalized hardcover, color-printed book. It received $3M in funding.
⛳ 💡Micro SaaS for IT/DevOps Incident Management
Incident management software is critical for IT and DevOps teams to detect, respond to, and resolve incidents that disrupt services or workflows. The goal is to minimize downtime and restore services quickly to ensure business continuity. Develop a micro saas that simplifies incident handling for small-to-medium-sized businesses. The tool would allow businesses to easily monitor their systems and processes for unexpected issues (e.g., server outages, app crashes, or failed jobs) and automatically notify the right team members through phone calls, SMS, emails, or Slack when something goes wrong. Include on-call rotation scheduling to evenly distribute incident response duties among team members and automatically escalate alerts to a backup if needed. Provide integration with monitoring tools like Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus to detect and flag issues in real-time. Include a centralized incident dashboard for real-time collaboration, incident ownership, and post-incident reporting and analysis to prevent future issues. For inspiration, see OpsDutywhich crossed $300/month in revenue and FireHydrant with an estimated annual revenue of $9.5M.
⛳ 💡 Real-Time AI Assistant for Remote Interviews
Many job candidates struggle with performing their best during interviews, often feeling anxious or unsure how to respond to tough questions. An AI assistant can help by providing real-time support and feedback during remote interviews. This tool would integrate with Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams, where it could listen to the conversation or even see the screen. By considering the job description, the candidate's background, and the context of the conversation in real time, the AI assistant would offer tailored suggestions to help users provide better answers. You can also include post-interview feedback, where the AI not only analyses the candidate’s text responses but also analyzes audio and video for tone, body language, and facial expressions to generate a comprehensive feedback. Two examples in this niche are Final Round AI and ParakeetAI which crossed $15k in monthly revenue within 3 months of launch.
⛳ 💡E-Commerce App for Embedding Social Feeds in Websites
Social proof is a powerful way to build trust and drive sales in e-commerce. Build an app for Shopify or other platform that would allow merchants to embed their Instagram or TikTok feeds directly on their websites by connecting their accounts and curating content based on their posts or specific hashtags. This way brands can easily showcase user-generated content, influencer collaborations, and social media campaigns in real time. The tool should have customization features for layout design, such as grid or carousel displays, feed sizes and color schemes. You can also include options for filtering content based on mentions or time frames, and offer analytics to track performance, such as engagement and click-through rates from the embedded feeds. See MinttStudio’s Shopify apps in this niche that are used by 280,000 merchants.
⛳ 💡Micro-SaaS for Location-Specific Website pages and Popup
Businesses need to dynamically adapt their web pages and popups based on user location, enhancing user engagement and relevance. This way they can display location-specific information, offers, or notifications, creating a more tailored user experience. This will be a valuable addition for e-commerce, local businesses, and any company seeking to optimize its online presence for different geographic audiences. However doing this is not easy for businesses without investing a lot of time in developing and building the required tech functionality. Create a Micro SaaS that solves this problem for businesses. The SaaS should let businesses to set and configure different pages, scripts, popups, notifications, banners based on the user location, region, country, IP address range etc. For example, the products like GeoTargetly and Geofli are doing well in this space and are used by hundreds of business with great review on sites like Capterra, G2.
⛳ 💡Micro SaaS for Self-Serve Stripe Invoicing
After making a Stripe transaction, generating invoice needs manual action by the founders. The invoice may sometimes need to be edited to add more details to the invoice like VAT details, Address, Company name etc. SaaS founders using Stripe for payments find it a pain to handle invoicing manually. It's time-consuming and easy to mess up, which can lead to delays and mistakes in their records. By automatically generating invoices based on transactions, SaaS products in this space eliminate the need for manual data entry and ensure precision in invoicing. Additional features such as invoice customization, recurring billing, and seamless integration with multiple accounting software can help improve the traction. ZenVoice solves this problem better by letting the end customers generate, edit, and download their Stripe invoices. ZenVoice crossed $2K/month in revenue.
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