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MicroConf Tactics: SaaS Ideas To Build Right Now That Will Make You $10k+ MRR
Wed Jun 28 2023Description
The episode discusses various SaaS ideas to generate revenue, identifies pain points in different industries, and explores opportunities in the RV camping industry.
Insights
SaaS Ideas for Revenue Generation
The episode presents four SaaS ideas including a chat app for medical teams, project management software for roofers, an automated qualitative data platform for customer feedback, and a tool to manage SSL certificates.
Identified Pain Points
The episode highlights pain points in industries such as interpreting qualitative customer feedback, managing SSL certificates, improving visualization in the construction industry, providing centralized job alerts for freelancers, and streamlining the paperwork process of car sales.
Opportunities in RV Camping Industry
The episode explores the potential in the RV camping industry by discussing the need for solving existing pain points, offering mastermind matching for founders, suggesting a website for booking RV campsites online, and sharing insights from successful ventures in this space.
Chapters
- SaaS Ideas to Generate Revenue
- Identified Industry Pain Points
- Opportunities in the RV Camping Industry
SaaS Ideas to Generate Revenue
00:07 - 06:38
- Slack for medical teams, a chat app with encryption approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- Project management software for roofers with Gantt chart or Cascade Diagram Management System
- Automated qualitative data platform for customer feedback using natural language processing (NLP)
- Tool to manage SSL certificates including tracking expiration dates and sending renewal warnings
Identified Industry Pain Points
06:16 - 12:36
- Need for a tool to interpret qualitative customer feedback and potentially expand into other verticals
- Tool to manage SSL certificates including tracking expiration dates and sending renewal warnings
- App for riffing mock-ups and visualization in the construction industry to increase sales and customer satisfaction
- Centralized job alerts for freelancing websites like Upwork and Freelancer.com would be helpful for freelance web designers
- Platform to streamline the paperwork process of car sales to save time for both sellers and buyers
- Further research needed to understand why certain pain points haven't been solved in these industries
Opportunities in the RV Camping Industry
12:11 - 14:55
- Pain point in the RV camping industry that hasn't been solved yet
- Microconf offering mastermind matching for like-minded founders to support each other on their entrepreneurial journey
- Bonus idea: Create a website similar to Kayak or Expedia that allows users to book RV campsites online
- Challenges and hurdles involved in building such a platform mentioned by producer Ron
- Attempts in this space, but none successfully combined government, state, federal, and private campgrounds
- Success story of Anna Mast's microconf talk about building boondockers welcome, an Airbnb-like platform for camping that was eventually sold for a significant amount of money