5 Simple No-Code SAAS Ideas You Can Launch In 2024
Summary
TLDRThe video introduces 5 no-code SaaS business ideas that have potential in 2024, including building a data dashboard, marketplace, sponsorship platform, CRM, or AI chatbot. It outlines the tools, revenue models, and shortcuts to launch each idea, emphasizing focusing on niche markets. The goal is to inspire people to start their own successful no-code SaaS business.
Takeaways
- Focus on niche SaaS ideas and build for small, specific industries rather than massive companies.
- Dashboards centralize data to help people make better decisions through visualized metrics and statistics.
- Marketplaces connect buyers and sellers and make money by taking a transaction fee.
- Sponsorship platforms connect brands and creators, taking a commission on deals.
- CRMs organize customer interactions to improve relationships over time.
- AI chatbots can provide industry-specific recommendations and Q&A for niche markets.
- Airtable, Softr, Bubble, and Synth are useful no-code tools to build these ideas.
- Charge monthly subscriptions around $29-$49 per customer for steady recurring revenue.
- Take shortcuts first to manually test the business idea before fully automating.
- The video aims to inspire people to start their own successful no-code SaaS business in 2024.
Q & A
What are the 5 main no-code SaaS business ideas covered in the video?
-The 5 ideas are building a data dashboard, marketplace, sponsorship platform, CRM, or AI chatbot focused on niche industries.
Why is building niche SaaS products emphasized versus large mainstream companies?
-Niche SaaS products serve specific small industries better rather than bloated mainstream products. There is also less competition in niches.
What monthly revenue might a niche dashboard company generate?
-With 100 customers paying $49/month, a niche dashboard company could generate $4900 per month.
How exactly can you build a sponsorship platform business?
-Identify creators in a niche looking for sponsors, find relevant potential sponsors, connect them and take a commission.
What shortcuts help launch these SaaS ideas?
-Manually facilitate parts of the business at first, such as matching buyers and sellers, to prove the concept and collect data before fully automating.
What no-code tools are recommended to build these SaaS ideas?
-Airtable, Softr, Bubble, and Synth are some of the top no-code tools recommended for getting started.
Why create niche AI chatbots specifically?
-Niche chatbots trained on specialized data can provide more accurate recommendations and Q&A for that industry.
What is the goal of providing these no-code SaaS ideas?
-The goal is to inspire people and provide a starting point to build their own successful no-code SaaS business in 2024.
What recurring revenue pricing models are suggested?
-Charging monthly subscriptions around $29-$49 per customer is recommended for steady recurring revenue.
How can dashboards help companies make better decisions?
-Dashboards centralize and visualize data into metrics, statistics, and graphs to provide insights for data-driven decision making.
Outlines
Introducing 5 No-Code SaaS Ideas for 2024
The first paragraph introduces the video, stating it will cover 5 no-code SaaS business ideas that have potential in 2024. It mentions people who have built successful no-code companies and encourages viewers to use these ideas to make 2024 their breakout year.
Idea 1 - Data Dashboard
The second paragraph explains the first idea of building a data dashboard to centralize and visualize data for decision making. It suggests focusing on a niche industry and charging small businesses around $49/month. Tools like Airtable and Softr can be used to build a simple MVP.
Idea 2 - Online Marketplace
The third paragraph covers the second idea of building an online marketplace to connect buyers and sellers. It gives the example of an antique violin marketplace charging 15% commission per $11,000 sale. Tools like Airtable, Softr, and Bubble can be used to build it.
Idea 3 - Sponsorship Matching Platform
The fourth paragraph explains the third idea of a sponsorship matching platform like Swapstack. It made over $300,000 and was built with Airtable, Zapier, and Webflow. The concept could be tailored to specific niches like matching fishing sponsors.
Idea 4 - Customized CRM
The fifth paragraph discusses building a customized CRM for niche industries with specific needs, charging $29-$49/month. A simple CRM can be built in days using Softr and Airtable. It suggests targeting small businesses like dentists or cleaners.
Idea 5 - Custom AI Agent
The sixth paragraph covers the idea of building customized AI agents for different industries using ChatGPT and Synth. Agents can provide Q&A, be deployed as chatbots, and be sold for monthly subscriptions.
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Keywords
💡SAS
💡niche
💡no-code
💡MVP
💡revenue
💡automation
💡CRM
💡AI
💡marketplace
💡bootstrap
Highlights
SAS stands for software as a service and it's a highly profitable, scalable, recurring revenue business model
A dashboard centralizes data and shows it in a smart way to help people make better decisions
Focus dashboards on a specific niche like vending machines or law firms to provide the most value
Marketplaces connect buyers and sellers and take a 10-20% transaction fee
Build marketplaces for crazy niches like video games, anime or secondhand shoes
Sponsorship platforms connect sponsors with creators and newsletters
A CRM tracks interactions between a company and customers to improve relationships
Cater CRMs to the specific needs of an industry like dentists or cleaners
You can build a simple CRM in just 3 days for $40 with no code tools
GPT-3 allows you to build customized AI agents for different industries
AI agents can provide question answering, recommendations, and guidance
You can charge a one-time build fee or monthly subscription for AI agents
Get started building instead of overthinking and overanalyzing
Make your dreams happen instead of waiting for them to come true
2024 can be your best business year ever with no code SAS
Transcripts
these five no code SAS ideas have huge
potential for 2024 and if you start one
of these right now you could end up like
one of these people who either sold
their company or raised millions of
dollars with the power of no code so are
you ready to finally make 2024 your
breakout year Well if so here are five
no code SAS ideas that you can steal for
2024 welcome back to the startup Studio
everyone if you think that this video is
just going to be me rambling off General
ideas then you have another thing coming
tell them Molly tell them I'm packing
some serious value in this video that's
that's right I'm not just going to be
giving you the idea I'm also going to
talk about the exact tools that you can
use to build them we'll talk about how
much money you can make from each of
them and we'll also be giving you some
shortcuts so that you can launch the
smart way okay but before jumping into
these ideas what is SAS and why is it
the most influential business model for
2024 SAS stands for software as a
service and it's basically where you
build software once and then you charge
people to get access to it on a monthly
basis and there are three main reasons
why investors love this business model
first of all it is high highly
profitable so average businesses have
profit margins of around 20 30% software
as a service has 70 to 90% profit
margins then because it's software and
you can access it from anywhere in the
world it is incredibly scalable so you
can build it once and have Global reach
and finally because you're charging
people on a recurring basis SAS
businesses are selling for three times
more than traditional businesses and
that's why so many Silicon Valley
investors are pouring hundreds of
millions of dollars in these companies
before you buy a yacht in the Cayman
Islands let's get back to these ideas
the first idea on this list is a
dashboard so basically it is a hub that
centralizes data and that really shows
that data in a smart way for people to
make decisions it can include graphs
statistics charts and it really helps
people make decisions and see things
from a higher level so think of like an
ads management platform for example
where you'd be able to see how each one
of your ads is doing how each ad group
is doing how all the campaigns are doing
how much you're spending and from that
top level view you can start making
decisions as a manager so how does this
work well either you get the user to
input data consistently over time and
then you have specific metrics to show
them or you dynamically pull in the data
and then you organize it in a way that's
easy to understand the key to being
successful with this idea is to focus in
on a specific Niche so for example you
could Target people who are managing
several vending machines who can compare
how each one of them are doing on a
higher level and make business decisions
based on that you could Target it
specifically to law firms or maybe to
retail stores the more specific you are
the better you are going to be at
representing the numbers that that
industry actually cares about right and
focus on small medium businesses instead
of going after these massive companies
at first why well because there's quite
a few of these individual businesses
that you can get to subscribe for a
monthly subscription and you can easily
charge them $49 a month 100 customers
that's $5,000 a month okay Christian but
how do I build it well if you want to
build a simple version of this you can
build it leveraging air table as a
database and softer as a front end if
you're more confident in your no code
skills you can jump into more complex
platforms either bubble if you're trying
to build it as a web app or flut orlow
if you're trying to build it as a mobile
app Okay Christian that sounds awesome
but what are the downsides well one
common downside is that if you are
getting information from another source
and that Source stops providing that
data then you have a broken tool so for
example Twitter at some point decided
that they would only give access to
their API essentially their data for a
very expensive price they completely
change their pricing from one day to
another and for a lot of small medium
businesses they couldn't afford that
price anymore and they had to stop
getting that data from Twitter and the
shortcut to launch this idea because
we're talking about literally crunching
numbers here would be to get the data
crunch the numbers create a report and
then either put the report behind a pay
wall or simply charge them for the
report and of course you're not going to
do that for 100 customers but you could
do it for the first five figure out
exactly how you're supposed to create
that report and then it makes sense to
build it out with software and that my
friends brings me to number two since
the dawn of time people buy and sell
goods and if you are the one who's able
to connect those people then you can
take a commission that's exactly what
people do with marketplaces so here
think of Airbnb upwork Amazon basically
they're just the middlemen for a
transaction and you can usually take a
transaction fee of anywhere from 10 to
20% of the transaction itself it really
just depends on the industry that we're
talking about here in fact a no code
startup that is a Marketplace called
Comet was able to generate $700,000 a
month leveraging no code tools and of
course the idea here is not to build
another Amazon but if you look at chewy
they pretty much built the Amazon for
pet food they're generating more than a
billion dollars a year so think of crazy
niches maybe in the video game Space
maybe in anime maybe secondhand shoes
the beauty of this idea is to build
specific for small niches and to become
the place where people come to shop for
that okay so what tools can you use to
build marketplaces well if you just want
it out of the box you can use a tool
called share tribe now if you'd like to
build a simple version of this you could
build it with air table and softer this
would be my recommendation for launch
and if you want to build a more complex
version you could use bubble let's say
that you do this for antique violins
that sell for $11,000 and you take a 15%
commission that's
$150 multiply that by 100 transactions a
month and you could be making anywhere
between $5 and $155,000 a month that's
great Christian but what's the cheap
code well in this case buyers usually
just want to come to the platform they
want to browse different items and then
they want to select from those items so
what you could do is simply have a
directory of items and then when people
ask to buy them you could facilitate the
transaction manually and make a
commission and then continue to build
the software so that it's fully
automated but this is the quickest way
to reach Revenue wait what did you say
you want them to subscribe to the
channel yeah I agree I agree subscribe
to the channel okay so for this third
idea IDE let me tell you the story of
swap stack they're a no code platform
that allows sponsorships to find the
right newsletters they facilitate the
deal take a commission and make money
and recently when they hit $20,000 in
recurring Revenue every month they were
sold to a company called beehive and
guess what yes they were built with no
code tools so what tools did they use to
do this they built their first MVP
leveraging air table which is a
incredibly flexible database Z happier
which allows you to shoot information
around then they used webflow for the
front end or the website and also had a
couple of slack Integrations as well now
Jake singer who is the founder of this
company was able to generate more than
$300,000 with this idea and I actually
think that this idea could be stolen for
specific niches so for example the other
day I was watching a fishing video and I
realized that this fishing channel had
millions of subscribers and I also
realized there were lots of other
channels with millions of subscribers so
what what if you became the
representative of all the fishing Brands
to sponsor these fishing creators and of
course this is a small Niche but guess
what you become the sponsorship platform
for fishing companies and for the person
out there who makes millions of dollars
with this idea please bring me fishing
okay so similarly to the last one the
way that I would launch this would be
actually by creating a database of
people who are looking for sponsorships
and then approaching some of the
companies that might be good sponsors
and simply connecting them and making
money the other thing that you could do
is find all of the fishing companies
that are sponsoring events sponsoring
newsletters sponsoring different
influencers out there create a database
of contacts that people can reach out to
and then you can sell a subscription to
influencers who want to find more
sponsors for their channels okay so this
brings us to number four which is a CRM
a customer relationship management
platform so these are platforms that
track interactions between a company and
its customers making it easier to manage
and improve their relationships over
time so think of things like customer
support sales and marketing or even
customer feedback now of course we all
know there are dinosaurs in this
industry companies like Salesforce or
sapcrm but here what we're talking about
is targeting small medium businesses
specifically for the needs they have for
the CRM instead of having these massive
products that are super bloated
difficult to use and just frankly
dinosaurs so here the opportunity again
is to cater specifically to a small need
so for example what if we went after
dentists who had a small practice or
cleaners who had specific needs when it
came to cleaning houses notifications
post cleaning reports and thank yous
interactions that other Industries might
not have so really just think of any
industry where these individuals might
have specific needs and become the best
CRM for those needs and then guess what
you can easily charge $29 to $49 a month
you get a 100 customers that's anywhere
between $3 and $5,000 a month in
recurring Revenue meaning that every
single month you make $3 to $5,000 if
you get more customers then each month
you'll make more and more again the
complete beauty of running a software
business so in terms of tools it's
pretty straightforward we built a CRM it
took us 3 days it cost us $40 and we
used softer and air table now keep in
mind it's a relatively simple CRM and we
can create all sorts of automations on
the back end and we actually only Built
the CRM so we could teach people how to
use these two tools to build full web
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or weer no.com Okay so this fifth idea
I'm particularly excited about because
Chad GPT which was built by open AI
actually announced that now you can
build your custom gpts within their tool
meaning that you can build an AI startup
and cater it to specific niches so you
could create a specific agent that would
take care of question and answer for the
automotive industry right so you could
create one for Mercedes-Benz which
really helps people guide them through
their cars is trained on all of the data
that you receive from the Cars
themselves which is publicly available
information and then this agent can very
easily interact and is very smart in
making the recommendations answering
questions about the specific cars this
is a place where the more specialized
you are the better all you have to do is
upload all of the inform information
that you have about this you need to
then train the agent give it a role give
it a mission tell it how you want it to
act give it a name even and boom you can
sell it to companies or you can have
people subscribe to that agent on a
monthly basis Okay Christian but this is
so complicated what are you talking
about and how could I build it with no
code well it's actually not that
difficult you can build one in 10
minutes in chat GPT for simple ones or
you can use other platforms like synth
flow to be able to build out more
complex ones with zero coding skills all
you got to do is you got to upload data
you got to train it on again profile its
role and how it's supposed to sort of
conduct that role and then you can
deploy it as a chat bot you could have
it interact within an app or you could
even chat with it this is actually one
of the latest features that synth flow
has and guess what if you build these
agents as gpts inside of chat GPT you
can also sell them as part of a
Marketplace that they're about to launch
and in terms of generating money if
you're just building a custom bot you
could either charge a one-time building
fee and just deliver them the product
for about $5,000 or you could have them
subscribe to it this really depends on
the industry that you're in and I think
this is a big opportunity because it's
very timely and the people who take the
time to learn it and get the best at it
are the ones who are going to reap the
rewards now the downside of this is that
a lot of people will be building them
just like apps but hey apps are still
making so much money so I wouldn't be
too too worried about the amount of
competition and if I were you I would
learn some no code skills a little bit
of AI and I would start building the
company so that 2024 can be your best
year ever now if you want to launch your
business but you don't know how to get
started a big problem I see is people
overthink they overanalyze and they end
up in analysis paralysis it is way more
important for you to get started if
you'd like support you can contact us if
you don't then just start jump in one of
these tools start playing around with it
and build the company of your dreams cuz
guess what it's not going to be waiting
for you and if you're in the process of
selecting a no code tool to build your
startup then check out this video
because I actually used more than 200 no
code tools and I told you which one were
the best so check it out and don't wait
until your dreams come true make them
happen and I hope you make this year
your best let's go
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