> Looking to Feature Micro SaaS Entrpreneurs I'm writing a piece on micro SaaS startups and I'm looking for some founders to feature. > To be considered, please tell me: - What's your micro-SaaS and what problem does it solve? I build and run TheBlue.social. It is a social media cross-posting tool. Social media marketers and solo creators can spend a lot of time posting efficiently on social media. TheBlue.social makes it effective and stress-free. - How did you come up with the idea? as it based on your own pain point? I was looking for Bluesky tools to grow my (then) new Bluesky account and couldn't find any. So I built a few follow-back tool for myself and shared with others. They found it useful so I built more. Then I expanded to Bluesky analytics and scheduled posting then scheduled posting across multiple social networks. - What made you choose a micro-SaaS instead of a traditional SaaS or a bigger startup model? I wanted to try a few different ideas and see which has legs, and I was/am bootstrapping and don't want the burdens of being funded by a third party that expands incredible growth and returns. - How long did it take to build the MVP? 2 weeks, this was just before the incredible wave of agentic coding tools. - What was your process for validating the idea before writing code? I didn't. I wanted a tool for myself so I built it and shared with thers. - When did you get your first paying customer? I wait too long. But once I did, I did it by putting up a price plan and asking users to pay to unlock features and higher usage limits. - Is your micro-SaaS profitable? Yes. - What pricing model worked best for you — subscription, lifetime, usage-based? Subscription and lifetime. I support both. The latter helps to provide funds for early development. - Do you run the micro-SaaS as a side project, full-time business, or passive income stream? I work full-time on it. - What tools or frameworks did you use? (No-code? Low-code? Custom dev?) I have been programming for a long time (30 years). But I use agentic coding tools like Claude Code heavily.
I got tired of how slow and tedious video creation was for small teams, so I started Magic Hour. My time at Meta taught me to solve one specific problem without overcomplicating things. We started with just our core video tool, asked creators for feedback, and built from there. Now this is my full-time job. We learned that creators don't want a bunch of options, they just want a simple, reliable monthly plan that's affordable.
I started Superpower as a side project because my own health journey was a mess. Finding the right biomarkers took forever and just frustrated me. I spent weeks talking to early users and doctors to figure out if this was even worth building. Made a basic prototype first to see what actually helped people. The usage-based pricing worked best since folks could pay for what they needed. My advice? Build something simple first, don't waste time on features nobody wants.
Thank you for the opportunity to be featured in your piece on micro-SaaS startups. Our platform, The SLPeaceBot serves Speech Therapy professionals and addresses their specific workflow needs. We built it internally first to address the issues we were having within our practice with tasks not being completed as expected or taking a long time to complete. To build our initial user base, we offered a free beta to the first 5,000 SLPs and created an insider-only entry riddle to generate buzz, while positioning the platform as more affordable than an annual manicure. We also leveraged influencer social media marketing within the speech therapy community to drive early adoption.
I was spending way too much time hunting for deals online, so I built ShipTheDeal to do the work for me. It scans shopping sites and just shows the good stuff. I tested the idea for a month in deal forums and newsletters before building anything. The early version used no-code tools to keep costs down. Those lifetime deals got me my first customers, and now it's making money on the side while I add features that actual deal hunters ask for.
I run a Power BI consultancy and our main line of business is creating custom Power BI reports for clients. About a year ago we launched a micro-SaaS offers of Power BI connectors. This is our own software that automatically extracts the data from different sources into Power BI. As of now we are extracting the data from QuickBooks, Xero, Clickup, Zoom, Zoho Books and Hubspot. We also offer a free Power BI dashboard with any of our connectors. The idea came up in 2023 when we partnered with a company that provided Power BI connectors. We found success selling their software but their customer support was lacking which damaged our reputation a little bit. We then decided to launch our own software to be fully in control of customer support. We had a lot of Python scripts that we previously used to extract the data automatically for clients. We started by developing these scripts further to let clients automatically install our connectors. It took about 1 month to build the MVP of the first connector. At the same time we started posting about our connector on reddit and Microsoft forum which generated a lot of interest in our products. We basically got our first customer a week after launching the MVP. Our SaaS is very profitable. We charge annual subscriptions of $1000-1600 per year for every data source connector that we sell. Our direct costs are $240-400 per connector per year. We built our SaaS using Python code and Azure technologies. As a Microsoft partner we receive $5000 worth of Azure credits that we use to cover the direct costs for connectors.
I was running a language school in Asia and the billing and scheduling was taking up my whole week. So we built a simple tool to handle it. We argued about the approach, but ended up putting together a basic version in two months using low-code tools. We showed it to a few school owners first to make sure we got it right. Now I do this full-time, it's actually profitable, and more schools are signing up because it saves them so much time.