Guide · Ideas
Profitable SaaS ideas, ranked by evidence
Every "SaaS ideas" page is a list of guesses. This one is the opposite: 179 products in our library already clear $1k MRR and 93 clear $10k. Where those products sit — and how thin each category is — is a better input than anyone’s list of twenty ideas.
Revenue as of 2026-10-30 · sample: 851 products that publish revenue · 435 report a non-zero MRR
Products above $1k MRR
179
41.1% of 435 reporting
Above $10k MRR
93
the top fifth
Under $100 MRR
33.6%
the crowded end
The short answer
- The bottom is saturated and the top is not: one third of reporting products earn under $100, one fifth earn over $10k. Both facts sit in the same sample.
- Category counts matter more than category medians. A category with 30 products and 4 above $1k is a hobby market; one with 20 products and 9 above $1k is a market with buyers.
- Developer tools are the thinnest: 41 products, 2 above $1k. Fewer buyers, longer evaluation, lower price tolerance.
Where the money actually sits
Sorted by how many products clear $1k MRR — not by median, which a single large product can distort.
| Category | Products | Publish MRR | ≥ $1k | ≥ $10k | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI | 205 | 112 | 32 | 13 | $208 |
| Marketing | 45 | 22 | 10 | 5 | $649 |
| Content Creation | 25 | 15 | 8 | 2 | $1,667 |
| Mobile Apps | 37 | 30 | 6 | 4 | $67 |
| SaaS | 49 | 23 | 5 | 3 | $70 |
| E-comm | 20 | 7 | 4 | 4 | $10,397 |
| Analytics | 18 | 9 | 4 | 1 | $232 |
| Education | 25 | 16 | 3 | 2 | $84 |
| Dev Tools | 41 | 14 | 2 | 1 | $93 |
| Health & Fitness | 19 | 12 | 2 | 1 | $96 |
235 products have no category and are excluded here. They are still counted in every percentile on /benchmarks/mrr.
Three filters, from the data
- High median, few products. A category where the middle product already earns well but the count is small usually means demand exists and supply is thin.
- Cleared $1k, then flattened. Products that stop growing after their first plateau are the ones a better execution can take — the buyer is already paying someone.
- One person above $5k. Those exist in this sample; each one proves a single operator can hold that niche without a team.
Why we do not rank ideas
Products above $1k MRR
Fourteen products that cleared $1k, across categories. Links go to each product’s own fact page.
| Product | Category | MRR | Revenue · 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stan | Unclassified | $3,570,000 | — |
| Chatbase | Unclassified | $864,000 | $645,833 |
| Postiz | Unclassified | $333,000 | $126,667 |
| 1Lookup | SaaS | $269,883 | $497,939 |
| Rezi | Unclassified | $241,000 | $246,667 |
| Kibu | Education | $234,000 | $115,000 |
| Cometly | Unclassified | $198,000 | $207,500 |
| Supliful | Unclassified | $179,000 | $968,333 |
| AEO Engine | AI | $178,519 | $202,776 |
| Prosp | Unclassified | $128,000 | — |
| Windmill Growth | Marketing | $117,000 | $105,000 |
| Codédex | Unclassified | $81,600 | $73,667 |
| Supergrow | Social Media | $79,500 | — |
| LLM Gateway | Unclassified | $78,800 | $83,250 |
Questions people actually search
Profitable SaaS ideas?
We do not sell ideas. What we can show: 179 products in the library clear $1k MRR, and their category mix (AI, marketing, mobile, SaaS tooling) is where the counts are. A category with many products above $1k is evidence that buyers exist, not that your version will sell.
SaaS ideas for developers?
Developer tools are the thinnest category in our sample: 41 products, but only 2 above $1k MRR. Fewer buyers, longer evaluation cycles, lower price tolerance.
How to come up with SaaS ideas?
Three filters we actually use on this data: (1) categories where the median is high but the product count is low; (2) products that cleared $1k and then flattened, which is what a better execution would target; (3) one-person products above $5k, which prove a single operator can hold that niche.
Are SaaS ideas saturated?
The bottom of the market is saturated — 33.6% of reporting products earn under $100. But 93 products clear $10k, so the top is not full. Both statements are true at once, which is why "is it saturated" is the wrong question.
Method: 851 products in our library that publish revenue through a payment provider, crawled 2026-10-30. 435 of them report a non-zero MRR; medians and percentiles are computed on that subset only. Missing values are never treated as zero. This is the population that chooses to publish revenue — not the whole market.