Micro SaaS Categories
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Micro SaaS Categories

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.
 

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
 

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)
 

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
 

Workflow Automation

  • scraping, bots, headless chrome
  • examples
    • automating leadgen from linkedin
    • social media automation
 

Image & Media Processing Tasks

  • provide transformations of common media formats
  • examples
    • custom image effects
    • meme generation
    • image / gif / video optimization
 

Data Transformations

  • examples
    • document conversions (docx ⇒ pdf, png ⇒ jpeg, etc)
    • IP address to metadata lookup
 

Developer Tools

  • open core products have enormous potential (OSSC)
  • product examples
 

User Experience

  • take some existing platform, feature, data, or workflow and expose it with a much better UX
  • product examples
 

Pricepoint

  • take some existing product or feature and offer it at a significantly cheaper price
  • product examples
    • backblaze / wasabi vs AWS S3 or GCS
 

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
 

Consumer Webapps

  • misc UX-heavy utilities targeted at consumers