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by hardwaresofton 1298 days ago
I've got a whole bag full of em:

https://unvalidatedideas.com/archive

The only problem is I can't tell you which ones are the 100k ones...

I've got a hunch that this one is solidly 100k and not million+:

https://unvalidatedideas.com/editions/11

Got all the hallmarks of an idea that is hard to profit/scale:

- selling to developers

- content-based (so often very manual at the beginning)

- absolutely boring (to some people) niche

[EDIT] - wait no I could see this one possibly getting big, if you strike the right "compliance and security posture" tone.

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There are lots of players in the enterprise space for compliance and security of software, e.g. Black Duck. I think the trick would be to figure out where those solutions are lacking for smaller dev teams and try to serve them
Thanks for mentioning black duck — yeah this would definitely start out looking like a consultancy at first I guess