[shadowcats]

I think this is a really awesome idea and I have a follow-up idea.

I'm kind of in the same boat as the poster: I'm a developer who wants to do a SaaS but I lack a worthy idea (ie one that is actually wanted by the market). I find it very frustrating to be told that "ideas are useless" and that execution is everything, when all I'm yearning to do is to get started executing.

I was writing a book called "How to find SaaS ideas" (obviously I failed to solve that problem) and I managed to get around 230 sign-ups from just a few random comments on HN alone, so that tells me that there is probably lots of other people in the same boat as me.

Anyway, I think there should be a kind of online marketplace for this type of arrangement. Ie developers can go and say "I want to build your solution for free in exchange for SaaS distribution rights" and people with a business in need of software improvement can go and find free code labor. Win-win.

Anyone think there's any merit to my idea here? :)