Micro SaaS HQ - Recap of 2022 and Plan for 2023

What we accomplished in 2022:

• We started building a much bigger ecosystem around Micro SaaS at Micro SaaS HQ

• Now our newsletter also covers smaller opportunities that are Non-Micro SaaS like opportunities around Info products, Micro consulting (Fractional CTOs etc), Newsletters, Ebooks, Courses etc too that will help understanding trends better around generating revenue

• Crossed 20,000 subscribers and are growing strong.

• Launched Micro SaaS HQ on Product Hunt this year and got into #2 Product of the Day.

• Launched our Micro SaaS Community this year and we have been active with 500+ Pro subscribers

• Started covering more insights around Micro SaaS and Founder ecosystem at Micro SaaS HQ Insights

• We also launched ‘Micro SaaS News in 2 minutes section’ to keep every one upto date on the Micro SaaS trends, Founder ecosystem.

• Handled hundreds of discussions in our community around various questions related to product-market fit, validating the product ideas/reach, building landing pages etc.

Reports covered so far:

1. Building Form/Survey/Quiz based Products

2. Building Products around Twitter

3. Building Social Proof Products

4. Website Monitoring tools

5. Privacy-first analytics products

6. Products around OpenAI/GPT-3

7. Building Airtable based products

8. Building Slack based products

9. Building Tools like Syften, F5bot etc - Keyword monitoring tools , PMAlerts

10. Building products around Open source projects

11. Building products around Notion eco system

12. Building products around Referral Software for SaaS

13. Building products around media editiing - video, images, audio etc

14. Building products around API bundles - both platform based APIs and general APIs

15. Building Google Sheets based Products

16. Building products around Marketplaces - various domains and niches

17. Building products around Online communities

18. Build Products around AWS AI/ML or GCP AI/ML ecosystem

19. Building Products around Content Creators

20. Building Products around Emails

21. Building Products around Headless Browsers & Headless CMS

22. Building Products around WordPress ecosystem

23. Building Products around Customer Experience tools

24. Building Products around User Feedback and Testimonial tools

25. Building Products around Domains, Files & Hosting

26. Building Products around Calendars & Time-tracking tools

27. Building Products around Shopify ecosystem

28. Building Products around SaaS Starter Kits

29. Building Products around Website Builders

30. Building Products around Curated content & Curated Lists

31. Buiding business around Productized services

32. Building Products around Hiring challenges

33. Building Products around Website Links/URL Links

34. Building Products around Recurring Tasks, Reminders & Checklists

35. Building Products around Webflow and Tailwind

36. Building Products around Bubble

37. Building Products around Newsletter Tools

38. Building Products around Blogging & Writing

39. Building Products around Dashboards & Data Tools

40. Building Products around Challenges & Habits

41. Building Products around Billing, Subscriptions & Revenue

42. Building Products around Remote Work & Digital Nomad Ecosystem

43. Building Products around Remote Music, Songs & Events

44. Building Products around Cold Outreach

45. Building Products around SEO, Keyword Research & Backlinks

46. Building Products around Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint

47. Building Products around E-commerce & Online Stores

48. Building Products around LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok & Other Social Platforms

49. Building Products around CRM, Product Roadmap and Issue Tracking tools

50. Building Products around Developers ecosystem

51. Building Products around Survey & Research Platforms

52. Building Products around Info Products - Part 1

53. Building Products around Info Products - Part 2

54. Building Products around Simple Automations

55. Building Products around Founders, Makers & Builders - Part 1

56. Building Products around Founders, Makers & Builders - Part 2

57. Building Products around AI based services - Part 1

58. Building Products around AI based services - Part 2

59. Building Products around AI based services - Part 3

60. Building Products around Supabase

61. Building Products around White-Label Products - Part 1

62. Building Products around White-Label Products - Part 2

63. Building Products around Cohort based Learning - Part 1

64. Building Products around Cohort based Learning - Part 2

65. Building Products around Mental Health

66. Building Products around Integrations

67. Building Products around Contextual Data & Research As A Service

68. Building Products around Growth Hacking

69. Building Products around AI based E-Commerce Solutions

70. Building Products around Youtube, Telegram and Instagram

71. Building Products around News, Comments, Reviews & Search

72. Building Products around Agencies and Teams

73. Building Products around Freelancer ecosystem - Part 1

74. Building Products around Freelancer ecosystem - Part 2

75. Building Products around Content Generation and Content Repurpose

76. Building Products around Simple Alternatives to Enterprise Products

77. Building Products around Job Boards, Resumes, Interview related Tools

78. Building Products around around SaaS Ecosystem - Part 1

79. Building Products around around SaaS Ecosystem - Part 2

80. Building Products around around SaaS Ecosystem - Part 3

81. Building Products around Twitter Ecosystem

82. Building Products around AI, GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, DreamBooth - Part 1

83. Building Products around AI, GPT-3, Stable Diffusion, DreamBooth - Part 2

Some Wins From Community:

1. Korede Onamade launched statementai.io , gpt-3 powered essay and statement letter generator for graduate and scholarship applicants

2. Lynn Lin and team have beta launched datanode.site - AI-Powered Data Aggregation and Analysis Platform. DataNode provides a dataset of over 68 million products from 150k e-commerce stores.

3. Will Shan launched audaos.com - a new storytelling tool for remotely, a fast, simple way to share and present your work. get contextual feedback, and make decisions.

4. Bhanu built Feather.so and reached $1000 MRR

5. Pingu launched esf.tools, which brings subdomains to the ENS platform within Ethereum.

6. Ab Advany Launched NoCodeMayo.com and reached $1500 MRR - NoCodeMayo allows you to add multiple domains, custom HTTP headers, meta/SEO data, and other stuff to your Bubble.io app.

7. Arnaud Cortisse launched kindlevocabulary.com - a tool to learn a new language using your Kindle e-reader

8. Kumar Manaswi launched hetrolinks.com - Hetrolinks is the fastest and easiest way to find and repair affiliate links for free.

9. Michael Panik launch in beta threadvideos.com - a platform that automatically generates social media videos based on text threads from Reddit, Twitter, and more.

10. Justin Ferriman launched gapscout.com - GapScout analyzes every review written about your business (and your competitors), and then reveals the most profitable gaps in the market!

11. Jason Charnes has built Job Boardly - Launch a job board for your audience, niche, community, or company without writing a line of code.

12. Christian Helvin has beta launched enhancemeet.com - Take notes, make todos, write messages, and manage your day all inside your meeting!

13. Alexis is working on pendragons.io, a productivity app for freelance writers, and peerkudos.com , an anonymous peer-to-peer employee recognition app.

14. Min.Wang built a visual group card tool called funkudo funkudo.com

15. Salil Sethi has built ProsperCircle.com (comprehensive NFT insights)

16. Meiko Patton has designed iamunbreakable.xyz - WOC stress-relief & affirmation colouring book

17. Sai Upadhyayula is working on his Youtube Channel with 16k subscribers - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD20RZV_WHQImisCW2QZwDw, where he teaches mainly about Spring Boot and Microservices.

18. Chuck Brockman has launched contactbetter.com - Get more leads with a 1-click mobile optimized contact page for your business.

19. Vinny has built fastscriber.com - podcast transcription tool

20. Artem Smirnov is working on jelytics.com - Minimalistic analytics for your landing page

21. Korede Onamade is building flowops.xyz - Monitoring for non-technical teams

22. Michael Liendo is writing Fullstack MicroSaaS on AWS book

23. Ryan Strickler Launched SnailBox on ProductHunt and stood at #3 on Product of the day

24. Gourav Goyal built ChatGPTWriter to help generate entire emails or replies based on a few keywords that you input

What’s coming for 2023:

• Create more reports around the opportunities.

• Create Deep-dive reports with data around competitors, traffic sources, keyword search volumes etc

• We are betting big on the community.

• So far the community is primarily async and now we want to plan doing monthly calls to start with.

• Most of the founders struggle getting a cofounder. We want to see if we can help Pro subscribers get a cofounder with a complimentary skills set.

• Work with other IndieHackers to bring in some good deals with LTDs and also see if we can help people sell and acquire businesses (Or may be partner with current marketplaces)