Ask HN: How to get a B2B SaaS idea, and get cutomers? I want to build a revenue generating project but not sure how to find an idea and customers for it. Any advice would be appreciated. |
Ask HN: How to get a B2B SaaS idea, and get cutomers? I want to build a revenue generating project but not sure how to find an idea and customers for it. Any advice would be appreciated. |
You won’t be able to find a B2B problem from the outside. You need to be inside and observe. If you pay attention you’ll find a ton of business ideas.
Look at tasks for which Excel is being used, but not really built for
Find a successful product that is desktop based, make a web version of it
Find a successful product that is not well designed (it is successful maybe because it was first) and do it better
Find tasks that are done manually, but can be automated, and automate them
Look at "traditional" biz rather than software biz - these businesses are likely to be less tech savvy and probably use outdated tools and tech.
Identify a need in a community, build a product around that need.
Then ask them what they'd pay for if you built it. If it's scalable and cashflow positive, you have a business. If not, you don't.
I'm a dev and got tired of boilerplate code and refactoring, among many other things. So I built something that makes me 10X+ more productive. Now looking for users and customers.