11 Best Micro SaaS Ideas That Will Make Developers Rich in 2024

Micro SaaS businesses are great businesses to run. They have high margins, recurring revenue, and can even be run by a single founder.

Personal Finance Goal Tracker

So let’s start with the first idea, it’s going to be a bit generic and you may have heard of it before, but, I think there’s an opportunity here because Mint just shut down last year, it was a very popular financial tracking app.

They had millions of users, but their parent company Intuit had quite a few different products to run, and mint wasn’t profitable enough to keep them afloat. I think this also coincides with many people trying to save more money right now, especially with inflation and prices getting higher. So this tool could help users set and achieve personal finance goals, like saving for a vacation or paying off debt.

They should also integrate with tools like Plaid so you can integrate to different banking platforms so you can import that information. You could also offer affiliate deals for different bank accounts or credit cards that customers can open, like many financial apps do. Its main features are goal setting, progress tracking, financial reminders, and budget integration.

You can also replicate the Mint template with a mobile app. Or, if you find it more convenient, you can also start with a web app. This way, you don't have to develop for both iOS and Android. You can also just pick one of the platforms to start with.

Remote Interview Prep Coach

The next idea is a remote interview prep coach. It will be a platform that helps job seekers prepare for remote interviews through practice questions, tips, and mock interview sessions.

You can also take an AI approach and analyze a person's video conversation, perhaps analyzing things like physical behavior, premonition anomaly detectors, and voice clarity. This is very helpful for improving a person's speaking skills. You can also integrate different sets of questions from popular companies that people are interviewing with, which will make them well prepared before the interview.

The main features include practice questions, interview tips, mock interviews, and performance feedback. You can also segment us into specific industries. Maybe you focus on software engineers, because their salaries are also quite high, so they do have a reason to spend extra money to ensure that they get a good job with a good salary.

Online Auction Observer

Next, micro sass will be a little smaller in scale, but it will be an online auction observer. It will be a tool that tracks online auctions and notifies users of changes in bid status, upcoming auctions, and winning bids. I think one way to position it is to focus on higher-level bidding, and aggregate more data.

Let’s say you focus on cars, since this is where people spend a lot of money, they might be looking for different auction tracking, bid notifications, calendars, and historical data to help them make an informed decision on the best price to buy that car. Another niche might be trading cards. Since trading cards can be traded and sold for a lot of money, people have a lot of incentive to buy them at a really good price.

Pet Care Reminders

Our next idea is Pet Care Reminders, it will be an app that can send reminders for pet care tasks like feeding, grooming, and vet appointments. The main features will probably be customizable reminders, pet profiles, health tracking, and activity logs.

I think the way to solve this problem is to create a free app and then strike affiliate deals with different pet food companies or any company that sells pet products.

Remote Team Building Activity Generator

The next idea is to help remote teams come together and connect. It will be a building activity generator. It is a tool that can generate and schedule team building activities.

You can focus specifically on remote teams. You can also do it in person to promote engagement and collaboration. Its main features include activity suggestions, scheduling, team feedback, and engagement tracking.

As a remote employee, it can be very difficult to get to know your colleagues because you can't do one-on-one FaceTime calls or casually chat like you would in person. So it's important to make sure you foster a sense of teamwork and a spirit of collaboration. And a tool like this can really help.

It could be something like a slack box integration. So you'd integrate with your company's existing tools and have all your company profiles there, making it very easy to set up these group activities. It could also have features like voting on specific activities and it could be owned by a specific person or team lead who keeps everyone organized together.

Freelance Project Scope Estimator

This would be a product specifically designed to help freelancers estimate project scope time and cost based on project details and industry standards. The main features of this product would be scope definition, time estimation, costing, and proposal generation. This interface could help freelancers save a lot of time when setting up the initial part of a project.

This could also save you from having to do a lot of one-on-one calls, which could take up quite a bit of time. Taking an asynchronous approach like this makes things a lot easier.

Virtual Plant Care Assistant

Next up is a very niche SAS product, but it will probably be a virtual plant care assistant. It will be an app that provides personalized care instructions and reminders for indoor plants based on the plant type and environment. So its main features will be plant identification, care planning, watering reminders, and health monitoring.

You can see that the setup is that the user just takes a picture of the plant, it identifies the plant, and then gives the user all the instructions through push reminders on their phone to make sure they keep the plant healthy. You can also get progress updates as you take pictures of the plant. They can identify situations like overwatering, underwatering, the plant should be growing at this rate, etc.

I think there are a lot of different things that can help people take care of plants, especially for beginners.

Language Exchange Partner Matcher

Our next idea is to develop a language exchange partner matcher, which will be a platform that connects language learners with native speakers for mutual language practice and communication. There are a lot of different apps that can help you learn different languages.

I hear that when you go to a country and talk to the locals, it makes a big difference. So an app like this can be a very effective way to test your language learning efforts. Its main features are user matching, chat and video call features, language practice tools, and progress tracking.

You can gamify this approach a bit to help keep users engaged and coming back for more conversations with native speakers.

AI-based Mood Tracker

Our next idea is to develop an AI-based mood tracker, this app will use AI to analyze the user's daily mood based on their input and provide insights and suggestions to improve mental health. AI is very good at doing sentiment analysis from text, so you can even have a free-form approach, like a person writing a diary, I think it's really cool to get overall insights, like if you did your best on the days you did this, which would take quite a bit of time to filter manually, but can be done easily with AI.

Its main features are mood logging, AI analysis, personalized recommendations, and progress tracking, making sure they input everything every day and track whether their mood is good or bad.

Remote Work Time Zone Coordinator

The next idea is to develop a remote work time zone coordinator, which will be a tool to help remote teams coordinate different time zones, schedule meetings, and manage work time. So no need to manually go to a time zone converter, this will make life a lot easier.

It could be something like a Slack bot integration that does all the time zone conversions, meeting scheduling, work time tracking, and notifications for you to make sure you get to your meetings on time.

Personalized Fitness Challenge Creator

Our last idea is that it will be a personalized fitness challenge creator, it will be an app that allows users to create and participate in personalized fitness challenges, track progress, and compete with friends.

I think strong social features can help increase engagement, key features could be challenge creation, progress tracking, social sharing, and motivation. This could also be broken down to a specific sport. Maybe you focus on a sport like pickleball, which has quickly become popular, and it will create customized workout plans for you to get better.