Issue #124: Building $1K-$10K MRR Micro SaaS Products around Starterkit for Shopify Apps, AI-Powered Social Media Lead Qualification, Website audit, Cross-Platform video analytics & more- Part 1
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Kyzo sold his first solo startup for 5 figures (USD) CopyCopter. CopyCopter is an AI tool for automating the creation of faceless videos for social media. Kyzo started working on it in Jan '24. It took him 6 weeks to get to $500.
Hujjat crossed A$2400 with ShipReady within a week of launch. It is a Shopify app boilerplate to build and launch Shopify apps faster.
Checkout Page by Sander and Andy reached $13k MRR. Checkout Page is a no-code checkout page builder that lets users create branded, custom checkout pages. It has around 250 customers and process $1.5m a month in payments.
Dumb phone by Michael crossed $500 MRR. Dumb phone is an app that transforms users’ iPhone into a minimalist style phone.
Easy Folders by Edmund hit $3,700+ in MRR and $42,000+ in total revenue in 6 months of launch . It’s a Chrome extension for ChatGPT and Claude that integrates a folder system into the web UI for better chat organization
Jordan hit $4.6k MRR and $8.8k total revenue with Founders Owl. It’s a Co partner productized services for B2B businesses & agencies looking to grow their biz and access large enterprises.
Abishek grew lightscope from $0 to $400 MRR in 3 days. lightscope scrapes social media and finds leads.
Chatbase crossed $4M in ARR. It’s fully bootstrapped and was launched by Yasser 9 months ago. Chatbase lets users build a custom GPT, embed it on their website and let it handle customer support, lead generation etc.
AI2sql by Mustafa hit $100K ARR. It’s an AI tool to generate SQL statements based on user input.
Peter grows Learnrithm to 250,000 total users and $560 in MRR. Learnrithm is an educational AI app that makes learning easy for students. Peter launched it in July 2024
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Starterkits for Building Shopify Apps:
Shopify's massive ecosystem of over 2 million sellers and 13,000+ apps presents a huge opportunity for developers. However, building Shopify apps from scratch is often a time-consuming process, requiring developers to reinvent the wheel with every project. This is where a Starterkit for building Shopify apps comes in, following the trend of successful SaaS boilerplates and starter kits for various tech stacks. One of the inspiring success is that of ShipFast, a NextJS boilerplate that generated $63K in revenue within 60 days and which now makes $80K monthly. A Starterkit specifically designed for building Shopify apps would help developers build and launch Shopify apps faster. This boilerplate would come pre-integrated with the Shopify API, eliminating the need for developers to start from scratch. It should include essential features such as billing systems, authentication flows, pre-made UI components adhering to Shopify's design guidelines, an analytics dashboard for tracking app performance etc. For inspiration, see ShipReady that crossed A$2400 within a week of launch.
Micro SaaS for AI-Powered Social Media Lead Qualification:
Small businesses and marketers often waste hours scrolling through social media, trying to spot potential customers. Build a tool that uses AI to analyze social media conversations and identify potential customers based on their posts, profile bio and engagement patterns. Users describe their product or service and the tool finds leads who are actively seeking solutions. The AI tool should also create personalized messages based on what it knows about each lead instead of sending a generic message. Check lightscope that scrapes social media and finds leads. It grew to $400 MRR in 3 days. Another example is that of SallyAI an AI-Powered outreach tool that automatically identifies ready-to-buy prospects and send personalized messages at scale. It reached $250K ARR.
Micro SaaS for AI-powered website audit
Poorly optimized landing pages fail to convert traffic into paying customers, leading to missed opportunities and lost revenue for businesses. Build an AI-powered website audit tool that analyzes landing pages and provides comprehensive recommendations for improving copy, design and positioning. The tool should evaluate page layout, navigation, design and website copy. Provide actionable insights to improve search engine visibility, including keyword analysis and meta tag recommendations. You can also compare the website with direct competitors to identify areas for differentiation. An example in this niche is Get Website Report that was launched in Jan 2024 and generated $31K+ in revenue by providing AI-powered website analysis.
Micro SaaS for cross-platform video analytics
content creators and marketers need to manage, track and analyze video performance across multiple platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels etc.. Develop a Micro SaaS for cross-platform video analytics that consolidates video performance data, providing creators with comprehensive insights into their content's reach, engagement, and growth across all platforms. This will allow users to monitor multiple video accounts from a single dashboard. Users should be able to track key metrics like views, likes, shares, and audience retention rates for each video and across different platforms. Shortimize hit $1k MRR by providing a platform to track, analyze and explore YouTube, Insta and TikTok videos and accounts. Another example is StreamBee that can track across Twitch, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Discord and Instagram. It received a total of €550K in funding.
Micro SaaS for Simple Hiring Tools:
Hiring has been in the industry for decades and in the last decade several SaaS solutions automated hiring with readily available questions, screen sharing, ready coding environments, automated assessments, etc. For example, SaaS solutions like CoderByte have 1000+ Enterprise customers and concentrate more on Enterprises. Other SaaS providers like HireVue don’t even allow manual signup without requesting a demo. HireVue currently making $60M in revenue per year. This is where small SaaS founders can start niching down. Create a SaaS solution around automating interviews. Do you think the market is saturated? Hiring is here to stay forever as long as companies exist. For inspiration see Intervue that crossed $4000 MRR and received funding. You can further niche down for areas like - ‘Bot-based hiring challenges/questions’, ‘Hiring for Cloud’, ‘Hiring for Non-Tech roles like Marketing, Sales, Ads Manager’ etc.
Micro SaaS for Live sessions and Webinars
While there are tools like Notion, Google Docs, Zoom, Whereby, PPTs, etc to run Live Sessions/Webinars and Cohorts, there is still a need for platforms that automate most of the things needed for running these sessions and webinars. To run these, there are a lot of things needed like building a webpage to sell the courses, display agenda, adding members, sending emails, tracking attendance, accepting payments, receiving payments, asking for feedback, accepting reviews, etc. Create a platform that handles all these things exclusively for teaching content and courses. SuperPeer in a similar space has raised $8M in funding in 2020 and is currently at estimated revenue of $4.5 M per year. Virtually in a similar niche has raised $2M in funding. TeachFlooranother tool for cohort-based course creators has an estimated revenue of $155K per year. Maven raised $20 million in funding. UTeach is another good product in this space with thousands of app downloads.
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📈⚡ AI Trends this Week
At the Made by Google event, Google showed off Gemini Live on Android, an AI-powered chatbot designed to carry on a fluid conversation on mobile.
A new AI image generator named Flux.1 is rapidly accruing kudos for its high-end results and the fact that it's an open-source model. Flux was built by Black Forest Labs, whose founders were previously at Stability AI, the creator of the popular Stable Diffusion line of AI image models.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT to new GPT-4o model based on user feedback
X launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images on the X social network, though Grok access is currently limited to Premium and Premium+ users on X.
Google has made its latest text-to-image AI model, Imagen 3, available to all U.S. users through its ImageFX platform.
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The website audit tool is an interesting one! I'm currently writing about how to create high-converting SaaS landing pages and can see a tool like that adding a ton of value to founders.
Someone build that lead qualification product.