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yawnxyzyesterday at 4:59 PM0 repliesview on HN

for back office software, I'm actually getting more interest in building weird back office stuff than before, because people know what's possible now.

I'm not a consultant anymore but my friend who owns a dental clinic asked me if I could build them a personalized system that checks in with the staff every week; a thing that helps analyze how they feel week to week and helps my friend update her management strategy and coaches her on how to talk with her staff / helps her figure out her staff's communication strategies and what work they prefer to do; and she'd like me to run and host it so she can't see the raw data from her staff so they'll trust it more as it's run by a third party.

She could probably figure out how to do this but she'd still rather pay me like $5k to do this than spend 100+ hours figuring this out herself. Even with AI it'd probably take me at least a couple of weeks to get it working 100% as intended, and I don't have a dentist business to run.

I think we'll see more back office SaaS, becuase the problems to solve are near infinite, and no one has time to build all these themselves.