Potential startup idea that 1K people are searching for every month
Hey HN,

Validating startup ideas is hard. This is what most people do when they have a great idea:

- Build it straight away

OR

- Create a landing page to capture leads for a waitlist to measure the interest before building it

This can lead to a huge amount of time wasted (and a major shot at the ego). A better way of doing this is:

- Focus on micro ideas (because these will take the least time to build and you can always add more features later)
- Focus on micro ideas where you can target keywords with low difficulty (this means it's easy to rank high on Google) and high average monthly search volumes (this means people are currently searching for it on Google).

Below is an example of a Micro Saas Idea that fits this framework:

What's the Idea?

AirBnB Safety and Security Checklist

"A Micro Saas tool that provides the ability to create comprehensive safety and security checklists for Airbnb hosts to ensure their properties meet safety standards and regulations, providing peace of mind to both hosts and guests."

What's the SEO Potential?

The keyword difficulty here is really low which means it will be pretty easy to start ranking high on Google for this. We have 1 main keyword and 2 long tail keywords that you can target, all with a low difficulty of 11.

The main keyword has a nice and healthy 1000 people searching for it on Google every month while the other long tail keywords have upwards of 200 people searching for it so you could potentially gain some traffic by targeting these long tail keywords in articles on your website.

Keyword: "airbnb checklist"
- Keyword Difficulty: 11
- Average Search Volume: 1,000 per month

Keyword: "starting an airbnb checklist"
- Keyword Difficulty: 11
- Average Search Volume: 260 per month

Keyword: "first time airbnb checklist"
- Keyword Difficulty: 11
- Average Search Volume: 210 per month

What Could the Main Features of This Product Be?

- Checklist Creation: Have the ability for hosts to create, customize, and manage safety and security checklists.
- Template Library: Have predefined checklist templates that comply with various regulations and common safety standards.

Some Nice to Haves You Could Add

- Progress Tracking: Functionality for hosts to track the completion of each checklist item.
- Notifications and Reminders: Alerts for pending items, updates, and periodic safety reviews.
- Reporting: Ability to generate and share safety compliance reports.
- Educational Content: Articles, videos, and best practice guides for hosts.

Conclusion

So there we have it. A nice and simple Micro Saas product that you could start ranking in the top 10 on Google for quite easily and have 1000+ people per month find when they search for "airbnb checklist".

I'll leave you with 2 options for building your next product.

Option A: Build a product or landing page and hope that people are interested in it.

Option B: Target low difficulty keywords with high search volumes. Build your product around that, launch, add your product to directories and get traffic on autopilot.

If your interested in this type of thing I share Micro Saas Ideas like this every week in my newsletter so feel free to join me here (https://www.findmicrosaasideas.com/subscribe) to find more profitable micro ideas.

If not then at least steal this one!