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Bootstrapping Wisdom from20+ Founders on What Really Matters.

I have built https://microsaasidea.com to 25,000 subscribers and is one of the fastest growing newsletters around SaaS. The newsletter talks about various niches that Micro SaaS builders can pick up. It kind of covers various Micro SaaS trends, opportunities, technical chops, marketing chops, cost analysis for every niche. We have more than 1000 ideas covered with data points and it's growing fast.

I recently also attached a closed community for the subscribers where we talk about a lot of experiments, MVPs and trends.

I have built $100K/yr business with SaaS, Newsletter etc. For example, at https://microsaashq.com alone I handle 500 Pro subscribers. Then got 2 SaaS platforms. And a few other products too. (May not be applicable for college or school but some pointers in general)

Below are three big things.

- Pomodoro technique really helps.

- Make your next day's todo list on the previous day

- If you have data points, Bucketize tasks based on ROI (not based on amount of efforts)

- Build systems instead of drafting goals.

I have been in the Micro SaaS Ecosystem at https://microsaashq.com

Build various products and used multiple payment providers. While Stripe and Paddle are the best ones, you can also use PayPal, Gumroad, LemonSqueezy etc. too, to accept payments, but they don’t perfectly fit this use case.

Nice to see that. I have been building Flezr.com that runs on Google Sheets/Supabase.

I know how much effort it takes to build something like this. Good luck!!

Glad to see you coming in and replying.

Heard good stuff about this one too.

Well, the interviews are from successful founders only for now.

Yeah, that's the core point.

Hope you are kidding with this statement :)

This is so true. Irrespective of whether the founder read the book before or after building the business, this still makes sense to see a recommendation from a successful founder.

We never know what inspires people.

Agreed. But but most founders can't deny the fact that the books did help to some extent.

No surprise to see Zero To Sold recommended by so many people. It's straight to the point.

Thankyou. Makes sense!!

Great work Leandro on this. You almost combined three platforms - Google Workspace, Notion and Google Sheets together to build this.

Were you ever worried of platform risk anytime while building this? Also, what would you do differently if you had to start all over this again?

I think the automated allocation is the major concern here. Otherwise, a good model.

I write about this at https://microsaasidea.com on how businesses are doing in each niche and how other can pick ideas in a given niche. It also has a boostrapping community attached.

We have about 15000 subs consuming my content.

As some one was mentioning in the comments, https://microsaashq.com is one the communities out there and I run this community. Its primarily an async community for conversations.

Also, note that its not just a simple community but its a massive ecosystem for Micro SaaS builders with niche reports (detailed reports for multiple ideas in a given niche along with a lot of analysis on technical chops, marketing chops, competitor analysis etc, costs analysis to implement an idea). We also recently launched Founder Insights series with Founder Interviews from 1000+ founders mapped to each niche.

And to answer your original question around communities - Our community has all conversations ranging from mental health to idea feedback to landing pages feedback to sharing wins/loses with some weekly streaks/monthly streaks.

Would be happy to answer any questions. I am a builder and I myself took a few of these models and implemented successfully.

Hi there!! Founder here from https://microsaashq.com - I can understand what you mean with so many resources on internet that promise passive income and random ideas.

No, MicroSaaSHQ operates in a different way. They are not some random ideas. Each idea is researched around a given niche, comes with analysis around Technical chops, Marketing chops, Costs analysis to cater to 100 customers, keyword analysis for existing competitors etc.

The goal is to make it as easy as possible for someone to start picking ideas. I myself picked a few of these and able to make them profitable.

Another big asset is the community out these to discuss about each topic. We are also making this bigger and better with Founder interviews and Founder insights from 1000+ founders.

So, yeah its a massive ecosystem around Micro SaaS and some Non Micro SaaS stuff like Communities, Info Products, Marketplaces, Productized Services etc too.

Hope that helps.

This is so cool. The view is also almost like Canva. Impressive so far.

Nice. Supports emoji's? Looks like the UTF-8 is not yet supported directly.

Nicely explained.

Thanks Andy for clarifying. You are moving way too fast :)

Thanks Andy for jumping in.

Haha. Appflow needs some good tech knowledge though with an understanding of AWS ecosystem.

But kind of yes, syncing/moving data between Apps.

Oops. As someone was mentioning, new websites gets blocked some times.

Oh never know this one. I know that emails are blocked/pushed to spam if the domain is new.

But good to know this. In anycase, founderbeats.com is legitimate

OP here. Probably, my bad too - I meant 'around Airtable niche'