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24 alternatives to I passed up an opportunity to make $200K from my microstartup
I passed up an opportunity to make $200K in revenue. Want to know why? A few days back, I was asked by AppSumo for https://t.co/VuiWOc5Dgi to be featured on their platform, but I ended up saying no. 🧵👇
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I passed up an opportunity to make $200K from my microstartup launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Several years ago, I had a client whose salespeople were using Excel to generate sales proposals. This was inefficient and the resulting documents looked awful, so I developed a new process for them using a no-code platform. It featured a web form that was tied to a workflow engine, and a fancy PDF got emailed to the customer to sign. When the client loved the solution, I knew I was on to something. However, the no-code platform wasn't very customizable, so I decided to rebuild the process as a SaaS product. The client's CTO wanted in and we became cofounders. Today, we passed the…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Microns v2▲664Discover micro startups for sale with zero commission on Microns. Explore a wide range of online businesses and find your next opportunity without hidden fees. Join our community of entrepreneurs today.
2024 · microns.io · its alternatives →
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Two things I'm not doing, that could bring solid revenue.
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Personal lessons of an entrepreneur shared weekly
2020 · flexiple.com · its alternatives →
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Find out how many people bought my future for $1,500
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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NO. I won't work for equity or exposure. Pay me instead.
2019 · its alternatives →
- 8MA
Hi there, So a buddy a couple of days ago came up with the idea for a new SaaS product regarding gpt and image generation. We did a quick MVP that barely works, it breaks almost 50% of the time but we still wanted to validate the idea before going all in. We have almost 1k followers on Twitter together. Did a quick post describing the idea with a stripe link in the comments with a 5$ value, no landing page, and no shipped product. In exchange, the buyers become beta users. Around 30 mins later we got our first sale next 30 mins another 5$ and so on. Do we consider the idea validated? The…
2023 · its alternatives →
- 9TM
››Making money with the marquee tag‹‹ § tl;dr: I turned my old OS X Dashboard widget into a native iOS app, now selling around $700 wor...
2011 · ioswebdevmusings.blogspot.com · its alternatives →
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I'm a ex Facebook & AOL designer. I recently quit my job to start a design studio of my own and I'm looking to build up my portfolio. I'm looking to work with amazing entrepreneurs to help them design even more amazing products. -FAQs: -What does $1k includes? Everything we can design in 1 week. I'm experienced enough to design a whole app in a week or so. -Do you take equity? No. -Do you also design web apps? Sure. I'm open for all platforms: Web, android, iOS, etc. except VR/3D. -How does it work? I will be booking on first-come, first-served basis. Contact is in my profile. Initial…
2016 · its alternatives →
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built this as a joke. a friend bet me I couldn't make $1M off it by the end of the year. Currently at $5,010. Amazing it even worked
Jun 2026 · payfornoreason.com · its alternatives →
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Just launched and would love to have feedback :) Website: www.mywindow.me Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=www.mYwindow.co mYwindow makes selling stuff as easy as sending an instant message. You really need to see how easy and beautiful it is. Sell Digital goods like design, software, ebooks, photos, or even a link. Accept Pre-orders for books, physical products or anything else. Sell Tickets for events, workshops, parties etc. Just add a Product ---> You get a unique link ---> Share the unique link within your community ----> Your money is…
2014 · its alternatives →
- 13MW
I was thinking the other days; what's the biggest and the easiest market to enter and start winning money directly and found out, It's the job market. There way too much money in this market and choosing the correct niche in it might help you start a simple business that wins ton of money. That's how I came up with my project RemoteInSpain. There are tons of people who wants to work in remote and in spain is not an exception. So I created my website after some research and I have already 100 visits per day and the website is just 2 days old. Talk about a jackpot
2024 · remoteinspain.com · its alternatives →
- 14JB
Hello, my friend was offered a referral bonus at his company. Essentially, they had an open position, and if he referred someone and that person got hired, my friend would receive a $500 bonus. But he did not know anyone to refer. Many of us know it is hard to get hired right now, and asking for a referral from a current employee can help. Thus, I built this little job board. The front end is Vue inside Astro, then just supabase in the backend. Vue Islands wrapped in Astro is a really fast way to build for several reasons, but I'll save that for another post. The site does not even have a…
2024 · jobfit.app · its alternatives →
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Buy and sell profitable micro-startups, SaaS tools, and internet businesses. No broker fees, no commission — connect directly with founders. Browse vetted listings from $5k to $500k+.
2024 · buysellstartups.com · its alternatives →
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legit▲2Score "make money with AI" posts on feasibility, not hype.
Jun 2026 · uselegit.app · its alternatives →
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Hello, prompts are becoming more and more valuable. I thought about starting website to provide income generating prompts. I don't know exactly how it will look exactly, maybe a SaaS, maybe a forum, I am trying to learn what people want. Go to my website and register. I would appreciate your feedback. You can join my email list and let's start a movement.
2025 · incomeprompt.com · its alternatives →
- 18CD
We've set up DeekSeek R1 with a system prompt that attempts to censor the word PRIVATEKEY from its response. If you can get DeepSeek R1 to output that string (not in the reasoning, but in the final response), the system will reveal a private key which contains $1000 USDC. You will have a 50 token limit in the input. We will have a series of contests, sponsored by AI researchers, in order to learn more about prompt engineering and how LLMs interact with real money. Good luck! Edit: The money was claimed! Thanks for playing all. You can still play for fun. Stay tuned for the next one! Stats:…
2025 · deepbounty.ai · its alternatives →
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Been in the AI image gen space since 2023, before even GPT image gen was a thing, and after spending ~9K on Facebook ads for my own projects (made a video about that actually) I realized the thing I kept getting stuck on was the creatives themselves. I'm horrible at making reels-type video ads and Canva even with templates is surprisingly complicated for ad-specific stuff, plus everything ends up looking the same as everyone else using the same templates. Made a video going into detail about the full FB ads journey if anyone's interested:…
Mar 2026 · admakeai.com · its alternatives →
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I was a software engineer at a late stage startup and was caught in a layoff this January. When I looked into exercising my options or getting liquidity, I realized the secondary market is a total black box. Liquidity funds spend a fortune on Google Ads just to find people like us. Those high marketing costs eventually come out of our pockets in the form of higher fees and worse terms. I built StrikeRates to change that. The site is meant to be a central resource for anyone navigating this. I included a Liquidity 101 section that explains the different financial vehicles because that…
Mar 2026 · strikerates.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, When I was learning to code I was always intrigued to see the guys on twitter making money with a SaaS. I always wondered how to make them and after a few months I developed my own. I wanted to share a Boilerplate for any new devs who are wondering how to start their own SaaS or wonder how things work. Boilerplate comes with Auth, Payments, UI and all the good stuff. Ali
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I had a sweet deal $5k/mo customer. Their usage had been dropping for weeks, but I was busy building features to notice. Got the cancellation email on a Tuesday morning. That's a $60k/year in revenue I could have saved with a 10-minute phone call, if I'd known they were struggling. So I built https://firstdistro.com . It watches your customers' health (usage, engagement, activity) and alerts you when someone's at risk. One script tag. Health score in minutes. Alerts to Slack, email or Attio crm. Happy to answer questions about churn prediction, customer health scoring, or…
Dec 2025 · firstdistro.com · its alternatives →
- 24IB
I built this as a Garage Project over the weekend. https://x402.backpac.xyz/ Still working on refining things, but let me know your thoughts. Cheers.
2025 · its alternatives →
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