Find Your Profitable SaaS Sweet Spot: The Indie Hacker Ikigai Quiz

Discover where your coding skills intersect with what customers will actually pay for (without needing to become a marketing expert)

Find Your Indie Hacker IkigaiDiscover your sweet spot for SaaS success by exploring the four elements of Ikigai: coding/skills you love, what you're good at building, what the market needs, and what customers will actually pay for.
❤ What You LoveDev activities that energize you and make you lose track of time.

                List 3-5 tech-related activities you genuinely enjoy doing:
                
How passionate are you about these activities?
                    1 (Mild Interest)
                    10 (Deep Passion)
                
✓ What You're Good AtYour technical strengths and developer superpowers.

                List 3-5 technical skills or abilities you excel at:
                
How confident are you in these skills?
                    1 (Need Practice)
                    10 (Expert Level)
                
★ What the Market NeedsProblems or pain points in the market that you care about solving.

                List 3-5 software or tech problems that frustrate real users:
                
How meaningful would solving these problems be to you?
                    1 (Somewhat Meaningful)
                    10 (Deeply Meaningful)
                
$ What Customers Will Pay ForSaaS opportunities where customers are already spending money.

                List 3-5 SaaS ideas or software services that people already pay for:
                
How viable are these opportunities in the current market?
                    1 (Challenging)
                    10 (High Demand)
                
Your Ikigai Elements
                Ikigai (生き甲斐) is a Japanese concept meaning "a reason for being." For indie hackers, it represents the sweet spot where your coding passions, technical skills, market needs, and monetization opportunities intersect. Finding your SaaS ikigai leads to products you enjoy building that customers actually want to pay for.
            
What you LOVE
What you're GOOD AT
What the world NEEDS
What you can be PAID FOR
Your Ikigai lies in the center
❤ What You Love
✓ What You're Good At
★ What the World Needs
$ What You Can Be Paid For
Your Indie Hacker SaaS Sweet SpotBased on your responses, here are potential SaaS opportunities in your ikigai zone:
Next Steps:

                        1. Build a minimum viable product that targets one of these sweet spots

                        2. Find 10 potential customers and interview them about the problem

                        3. Launch a simple landing page to test demand before full development

                        4. Start with a small, focused product you can ship in 4-6 weeks
                    
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First Published: 05 March 2025

Updated: 04 March 2025

Find Your Indie Hacker Ikigai

❤ What You Love

✓ What You're Good At

★ What the Market Needs

$ What Customers Will Pay For

Your Ikigai Elements

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