What are the single feature apps that would be fun to make? Let's brainstorm!
Here’s one trend-setting tweet in 2017 by @levelsio:
Here’s a new trend: fast food-type web apps. They’re single feature apps that do one thing, charge $ quickly and give instant gratification.
They have some characteristics:
- tiny
- single feature
- no sign up
- fast user flow (<1 min)
- low price
- charge $ quickly_
They grew out of the MVP trend, but we realized it’s not just us who like minimal, users like it too. No giant app with 100 features. A tiny app with 1 feature for one flat price. As a dev (or studio) you need about 10 of these (at $1,000/m-$5,000/m) to make a solid income ($10,000/m-$50,000/m). Homework exercise: think of something that you can charge $1-$5 for a single feature web app, that’s easily shareable and can go viral.
“I really love this trend — it makes websites feel like vending machines, in a good way.”
“Examples of fast-food apps: go to fiverr or ifttt and explore those small gigs/jobs which have users. E.g your resume as an infographics etc”
I love the entire thread. A treasure throve of ideas and inspiration for micro-SaaS. I love the idea of a single feature app, easy to code, and low bar to purchase. On top of that, single feature means less support needed, and less maintenance too. To be honest, making a full-featured SaaS feels daunting for me now, so breaking down the learning journey into smaller steps like this makes it more approachable.
Since he gave homework, I thought a little brainstorm would be fun:
- Mindful work bell timer
- Google Analytics counter widget to show just page views / users
- Collections for Twitter bookmarks
- Nocode tool to create simple Chrome extensions that show content
- Nagging web app to email/sms/message you multiple times per day until you complete the task
- Embeddable blog that works on Carrd
- Embeddable calendars on Carrd/JAMstack
- Embeddable news tickers or banners on Carrd/JAMstack
- Embeddable polls on Carrd/JAMstack
- Embeddable upload form on Carrd/JAMstack
- Embeddable sliders on Carrd/JAMstack
- Embeddable maps on Carrd/JAMstack
- Embeddable floating buy/subscribe buttons on Carrd/JAMstack
- Convert PDF to fillable PDF
- Convert PDF to Excel/Word
- Convert Excel calculator into web app/page
What else? Any ideas for a single-feature web app that will help you?
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ahhh, what a days, even no one word about AI...