Sose

https://www.sose.app/

Finally launched the landing page built on tailwind UI. Asked for feedback here https://www.indiehackers.com/post/time-for-another-roast-post-5d90169b06

In general seems to be positive, but I'm still not getting any positive or negative signals in terms of customer development. For the people that have looked at the website, none of them have been compelled to sign up or reach out to say I want access when you have it.

As someone brought up in the feedback, part of what might be missing is why do I even want to build a micro SaaS app? Why build plugins? In a way I need to sell the idea of building onto larger ecosystems, and that we help you do that easily. Just jumping to the "we help you do that easily" doesn't make as much sense if you're not fully entertaining the idea that you want to do what we are making easy.

I've rebranded from ProductRank to Sose. I really like short names and the app tld domain is available. The .com seems to be unoccupied, so potentially available to me down the road (for a price).

I've talked to several people who seem to be keen on the overall idea, but they aren't potential users. I'm still trying to narrow that audience down and figure out how to find the right kind of people. I made a survey (https://xyrbp17zsdo.typeform.com/to/n3bk036u) that no one is filling out that would help me understand the audience better. I need to figure out how to properly incentivize people to fill it out.

The backend is well underway and I've collected usable data for growth on 100k+ SaaS products. Right now I'm working on measuring saturation signals and getting that data for API/marketplaces that surround products. This is important for understanding what would be profitable to build third party tools for.

Also working on the landing page and product positioning. Hopefully the product will connect with some people soon.

After a few months of clarifying my criteria and thinking deeply about what I want in a project, and then searching for problems I think I've hit on something that meets my own criteria and is a real problem as far as I can tell.

As an independent developer I want to be able to find platforms/apps/sites with opportunities for me to build on them and add value as a third party. For example an emerging blogging platform to develop plugins, an enterprise SaaS to build migration tools for, an emerging social channel to build analytics for, etc. The idea is to create an index of apps/platforms/sites and attempt to measure their traction and growth. This index can then be used to identify opportunities for developers to hitch their wagons to. You can think of this as the product research aspect of JungleScout for third party tool developers.

My next steps are talking to other indie hackers and look at the technical feasibility and what signals we can practically use.