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How to Find Validated SaaS & App Ideas That Guarantee Instant Product-Market Fit
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Why “Stealing” Validated Ideas Beats Originality
Let’s cut the BS: originality is overrated. While Silicon Valley loves preaching “disruption,” most billion-dollar companies — Meta, Spotify, even ChatGPT — are iterations of existing ideas. Your goal isn’t to reinvent the wheel; it’s to find a wheel that’s already rolling and build a faster, cheaper, or niche-specific version.
Take Calm.com, a $2B meditation app. They didn’t invent mindfulness — they repackaged ancient practices for smartphone addicts. Similarly, Canva stole design software from Adobe’s grip by simplifying it for non-designers. The pattern? Identify proven demand, then differentiate.
But how do you find these “rolling wheels”? You reverse-engineer success. If a SaaS product has 1,000 paying users, that’s a green light. Your job is to ask: Where are they underserving? Which features can I strip? What niche can I own?
