Casually browsing SaaS startups on @microacquire this morning to see if I want to buy one in the 5-10K range that has a low but steady MRR.

These are validated ideas with momentum and can shave several months to years off of your early founder journey.

Anyone else into this?
There's more interest in this than I expected. Here are a few other marketplaces I browse from time to time:

Flippa lists domain names, iOS/Android apps, blogs, ecommerce sites, SaaS, Amazon FBA.
I am also a *huge* fan of exchangemarketplace.com, which is run by Shopify, and no surprise, is a place to buy and sell Shopify businesses only.

You get a TON of verified information about a store's revenue, profit, profit margin, and sales.
One more! There has been a lot of love for @Codie_Sanchez in the replies, and I just want to add a link to one of my favorite articles on her site: 21 ways to cashflow no one talks about - this is for people who don't necessarily want to buy a saas. contrarianthinking.co/21-ways-to-cas…
I’m starting to feel more and more strongly that if you are building an app for the purpose of selling it on a marketplace, the tech stack you pick should be something widely palatable.

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18 Nov
Weirdest use of Airtable today?

✨ I made a no-code feature flag system with Airtable and am using that to hide or display sections on a Next.js site. ✨

That's one way to help a client who can't decide when exactly something should go live on their site. 🤷🏾‍♂️
Here's how I did it. First I have a table that looks something like this. This is what the client sees when they edit the "Features" table (base, in Airtable lingo).
Airtable gives you an automatic API for each base. In the case of the Features base, I click into the API documentation and see that it looks like this.

This is a test base, I am not worried that you see my base ID in the screenshot.
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Coming to @netflix next Halloween starring Vanessa Hudgens, the newest film in the series-

The Princess Switch: Princess Witch 👸🏽🧙‍♀️
@netflix Vanessa Hudgens has a déjà vu when she sees the same exact cat walk by twice. 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

The Princess Switch: Matrix Glitch
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2 Mar
If you are building a SaaS from scratch, have your Users belong to Teams, and attach billing information to the Team not User. While you're there, create a Membership model to be the join table between User/Team and assign a role to the User like Owner, Admin, or Readonly.
This signals that your app is business-friendly. It allows you to assign limits and features at the Team level. It allows for users to ask for their accounts to be deleted without it affecting the billing status of the entire team. It allows a team to kill a teammate's account.
"but I'm building a b2c, do I need teams?"

Personal finance tool: user wants spouse to see their budget

Notetaking tool: user wants to share notes with family

Videogame recc app: user wants girlfriend to add their games to library

Preschool app: grandma wants to pay tuition
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24 Mar 20
What a crazy world— my 5yo just requested me to please not be loud or crazy because she has a call at 10 with her class.
oh good, they're all doing the "can you see me? can you hear me?" thing and I'm just glad that this is universal.
At 10:06am they could finally all see and hear each other so they're right there alongside every other team in the world doing video calls.
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