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Ask HN: How do I get to $100 MRR?

Let's say I'm a web developer, not by any means a senior developer or prodigy, but more than competenent enough to build a reasonable SaaS tool or service.

If you were me, how would you go about finding a project to work on, making that project, launching it, and generating revenue?

My primarily pain-point at the moment is finding vali ideas which I believe in enough to pursue. I try to look at problems and am constantly searching for opportunity, but I must just not have an eye for it as I struggle to concoct actionable ideas.

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1. Go find someone that has the authority to pay you money to build something.

2. if you think someone else might want that thing build that thing for person 1 and get paid while building it.

3. After you finish v1 for person 1, go find another person that would pay you to use most of v1 with a little bit of tweaking for themselves

4. Build v2 of the app for person 2. Get paid while building v2.

5. You now have most of a product and have been paid to build it. Try to generalize the product in a way that makes more people want to buy it. Build that version (v3) and try to sell it to new people.

6. Continue to develop the product (v3+) only building things that make you more money.

> 1. Go find someone that has the authority to pay you money to build something.

How do I do that? Freelancers sites are cesspools and I'm unsure where to network outside of that.

Family, friends, former coworkers/ bosses, local business networking groups, meetup groups (especially the non-tech ones), volunteering, sports clubs, IRC/ slack channels in your stack, hackernews, etc.

Chances are if there is person you can think of that's "successful" they would happily talk to you about a project or point in the direction of one of their friends that needs a hand.

Hell you could probably cold email some of the people from indie hackers if all the rest wasn't working.

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