Issue#46: Building $1K - $10K MRR Micro SaaS products around Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
Welcome to the 88 new subscribers joined this week. Pro subscribers community launched this month and a closed beta invite sent to a few Pro subscribers. We have close to 150 people joined in the community. I will be sending more invites for another bunch of Pro subscribers this week. Unlock the Pro version (for full content access to 800+ profitable ideas across 75+niches and community access) No fluffy content. If your goal is to build a $100m ARR business, this is not the right post. Here I am are NOT going to talk about building the next Facebook or Twitter. If your goal is to make a $1K to $10K MRR, continue reading. This post will cover one SAAS area and talk about multiple niches in this space. This post also explains how to do tech implementation, do market analysis, how the current players are doing, and ends with a cost analysis to understand the overall cost for 100 users. It would be really surprised if you never heard of Microsoft Excel. For starters - Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. The same is the case with Microsoft PowerPoint - a software heavily used by millions of users for presentations. Let’s see some of the products around Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Sheet2API: Convert an existing Excel Online spreadsheet into a restful JSON API. This can be useful for powering simple web pages using the spreadsheet as a CMS, creating mock-up Apps, or sharing data with another organization without spending weeks deploying a custom solution. Currently at $600 MRR. Sheet.Best: Power-up Spreadsheets and turn spreadsheets into REST APIs to connect to anything. Currently at $1200 MRR. OpenAsApp: Automatic app creation for every spreadsheet user. Create and share great apps based on your data in Excel, Google Sheets, or databases. No coding required. Raised $4M in funding. LoveSpreadsheets: Supercharge with spreadsheets data. Simple Data Analytics products for Startups, Small Businesses, and Analysts. TrumpExcel: Excel training for everyone. Learn all about excel with tutorials and trainings. APISpreadsheets: Instantly Use Your Spreadsheets as an API and Database. Use Excel spreadsheet data to power up your apps. Chandoo.Org: A one-stop hub for everything around Excel and PowerBI. Profitable and made thousands of dollars by teaching Microsoft Excel. CalcFusion: Transform spreadsheets into APIs. Create custom functions in Excel and integrate them into your workflow. QuickQuery: Seamlessly convert any database into Excel Report. Empower your business users with a simple and secure tool to generate excel reports without involving IT. Sila: Your Seamless PowerPoint Moderator. Let your participants annotate the slides. Sila is the moderator you need, empowering all participants to participate directly in your slideshow. Premast: Create your own library, upload & share files, and use it inside PowerPoint directly using Premast Plus add-in. You can share with your team where they can use and access inside PowerPoint. Dropbase: Turn Excel files to live databases, instantly. Centralize offline data. Import files. Process and clean up data. Export to a live database with 1 click. Raised $150K funding. GeckoBoard: The shareable spreadsheet dashboard Easily transform your data in an Excel spreadsheet into a streamlined, shareable dashboard anyone can understand. The estimated revenue is $6M/year (includes a lot of other integrations apart from Microsoft Excel). TackleBox: Create an automated link between Excel and PowerPoint Quickly inject Excel content into PowerPoint slides. Get alerts when updated content is available. Update presentations with the click of a button. Alchemyj: Convert Excel into API. AlchemyJ enables analysts and developers to build APIs or generate Java programs from Excel spreadsheets that contain the calculation model at any complexity level. ReshapeXL: Data Wrangling in Excel. A simple and effective way to process your data in Excel. Molnify: Turn Excel files into web apps. Convert existing Excel model or start from scratch. No programming required. Easy to maintain and your Excel still works as-is. Your first app is 2 minutes away. SpreadsheetConverter: SpreadsheetConverter runs as an add-in in Excel. It converts spreadsheets to modern web pages with advanced functionality that would be very costly to develop using a professional web designer. Create any live calculator or chart and put it up on the web in no time at all. SliDo: Live polling for PowerPoint Insert live polls, quizzes, or Q&A directly into your PowerPoint presentation. Estimated revenue is $30M/year (combined product revenue with other products). TackleBox: TackleBox delivers automated PowerPoint presentations, real-time dashboards, and powerful insights. Negative Nancy says - “Excel is super old. Why not build an app for advanced technologies like Google sheets and Airtable”? Me - Agreed but most tools that can work on Excel can be further extended to work with Google Sheets and Airtable too. The idea is to start somewhere. If you are comfortable around Excel, start with Excel and extend to other similar tools. Also, Microsoft Excel is super popular and has users several times higher when compared to Google sheets and Airtable. Excel is apparently still used by 750 million users and still sits at the top across all similar products. Negative Nancy says - “PowerPoint is not interaction friendly” Me - Right and that is why you need to build products that make it more interactive with live Q&A, Polls, and Graphs. More in the next sections around this. PowerPoint is already used by millions of users across the globe and a solution around PowerPoint that could make it more interactive will help many people using PowerPoint. Deep-dive & Some niches
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