I have the same problem. When I see the kinds of simple products printing HNers money I think “people pay for THAT?”
Any ideas I do have I convince myself nobody needs, wants, or will pay for.
Any ideas I do have I convince myself nobody needs, wants, or will pay for.
- Go here https://aws.amazon.com/products/?aws-products-all.sort-by=it...
- Look at the list of products
- Copy one of them
- Do it a bit better (e.g. cheaper, faster, hosted in EU, targeted at some specific segment of users etc.)
- Launch asap (no longer than 3 months of coding)
- Reach out to potential users everywhere you can, until you get a few dollars of recurring revenue in
- Write blogs, and long form content, integrate with other libraries and systems
- Automate everything, pay for services that aren't core to your business (e.g. payments, backups, etc.)
- Do everything you can to help all your early users, keep improving the product every week
- Wait a few months/years, till it compounds up to 10-20k MRR
Or, choose a small thing you can build in a few weekends, get it built and try shipping it.
If you get no traction, you learned something. If you do, you can now invest more.
This is the whole idea behind lean startups: don’t assume tou have a winner or a stinker, go find out and adapt based on feedback.
Can you elaborate on this?
A service routine monitor doesn't need to be updated every month to function, so why would anyone pay every month to use it?
Servers cost money each month, as do the services they use.