HACKER Q&A
📣 acuozzo

What do people want from SaaS nowadays?


I have a strong desire to start a SaaS company, so I followed the usual advice of bringing myself to the cusp of a problem domain — twice(!) over the past 13 years — only to come to the realization after considerable investment that any products on the edge would have limited market appeal because both problem domains likely had their heyday 30+ years ago.

I don't regret the time spent as I'm now something of a domain expert in one of the two and I have some neat hobbies to pursue in my down-time.

With all of this being said, here's the question…

*** How can I find problems other people want/need to have solved without diving all the way in or fundamentally changing myself as a person? ***

I have a healthy social life, but my interests and daily activities don't really align with my peers. Outside of the two aforementioned problem domains, I don't have any itches to scratch, but the strong desire to start an SaaS company remains.


  👤 altdataseller Accepted Answer ✓
If you don’t have a passion for solving a problem, you likely won’t succeed. You can’t go in just wanting to start a company. You have to be passionate about a problem. The company is secondary.

👤 SemanticStrengh
People mostly want to develop new friendships but are too afraid to do so.

👤 ffhhj
Mostly communication, relations, design, money making. All of these are saturated. Choose one, try a few solutions, build your own with better features.