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Building A Micro-SaaS

The document discusses various platforms and tools that can be used at different stages of building a micro-SaaS business, including platforms for ideation, development, launching, listing, and gathering feedback. Some highlighted platforms include ProductHunt, Indie Hackers, Glide, Bubble and Carrd for building, DigitalOcean and Render for deployment, and Upvoty and Typeform for feedback. The platforms are suitable for founders with different skill levels and experience.

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683 views

Building A Micro-SaaS

The document discusses various platforms and tools that can be used at different stages of building a micro-SaaS business, including platforms for ideation, development, launching, listing, and gathering feedback. Some highlighted platforms include ProductHunt, Indie Hackers, Glide, Bubble and Carrd for building, DigitalOcean and Render for deployment, and Upvoty and Typeform for feedback. The platforms are suitable for founders with different skill levels and experience.

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Building a Micro-SaaS: Best Tools

and Platforms In 2022

Platforms to Discover Micro-SaaS Ideas


Most of the platforms mentioned below double up as idea validation, customer
acquisition, and marketing channels for your product. By joining these
communities and building in public, you can leverage timely feedback and
knowledge exchange to accelerate your product development.

Ideation Platforms
1. #RequestForProduct: #RequestforProduct is a crowd-sourced directory
of product ideas pulled from tweets by people who wish such products
existed. It’s a great platform to discover a diverse range of problems and
micro-SaaS ideas.
2. Product Ideas On-Demand: Product Ideas On-Demand leverages AI
modeling to generate product ideas based on your previous projects or
interests and skills. They offer a free bi-weekly email with 10 product
ideas to users who subscribe to their newsletter. Alternatively, you can
pay $5 to receive 5-personalized product ideas.

Forums and Communities


1. Indie Hackers: Indie Hackers is a popular online community where the
founders of profitable micro-SaaS businesses and side projects share
their stories. The platform also hosts a product directory where you can
list your products and discussion groups to give and receive feedback
on everything related to starting your own micro-SaaS business.

2. ProductHunt: Primarily, a website to launch products, ProductHunt also


features active discussion threads where you can trade product ideas, receive
feedback, and connect with other solo micro-SaaS founders and
entrepreneurs.

Twitter
Follow popular hashtags like #micro-saas, #buildinpublic, #startup, #nocode,
and so on to build connections with entrepreneurs in a similar industry and
find product ideas. Twitter threads can also be used to promote your product
and acquire clients.

Reddit
Popular subreddits like r/startups, r/saas, and r/micro-saas are a treasure
trove for startup founders. You can validate product ideas, ask technical
questions about building MVPs, brainstorm with other community members,
and much more on these threads.

Platforms to Build Your Micro-SaaS


Choosing a development platform for micro-SaaS largely boils down to
personal preferences based on the founder’s skill set, experience, and the
product’s use case. However, there are great no-code tools that even founders
with developer backgrounds use to build their micro-SaaS products.

Sideprojectstack
A website created to help guide new founders and developers,
Sideprojectstack uses tech stack data from successful projects to give you
recommendations on the best no-code tools for your micro-SaaS product
based on your answers to a questionnaire.

Building a Micro-SaaS With No-Code Platforms


1. Glide: Glide lets you build micro-SaaS websites and apps based on your
data from Google Sheets, Excel, Airtable, and other data sources. Their
pre-built templates and easy drag-and-drop builder make it easy for beginners
to build apps for diverse use-cases.

Pricing: Glide offers a free plan for founders to build up to 3 apps. Their paid
plans start from $25/ month and their pro plan retails for $99/month.

2. Softr: Softr offers a wide range of app-building functionalities. Creators can


use the platform to build micro-SaaS websites, web apps, marketplaces,
communities, resource directories, and more using Airtable data.
Pricing: Softr offers a free plan with access to create unlimited applications,
build membership sites with up to 5 members, and install paywalls. Their paid
plans start from $24/month, and their professional plan retails for $65/month
with a membership of up to 10,000 members.

Building a Micro-SaaS with Low-Code Platform


Bubble: One of the best platforms for building everything from micro-SaaS app
prototypes to functioning web apps, Bubble also offers developers the
opportunity to combine no-code and low-code by supporting custom code for
additional functionality.

Pricing: Bubble offers a free plan to get started on the platform with access to
all the core features of the platform and community support. Their paid plans
start from $25/month with email support, custom domain, and API
integrations.

Building a Micro-SaaS with Web Development


Platforms
1. Render: Render is a Platform-as-a-service solution that has gained
popularity among founders and developers for micro-SaaS and early-stage
projects where scale isn’t a priority. To illustrate, Render boasts instant
deploys for apps and zero-downtime with automated builds and deploys for
supported languages.

Pricing: Render offers free plans for static sites and services with access to
custom dock containers and domains. Their Starter and Starter Plus plans
start from $7/month and $15/month, respectively.

2. DigitalOcean: DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider


that helps developers build, test, and scale micro-SaaS apps and websites.
Notably, DigitalOcean offers a cost-effective solution for managing app server
infrastructure needs whereby you pay only when your resources are active.

Pricing: DigitalOcean offers a free starter plan to build static sites and apps
with access to unlimited team members. While their Basic plan is $5/month,
their Professional plan is $12/month with additional charges based on shared
CPUs and dedicated CPUs.
Platforms to Launch Your Micro-SaaS
One of the more exciting stages of building a micro-SaaS, there are two paths a
founder can take to launch a Micro-SaaS. One path involves building a landing
page (with CTAs to sign up like early-bird access, discounts, etc.), gauging
product demand, and subsequently building an MVP and shipping it. Conversely,
you can simply build the micro-SaaS and market it post-launch.

Platform to Build Landing Pages


Carrd: Carrd is a popular low-code tool to build responsive one-page sites.
Chiefly, it is used to build landing pages with email capture forms; however, it
can also be used to build personal profiles, craft website launches, and more.

Pricing: With Carrd’s free plan, you can build up to three sites per account.
However, if you need more functionality, you can upgrade to their pro plan at
$19/year. With their pro plan, you can embed your custom code and widgets
from third-party services, add Google Analytics tracking IDs, etc.

Platforms to List Your Micro-SaaS


1. ProductHunt: ProductHunt is one of the best platforms to list your
micro-SaaS product. With higher rates of visitor traffic and early adopters,
ProductHunt offers the best conversion/adoption rates for micro-SaaS
products.

2. BetaList: BetaList is a platform where product creators and user


communities showcase their products and exchange feedback. However,
while ProductHunt offers free launches for products without any wait time,
BetaList states that it can take up to two months to get listed. There is,
however, a paid option to skip the waiting queue.

3. Gumroad: Gumroad is an e-commerce platform where creators can sell


everything from products to emoji packs. Further, it offers flexibility to creators
whereby they can embed Gumroad in their existing site. You can set up simple
memberships or subscription plans that let subscribers pay over customizable
periods.
Platforms to Gather Feedback
Gathering feedback from early adopters and beta users is the cornerstone of
building a profitable Micro-SaaS product. This is because early
adopters—through their requests for features and bug fixes—help you unlock
the potential in your micro-SaaS product. Hence, engaging with your
community of early supporters can not only boost morale but also enable you
to create a beloved product.

Upvoty: Upvoty is a SaaS-optimized feedback platform that gives users a voice


by letting them submit and vote for new features. Further, you can share a
product roadmap with your users so they can check out newly-launched
features or track their progress.

Pricing: Upvoty offers a 14-day free trial post which you can choose from their
Power, Super Power, and Unlimited Power plans. Their plans start from
$15/month supporting up to 150 tracked users.

Typeform: Typeform is a powerful feedback platform for creating surveys,


forms, and quizzes that get answered. Extremely popular among micro-SaaS
and startup founders as a lead generation tool, it can be embedded onto
product launch pages to perform market-fit research surveys, collect user
information, build email lists, and more.

Pricing: Typeform offers three plans–Basic, Plus, and Business. Their basic
plan is $25/month and offers access to unlimited Typeforms, question
branching/logic jumps, and form personalization features.

Source: SaaStitute

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