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Hi and welcome to my weekly post! It’s been too long since we spoke last time, so why don’t you schedule a quick call with me here? In the last post, I talked about my ideas for Slack apps. They were either in the AI space or focused on productivity or integrations. In this post, I cover how I thought about my elimination process and what was left after it. 💡Choosing one idea to commit to On one hand, I don’t feel like any of my ideas so far are that amazing. Even the ones I get very excited about, when I read them the next day, I think to myself “That’s never going to work” or “Who needs that anyway?” On the other hand, real progress happens when you actually build something, show it to someone and iterate on the feedback. That’s why I’m sticking to my deadline for committing to an idea today. ...

I can’t believe it’s been two months (three including breaks) of writing! One of the cool things about writing here is that I go back to what I wrote, to check what I was thinking last week. When a lot of my output is “thinking”, that helps me build on top of what I previously thought. In today’s post: 💡Ideas: Last week’s top ideas 🗿Status: How’s it going, Stefan ➡️Next steps: Step nexts 💡Last week’s top ideas In previous posts I shared ideas as a brain dump. However, now that I’m focusing on Slack apps, I thought it could be interesting to give more details about my thinking. ...

Hi and thanks for coming by! Short update this week. In my last post, I finished with a list of ways to find micro-Saas ideas, that I planned to use. One of the ways was trying find inspiration in SaaS idea newsletters. So, for the past week-and-a-bit, I’ve been doing that, which produced some moderate results. Here’s a dump of ideas: Idea dump * Taxfix for solopreneurs * Bubble plugin that takes webform data to google sheets * Linktree-style website builder for doctors and other independent practitioners, including appointment booking, payments, loyalty. If Doctolib is Amazon, this is Shopify * Invoice generator from Notion/Coda * Some CMS ideas: ** Knowledgebase that uses Airtable/Coda to manage it's content ** Use Airtable/Notion/Coda to manage content in Wordpress/Wix/Webflow or other website builders ** Airtable/Notion/Coda to manage a simple productroadmap page, including feature upvote * Subscription flow/billing plugin for Wordpress/Wix/Webflow * Competitor comparison page generator based on G2/Capterra data * Manage (write, schedule, analytics) linkedin posts from notion/coda/airtable * [Shopify plugin] Scan QR code to take cart to mobile device and continue shopping Another way to find ideas that I’ve read about and thought attractive, is to find popular apps on one platform (e.g. Shopify) and try to build it on a competitor’s platform (e.g. Woocommerce). So i found a list of platforms that have app marketplaces. To better understand if these platforms are a good fit, I looked at 3 things: size, growth and whether they have documentation for building with Python (the programming language I’m least of a noob in). I also filtered out any platform that I know nothing about. ...

Hi there, and thanks for reading my blog and for your feedback 💚! It’s making a huge difference, in that it forces me to make my thinking clearer and it makes this “journey” less lonely. In my last post, I wrote about deciding to drop the field of employee engagement. As next steps, I proposed to: Write up my checklist for an idea worth exploring Try more ways to find micro-saas ideas. I also want to share a few personal reflections. So…on today’s menu, we have: ...

Hey there! This is my last post for 2022, and I’ll be back to the regular updates in 3 weeks. Thanks for reading my writing so far, for sharing your feedback and encouragement, and for keeping me accountable! ⬅️Last week, I set out to: ❌Prepare for customer interviews ✅Try to decide whether going into a super crowded space is worth it ✅[Maybe] Try to see how far I can get in building out one of the ideas above ...