The Sauce · Agents & Jarvis
Sell the Boring Internal Tool
Build the unglamorous workflow tool a specific profession is currently duct-taping in spreadsheets, charge per seat, and ride low competition instead of chasing a viral consumer app.
Submitted by @@boringsaas · 2026-06-07
💸 $1k–$20k/mo
Editorial estimate — no community reports yet. Be the first.
$30–$100/mo
Startup cost
Intermediate
Difficulty
2–6 weeks
Time to $1
The stack
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The playbook
- 1
Find a profession running critical work in a messy shared spreadsheet (estimators, dog groomers, tattoo studios, tutoring centers) and interview 5-10 of them about the exact workflow.
- 2
Spec the single workflow that hurts most and build it in Lovable with Supabase for auth and data — resist adding features beyond that one job.
- 3
Gate it behind Stripe at a per-seat or flat $29-79/mo price and onboard your interviewees as the first paying users.
- 4
Post a build-in-public writeup and offer free migration of their spreadsheet in the niche subreddit and trade groups where they already gather.
- 5
Talk to paying users weekly, ship only what 3+ of them ask for, and raise price as the tool becomes load-bearing in their daily work.