10 Micro SaaS Ideas You Can Actually Build This Weekend (Without Losing Your Mind)
Let me guess. You’ve got the itch to start a software business, but every time you look at the landscape, you see billion-dollar companies with teams of 200 engineers. Then you close your laptop and go back to scrolling Twitter.
Here’s what nobody tells you: you don’t need venture capital or a Stanford CS degree to build something people will pay for. You need a weekend, a problem worth solving, and the guts to ship something imperfect.
I’ve watched friends build micro saas products that pull in $2k-$10k monthly. Not enough to buy a yacht, but enough to quit their soul-crushing jobs. That’s the dream, right? A legitimate side hustle that doesn’t involve selling essential oils to your high school friends.
These aren’t pie-in-the-sky startup ideas. They’re problems I’ve either solved myself or watched people throw money at. Let’s dig in.
1. Invoice Reminder Bot for Freelancers Who Hate Confrontation
Freelancers are terrible at following up on unpaid invoices. I know because I was one of them. You send an invoice, client ghosts you, and suddenly it’s 60 days later and you’re too embarrassed to ask.
Build a simple SaaS that automatically sends polite reminder emails. Let users customize the tone (professional, friendly, increasingly aggressive). Integrate with Stripe or PayPal. Charge $15/month.
The beauty? Your customers already have a business that generates revenue. They’re not bootstrapping from zero. Speaking of which, if you’re serious about turning this into a software business, you’ll eventually want to consider whether you need an LLC to protect yourself legally.
2. LinkedIn Post Scheduler for People Who Aren’t LinkedIn Influencers
LinkedIn’s algorithm rewards consistency. Problem is, nobody wants to log into LinkedIn every single day at 9am like some corporate robot.
Buffer and Hootsuite exist, but they’re bloated and expensive. Build something dead simple: write posts, schedule them, done. Add a bonus feature that suggests optimal posting times based on their connection activity. $10/month. Ship it.
The target market? Consultants, coaches, and B2B freelancers who need LinkedIn presence without the mental overhead. These folks are already earning money and will happily pay to automate the boring stuff.
3. Stripe Revenue Dashboard for SaaS Founders Who Can’t Code
Stripe’s default dashboard is functional but ugly. And if you want real insights—MRR, churn rate, LTV—you’re stuck exporting CSVs and building spreadsheets like it’s 1997.
Create a beautiful, read-only dashboard that connects to Stripe via API. Show the metrics founders actually care about. Make it stupidly simple to set up. Price it at $29/month.
Your market is tiny. But guess what? SaaS founders with Stripe accounts have money. They’re literally running businesses that charge credit cards. That’s the customer you want.
4. Twitter Thread Compiler for Newsletter Writers
People write fire Twitter threads, then watch them disappear into the void after 48 hours. What a waste.
Build a tool that automatically compiles popular Twitter threads into formatted blog posts or email newsletters. Let users tweak the output, then publish directly to their platform of choice. Charge $20/month.
The opportunity here isn’t just the tool—it’s the passive income potential. Once you’ve built the core functionality, you can layer on features like SEO optimization or automatic cross-posting. If you’re smart about content distribution, you might even explore pairing this with strategies that generate traffic at scale.
5. Cold Email Warmup Service That Actually Works
Salespeople and founders need to send cold emails. But if you blast 500 emails from a fresh domain, you’re going straight to spam. Email warmup services exist, but most are garbage or cost $100+/month.
Create a simpler, cheaper version. Gradually increase sending volume, engage with dummy accounts, improve sender reputation. Price it at $29/month with a clear before/after deliverability metric.
This is a classic micro SaaS play: take an existing category, remove 80% of the features nobody uses, charge half the price.
6. Screenshot-to-React Component Converter
Developers spend stupid amounts of time converting design mockups into code. You look at a Figma file, squint at the padding values, and manually write CSS until you want to throw your laptop out the window.
Build a tool that takes a screenshot and spits out a basic React component. It doesn’t need to be perfect—just good enough to save 30 minutes of grunt work. Charge $15/month or offer pay-per-conversion credits.
Bonus: this positions you perfectly for devs who are already building custom interfaces and might appreciate shortcuts when they’re dealing with frameworks like WordPress blocks or other component-based systems.
7. Slack Bot That Summarizes Long Threads
If your company uses Slack, you’ve experienced this nightmare: you step away for two hours, come back to 147 unread messages in #general, and have no idea what happened.
Create a bot that uses ChatGPT API to summarize long Slack threads into bullet points. Let users invoke it with a slash command. Charge per workspace or per user.
The pricing model matters here. Companies will pay $100/month for team productivity tools without blinking. Individual users won’t. Price accordingly.
8. RSS-to-Social-Media Autoposter for Bloggers
People still blog. Some of us never stopped. But promoting every post manually across Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook is exhausting.
Build a service that monitors RSS feeds and auto-posts new content to social platforms with customizable templates. Let users schedule different variations for different networks. $12/month, easy sell.
The real kicker? You can market this directly to bloggers who are already making money from their content. They understand the value of distribution. Maybe even folks trying to crack organic traffic generation at scale would bite.
9. Meeting Cost Calculator for Zoom/Google Meet
Companies waste obscene amounts of money on pointless meetings. But the cost is invisible because nobody calculates it.
Create a browser extension that shows the real-time dollar cost of a meeting based on attendee salaries. Just the act of seeing “$847 and counting…” on screen will make people reconsider that 90-minute standup.
This one’s tricky to monetize directly. But you could license it to enterprises as part of a productivity suite or charge per-seat licensing. The viral potential is huge if you nail the UX.
10. Affiliate Link Cloaker for Content Creators
Affiliate links are ugly and obvious. They also break constantly when merchants change tracking parameters. Content creators need a way to mask those links and redirect them without losing tracking data.
Build a service that shortens affiliate links, tracks clicks, and provides analytics. Bonus features: automatic link checking, auto-replace broken links, A/B testing different offers. Charge $19/month.
The audience is massive: every blogger, YouTuber, and newsletter writer trying to monetize their audience. And if they’re already working in spaces like high-commission partnerships or other monetization strategies, they’ll see the value immediately.
Why These Ideas Actually Work
Notice a pattern? None of these require revolutionary technology. They’re all taking existing problems and making the solution 10x simpler or 10x cheaper.
That’s the micro SaaS playbook. You’re not trying to disrupt industries or raise Series A funding. You’re solving annoying problems for people who are already spending money elsewhere.
The hardest part isn’t building. It’s shipping. Too many developers spend six months perfecting features nobody asked for, then launch to crickets.
Pick One. Build It. Ship It.
Here’s my challenge: pick ONE of these ideas and commit to launching something by next Sunday. Not “launching to Product Hunt with a fancy landing page.” Just getting a working version in front of five real humans who might pay you.
It won’t be perfect. That’s fine. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s validation. Can you get someone to pay you $10 for this thing? If yes, you’ve got a business. If no, you’ve got feedback.
I’ve seen people overthink themselves out of businesses that would’ve made them $5k/month. Don’t be that person. Build something. Charge money for it. Iterate based on what real customers actually want.
That’s how micro SaaS works. Small problems. Simple solutions. Real revenue.
Now stop reading and go build something.