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SaaS Ideas Backed by Revenue Evidence
Discover software products with published revenue, compare their MRR, and explore the business models behind products that already have paying customers. 179 products in our library clear $1k MRR and 93 clear $10k — revenue evidence, not a profit claim. Where those products sit, and how thin each category is, beats anyone’s list of twenty “profitable SaaS ideas.”
- Revenue as of 2026-10-30
- 851 products
- 435 report 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
- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
Hit rate, not product count
The table above counts products. This one asks a different question: of the products in a category that report revenue, what share clears $1k? A big category can convert badly and a thin one can convert well — and when you are weighing small business ideas against each other, conversion is the number that matters.
| Category | Report MRR | ≥ $1k | Hit rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content Creation | 15 | 8 | 53.3% |
| Marketing | 22 | 10 | 45.5% |
| AI | 112 | 32 | 28.6% |
| SaaS | 23 | 5 | 21.7% |
| Mobile Apps | 30 | 6 | 20.0% |
| Education | 16 | 3 | 18.8% |
| Dev Tools | 14 | 2 | 14.3% |
| Productivity | 13 | 1 | 7.7% |
Categories with fewer than 13 products that report MRR (E-commerce 7, Analytics 9, Health & Fitness 12) are left out of the ranking: one product would move the rate by several points. Their medians are still in the table above.
Three filters, from the data
- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
One person above $5k. Those exist in this sample; each one proves a single operator can hold that niche without a team.
Four filters, before you build
A list of ideas is a list of guesses. Spend one week on the cheapest question that can kill the guess — does anyone already pay for something close? — then put it through these four. All four are checkable in an afternoon, and none of them require building anything.
- 01
Does anyone already pay for this, in a form you can find? A competitor with public pricing is the cheapest validation that exists. Zero competitors usually means zero budget, not an open field.
- 02
Can you reach 100 of those buyers this month without buying ads? If the answer is 'with SEO, in a year', it is not a small business yet — it is a publication.
- 03
Can one person deliver the whole job? Categories that need a team to deliver also need a team to sell, which is a different company and a different bank account.
- 04
Does the money repeat? Subscription revenue compounds; project revenue resets to zero every month. Pick one on purpose instead of discovering which one you picked.
Why we do not rank ideas
A ranked list of ideas would be our guess dressed as data. The table above is the data. If you want one sentence: pick a category where buyers already pay, and narrow it until one person can own the whole workflow.
Products above $1k MRR
14 products that cleared $1k, across categories. Links go to each product's own report.
- 1
Uncategorised
$3,570,000
30d —
- 2
Uncategorised
$864,000
30d $645,833
- 3
Social Media
$368,905
30d $405,015
- 4
SaaS
$273,326
30d $508,913
- 5
AI
$241,149
30d $210,691
- 6
Education
$234,000
30d $115,000
- 7
Uncategorised
$212,000
30d —
- 8
Analytics
$197,248
30d $214,942
- 9
$187,116
30d $196,665
- 10
E-comm
$177,533
30d $853,926
- 11
一家冷邮件基础设施平台如何靠1,157个美国搜索词与三轨预付邮箱做大经常性收入？
Uncategorised
$130,000
30d —
- 12
Uncategorised
$128,000
30d —
- 13
Marketing
$123,196
30d $117,246
- 14
冷邮件代运营基础设施如何靠阶梯单价与一键同步做大经常性收入？
Uncategorised
$100,000
30d —
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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.
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