Issue #121: Building $1K-$10K MRR Micro SaaS Products around AI-Powered Real-time Translation for Events, Peer Recognition, Automated Indexing, Artistic QR Code and more - Part 1
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Swifteq by Sorin crossed €20,000 MRR with over 300 customers. Swifteq is a suite of automation, help Center and agent-assist apps for Zendesk.
Wave: AI Note Taker by Josh hit $1M ARR. Wave transcribes and summarizes recorded audio and phone calls, in any language, using AI. It started as a learn-to-code project.
Nicolas and Thibaut grow QR Code AI to $4.8K in monthly revenue. It’s an AI-powered too to create artistic QR codes. It took the founders one year to reach this milestone. The first version was built in 13 days and launched on Product Hunt.
Jozef reached $186K/month with StealthGPT and $570/month revenue with RapidResume. StealthGPT is an AI writing tool that bypasses AI detectors like Turnitin. RapidResume is a suite of AI-powered tools from resume building to job matching.
Karma by Stas reached $33K in monthly revenue. It’s for peer recognition and engagement used by remote teams for praise, automated rewards, surveys, watercooler chats and reports.
EasyGen by Ruben crossed $9K MRR. EasyGen is a Chrome extension to write posts for Linkedin using AI. EasyGen saw initial success through three WhatsApp groups with 995 members. These users tested the extension for free and provided feedback. The WhatsApp groups achieved a 97% open rate.
Nico sold Talknotes for $200,000. TalkNotes is an AI voice note app. Nico grew it to $7500 MRR in just 11 months.
Scrapin by Graffion reached $20.8K/month in revenue. Scrapin is a LinkedIn scraper API for real-time data scraping of profiles and company information at scale.
Nan reached $3000 MRR with No Code Map App. It lets users build custom interactive maps with any spreadsheet, Google Sheets, Airtable or Webflow CMS without coding. Check this earlier interview of Nan on FounderBeats where she shared her story.
GoIndex by Mark crossed 100 sales two and a half months after launch. GoIndex is an SEO indexing tool and Mark built its first version in less than 30 days
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⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for AI-Powered Real-time Translation for Events
Develop a micro-SaaS platform that enables event organizers to add live audio translation into their events. This would make their content accessible to a multilingual audience. Event organizers should be able to set up their event on the platform, specifying the source and target languages. The tool would use AI to translate the speakers' words and listen in their preferred language and attendees would access the audio translations along with subtitles on their own devices via a web link.
Worldy is a major player in this space with 1500+ customers and millions of users. VoicePing's QR code based translation system used by 25K+ users, lets attendees easily access translations on their own device without needing to download an app .
⛳ 💡 Peer-to-Peer Recognition Slack App
Maintaining employee engagement, motivation, and a sense of connection can be challenging especially for remote or hybrid teams. Build a Slack app that captures the day-to-day contributions by enabling team members to easily recognize and appreciate their colleagues' efforts. Include a points-based reward system where recognitions can be redeemed for perks or benefits. Provide monthly leaderboards to showcase top recognizers and recipients. Generate reports on recognition patterns and employee engagement levels. Use AI to provide deeper insights into team dynamics and suggest areas for improvement.
Drawing inspiration from Seed.hr, the app can also incorporate an environmental or social aspect, such as planting trees, contributing to wildlife conservation efforts etc. based on recognition activity. Karma a slack bot for peer recognition and engagement developed by Stas reached $33K/month revenue.
⛳ 💡 Automated Indexing Tool for SEO
Large web sites such with thousands of pages like e-commerce websites, programmatic sites, directories etc. face issues in getting their pages indexed quickly and efficiently by search engines. Build a Micro SaaS for automated indexing of web pages that integrates with search engines like Google, Bing etc. and submit URLs for indexing on behalf of the website owner. The tool should automatically identify all the pages that need to be indexed. Allow for bulk indexing enabling users to submit large batches of URLs for indexing. Provide integration with Google Search Console and other webmaster tools to provide a unified view of indexing status and search performance.
indexwiz by Kirill has acquired 50+ customers. GoIndex by Mark reached 100 sales within 2.5 months of launch.
⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for Artistic QR Code Generation using AI
QR codes provide consumers with a user-friendly way to visit websites, install apps, browse menus or access special offers. For brands, they are essential for marketing campaigns and for analysing data. Develop a tool that uses AI to generate visually appealing, brand-aligned QR codes. Users input their brand colors, logo, and style preferences, and the AI generates QR code designs. Provide a dashboard for organizing, editing, and archiving QR codes. Allow users to create multiple versions of a QR code and track which performs better.
See Quick QR Art that is used by 200K+ event organizers, digital marketers and entrepreneurs. QR Code AI another player in this niche is now generating $4.8K in monthly revenue
⛳ 💡 A/B Testing for Forms/Surveys/Polls
Build a Micro SaaS tool that helps with A/B testing for forms/surveys/polls. This can be done in various ways but the tools should be able to support A/B testing for forms including an embed option for websites. The tool should automatically split-test the form with various variations including an option to track the traffic and stats.
For inspiration, see Leadformly that’s used by 10,000 small businesses in 150+ countries. Leadformly is a form analytics tool that helps you design and test interactive website forms to capture new leads, and collect visitor feedback and also helps build multi-step forms using over 50+ templates and experiment with their variations using the inbuilt A/ B testing platform to improve user experience and maximize response rate.
⛳ 💡 Desk and Meeting Rooms Booking for Hybrid Teams
With many companies going into Hybrid and cost-cutting mode, there is a greater need to optimize resources both from a planning and cost standpoint. This led to a new niche around SaaS tools for booking desks, meeting rooms, and other related resources in the companies. Tools like these are required by both medium and large-scale companies. The primary benefit of SaaS tools for booking desks and meeting rooms is that it simplifies the process of managing and tracking the usage of these resources. With the help of these tools, companies can easily monitor and manage their resources in real time. It helps reduce the manual effort and time spent managing the resources. Companies can also ensure better utilization of resources, leading to increased efficiency and productivity. The tools also provide detailed analytics that can be used to identify the trends and patterns in the usage of the resources.
Founded in 2020, Tactic received $3.5M in funding. Officely has reached $75K in monthly recurring revenue by tweaking into Slack primarily. A product like Ronspot has received €1.1M in funding and niched down to multiple use cases like booking parking lots too along with desks and meeting rooms.
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📈⚡ AI Trends this Week
French startup Kyutai introduced Moshi, the lowest latency conversational AI that can talk and engage in many emotions and speaking styles.
Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games.
Shopify announced AI-powered features including AI-powered product creation, AI-generated response in Shopify inbox and updates to AI image editing. Sidekick, AI-enabled commerce assistant is in early access [Details].
Synthesia adds major updates to its platform including full-body avatars that will be fully controllable.
Cloudflare has introduced a one-click feature that allows users to block AI bots
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