📰 How to Clone a SaaS and Launch Without Competition

The larger a company gets, the stronger its gravity. Taken to an extreme, it takes companies forever to launch even a single feature and they fall behind the competition. For individuals, gravity is even more consequential: scattered attention means getting nothing done, having no impact and likely being fired. Worse, people get exhausted and burned out in the process.

"Tranquility comes from doing less" (Ryan Holiday) but a lot of teams execute scatter-brained like a teenager multitasking between Netflix, TikTok and texting. Individual and team focus are connected at the hip. When a team is distracted it transfers to individuals. 2/3 of people struggle to find the energy to do their job.4

Whenever I get overwhelmed, my brain tells me to open my email inbox and look for a quick dopamine hit. But finding quick tasks and busy work is no achievement. Real impact comes from working through tedious, complex problems.

There are some critical requisites before you can classify a company as a tech company.

And keep in mind that this is not about words; it's about substance.

A tech company is fundamentally different from a non-tech one.

How so?

Belief is the true lifeblood of startups. If you can get enough people to believe in you – you can shape anything into existence.

Storytelling is how you get people to believe. And it’s not just investors you must convince – but employees, suppliers, and customers too.

So how do you tell a good story?

The problem In today's fast-paced work environment, the most valuable resource is human attention. But when teams spend 20% of their time answering the same questions over and over, that precious attention is squandered.

Vital knowledge is scattered across chat threads, docs, and files, forcing employees into a never-ending game of information hide-and-seek. And both the askers and the answerers suffer.

You want to make a SaaS, but you have no ideas?

You thought of stealing an idea. But you see lots of people making clones. Even clones of clones! The competition is crazy. And the whole game seems just… pointless?

Let me give you a hope today.

In this post I will teach you a simple method of niching down. With this method you can take any existing SaaS, clone it and launch without any competition.

Vedran Rasic sold his $1M ARR business, then started LeadDelta.

After selling $500k worth of lifetime deals to keep the lights on, he built his recurring revenue to $25k/mo. And he recently secured $800k in seed funding to take the next step.