How do you know your SAAS idea is any good?

We hear this question multiple times in our Micro SaaS HQ community. The simplest answer is to build a landing page to clear your thoughts and start building your waitlist. Make sure you get atleast 40-50 signups and you are able to talk to 10-15 folks 1:1. Don't get into coding unless MVP is a must need for users.

But long answer:
Don't pick an idea casually. Do some research, there are hundreds of niches available. You can find some good ideas in Micro SaaS Ideas Newsletter.

Once you get a hang of the SaaS ecosystem, this is what I recommend to people -

1. Start small
2. Start with landing pages and build waitlist without building full product
3. Launch on BetaList, PH
4. Make posts on Reddit, IH
5. Use ads to add a few more signups.
6. Talk to users 1:1 (Read The Mom's Test)
7. Get the vibe and incrementally build the product if there is positive vibe.

There are different ways to approach this

• Launch a landing page and see if ppl are interested
• You can do the same with a Tweet if you have some followers
• You can validate by checking if other startups exist in the same field/competitors
• You can use SEO keyword research - is there good volume behind some of the key words behind your startups?
• You can build an MVP (< 1 week) and see if ppl are interested in using it/get feedback from ppl!

I can tell you it's a bad idea if you can't find other startups doing exactly the same thing.

If it's easy to get interviews and you are able to get some meaningful description of a problem from them. For me it shows at least that:

• someone have this problem
• people want to talk + that's not a big deal to get interviews with them -> signs that it would be not so hard to get first few users for MVP
• you know audience a little bit and your wording resonate with them -> you have some kind of unfair advantage due to your previous knowledge of nieche

Conduct a Market Opportunity Assessment > if it passes that, build a landing page and promote it to see how much interest/sign-ups it gets > build a proof of concept and let testers try it out > build an MVP and let testers try it out > Launch it and let everyone try it out.

If you see a demand.