In this doc, we breakdown of the most common types of Micro SaaS products into categories that'll be useful in recognizing patterns across the Micro SaaS landscape.

Data Licensing

• provide access to proprietary data

• typically involve data aggregation, normalization, and enrichment

• examples
• financial market APIs
• scraping niche data at scale
• enriching company or profile info
• news aggregation

• product examples
• clearbit
• hunter.io

Machine Learning

• provide easy to use interfaces on top of pre-trained ML models

• examples
• lead scoring
• creating fake user-generated content (photos, profiles, etc)

• product examples
• algorithmia
• obviously.ai
• feedly

No-code Workflows

• focused workflows that extend popular platforms for power users

• individual zaps packaged as focused micro saas products

• examples
• Google Sheets to X
• Notion to X

• product examples
• sheet2site
• actiondesk
• tweet.photo
• super.so

Workflow Automation

• scraping, bots, headless chrome

• examples
• automating leadgen from linkedin
• social media automation

• product examples
• scrapingbee
• checkly
• microlink

Image & Media Processing Tasks

• provide transformations of common media formats

• examples
• custom image effects
• meme generation
• image / gif / video optimization

• product examples
• canva
• cloudinary
• veed
• imgflip

Data Transformations

• examples
• document conversions (docx ⇒ pdf, png ⇒ jpeg, etc)
• IP address to metadata lookup

• product examples
• convertio
• ipdata

Developer Tools

• open core products have enormous potential (OSSC)

• product examples
• codecov
• fastly
• logdna

User Experience

• take some existing platform, feature, data, or workflow and expose it with a much better UX

• product examples
• twitter search
• heroku, netlify, zeit (simplify AWS / GCP DX)

Pricepoint

• take some existing product or feature and offer it at a significantly cheaper price

• product examples
• backblaze / wasabi vs AWS S3 or GCS

Offline to Online

• take some existing offline service and offer it as an online service

• often able to offer the same experience with a better UX, improved efficiency, and cheaper

• this transition will continue seeing massive spikes due to COVID

• product examples
• clubhouse
• future.fit

Consumer Webapps

• misc UX-heavy utilities targeted at consumers