Which industries still lack a good SAAS?

[deccantraps]

I ran my own business for 10 years, but the industry I was in died. I have retrained as a software developer and now want to make lots of money and work for myself.

I am looking for an industry that is still badly served by technology and lacks a good piece of off the shelf/standard software (ie SAAS - software as a service, a website you log in to to do your business).

Does your industry lack a single efficient, modern solution? Please tell me so that I can build it and sell it to you for a reasonable monthly fee : )

As a side note, I am amazed how crap the quickbooks self employed app is. But that's a crowded market.

 

[mattk]

Test data. Since GDPR there has been a real effort by companies to stop using production data for testing. However, the most common approach is to simply "scramble" your production data to make it anonymous. This creates a number of challenges. Firstly, it removes validation, for example your Driving Licence number is made up of your DoB and characters from your name. In foreign countries their tax IDs are often made up of similar checks. When data is scrambles this is often removed.

Secondly, if you scramble data in your source system then it will not match to downstream integrated systems e.g. payroll. This makes testing almost impossible.

Therefore, build a tool which creates test datasets for various countries and the ETL to load that data into common HCM and payroll systems like Workday, Oracle HCM Cloud, SuccessFactors, ADP and so on.

 

[deccantraps]

That's interesting, thanks. We usually use a well known test data creator for our initial tests (eg faker for php), but for things like performance (millions of site visits per second) and acceptance testing (ie a bot clicking around the site to find bugs) we do use a version of our current data with sensitive stuff scrambled.

 

[dotcomdude]

I am looking for an industry that is still badly served by technology and lacks a good piece of off the shelf/standard software

Might be better to do some research on the review sites, like Capterra and Alternative to. That way you get to see which are the most popular (ie the most reviews) and also any negative points raised by real customers.

Anyone that knows an industry which is calling out for a good SAAS is likely to look into having one built.

 

[ExoPaul]

I am confused a little by your idea. Don't get me wrong, the idea of developing an online service for a market that is tech-resistant is a great idea.
But I am not sure why you are wanting to build a custom product for someone so you can sell it to them, rather than build it as an infrastructure and then let others "rent it".

Take online customer service for example. Do you build a chat box and a few options for 1 Webmaster who will pay you once, or do you build the infrastructure that lots of people can use on licence (paying you multiple times) that you can then add to and bulk out the features of, to incorporate email, zendesk, sms, whatsapp and so on, all with additional premium pricing structures.