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It's hard to say whether that would work without knowing the landscape of market in that area, like if there's a need and if there are competitors. It sounds like what you're suggestion could be a full blown app with accounts that link to AWS? Or would it be a tool lib you pay to download?

I'm trying to look for ideas that won't require marketing or anything other than just making the software. It seems something like a donation based business model or a small fee perpetual license, and it would be for end users, but so far it seems those are extremely rare.



There are some services out there like https://uploadcare.com/ and https://www.filestack.com/ but they offer lots of stuff and are not cheap.

My idea is to have an APIaaS and offer simpler ways to integrate with one or multiple providers. Files could be saved to the customers' accounts.

Features could include transformations, compression, conversion, spend management and insights, etc.

Not sure if that sounds appealing to others but I would have used such a service on my previous serverless project if there was such a service with reasonable pricing.


hm you would need to use tools like google trends and some keyword research to find something people are already looking for naturally but isnt really there. That may work.




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