I scraped and analyzed 5000+ job postings on Upwork to get SaaS opportunities
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I came across this (now deleted) post on Reddit about someone who worked at a hotel and noticed some flaw in the hotel’s software. They ended up building a plugin to fix it....and made a really nice side income from it. Now, that got me thinking a lot: How many other unmet software needs are hiding in plain sight, waiting for a solution to make you money?
I wanted to help skip the guesswork, and I knew that job postings on Upwork would show the specific challenges people/companies are facing. I wanted to find opportunities that people were willing to pay for, meaning that they hadn't found an existing solution to a task they wanted done.
If a software solution was in high demand, these people would likely be seeking experts or ready-made tools to streamline their task. So what I did was I basically analyzed thousands of job postings on Upwork to find recurring software challenges that could be transformed into viable SaaS solutions.
I scraped all of the postings from over 500 categories and I used AI to analyze through each to identify common jobs people are posting, and highlight potential improvements or new features that could be developed as standalone products or integrated plugins.
I then separated the data by categories and by industry, highlighting task specific problems users were having as well as category specific problems.
If you’re building (or improving) a SaaS, this application might save you a ton of guesswork on finding a SaaS idea to build!