“I was in my friend's studio and he used this very old flash app on a on an old laptop and he remote controls everything from his nice table and then to start a timer he has to get up walk into the other room and hit a button and walk back and my web developer mind immediately says surely there's a better way... you find that they waste hours and they do things in the most awkward ways that you would have automated long ago these are the really the simple ideas that you can turn into a lot of money”

Find Million-Dollar SaaS Ideas By Watching People Do Their Job Awkwardly

The stage timer idea came from watching a friend in a studio physically walk into another room to press start on an old flash app. Lucas's framework for finding more million-dollar niches: go observe non-developers doing their jobs and look for the awkward manual workarounds they've never thought to automate.