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Miscellaneous SaaS & Product Ideas

Core SaaS Principles​

Create best software companies with Indian labor - Since labor is cheap in India (like Zoho)

Don't pay for bits, pay for atoms - Software is free/open source, pay for physical infrastructure and usage

Problem with Current SaaS Pricing​

  • Per-user based (inefficient)
  • Should be usage-based instead
    • Pay for 1 GB storage + 1 CPU + 2 GB RAM exactly
    • Plus some revenue margin

Developer tools - pure software play

Niche & Micro-SaaS​

Weekend Jobs Platform​

  • List jobs only for weekends
  • Full hiring platform specifically for weekend work

Project Management​

  • Project management is broken - Need AI project manager
  • Features: reports, deadlines, utilization reports
  • Finding overwork and underwork
  • Most efficient utilization of resources

Government & Civic​

Government Projects Tracker​

  • Single place where all government projects announced are listed
  • Track: due dates, on-track status
  • Features: Search, visual timelines, updates, state bifurcation, tags
  • Follow Twitter handles and news to update project status
  • Reference: https://www.newprojectstracker.com/
  • Also: Government corruption tracker

Lie Detector​

  • Whatever politicians say, make it searchable
  • Transcribe and add summary with full transcript
  • Highlight contradictory statements

Productivity & Tools​

Multimodal Transportation Cost Explorer​

  • Compare costs across different transport modes

Redis for Notification​

  • Notification system infrastructure

SaaS Business Models​

SaaS Apocalypse / SaaSApocalypse Opportunities:

Thoughts & Observations​

  • Why doesn't Google let you order directly to restaurants?

    • Agent that can order for you
    • Just say "order chicken biryani from restaurant"
    • No UI, no coupons, everything automated

  • Build something great that other companies can buy instead of building from scratch

    • Your core is software
    • Many companies' core is NOT software development
    • They can acquire your company instead of building their own

  • Quick commerce stack opportunities

  • Software SaaS for global companies

    • Companies paying in USD but could pay in INR
    • Deep tech companies

  • Most efficient tech SaaS company to build products/projects

    • Collaborate with other companies

  • Service-based company can be done, but it never gets easier

    • Can you take down giants like TCS, Wipro?

  • Build for ultra-rich - For whom time is far more important than money or discounts

Hard Problems to Solve​

Other Products & Services​

WIKI / PKM / Website​

  • Google Chrome extension to annotate and keep all links
  • Create markdowns automatically

Lawyer / Law Marketplace​

Central knowledge base and marketplace:

  1. Create content like ClearTax - everything about law
  2. Go viral
  3. Create authority and rank higher
  4. Start selling law services to users
  5. Talking to lawyers, hiring lawyers
  6. Lawyer ratings
  7. Legal services

Education & Content​

  • Stats.iiitd.ac.in - Statistics portal for IIIT Delhi
    • Student placement records
    • Student network graph
    • Network usage tracking
    • Trending searches
    • TIL (Today I Learned) blog where everyone posts CS learnings

Social & Community​

  • Quiz app for classes where people can't cheat
  • App for suggestions - Anonymous and non-anonymous posts
    • Post problems, get suggestions
    • Timeline/feed to view problems

Voice Assistants​

  • Anchors - Find lowest price of products using Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana

YouTube Ideas​

  • Subscribe tracking - Channel showing who's online on YouTube
    • Talk, share, discuss with people currently online
  • Science videos randomly in suggestions
    • Increase curiosity, IQ, and brain neurons
  • Audio and video quality improvement using AI

Google Features​

  • Case-sensitive Google search for technical queries (NCL, SMIL documents)

Personal Services​

  • Personal Location Sharing Service
    • Request someone's location (default 1 hour)
    • They can allow or reject
    • Notification-based

Reading & Knowledge Management​

  • Browser highlighting tool for websites and blogs
    • Everything stored in account
    • Like a notebook - all pages recorded
    • Auto-sort using tags

Study Projects​

  1. Camera that follows subject (teaching/conference settings)

    • Focus on moving person
    • Switch focus to blackboard when writing
    • Two cameras: one for presentation, one for speaker
    • Create final video by switching between views
    • Create highlights (5-10 min summary)

  2. Script writer purely random by computer

    • Hero doesn't always win
    • Anything can happen

  3. Community work app - Get goodwill, high goodwill person ranking

  4. Pixxel - Earth monitoring and observation using satellites

    • Hyperspectral imaging

Security & Computer Vision​

  • Hyper-Casual games development
  • Zero-Profit Distributed stores
  • hate2wait.io - Queue management
  • Overlapping images stitching for security
    • Create single environment view for stores
    • Show blind spots using computer vision

Miscellaneous Tech​

  • AI suggestions for smartwatches

    • Templates for quick message replies
    • Like Google Messenger and Samsung Gear Fit 2 integration

  • Checklist.com - Public to-do and checklists

    • Perfect homes, weddings planning

  • Payment portal maker

    • Online portal for any institution
    • Accept online payments
    • Deposit to institution bank account

Other Examples​

  • Trade On Your Opinion - Probo - Opinion trading platform
  • Credly - Digital credentials
  • Lawyer insurance - Insurance for legal fees coverage
  • Crypto Insurance - Against lost keys / theft / smart contract risk

Free AI Chatbots​