In this doc, we breakdown of the most common types of Micro SaaS products into categories that'll be useful in recognizing patterns across the Micro SaaS landscape.
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Data Licensing
- provide access to proprietary data
- typically involve data aggregation, normalization, and enrichment
- examples
- financial market APIs
- scraping niche data at scale
- enriching company or profile info
- news aggregation
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Machine Learning
- provide easy to use interfaces on top of pre-trained ML models
- examples
- lead scoring
- creating fake user-generated content (photos, profiles, etc)
- product examples
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No-code Workflows
- focused workflows that extend popular platforms for power users
- individual zaps packaged as focused micro saas products
- examples
- Google Sheets to X
- Notion to X
- product examples
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Workflow Automation
- scraping, bots, headless chrome
- examples
- automating leadgen from linkedin
- social media automation
- product examples
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Image & Media Processing Tasks
- provide transformations of common media formats
- examples
- custom image effects
- meme generation
- image / gif / video optimization
- product examples
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Data Transformations
- examples
- document conversions (docx β pdf, png β jpeg, etc)
- IP address to metadata lookup
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Developer Tools
- open core products have enormous potential (OSSC)
- product examples
- codecov
- fastly
- logdna
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User Experience
- take some existing platform, feature, data, or workflow and expose it with a much better UX
- product examples
- twitter search
- heroku, netlify, zeit (simplify AWS / GCP DX)
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Pricepoint
- take some existing product or feature and offer it at a significantly cheaper price
- product examples
- backblaze / wasabi vs AWS S3 or GCS
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Offline to Online
- take some existing offline service and offer it as an online service
- often able to offer the same experience with a better UX, improved efficiency, and cheaper
- this transition will continue seeing massive spikes due to COVID
- product examples
- clubhouse
- future.fit
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Consumer Webapps
- misc UX-heavy utilities targeted at consumers
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