Title: I&#x27;ve been wanting to make a SaaS business for years. I&#x27;ve done PHP freelancing for years for some cash on the side of my full time Systems Engineer job, but rather than develop stuff for other people I&#x27;d like to take a break from that and make something for me.<p>My work, and several of my clients I&#x27;ve had, pay for and use StatusPage.io. I&#x27;ve always thought I could make something similar (obviously not as fully-fledged as SP.io) as it would interest me. At work I play with stuff like Redis, Galera clustering, VM management (Puppet etc) and outside of work I play with PHP - so this seems like it&#x27;d be a good project to bring them both together - I get to build&#x2F;develop a site and also make it autoscale with AWS (never used AWS) etc - fun all around.<p>Is it worth doing months of research trying to find an &#x27;untapped&#x27; niche or something that doesn&#x27;t have a major leader, or is every niche going to have competition and I should just give it a go regardless if I&#x27;m looking to learn. I would love to learn, I&#x27;d class it as a success if it paid for its own hosting and made me more than say $100 a month.
Upvote: