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A mindset shift you need to start generating profitable SaaS ideas

So it begins

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Tari Ibaba
June 03, 2025

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So it begins.

We told you AI was coming for tons of programming jobs but you refused to listen. You said it’s all mindless hype.

You said AI is just “improved Google”. You said it’s “glorified autocomplete”.

Now Microsoft just swung the axe big time. Huge huge layoffs. Thousands of software developers gone.

Okay maybe this is just an isolated event, right? It couldn’t possibly be the sign of the things to come, right?

Okay no it was just “corporate restructuring”.

Fine I won’t argue with you but you need to look at the facts.

30% of production code in Microsoft is now written by AI – not from anyone’s ass – from Satya Nadella himself (heard of the guy?).

25% of production code in Google written by AI.

Oh but I know the deniers among you will try to cope by saying it’s just template boilerplate code or unit tests that the AI writes. No they don’t write “real code” that needs “creativity” and “problem solving”. Ha ha ha.

Or they’ll say trash like, “Oh but my IDE writes my code too, and I still have my job”. Yeah I’ve seen this.

Sure because IDE tools like search & replace or Intellisense are in anyway equatable to an autonomous AI that understands your entire codebase and makes several intelligent changes across files with just a simple prompt.

Maybe you can’t really…

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Finding the perfect idea for a SaaS can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack.

There’s so much advice out there, so many “hot trends” to chase. But if you want to build something truly impactful and sustainable, there’s one fundamental principle to engrain in your mind: start with problems, not solutions.

It’s easy to get excited about a cool piece of technology or a clever feature. Maybe you’ve built something amazing in your spare time, and you think, “This would be great as a SaaS!” While admirable, this approach often leads to a solution looking for a problem. You’re trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, and the market rarely responds well to that.

“Cool” is great but “cool” without “useful” is… well… useless.

Instead, shift your focus entirely. Become a detective of discomfort. What irritates people? What takes too long? What’s needlessly complicated? Where are businesses bleeding money or wasting time? These are the goldmines of SaaS ideas. Every great SaaS product you can think of, from project management tools to CRM systems, was born out of a deep understanding of a specific, painful problem

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