I have built https://microsaasidea.com to 25,000 subscribers and is one of the fastest growing newsletters around SaaS. The newsletter talks about various niches that Micro SaaS builders can pick up. It kind of covers various Micro SaaS trends, opportunities, technical chops, marketing chops, cost analysis for every niche. We have more than 1000 ideas covered with data points and it's growing fast.
I recently also attached a closed community for the subscribers where we talk about a lot of experiments, MVPs and trends.
I have built $100K/yr business with SaaS, Newsletter etc. For example, at https://microsaashq.com alone I handle 500 Pro subscribers. Then got 2 SaaS platforms. And a few other products too. (May not be applicable for college or school but some pointers in general)
Below are three big things.
- Pomodoro technique really helps.
- Make your next day's todo list on the previous day
- If you have data points, Bucketize tasks based on ROI (not based on amount of efforts)
Build various products and used multiple payment providers. While Stripe and Paddle are the best ones, you can also use PayPal, Gumroad, LemonSqueezy etc. too, to accept payments, but they don’t perfectly fit this use case.
This is so true. Irrespective of whether the founder read the book before or after building the business, this still makes sense to see a recommendation from a successful founder.
I write about this at https://microsaasidea.com on how businesses are doing in each niche and how other can pick ideas in a given niche. It also has a boostrapping community attached.
As some one was mentioning in the comments, https://microsaashq.com is one the communities out there and I run this community. Its primarily an async community for conversations.
Also, note that its not just a simple community but its a massive ecosystem for Micro SaaS builders with niche reports (detailed reports for multiple ideas in a given niche along with a lot of analysis on technical chops, marketing chops, competitor analysis etc, costs analysis to implement an idea). We also recently launched Founder Insights series with Founder Interviews from 1000+ founders mapped to each niche.
And to answer your original question around communities - Our community has all conversations ranging from mental health to idea feedback to landing pages feedback to sharing wins/loses with some weekly streaks/monthly streaks.
Would be happy to answer any questions. I am a builder and I myself took a few of these models and implemented successfully.
Hi there!! Founder here from https://microsaashq.com - I can understand what you mean with so many resources on internet that promise passive income and random ideas.
No, MicroSaaSHQ operates in a different way. They are not some random ideas. Each idea is researched around a given niche, comes with analysis around Technical chops, Marketing chops, Costs analysis to cater to 100 customers, keyword analysis for existing competitors etc.
The goal is to make it as easy as possible for someone to start picking ideas. I myself picked a few of these and able to make them profitable.
Another big asset is the community out these to discuss about each topic. We are also making this bigger and better with Founder interviews and Founder insights from 1000+ founders.
So, yeah its a massive ecosystem around Micro SaaS and some Non Micro SaaS stuff like Communities, Info Products, Marketplaces, Productized Services etc too.