Micro SaaS from ZERO to $2,500/m in 6 Simple Steps

- Speaker A walks through six simple steps to building a Microsoft as a solo founder. Focus on the core feature, launch quickly, accept the failure, and move on. - Speaker A advises entrepreneurs to identify a problem in their routine, narrow it down to a micro niche, create a simple next js project, and ask it to create a GPT assistant. Then start making tests with the real audience. - Dennis advises his audience to start chatting with their audience one on one. He learned that his audience included AI engineers, other developers, and even individuals without coding experience who were looking for quick no code solutions.

I've been in software development for over ten years and along the way I learned that selling a traditional it company is tough, but building and exiting with a microsize is much easier. After studying successful examples, I launched three microsize products and they started generating profits almost instantly on autopilot. That's why today I'm excited to walk you through six simple steps to building a Microsoft as a solo founder. Lets go first, dont waste time looking for some unique ideas, just start. None of us are unique and we wont come up with something new. Your ideas are 99% already on the market, you just havent found your competitors. Launching something new is entirely about luck, so dont even think about relying on it. Launch quickly. Build an mvp in one to two weeks using services that help you get to market fast. Focus on the core feature. Over 95% of the ideas you launch won't succeed and at that point you will need to accept the failure and move on. Even if your product doesn't take off, you will gain invaluable experience in the process. I know 95% of my ideas will fail, which is why I need a system, basically a framework I can plug into any of my ideas. You can rely on no code tools, but I really hate these tools. They are not scalable and will cost an arm and a lag at the end of the day. So I created a microsass fast tool that lets me focus only on coding the idea while skipping over things like building a landing page, setting up stripe, email integration and all that. And yeah this product is a clone. Nothing original, but it has a unique value that helps me and my clients ship products super fast. You can find the link in the video description. Next, identify a problem in your routine. Create your first microsass and along the way you will encounter numerous new challenges that you can turn into additional microsize solutions. This was the focus of my latest video. You can create solutions but you cant create problems. Identifying problems is directly tied to research a group of people and understanding their pain points. The formula is identify your problem or the problem of your audience. Narrow it down to a micro niche. Let's say you want to help people write highly engaged to it. So what can you do? Just create a simple next js project using this command. Then go to chat GPT zero one mini and ask it to create a GPT assistant for you. Then add this code to your next G's project. Just don't forget to add the OpenAI API key and boom. You have a tool that you can modify and enhance till it shines and solve the real problem of your tweets or your audience. Tweets. Just play with prompting your assistant's instructions, cycles, and assistance memory. Another great example of identifying a problem is the story behind Ken's product jobmate. The idea came to Ken while he was job hunting and found himself exhausted from sending out his resume and filling out numerous applications each day. To handle this issue, he decided to automate the process, ultimately saving his users twelve to 15 hours of these tasks. As a result, he now earns up to $10,000 mrr. So once you pinpointed a problem, take some time to branch term five to ten possible solutions. After evaluating your options, pick the simplest one and start making tests with the real audience. As you develop your solution, keep these key principles in the mind most SaaS and microsass projects fail because their founders keep the focus on development and not on identifying, solving and testing their users problems. Great story. Johnny Boyarsky shared his journey in 2021, Johnny embarked on his project as a solo developer with no technical background. He asked for help from ad development studio and ended up spending $95,000 to create his product. The project, Startsync offered fans the chance to spend time with their idols online. Unfortunately, he skipped the crucial step of creating an MVP and testing his idea beforehand. As a result, most people werent willing to pay from 500 or 1000 just to hang up with their idols. The development cost ballooned nearly to $100,000 while actual revenue barely reached a few thousand dollars over time. Please like and subscribe if you want to learn more about microsys. Thanks. Step three you are solo founder so use your superpower. Start chatting with your audience one on one. Big companies cannot use this strategy because its not scalable. But in your case this is the best way to learn and grow. Make Zoom meetings and ask questions such as where their time spent, what do they hate having to do, what is their standard routine? Flow? Finally, dont forget to ask for introductions so they can connect you with their friends or colleagues, giving you the opportunity to gather even more valuable insights. By the way, during these calls, I realized that negative experience can really hold people back from moving forwards and trying new things. You can only uncover these insights through personal one on one interactions. When I created microsass fast, I thought that my audience was only software developers. However, I soon discovered that it also included AI engineers who hadnt worked with web technologies, other developers, and even individuals without any coding experience who were looking for quick no code solutions. So it helped me improve my product and add more easy to use features and super fast launch focus. Heres a simple tutorial quickly testing your idea. Create a basic language landing page with a waiting list form. Just use the next G's project and a few prompts on cloud AI to chatgpt zero one mini. Then gather an audience of 200 to 300 people and start selling the product directly by communicating with them for payments. I will show you a cheat code. Just use a stripe link and another cheat code. Make the service manually instead of developing a complete product. Nobody knows what will succeed and what won't. Your idea and your code are the only flexible elements user problems are not many of us are not big fans of marketing and distribution, but it's a huge mistake. We typically enjoy focusing on product coding and development instead. But if you want to make money with your microservices, you have to become a full stack entrepreneur. You have to do a few things simultaneously. First, you have to learn how to do the SEO. Second, you have to learn how to use AI tools in your daily routine and adopt these AI tools with your microservices. Also, you have to learn how to do personal branding on YouTube or X. And of course you have to learn the code. My YouTube channel and my telegram channel are helping me to test my products fast and then focus on SEO and other distribution strategies. Look, an average product with a strong distribution will always outperform a great product with a poor distribution. But you can say hey Dennis, what if Im just starting this journey and I do not have a YouTube channel or ex thats fine. Just reach out to your YouTube creators and share with them your product for free. Teach them how to use it and if they like it, ask them to promote it. For example, I'm testing a few projects right now and I'm planning to make a free video about these tools in the future because I like the product and I think that the product will be relevant and interesting for my audience. Or you can use platforms like Project Hunt or launching pro to find product hunt alternatives, indie hackers, Hackernoon, and many many more free alternatives where you can launch your microservices. You will need approximately 2000 visitors to your site to identify whether there is interest in purchasing your product. Expect your conversion rate around 0.5%. For example, my conversion rate varies from 0.21% to 0.41%. Also, as a solo entrepreneur, you can take advantage of your unique position. Larger companies struggle to engage with their customers one to one, but you have that capability. Focus on your cold outreach. Create 501,000 personalized loom videos just like Jeremy Redman, the creator of Task Magic, and send out hundreds of emails to your audience on LinkedIn. Connect with potential customers, listen to their pain points and objections and refine your product idea based on their feedback. Always ask your audience questions. It's crucial to get answers that might be tough to here. By the way, if you want more useful material for building your microses, follow me on x where I share my personal observations with clients and host live chat with my community. Next, limit yourself to one week for development in MVP that highlights the key feature of your solution and run the test. If you are comfortable with coding, go ahead and build it that way. If not, leverage no code solutions to get it done. Another cheat code. You can start selling your product even if its just a Figma design file, Google spreadsheet or a GitHub repository. This approach will help you to understand if the market is really interested in your solution or not. For instance, I received tons of positive feedback about my design and animations and I created a microsass design fast too, which is selling my Figma, Adobe after effects and Houdini files. Here's another case I'd love to share. One of my clients developed a service that allowed users to upload a CSV file and receive additional information about their leads. Initially, he gathered data manually from any mailer finder, full contact, expert comments, and many others adding this info to a spreadsheet. After successfully validating the idea, we built a platform that fully automated this process using API. Now users can upload a CSV file and the system automatically retrieves information like emails, social media profiles, business details and so on. Next a fast and smart monetization strategy b two B will always be better than b two c while b two c typically asks, can your products be cheaper or free? B two B focused on value, asking if this helps me make money or saves me time, I am willing to pay for it. Guys, please try to avoid offering discounts or free plans. You are not a startup with millions in funding. You are a small indie hacker. Even if you are not ready to set up your monthly price at $100, consider starting that your service costs $10 a month but requires payment for the entire year upfront. Another effective approach is to implement a one time payment model for your initial audience. This way you wouldnt waste time developing subscription management systems. Many people are tired of subscription, and setting up a one time payment in stripe is much quicker than managing a subscription module. Right now theres a huge fatigue with subscription services as a solo entrepreneur. You have limited resources and you need to cash flow quickly and in larger amounts. If customers start paying, it means youve successfully addressed all the key factors. However, if they are not willing to pay, its time to pivot and focus on your next idea. On top of that, please polish your main offer on your landing page. Ive seen so many offers that address no one and nothing, so I cannot count. Look, the framework for your main offer is super simple. The result that users will get first, then by using what and then add for whom this service. Thats it. Please take action today. Learn as you go like and subscribe and see you soon.