9 models to generate unique SaaS ideas

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Disclaimer : This is not the most optimal way to start a business.

Instead, start with identifying painful problems, preferably your own.

But if you can't find any, the models below can help.

Build for the unsexy.

The unsexy is more frequently than not, underserved.

And it's easier to come up with unsexy jobs & markets than it is to identify underserved market segments.

https://www.hellorevel.com/ is a community for women in their 40s, 50s,
 and beyond (Not that women in their 40s are unsexy, but the market is).

https://haulingbuddies.com/ is a marketplace for transport providers.

Supercharge digital properties.

Think of supercharging like popeye's spinach :

Popeye + Spinach = Supercharged Popeye.

https://withkoji.com/ + Link in bio = Supercharged Link in bio.

https://blackmagic.so/ + Twitter Profile = Supercharged Twitter Profile.

https://www.outseta.com/ + Website = Supercharged Website.

UX as a value proposition.

Superior UX is obvious, customers can see why your product is better right away.

Build what exists already with 10x simplified UX.

https://tally.so/ is "The simplest way to create forms" and you can see it without scrolling past their hero section.

Productize Upwork Jobs.

You've heard of unbundling cragislist, reddit, and freelance categories.

Productized services offer a different way to unbundle freelance marketplaces like upwork.

Instead of building another marketplace focused on a specific category, build a productized service for a specific job.

https://24slides.com/ redesign presentations for businesses & agencies.

https://www.fairpixels.co/ creates custom logos for startups.

https://earli.dev builds MVPs for founders at a fixed monthly price. (Shameless Plug)

Be a better middleman.

The simplest way to be a better middleman is to provide a commission-free solution in a market where commission-based pricing is the dominating revenue model.

Public.com makes it possible to buy stock without commissions.

https://get.chownow.com/demo/food-delivery-service provides restaurants with a commission-free alternative to apps like doordash and ubereats.

https://www.newton.co/ helps Canadians invest in cryptocurrencies without transactional fees.

Make your customer's data more useful.

Nowadays we're getting more data than what we know what to do with.

Help people & companies filter, interpret and make better use of the data they already have.

https://ilo.so helps you organize & understand your Twitter analytics.

https://june.so/ provides insightful dashboards for subscription businesses using segment.

https://www.tydo.com/ does the same thing for DTC brands.

https://dailytics.com/ sends a daily analytics digest to publishers with the most important metrics and events, effectively filtering all the noise they have to sift through on Google analytics.

Facilitate third-party collaboration

Collaboration is how humans solve hard problems and achieve otherwise inaccessible goals.

Build tools that make collaboration easier for independent parties within a market segment.

https://flowtheapp.com/ helps beat creators collaborate with established artists and sign secure collaboration agreements.

https://www.faire.com/ helps brands find and collaborate with retailers to sell their products.

Make complex technology accessible

If a specific technology provides significant benefits for its users, but involves a steep learning curve to be used, it is bound to be turned into something anyone can use.

https://bubble.io/ allows anyone to build apps without writing code.

https://pretrained.ai/ allows companies to build and configure AI Models without machine learning knowledge.

https://firelab.io/ allows developers & companies to create & run automated tests of their apps without writing unit tests.

Curate, Collect & Centralize Valuable information

There's a lot of valuable information online, but it's scattered across websites and buried under piles of content.

Collect & organize value for your industry and put a price on it.

https://www.thegrowthlist.co/ curates & summarizes growth opportunities.

https://growthranker.com/ collects growing digital businesses and their revenue numbers.

https://pageflows.com/ collects the best user flows across multiple web and mobile apps.