Where to Find SaaS Ideas: acquire.com Reverse Engineering with AI Validation
How to find profitable SaaS ideas: parse acquire.com listings, reverse-engineer competitor marketing, validate with AI. Step-by-step checklist from idea to MVP.
The Problem: You Can Build Anything, But What?
After learning to code with AI, you realize: you can build absolutely anything. But what?
First you build toy projects like @blockwallbot — to learn how to ship. OK, learned that. Now what?
Checklist for a Good Idea
▪ The market needs it (there's PMF)
▪ You know where to find paying users
How to Gather Data: acquire.com
Go to acquire.com — a marketplace where people sell micro-SaaS businesses.
Filter by price $300k+. If a business is worth that much — the idea is already validated.
Companies are anonymous, but easy to find from descriptions:
- Google the listing text — it's often their H1 or meta description
- Or search "[competitor] alternative" — they write those pages themselves
Reverse-Engineering Marketing
Found the site — reverse how they acquire customers. Founder on podcasts, SEO articles, Twitter — it's all public.
AI Is a Cheat Code
🟥 Claude parses listings and finds the real site in seconds
🟥 AI analyzes competitor's SEO and content strategy
🟥 MVP gets built over a weekend with vibe coding
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Original post: @danokhlopkov
Dan Okhlopkov — AI agent practitioner. Building tools for TON Blockchain analysis and Telegram automation.