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How to Build a Micro SaaS That Makes Money & Earns Recurring Revenue

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his step-by-step academy shows you how to build, scale, and profit from your own micro software as a service (SaaS) product with no funding needed.  So you can achieve financial freedom.

You have no idea what to do next...

And it's not from a lack of trying...

You have the programming skills and for months you've spent countless hours staring at a screen...

Trying to figure out how to start and build your own small software as a service product.

A business promising freedom, security, and the ability to work from any corner of the globe. 

You’ve brainstormed tons of ideas and you’ve even tried building a few products.

But still... You have no idea how to actually succeed.

Even if you could launch a product successfully.

The stats are not your friend...

98% of micro SaaS products end up failing.

And 9 out of 10 never make any money whatsoever.

Most micro SaaS products follow these steps...

  1. Think of a cool idea.
  2. Spend 6-12 months building a fully featured product with an amazing design. 
  3. LAUNCH. The day is finally here! You can now start getting paying users. So you blast it across all your social media accounts.
  4. Your response? No sales... 
  5. BUT... Your product is "perfect" so you wait for things to work... 
  6. Still. No customers sign up.
  7. So you throw everything at the wall... You add more features.... You try paid ads.... You try blogging....
  8. But still no customers
  9. Weeks turn to months... But nothing seems to work. 
  10. Eventually you turn the servers off. Not "giving up" but saving it for a later date when the market is actually ready for what you have to offer...


You start to wonder... How can I be the exception? 

How can I successfully start, launch, and make money from my own micro SaaS? 

What if there was a framework? A process? A complete program?

Let Me Introduce You To The Step-By-Step Micro SaaS Academy. 

Learn how to find and validate your micro SaaS idea, build an addictive product, and market your micro SaaS successfully to thousands of customers.

About the Author: Jamie Tam

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Jamie Tam is a SaaS founder and educator focused on the micro-SaaS niche — small, specialised software products built and run by solo operators or very small teams that target a deliberately narrow customer base.

Her CourseFlix listing carries How to Build a Micro SaaS That Makes Money & Earns Recurring Revenue — covering the customer-research, product-shaping, pricing, and growth patterns that work specifically at the micro-SaaS scale rather than at the venture-funded SaaS scale.

Material is paid and aimed at developer-founders shipping niche SaaS products without venture funding. For broader content on the indie-hacking side, see the SaaS & Indie Hacking category page on CourseFlix.

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1
Introduction Demo
00:44
2
Why Go Solo
01:55
3
Section Intro
00:25
4
4 Key Zones to Build For
06:43
5
Idea Generation Frameworks
04:46
6
Idea Generation Techniques
06:10
7
Idea Inspiration
02:04
8
Choosing a Niche and Audience
04:18
9
You Don't Need to Change the World
01:45
10
Cherry Pick Ideas from Communities
03:10
11
Should you build a B2B or a B2C SaaS?
05:26
12
Section Intro
00:34
13
What Is Idea Validation
01:19
14
How to Do Keyword Validation
03:10
15
How to Do Form Validation
04:05
16
How to Do Payment Validation
02:41
17
Get Traffic for Idea Validation
03:47
18
Idea Validation Walkthrough
26:37
19
Section Intro
00:19
20
Why You Should Build Yourself
03:20
21
Building In Public, Going, Open Source, and Stealth Mode
04:46
22
What Tech Stack Should You Choose?
01:44
23
Building Addicting Products With The Habit Loop
02:13
24
MVP Launch Framework
03:58
25
Effective Product Onboarding
03:05
26
Setting Up Recurring Subscriptions
03:25
27
Setting Up Our Skeleton Micro SaaS
03:51
28
Creating Our Frontend
06:28
29
Styling Our Idea Generator
04:14
30
Styling Our AI Responses
03:17
31
Creating Our Backend
09:30
32
Connecting Our Frontend and Backend
06:05
33
Connecting Our Frontend and Backend [Part 2]
08:40
34
Building Our Navigation
08:21
35
Creating Our Landing Page
16:23
36
How to Host Micro SaaS
06:22
37
Section Intro
00:19
38
Pricing for Profitability
03:53
39
Bulletproof Tiered Pricing
02:29
40
Offering Free Trials
03:04
41
The Dangers of Lifetime Deals
03:26
42
Requiring Credit Cards Up Front
03:13
43
The Importance of Annual Plans
02:05
44
Don't Offer a Free Plan
02:41
45
Section Intro
00:30
46
How to Build an Audience
06:29
47
Choosing a Marketing Strategy
07:19
48
Free Vs. Paid Marketing
04:01
49
Headline Copywriting
03:13
50
Product Hunt Launch
04:51
51
Reddit Launch
04:09
52
Mastering Instagram Organic
07:20
53
Mastering Youtube Organic Content
06:06
54
Mastering TikTok Organic Content
02:46
55
Setting Up a Blog
03:24
56
Picking a Paid Ads Platform
06:34
57
Cold Traffic Ad Strategies
04:39
58
How to Create Any Marketing Material Needed
05:41
59
Free Marketing Images
00:41
60
Step by Step - How to Set Up an Effective Google Search Ads Campaign
11:32
61
Creating Reddit Ads
07:01
62
How to Create High Converting Youtube Placement Campaigns
06:52
63
SaaS Metrics Fundamentals
03:19
64
Customer Tracking & Analytics
04:21
65
Section Intro
00:19
66
How To Run Customer Service for Maximum Happiness
06:46
67
Reduced Stripe Fees
01:03
68
Conquering User Churn
08:49
69
The Feature Request Framework
04:19
70
Save $$$ On Currency Conversion Fees.
01:42
71
When there is Smoke There is Fire
01:18
72
Automating Back Your Time
04:57
73
Buying Back Your Time
04:17
74
When to Issue Refunds
02:29
75
Be Mindful Of Power Users
02:51
76
Section Intro
00:22
77
Do Things That Don't Scale
03:20
78
Why You Shouldn't Quit Your Job (Yet)
03:01
79
Don't Reinvent the Wheel
02:55
80
It's all About Perseverance.
03:20
81
Your Are Not Your MRR.
01:42
82
Why You Don't Need to Raise Money
02:53
83
Going Forward
00:33
84
No Code Crash Course
21:47
85
Lets Build a AI Chatbot With No Code
19:16
86
25 Micro SaaS Success Stories
20:29
87
5 Micro SaaS Ideas
07:13
88
3 Micro SaaS Ideas
05:26
89
One Chart SaaS Ideas
05:11
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101. 15 Micro SaaS Ideas —
202. Idea Validation Questions —
303. Landing Page Conversion Tips —
404. Social Media Prompt Cheat Sheet —
505. SaaS Metrics Cheat Sheet —
606. Reddit Threads to Launch In —

Course content

89 lessons · 7h 13m 56s
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  1. 1 Introduction 00:44
  2. 2 Why Go Solo 01:55
  3. 3 Section Intro 00:25
  4. 4 4 Key Zones to Build For 06:43
  5. 5 Idea Generation Frameworks 04:46
  6. 6 Idea Generation Techniques 06:10
  7. 7 Idea Inspiration 02:04
  8. 8 Choosing a Niche and Audience 04:18
  9. 9 You Don't Need to Change the World 01:45
  10. 10 Cherry Pick Ideas from Communities 03:10
  11. 11 Should you build a B2B or a B2C SaaS? 05:26
  12. 12 Section Intro 00:34
  13. 13 What Is Idea Validation 01:19
  14. 14 How to Do Keyword Validation 03:10
  15. 15 How to Do Form Validation 04:05
  16. 16 How to Do Payment Validation 02:41
  17. 17 Get Traffic for Idea Validation 03:47
  18. 18 Idea Validation Walkthrough 26:37
  19. 19 Section Intro 00:19
  20. 20 Why You Should Build Yourself 03:20
  21. 21 Building In Public, Going, Open Source, and Stealth Mode 04:46
  22. 22 What Tech Stack Should You Choose? 01:44
  23. 23 Building Addicting Products With The Habit Loop 02:13
  24. 24 MVP Launch Framework 03:58
  25. 25 Effective Product Onboarding 03:05
  26. 26 Setting Up Recurring Subscriptions 03:25
  27. 27 Setting Up Our Skeleton Micro SaaS 03:51
  28. 28 Creating Our Frontend 06:28
  29. 29 Styling Our Idea Generator 04:14
  30. 30 Styling Our AI Responses 03:17
  31. 31 Creating Our Backend 09:30
  32. 32 Connecting Our Frontend and Backend 06:05
  33. 33 Connecting Our Frontend and Backend [Part 2] 08:40
  34. 34 Building Our Navigation 08:21
  35. 35 Creating Our Landing Page 16:23
  36. 36 How to Host Micro SaaS 06:22
  37. 37 Section Intro 00:19
  38. 38 Pricing for Profitability 03:53
  39. 39 Bulletproof Tiered Pricing 02:29
  40. 40 Offering Free Trials 03:04
  41. 41 The Dangers of Lifetime Deals 03:26
  42. 42 Requiring Credit Cards Up Front 03:13
  43. 43 The Importance of Annual Plans 02:05
  44. 44 Don't Offer a Free Plan 02:41
  45. 45 Section Intro 00:30
  46. 46 How to Build an Audience 06:29
  47. 47 Choosing a Marketing Strategy 07:19
  48. 48 Free Vs. Paid Marketing 04:01
  49. 49 Headline Copywriting 03:13
  50. 50 Product Hunt Launch 04:51
  51. 51 Reddit Launch 04:09
  52. 52 Mastering Instagram Organic 07:20
  53. 53 Mastering Youtube Organic Content 06:06
  54. 54 Mastering TikTok Organic Content 02:46
  55. 55 Setting Up a Blog 03:24
  56. 56 Picking a Paid Ads Platform 06:34
  57. 57 Cold Traffic Ad Strategies 04:39
  58. 58 How to Create Any Marketing Material Needed 05:41
  59. 59 Free Marketing Images 00:41
  60. 60 Step by Step - How to Set Up an Effective Google Search Ads Campaign 11:32
  61. 61 Creating Reddit Ads 07:01
  62. 62 How to Create High Converting Youtube Placement Campaigns 06:52
  63. 63 SaaS Metrics Fundamentals 03:19
  64. 64 Customer Tracking & Analytics 04:21
  65. 65 Section Intro 00:19
  66. 66 How To Run Customer Service for Maximum Happiness 06:46
  67. 67 Reduced Stripe Fees 01:03
  68. 68 Conquering User Churn 08:49
  69. 69 The Feature Request Framework 04:19
  70. 70 Save $$$ On Currency Conversion Fees. 01:42
  71. 71 When there is Smoke There is Fire 01:18
  72. 72 Automating Back Your Time 04:57
  73. 73 Buying Back Your Time 04:17
  74. 74 When to Issue Refunds 02:29
  75. 75 Be Mindful Of Power Users 02:51
  76. 76 Section Intro 00:22
  77. 77 Do Things That Don't Scale 03:20
  78. 78 Why You Shouldn't Quit Your Job (Yet) 03:01
  79. 79 Don't Reinvent the Wheel 02:55
  80. 80 It's all About Perseverance. 03:20
  81. 81 Your Are Not Your MRR. 01:42
  82. 82 Why You Don't Need to Raise Money 02:53
  83. 83 Going Forward 00:33
  84. 84 No Code Crash Course 21:47
  85. 85 Lets Build a AI Chatbot With No Code 19:16
  86. 86 25 Micro SaaS Success Stories 20:29
  87. 87 5 Micro SaaS Ideas 07:13
  88. 88 3 Micro SaaS Ideas 05:26
  89. 89 One Chart SaaS Ideas 05:11

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his step-by-step academy shows you how to build, scale, and profit from your own micro software as a service (SaaS) product with no funding needed. So you can achieve financial freedom.
Who teaches How to Build a Micro SaaS That Makes Money & Earns Recurring Revenue?
How to Build a Micro SaaS That Makes Money & Earns Recurring Revenue is taught by Jamie Tam. You can find more courses by this instructor on the corresponding source page.
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How to Build a Micro SaaS That Makes Money & Earns Recurring Revenue contains 89 lessons with a total runtime of 7 hours 13 minutes. All lessons are available to watch online at your own pace.
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