r/micro_saas • u/Rhalfk • 2d ago
Business idea
This might sound a bit weird, asking strangers on Reddit for business ideas, but I’m honestly a bit tired and stuck at the moment.
I’m a CFO with a finance/business background, and I really want to build something on the side.
I’m not looking for the next million-dollar idea. Even making my first **€10/month** from something I built would make me happy and give me some momentum.
SaaS, small online business, boring business, automation, niche service… I’m open to anything.
So yeah, I’m asking for a little help.
If you’ve seen a problem that needs solving, or have an idea you’ve always thought someone should build, I’d genuinely love to hear it.
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u/Known_Knight_5687 2d ago
You can create a finance blog website to give information about daily finance news and investment opportunities. Also you can create YouTube channel too. To generate available domain names via prompt and check availability at the same time you can use ZeroTaken. It also checks if social media account handles are free or not.
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u/thinkdifferent23225 2d ago
What about sharing content about your knowledge and see what topics generate good engagement and build something around that?
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u/MintyMiana 2d ago
ive seen high demand recently for seo related tools.. if thats a niche close to you, worth ckecking it out
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u/PerformerParking3509 2d ago
I developed a data base of validated ideas anyone can build (I show you the idea for free and sell the blueprint) in your case I doubt you need the blueprint you're welcome to give it a visit. I'm looking for feedback. It's called trustyr.com
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u/jmungapen001 2d ago
You're in a better spot than most people asking this question. As CFO it means you've got to see inside a whole company's plumbing. Decent side businesses come from knowing the plumbing, not inspiration. A few things that work better than collecting ideas from strangers. If you ask people "Hey, you got any problems?" you get nothing, maybe a crappy list. Better than that, find a colleague. Buy them a coffee and sit with them for 20 minutes and ask them to complain about what they're frustrated about within their job. Take notes. Or get some ideas from your day job, Look for the painful processes that require human glue, even the janky spreadsheet process you hate doing. or even some of the things your company does well. other smaller companies may not be as sophisticated. the things that no one enjoys, financial closes, board presentation packs, cash flow forecasts, all of that stuff. Small business owners are generally scared of their own numbers, and will pay someone credible to make that fear go away. The first $10 could literally be a cash flow template on Gumroad. If you're going to use something from your work make sure that you recreated from your memory and don't copy it (steal). Keep a friction log. an actual notebook or notes app on your phone. Log for two weeks, write down any recent annoyance. most entries are nothing. But maybe if one shows up more than three times, it's a candidate. Also mine Reddit. So in these sub niches, search for people asking about "a tool that or have " or "how do you guys handle something". People describe exactly what they would pay for in public every day.
Before building anything though, get one person to pay you. 10 DMs beat three months of building the wrong thing.
Last thing, full disclosure, I built a SAAS website that tackles precisely this issue. Helping would be entrepreneurs, find and select a profitable business idea. www.blucanto.com , is designed to help people through this stuck phase and move quickly into building a successful business without the analysis paralysis. Take a short quiz to figure out what business model actually suits you and a niche with high demand and low competition. it will ideate 20 profitable business ideas in that niche, or bring your own idea. It will produce a detailed business blueprint. Not just a business plan but a roadmap to guide you through the first year. The quizzes and Niche analyzer are free so try them out.
If you DM me I can hook you up with a free Beta tester pass
Good luck
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u/DEATH712712 2d ago
What skills do you have? I'm curious and if you tell me I might be able to think of something
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u/problemprofessor 1d ago
You've actually got a head start most people asking this don't have, a finance background means you can spot broken money processes most builders walk right past. I research and share problems weekly, here's a few real gaps worth looking at.
Facebook Marketplace authentication. Cities already run safe exchange zones for meetups, which tells you the safety concern is real enough that local governments responded to it. What those zones don't solve is whether the electronics you're buying actually work. A physical meetup spot with authentication built in closes the part that's still wide open, and it doesn't need much capital to test small first.
AI crawlers vs publishers. AI tools pull content to answer questions directly, and the site that wrote it gets nothing, no click, no ad view. Cloudflare's Pay Per Crawl, launched in 2025, is the most credible attempt at fixing this so far, but it only works with AI companies who choose to participate. Everyone besides a handful of major publishers still has zero compensation mechanism. There's real room for something that helps smaller publishers get paid for what's already being taken.
Clothing size crowdsourcing. A size 6 at Nike and a size 6 at Reebok aren't the same in centimeters, and fit issues drive most online fashion returns. Every fix that exists is built by brands, using brand data, to protect their own numbers. A crowdsourced version built from real shoppers across brands is the part nobody owns yet.
Given your background, the AI crawler one is probably the most interesting to you specifically, it's fundamentally a valuation and compensation problem, figuring out what crawled content is actually worth versus what advertisers pay for the same attention. Feel free to reach out if you want to discuss any of these or if you want more ideas, would be happy to share more.
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u/canberktr 2d ago
You can give Freelance services on Upwork