Software Developers think the only way to get into entrepreneurship is to build your own product. Productized Services are also a good alternative to SaaS products and are less risky.

What is a productized service, you ask?

A productized service is a pre-packaged consulting solution solving for one specific problem.

The most popular ones are in the design, copywriting or marketing space and not many examples are available if you are a technical person or developer.

Let's look at 5 services you can start today:

1. Web design development

You take Figma or Sketch design files and convert them as HTML/CSS/JS. You can niche down with CSS frameworks like Bootstrap/Tailwind or JS Frameworks like React/Vue.

2. Web Scraping as a Service

Many companies pay for scraping data regularly from popular websites and search engines. You can start by publishing the data as CSV files or also push it to a DB.

3. Data Analysis as a Service

This might be hard to productize, but you can try to define the scope of the work clearly and how much data you can process at a time. Data cleansing might also be a good additional service you can add.

4. Code/Architecture Review as a Service

If you are a senior developer, you can look at selling your expertise as a productized service.

5. Technical Writing

If you have the skill of explaining complex technical things in simple words, you can write technical content like documentation, blogs, etc.

Which of these is interesting to you? Comment below and I can help you start.