to make this email as easy as possible to read and to digest, we’re going to segment it into 3 core pillars

1. Finding a SaaS (software as a service) idea

2. Deciding how to build your minimum viable product (different builder options, do it yourself vs pay a no code dev etc)

3. Go to market strategy (how to market to get first customers for next to $0)

so let’s dive in, no fluff.

How to Find SaaS Ideas:

my personal favorite strategy right now is to head to acquire.com and filter to SaaS companies over $200,000 in annual recurring revenue

this shows you that these companies:

• likely have product market fit

• are revenue generating

• the idea is validated

find 2-3 SaaS ideas that you like or maybe fall into your expertise

then - search for their competitors, and search their G2 reviews on google

so google (insert SaaS you found) G2 reviews

then filter to what people dislike about the product, and look for recurring complaints or feature requests

when you build your minimum viable product, you will solve one of the recurring complaints

How to Build Your Minimum Viable Product

This is going to depend on 3 things

1. How technical you are as a person

2. How complex your idea is

3. What your budget is

If you’re a really technical person, you will be able to figure out how to use the most complex no code builder (bubble.io) and then you can build almost anything on bubble even that you could build on custom code

if your idea is super complex, it’ll likely have to be built on Bubble as the other no code builders have some limitations on their functionalities

but if you have a simple idea and a small budget, building something with the following tech stack will be perfect for you

• softr for your user interface

• airtable for your backend data

• zapier to tie some things together

if you have a complex idea and a minimum budget of $10k, you can pay my no code dev agency to build your product for you - if that’s you, click here to book a call.

Go to Market Strategy

Now we need to acquire our first customers for as little money as possible

a free method, is to join Facebook groups that your prospects hang out in, so say you’re targeting marketing agency owners, you’d join marketing agency owner Facebook groups

then inside those groups you’ll put out posts that contain value and plug your software as a means to execute the info

so say you built a twitter auto DM software, you’d make a post like “Agency Owners: Here’s how to 10x your leads with twitter DM’s”

then you’d plug your software in the middle and that’s how you can get customers for free

if you want to spend a little bit of money ($100-$400 per month) you could set up some cold email campaigns

that process is more complex so I’ll leave that explanation for another email

How I Can Help You

• if you have a 3k + budget and want to work closely with me starting a SaaS company - book a call here 

• if you have a SaaS idea and $10k budget and want to have my team build it for you - book a call here

• if you have no budget (totally okay) and want more free value - you can watch my youtube videos here 

God Bless,

Alex