The original title is "How to Find a SaaS Project to Build: A Developer's Practical Guide"

Short summary

A practical guide for developers on finding SaaS ideas by scratching their own itch, maintaining a friction log, mining developer communities for complaints, and targeting spreadsheet-based or email-based manual processes. The author shares a real example of building a $5k MRR product by automating Instagram metric reporting for agencies, and provides a four-question validation checklist.

• •Keep a friction log for two weeks to surface real, personally-felt problems
• •Mine communities like HN, Reddit, and IndieHackers for repeated complaints with economic impact
• •Target spreadsheet-based, email-based, and copy-paste workflows as high-probability SaaS opportunities

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