I’m Taking 10 Days Off to Do Something Slightly Insane
9 months, 100s of SaaS ideas. Plenty of failures. A few wins. And honestly? I’m tired now.
Hi everyone,
You know me as Pallavi Pant — the girl on Medium who writes about SaaS, hunts for business problems, shares micro-SaaS ideas, and probably spends an unreasonable amount of time trying to figure out what people will actually pay for.
Over the last 8–9 months, you’ve shown my work an incredible amount of love, and honestly, I’m deeply grateful for it.
During this time, I’ve published, researched, tested, and validated hundreds of micro-SaaS ideas. I gained 500 followers/subscribers, over 100k views and reads, and ample opportunities as a writer and SaaS strategist.
And here’s the honest part:
A lot of them failed.
Some worked.
A few even turned into real businesses.
And some of you started building on ideas I shared — only to leave them halfway through because life, money, time, competition, or simply reality got in the way.
And you know what?
That is SaaS.
Not every idea becomes a business, not every validation turns into revenue, and not every promising opportunity deserves to be built.
And sometimes, the most valuable thing you can discover is that you shouldn’t build something.
So I decided to do something a little different.
Right now, I’m sitting here with my cup of Indian masala tea, my laptop next to a bright sunny window, and I’m about to spend the next 10 days doing nothing but hunting for SaaS opportunities.
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No random idea lists. No recycled “10 SaaS ideas” posts. And definitely no pretending every problem is a billion-dollar opportunity.
For the next 10 days, I’m going deeper.
I’ll be:
🔎 Reading hundreds of real business complaints
🛒 Analyzing Shopify stores to find painfully manual workflows
⭐ Digging through customer reviews for problems worth solving
👨💼 Finding businesses still paying humans to do things software should handle
🇮🇳 Auditing Indian businesses for overlooked automation opportunities
💰 Studying successful micro-SaaS products to understand what actually works
🧪 Trying to validate ideas without building them
💳 Trying to sell a SaaS before writing a single line of code
🕵️ Becoming the SaaS before writing the SaaS
📊 And finally, comparing everything I find by demand, competition, willingness to pay, and build difficulty.
10 days. 10 investigations. One goal: find the opportunities actually worth building.
And yes, this is going to be difficult.
I’m deliberately cutting off a chunk of my usual work for these 10 days and living, breathing, researching, validating, and writing SaaS almost exclusively.
It might produce some incredible opportunities. It might produce some spectacular failures.
Probably both.
But I want to show you the process honestly — including the dead ends, bad ideas, surprising discoveries, and the ones that make me stop and think:
“Wait… why hasn’t someone built this yet?”
The first investigation goes live tomorrow.
If you’ve been following me for the last few months, THANK YOU, GUYS. ❤️
I’m hoping not to disappoint you again.
And if I do… well, I’m taking it with a pinch of salt. 😄
See you tomorrow.
This is Day 0, and Day 1/10 starts tomorrow.
