I have been looking through IndieHacker reported revenues for inspiration like this. What I found is a surprising number of ideas work and make $5k+ MRR and so not to get too hung up on the idea as long as it is feasible that people will pay for it.
For example someone is charging $30/m to convert PDF bank statements to CSV, and someone a similar price to effectively static site generate off a Google Sheet. It is all in how you sell it I guess! These are not trivial products but they are not things you need a team to build.
My thought is to build quick, get in front of people and then iterate on that feedback. Instead of building stealth then finding no one wants it.
Well done on this launch!
I was tempted to build something like this off IH but felt that I am not adding much value since IH already spill the beans. Although maybe running an LLM over each idea to spit out a summary might be cool (maybe I will do that).
I have some other ideas along the idea of build X but sell the side effects, the problems solved along the way.
Thank you! I think you're so right and I used that spirit to launch Gumtrends. I was worried about the reaction of people (about bugs, the scraping, missing features) but I'm so happy I launched anyway.
For example someone is charging $30/m to convert PDF bank statements to CSV, and someone a similar price to effectively static site generate off a Google Sheet. It is all in how you sell it I guess! These are not trivial products but they are not things you need a team to build.
My thought is to build quick, get in front of people and then iterate on that feedback. Instead of building stealth then finding no one wants it.
Well done on this launch!
I was tempted to build something like this off IH but felt that I am not adding much value since IH already spill the beans. Although maybe running an LLM over each idea to spit out a summary might be cool (maybe I will do that).
I have some other ideas along the idea of build X but sell the side effects, the problems solved along the way.