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1. Striperks a SaaS product that recovers Stripe failed payments has recovered 11000 Stripe subscriptions and recovered more than €600K for customers.

2. Larafast by Serg crossed $30K in total revenue with 200+ sales. Larafast is a Laravel Starter Kit with 30+ Themes included out of the box. Serg got his first sale five months ago.

3. SetterAI has grown to $1.8K/month in revenue. Timo and Joseph started working on it in February 2024. SetterAI is an AI tool to call up sales leads and schedule appointments.

4. Rise by Desmond crossed $5K in revenue. It took 23 days to grow from $2000 → $5000 and about 2 months to reach $1000. Rise is a mobile app that offers a personalised 66-day program to help users reset their life.

5. Jean and Guillaume have hit $1k MRR with Shortimize. It’s a platform to track, analyze and explore YouTube, Insta and TikTok videos and accounts.

6. Mohit grows Mac Tools to $341 in just 12 days. Mac Tools is hand curated directory of Mac apps and tools. A submission fee is charged for listing & featured listing.

7. IndieMerger by Alex reached $620/month in revenue. It took 10 days to reach $500 with 17 paid users. IndieMerger is platform for finding a co-founder and it was launched in mid-July 2024.

8. Amr reached $990 in monthly revenue with Qura.ai. Qura is an AI tool for social media growth with about 800+ users.

9. Blitzit by Omar and Raunak hit $550 MRR with 102 subscribers. Blitzit is a productivity app to help users organize tasks and track progress

10. Pierro crossed $250 in sales with Obsibrain within a week of launch. Obsibrain os a productivity template designed for Obsidian users and those looking to streamline their workflow.

11. Snapcut by Trung reached the $100 MRR milestone. It’s an AI-powered tool that repurposes long videos into ready-to-publish shorts

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⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for  Employee Scheduling for Small Businesses

Employee shift scheduling software is essential for businesses in industries where shift work is prevalent, such as hospitality, healthcare, and manufacturing. These tools streamline the process of managing work schedules, replacing error-prone manual methods or basic spreadsheets. Build an employee scheduling tool with an intuitive drag-and-drop schedule builder with color-coded shifts and employee roles that allows managers to quickly create and adjust schedules by simply clicking and dragging shifts. You can also include the option of AI-powered auto-scheduling that analyzes historical data, employee preferences, skills, certifications, availability etc. to generate optimized schedules. The AI can also consider factors such as labor costs, predicted business demand and employee well-being to create balanced schedules The tool should automatically flags potential violations of labor laws or company policies when creating schedules.

ZoomShift is a user-friendly employee scheduling software with an estimated annual revenue of $217k. 7shifts is geared toward the restaurant industry and has $50M+/year revenue.

⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for AI-based Video Search to Find Viral Ideas

Content creators and marketing agencies struggle to come up with viral video ideas that resonate with their audience and often rely on manual research that consume lots of time. To solve this problem, a micro SaaS tool can be built that uses AI-based video search to find viral ideas for TikTok/YouTube/Insta videos. The tool would find videos by understanding the context and analysing the factors that contribute to the videos becoming viral including hook, thumbnail, background music etc. Users can search for videos using natural language queries with the AI understanding the concepts and themes within video content. This goes beyond simple keyword matching. It should enable users to filter results by niche, target demographics or desired engagement metrics. The AI tool could also forecast which types of content are likely to trend in the near future, helping creators capitalize on emerging ideas before they saturate the market. Shortimize lets users track, analyze and explore YouTube, Insta and TikTok videos and accounts. It includes AI video search and has now reached $1k MRR. Also check Icono, an AI video search engine with 50+ millions indexed videos.

⛳ 💡 Micro SaaS for Interactive Proposals for a Niche Market

Professionals in niche markets like real estate, marketing agencies and freelancers need tools for creating, managing and automating proposals. Build a micro saas for creating engaging and interactive proposals that resonate with clients in specific sectors. Interactive proposals include embeddable content like videos, dynamic charts, sliders, ROI calculator, interactive pricing tables etc., that make them more effective than simple PDF proposals. Provide dashboard for tracking proposal open and engagement metrics. The tool should enable users to connect their CRM system, allowing the platform to pull in relevant data and automate personalized proposals generation.

For inspiration, see Qwilr that grew to $12.9M in annual revenue. Storydoc one of the popular tools for creating interactive slide decks also lets users generate interactive proposals using AI.

⛳ 💡 SaaS Partnership Hub for Founders with AI-powered Matching

Many indiehackers and entrepreneurs have brilliant ideas or strong technical skills, but they often lack the diverse skillset or time that is required to successfully launch and grow a SaaS business. Build a platform that is specifically designed to bridge that gap by connecting individuals with complementary skills and experience. Include AI-powered matching that goes beyond basic skill pairing and considers a wide range of factors including technical expertise, industry experience, business goals, commitment levels and even work styles and personality traits. Focus on an interface that makes it convenient and quick to interact and keep track of chats with potential matches. You can also include automated weekly introductions. IndieMerger is a good inspiration for building co-founder matching platforms - it reached $500 with 17 paid users in just 10 days.

⛳ 💡  SaaS tools for Real Estate Agents

Real estate is one of the markets that have good money to spend. Real Estate Agencies need a lot of tools to market the available real estate properties on social channels and forums. Create a SaaS exclusively for Real Estate agencies. By branding the tool exclusively for Real estate agencies and targeting a specific niche, there are higher chances of getting paid subscribers. The tool should be able to automate the creation of social media graphics using the agency logo, and automatically created images/graphics based on real estate properties data. Real estate agents typically spend a lot of time creating posters for each of the available properties, then send emails to their user base looking for properties in a given locality, post the availability on social channels, etc. Create a SaaS that solves all these problems for real estate agencies. AgentNest crossed $8K MRR with a similar SaaS solution. Web4Reality crossed $100K MRR by building tools for real estate agents.

⛳ 💡 A/B Testing Tool for Forms/Surveys/Polls

Build a Micro SaaS tool that helps with A/B testing for forms/surveys/polls. This can be done in various ways but the tools should be able to support A/B testing for forms including an embed option for websites. The tool should automatically split-test the form with various variations including an option to track the traffic and stats. For inspiration, see Leadformly that’s used by 10,000 small businesses in 150+ countries. Leadformly is a form analytics tool that helps you design and test interactive website forms to capture new leads, and collect visitor feedback and also helps build multi-step forms using over 50+ templates and experiment with their variations using the inbuilt A/ B testing platform to improve user experience and maximize response rate.

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📈⚡ AI Trends this Week

1. Google has unveiled Gemma 2 2B, a compact yet powerful AI model that rivals industry leaders despite its significantly smaller size.

2. Meta is rolling out its AI studio to all creators in the U.S. AI studio lets anyone create and discover AI characters and allows creators to build an AI as an extension of themselves to reach more fans.

3. Twitter users have been automatically opted in to sharing their data with its Grok AI tool.

4. Canva acquires Leonardo AI image startup to bolster generative offerings.

5. OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode with hyperrealistic audio responses to ChatGPT Plus users.

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