Today I'm going to answer the question, can you still make $10,000 a month from a micro SAS? The answer is of course. There are hundreds of examples right here in this database.
And today I'm going to be showing you three. We're going to be going over each example and I'm going to be breaking down what these apps do, how much money they make, and some ways that I think you could replicate these apps in 2025, especially using AI tools, vibe coding, and building with AI. I'm going to go slowly up in revenue.
I'm going to show you some stuff making the big bucks, $500,000 a year. So, if you're looking for inspiration on how to build a micro SAS, this video is the place. I'm going to be showing you real world stuff, making real world money started by regular people just like you and me.
I think you guys are going to enjoy these ideas. Let's jump into it. The link is in the description if you want to get access to this database, which you can for free.
Let's start simple here. Let's go look at ideas that are making less than $10,000 a month, cuz you can filter by that on Starter Story. I'm going to do under $10,000 a month.
We're going to start with a simple one because, you know, I like to look at the 0 to10K per month stuff as long as it was started somewhat recently because there's a lot to learn from business doing 0 to 10K and 10K a month from your own business is no joke. So, let's scroll down here and let's look for something interesting. And I'm just kind of looking at some of these metrics here.
This one looks actually pretty interesting here. This is Air Trackbot. This is a Telegram chat bot designed to help you search for cheap flights and track their prices.
It makes $7,000 a month. It cost $0 to start this business and it's got a solarpreneur score of 90 out of 100, which is really high. This is our algorithm to help show like what are easy business ideas to start.
But I think this is a really cool one. So, let's go check this one out here. I'm going to go click here to go into the Starter story case study.
This is our case study for Air Trackbot right here. This is cool. You can read if you're really curious about a specific idea in Starter Store.
We have these case studies, how they came up with the idea, how they built the product, how they launched it, how they grew it. There's all these things. But the first thing that I want to do is I just want to go and look at the app itself.
So, let's go and actually click here. We can go see this is doing $7,000 a month. It's got one founder and zero employees.
That's always a good sign. But let's take a look at the actual app. So, this is airtrackbot.
com. Find the best flight deals on Telegram Messenger. Okay, let's try it out.
Let's see what it does. Okay, I'm going to open Telegram. I'm a big fan of Telegram.
So, we're going to start this here. And cool. It's got a bunch of languages.
I'm in English. I'm in the United States. I'm in USD.
And let's see what we can do. I want to track ticket prices. I think that's kind of cool.
So, well, I I'll start with a flight search. So, I want to look at one way. Let's see where I live, which is Tampa to Los Angeles.
All right. She please choose the city from the list. Los Angeles.
What's your destination? Tampa. I didn't really get that right, but that's okay.
Tampa, United States. Choose the date. Okay.
Let's say May 16. And now it's looking for a flight. This is kind of cool, right?
This is like if I'm on a web browser, I'm looking at flights on Google flights usually. But this is kind of a cool way to do it if I was on the go or something like that. And this is cool.
So, it's giving me LA to Tampa, one stop for $111. That's pretty cheap, actually. And this is cool.
And that's a cool feature right there. Price tracking. What happens if I click that?
The price tracking the flight has been created. It'll let you know. So, what's cool is the Telegram app will let you know via Telegram Messenger on a flight change.
That might get to me a little faster than if I have an on email or something like that. So, this is cool. This is like a Telegram bot.
Really quite simple. Probably not too complicated to create, but yeah, that's cool. Okay, so this is the founder here, Cola Craft Chuck.
And what I think is cool is I immediately go look at his bio and I see he's got a bunch of other apps that he's building. And this is what's actually really cool that I think a lot of people miss. This founder here, yes, he has this flight tracking bot that makes $7 to $8,000 a month, but he also has up there mostly in the flights or airspace space, right?
So he's got many flights. io O and this looks like it is a web- based flight cheap flight type of thing right and then he's also got airtrack GPT which is looks like it's a a chat GPT version of that so why I think this is actually smart is I see a lot of founders they want to do 12 startups in 12 months but they go and build totally different things right they build an email marketing tool and then they build a flight tracker tool that's cool but there's not a lot of crossover right if you can build different things but in the same space. You can there there's a lot of cross-selling that you can do between different apps and you take your knowledge.
This guy probably knows a lot about flight APIs and conversion for this sort of stuff pricing. He has built up all this knowledge and he can go and spin up even more of these as new technologies emerge. And that's where you see the air track GPT.
So my advice for anyone building is pick a space that you're really passionate about. Maybe this guy's passionate about flying and flights and cheap flights and just building in that space for a really long time. Build lots of different things.
It doesn't mean you have to build only one thing. That's what I really like about this startup. And hopefully that gives you some ideas for microess.
That's a really cool one. Hope you guys like that one. Let's go and look at some more.
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Let's go back to our Microsass ideas. So let's go do a little bit more digging here. This is I think I did a tweet on him and I'm going to pull that up right now.
Uh few I think last year I had tweeted about his app because I think it's really cool Telegram bot making $100,000 a year. Here's some interesting stats on it that I had found from the case study, which is it has two million users. It has a 1.
5 million monthly chats, which is a lot. Pricing is $12 a year, yet it's only making $100,000 a year. And that sparked a little bit of controversy, I think, in the comments here, which is, "How can you make so little money relatively to how many users you had?
" And if I scroll down here, I think there's a couple interesting comments here is why use this instead of Google flights? I think, you know, my response to that was, why use notion when you can use a spreadsheet, right? A spreadsheet is not going to work for every single person in the world.
Some people might want something a little more complex or customizable, right? Some people may not want to use Google Flights because it takes a really long time to load. They just want to do it from their phone and Telegram.
Maybe in like if you have bad internet or something like that, it's easier to use Telegram because it doesn't have to load this whole interface. It's a bot. It's a chatbot, right?
Chat bots have a place. The other one I thought was interesting is two million users and AKMR is scary. I think that's there's some truth to that for sure, but also you have to remember that this is a bot.
It's an automated bot. This founder technically doesn't need to actually work on this dayto-day. He is making this as mostly passive income, which I think is cool.
And he doesn't have to, you know, trade his time for dollars. And also, there's also not a whole lot of server cost with something like this. So yeah, you can have 2 million users if you were to have a traditional website.
That would be massive server costs. But in this, you're building it on a platform that already has a huge existing user base. So you don't need to go spend money on ads to get customers and there are no server costs because it's a bot that's already built on top of the platform.
Let's find another one. Okay, this one I want to find maybe one that's doing a little bit more, but I really do like this kind of 0 to 10k per month. I think that's where the most interesting businesses are and where you can learn a lot, especially if you read these case studies.
So, I'm going to keep scrolling here. Let's let's see what else we can find here. If you guys have anything that you want us to cover in future videos, you just let us know.
This one looks interesting here. Staget timer. io.
It's an online countdown timer. I like that three words. Whenever I see three words like that, I'm like, that's interesting.
If you can put your business into three words, that's usually something good. This business makes $8,300 a month and has a 83 solarpreneur score of $0 to start. So, let's go check this one out here.
Okay, so this is stagedtimer. io. Howie built an eight they built an $8,000 per month niche online tool and they validated the business idea on Reddit.
Let's go check out what this thing does here. So, this is staget timer. io.
Remote controlled countdown timer. Show a full screen timer to your presenter while you control it from another device. Cool.
So, it looks like this is like basically a timer, like like a timer you can literally set on your iPhone, but it looks like it's being used for like events or something like that, right? I can see that they're using it for events. And that's a cool little idea.
It's, you know, not a billion dollar idea, but it's something that's useful. Solves a real problem. And you can see right here it says trusted by 19,000 video producers and event organizers and used for events at these big companies.
This is cool. The first thing I want to see is okay, let's just make sure that this is actually legit. Let's go and just take a look at their traffic.
So I have this similar web extension right here. And you can see they're doing $200,000 or $200,000 traffic per month on a timer website which is pretty amazing. And you can see some of the keywords that they're ranking for.
Stage timer. That's interesting. Cool.
The next thing I want to see is their pricing. And wow. Okay, this is actually really, really interesting.
They are not just charging you for an app that you can download a SAS for a timer. They're charging $180 a year, which is about $16 a month. And they have a usagebased pricing.
The moment I add two members, the price goes up. That is amazing. So, if they sell into a team of 10, maybe, well, they don't even have that much.
If they sell it to a team of five, they're making $540 a year, which is about $50 a month for this timer. Yeah, $45 a month it says right here for this timer product, right? So that means that every single month they don't need to go and find new customers.
The customers renew because they're using it for a business use case, right? They're making sure that events go to schedule. And I think that is a useful problem to be solving, right?
I know while doing production and working on videos that if a video is not going on time or it's going long or the person is talking for too long, that's a real problem. So, this is making events run on time, saving costs and making events run better. This is worth it for businesses to pay for.
Let's go take a look at how they grew because I think that's probably interesting too. And this is the starter story case. You can see this if you just go to launching the business, growing the business and you can start to see what they say.
I mean this was written by the founder. This is one of our case studies on starter story. And they say stage timer has mainly been growing from search.
So probably Google search and word of mouth. In the case of search, we have been focusing on creating content on our website that will rank well on Google and complimenting with ads. Whatever we don't rank organically for, we target with ads on Google.
That's really they write blog posts for specific keywords. If they rank number one on that keyword, they don't need to run ads. If they don't rank number one on that keyword, they run ads on it.
So, if I just go and search stage timer, obviously theirs comes up because their website is staget timer. io, right? But if I search remote controlled countdown, let's search let's search countdown timer, then they don't show up.
So, I imagine they're running ads on this keyword. But I think I have ads turned off because I blocked them. But they would basically pay a little bit of money to get the top spot on countdown timer, which probably doesn't cost a whole lot of money.
That's really smart. So the two things they did that I think were really smart is they literally just named their thing staget timer. io.
That told Google, "Hey, this is actually probably something we should rank highly because they went and spent the money to get the good domain name or they they have that domain name and Google likes that. " And then I think that ad strategy is actually pretty smart too. The other thing that I found on their case study was that they validated the business idea on Reddit.
And this is the Reddit post where they validated it. Isn't that cool? You can see what actually worked four years ago.
Advice for presentation timer app in the making. So it sounds like they were making their app and they put it in the commercial AV subreddit which has 28,000 members. It's not the a million, 2 million, 5 million subreddit.
and they said, "Oh my god, this is amazing. Hey there, I am building a presentation app that runs in the browser. The goal is to put a simple tablet blah blah blah blah blah just saying what it could do.
Can you give me some feedback about the necessary features for such an app? Here's the current version. Thank you.
" And this post has a whopping 34 comments. This is amazing to me. This is a business that makes over $100,000 a year.
They validated their idea with this Reddit post that had 57 upvotes and 34 comments. In this crazy viral world, you think you need to get a million views and get all these up votes and all this stuff. But imagine you could change your life.
And I know $10,000 a month, $8,000 a month is not crazy money, but that is pretty life-changing if you can have an app like a SAS that you know just kind of runs on its own that does one very simple thing and you make $8,000 a month that pays your rent and way more. And this is the post that validated it. Right?
My big takeaway from this one is if you're building anything, please, please, please, before you actually spend all the time creating all the features, go post something like this on Reddit and just ask people what features they want. It does two things. It allows you to not build features that people don't want and build up hype for your thing, right?
They put their link in there, people clicked it, maybe put their email in, and they got customers through that as well before they even launched it. This is genius. I love this.
And it just shows you what's possible with the internet, right? If you built staget timer. io, it's probably not going to have a billion customers, but there's 20, 30, 200, 500 people around the world that find this so useful for their little edge case that they're willing to pay money for it.
And it's a really good business. All right, let's go back and find one more one. I'm going to find a big kahuna.
Well, not that big. I think micro SAS is cool. Kind of hanging out in that 0 to 50k per month.
So, let's update it to 10 to 50K per month. This is a life-changing business, right? If you make 10 to 50 grand a month, that's no joke.
Let's go find a big one. A big daddy. Let's go.
All right. And again, I'm just looking through these and there's so many in here. It's kind of overwhelming.
So, what I like to do is I just like to find one that I think is interesting. Go click on it and really kind of read into it and learn more about, you know, there's something to learn from every business, right? So, let's see what we can find here.
Again, this that three-word banger right here. I kind of like this one. Automate data extraction.
This business makes $40,000 a month, which is about $500,000 a year. It costs $1,000 to start. It has an 87 solarpreneur score.
Let's go check out what it does. Automate data extraction. I like this.
You know, I'm a data guy. I like software. I like data.
I like spreadsheets. So, this one looks interesting to me. And that would be my advice for anyone that's hanging out on this database.
Go look and pick out things that are interesting to you, right? You want to build something in a place that you're passionate about. So, let's go check this one out.
All right. So, this is Par. We developed a 40k per month email parser application.
Sylvester Dupon, two founders, zero employees, 40k per month, and parsour. I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, but let's go check out the website. That's the first thing I like to look at.
AI data extraction made ridiculously simple. A little takeaway that I like. I really, really like this website, right?
It's not the fanciest thing in the world, but it's got the perfect structure, I think. First of all, we're talking above the fold, right? Above the fold means I go to the website.
Anything I can see without scrolling. This whole square right here. Above the fold, it does three things, right?
It has a headline, a sub headline, and a call to action. And then it has a little demo or visual of what the thing does. This is all you need to do.
The headline says, "What's the benefit you get from using this? " I do this hard thing called a dated extraction, and it's ridiculously simple. And this is what I like, right?
Volume-based pricing. This is a little different than usage based pricing which I was like per seat pricing which we showed before. This is volume based pricing.
So your customers that really love your product pay more. And here it's $0 a month to upload 20 pages and have it done with AI. But let's say I'm a big I'm a doctor's office and I'm uploading 300 pages a month.
Let's go find out what that looks like. 300. Okay.
I'm paying $69 a month or 23 cents per page. What if I'm an even bigger company and I need to do 10,000? See what that costs.
$299 a month, right? This is where things get pretty cool. Where basically if it's $299 a month, that means it's I think $3600 or something like that per year.
And that means that all you need is like 10 customers and you have like a really really solid business, right? This is the power of microsass, right? Building a very pointy solution.
It does really one thing. uploads a document and does some transformation of that document and it serves businesses right there's not not every single business needs this but a few do and the few do you do it really well and that is the power of a microSASS the other thing I think is cool about this is it's AI focus too so again shameless plug for AI build accelerator but this type of solution has been finally made possible by AI this was really really hard to do but in the last couple years with the GBT models image models and all these things it's actually gotten really easy. I can really even plug in an invoice right now into chat GBT and it could probably give me something similar like this, too.
So, you can build this stuff now with AI and you could probably do it a lot faster and cheaper than than ever before. And and just think about it like of course a business would want to pay for this. Imagine if they had those 10,000 documents they needed to upload every single month.
They could pay, you know, someone to do it maybe a dollar per document, maybe even 25 cents per document, or they can do it for 3 cents per document. It's a no-brainer. You would 100% do this every single time.
You would have less errors and this person wouldn't call in sick or you wouldn't have to train them or do anything. So, I really like this business a lot. Let's see how they grew and then because, you know, that's my favorite thing.
So, let's go launching the business. The least I can say is that our launch was underwhelming. We posted about our site on Hacker News and Product Hunt.
Both posts were a big flop. No traction whatsoever. Okay, this is cool.
So, they didn't just hit a home run right away. Then it hit us. We realized that nothing was working because we weren't posting in the places that our target users were hanging out on.
We also realized we didn't even know who our target users were. So, they went down the rabbit hole and found that out and then they found Quora. Wow.
Okay, cool. So that's another thing I see people, you know, they they post on one place and then they all of a sudden think, "Oh, my app isn't validated. My thing isn't possible to do.
" You got to go and try on lots and lots of different platforms. Like I remember when I was starting starter story and I started posting on Instagram and Facebook thinking that I was going to get my users from there. Here it goes.
This is my original post. this post, even though it didn't like change my business, it changed the trajectory of my business because it was the first thing that actually worked to get users to get people on my newsletter and to yeah, basically siphon users from Reddit. And you can see right here that this post has 400 upvotes and 125 comments.
Nothing crazy. But then what I did is because it worked and other things didn't, I then doubled down. I did this over and over.
I did it almost every single day for basically years. And I built a business on this. And yeah, this is the power of attentionering, trying lots of different platforms, and just seeing what works.
So, I think this is a super cool business. $40,000 a month with an email parser application if you're kind of nerdy into APIs and that sort of thing. This is a cool business that does one simple thing.
Okay, guys. If you like this, go check out the link to access this database. You can get it for free.
So, go on there and look at the all these case studies in here and all these businesses and all the little data points on them. It's super cool. And if you can check out the AI build accelerator if you want to build any of those ideas and you're serious about actually building something, we will show you to do it without writing any code, right?
You will turn your idea into a real app using AI. I got a link in the description for that if you want to check it out. I think it's awesome.
I think AI tools and vibe coding is going to change the world. And it's only the beginning. So if you learn how to use these tools, lovable cursor and all these things, I think it will be the most valuable skill of the next decade.
Learning how to build things with AI tools, automate things with AI, and just doing everything with AI is going to change the world. All right, guys. Thanks for watching.
See you in the next one. Peace.
