Solving Real Business Problems Pays Better Than SaaS

Tomorrow is my birthday and today I got the best gift ever. I made $33,000.00 in 7 days of work. It was the quickest money I have ever made as a developer and it came from one thing: Solving a real problem for a real business. I am not posting this to brag I am posting this to encourage you Because most developers underestimate how valuable their skills really are. A client in the lumber industry reached out because his WooCommerce store had more than 17,000 products. Tariffs kept changing. Prices kept changing. And updating 17,000 items by hand was impossible. Worse He was losing money every single week because his prices were outdated before he even finished updating the first page. He wanted a system where he could update one lumber size per category and the rest would calculate automatically. Simple idea Massive impact. I built it in one week vibe coding (off course) using: –> Cursor –> NextJS –> Supabase –> Shadcn –> Vercel When I delivered it he told me it would save them hundreds of thousands per year. Here is the point of this post Do not get stuck only building your SaaS and waiting for the perfect launch day. There is real money in solving real business problems. Use that money to fund your SaaS and you will move ten times faster. Someone out there is drowning in a problem that you can solve in a week. Go find them!