What is Micro Saas?
And should you build one?
What is Micro Saas?
Micro Saas is a software as a service business owned and operated by one person or a small team.
These businesses are usually location-independent, with predictable recurring revenue.
But the most important identifying factor, and why mico saas is a useful concept is micro-SaaS solves a specific problem for a specific group.
Trying to solve all problems for everyone means you get lost in the shuffle. Micro Saas can focus your attention, help you get revenue and traction.
(See the ‘Isn’t Micro Saas just Saas?’ section if you don’t like this definition.)
Micro Saas Examples
Let’s look at some examples of Micro Saas.
SuperLemon
2 person team. $300,000 a year
Park.io
1 person. $1,500,000 a year.
Visalist
1 person. $55,000 revenue
Hostifi
1 person. $500,000 in revenue
StoreMapper
Founder exited. Hit $100,000 year with 1 person.
Why Micro Saas?
Micro-SaaS solves a specific problem for a specific group.
A lot of people who want to start a business think that they need to do everything. Their initial idea keeps growing. Then they want to raise money to build a team, to build a solution that they don’t even know if anyone wants.
If making a Saas business sounds too complex or overwhelming, think instead about a micro Saas.
Or you have indiehackers who create a product but didn’t do any research or marketing and struggle to find people to buy it.
If you struggle to get people to buy your product, think micro Saas.
By finding a specific group, with a specific problem they will pay for, you can start a business.
Isn’t Micro Saas just Saas?
“Micro Saas is just people building useless stuff”
The proof is in the pudding. If it makes money, it is not useless.
“What about Medium-SaaS?”
Don’t take definitions literally. These are heuristics aka a heuristic is a rule or method that helps you solve problems faster than you would if you did all the computing. It sounds fancy, but you might know a heuristic as a “rule of thumb.”
If making a Saas business sounds too complex or overwhelming or has to include a million features, think instead about a micro Saas.
