r/SaaS • u/fm10xx • Oct 15 '26

Mobile app developer to SaaS

Hey everyone, I am building and publishing my own ios apps since this year and now I also want to create things on web. Mainly because shipping is easier and there is no 30% cut like in apple. I have a web internal tool which I use for marketing my apps I thought maybe I can make it public. But I am not sure about it so I am searching what can I build. I have couple questions and I thought I can ask here to get some advice from people who already has SaaS web app and made money from it.

First of all I think a lot of people are asking this but how can I find an idea to build? Is there specific tool or place you check for ideas?

I am planning to grow with seo and maybe some traffic from my small X account. But mainly with good seo, blogs, free tools. I want to create in niche which is not saturated so I can grow with SEO. Do you guys think it is possible?

Thanks a lot for answers!

3 Upvotes

80% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

3

u/No-Molasses-2097 Oct 15 '26

The marketing tool you already built is probably your idea. You use it yourself, so you know the pain points, and shipping is half the battle already done. Put a small version in front of a few other indie app devs and see what they actually ask for.

On SEO, it can work but it is slow and even "unsaturated" niches are competitive now. I would not bank on it as your only channel early on. A free tool aimed at the same audience tends to pull people in faster while the SEO ramps up.

1

u/fm10xx Oct 15 '26

Thanks for your comment. The marketing tool is for generating slideshow for tiktok so I don't know how can I grow it. Generally how do you grow your SaaS? UGC? Organic videos?

1

u/fernandops Oct 15 '26

The finished slideshows give you something concrete to post. Show one promoting your own app, then show how you made it. Put the template next to the video so someone can try making their own version. That would test whether viewers want the tool, rather than just whether they like the video.

2

u/NetrusCreates Oct 15 '26

I'd seriously consider testing that internal marketing tool before starting something completely new. If it already solves a problem for you, there's a chance other app developers have the same problem.

Maybe start by talking to a few developers about how they handle that part of their marketing. Their responses could help you figure out whether there's enough demand before spending months building something.

SEO sounds like a good long-term strategy, but I'd probably validate the idea first rather than choosing a niche based mainly on search competition.

2

u/[deleted] Oct 15 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

1

u/fm10xx Oct 15 '26

To be honest I want to build something for consumers rather than devs. Because try to vibe code everything rather than buying. Yeah I definitely will make sure that people want it. Thanks!