23 ideas for your next SaaS

The book contains full descriptions of 23 ideas of SaaS apps

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I wrote down all the ideas of apps during about 5 years. One day I decided to share some of them as a free newsletter, and then I thought that book sounds interesting. I added 7 more ideas and the book was born.

August 7, 2019 My story from far past

16 years ago I started working as a software developer and in 2004 I knew for the first time that it is possible to create your own software and sell it. That time it was called "shareware" because usually makers allowed to try products first (what's called "trial" now). I immediately started thinking about what I could create. I even quit my job, coded like a hell in .Net and created a product I couldn't sell because I didn't find any customers (not actually, because I had one sale). It was a program like a digital diary for nature observations. But that time people used Excel or just paper notebooks and weren't interested too much in such programs :(

In 2006 I knew for the first time a term "startup". And, of course, I started thinking about my own startup's idea. And I started working on it (I didn't quit my job this time but worked on evenings and weekends). And I coded like a hell in ASP.Net and created a web service for creating your own documentation that you could embed into your website. I failed that time too because I didn't have enough patience to find my customers.

And back to our days. Currently, there is a lot of services for diaries, and a lot of services for keeping your online documentation and it's harder to find a new idea day by day.

6 years ago I started writing all the ideas that came to my head. Monstrous and tiny, smart and stupid, I wrote down all of them, and now the Google doc has 39 pages of these short notes. Finally, I decided to package them in some way. First, I created email series called "SaaS Idea Weekly" and sent 16 ideas. It turned out that writing and packaging take soooo much time, but anyway I managed to add 7 more ideas and decided to package it as a book. I wrote the text and my team helped me to edit and design.

August 7, 2019 I have 3 sales

Well, it's not a great result. But I think I wouldn't probably expect more because I do nothing to market and promote the book.
My nearest plan includes the following steps:

  • find a great product hunter and launch on PH
  • keep posting information on Twitter (give more details on the book?)
  • keep posting in other places (like reddit but they reject my post so I'm puzzling how I would do that).
August 5, 2019 The book is available, hey-ho!

Finally!
After rewriting and refining text, editing, proofreading, creating illustrations I finished the book.
It's now available here https://www.saasforge.dev/books/23-ideas-for-your-next-saas
The book contains descriptions of 23 ideas of SaaS applications. 16 of them are the same as my 16-weeks series SaaS Idea Weekly https://www.caravelstudio.io/saasideaweekly has. My subscribers will able to get the book just for $7 (I will send the information tomorrow).
The book has:

  • 150 pages
  • 23 ideas of SaaS apps
  • 23 tips for SaaS founders

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I wrote down all the ideas of apps during about 5 years. One day I decided to share some of them as a free newsletter, and then I thought that book sounds interesting. I added 7 more ideas and the book was born.