Indie founders attending MicroConf, Indie Hackers meetups, or paid masterminds consistently report on r/indiehackers and Twitter/X that they leave having spoken to the same three people they already knew online and missed the exact founder they needed to meet. SeatMap lets attendees submit their current problem, ideal connection type, and product stage before an event, then generates a prioritized 'top 5 people you must talk to' list with conversation starters — turning passive attendance into intentional networking. Organizers embed it as a pre-event ritual that makes their conference feel 10x more valuable.
Indie SaaS founders attending small-to-mid conferences and paid mastermind groups (50–500 attendees), and the organizers who run those events
B2B2C — organizers pay $99–$299 per event to unlock attendee matching; attendees use it free
Reddit: Post-COVID in-person indie founder events (MicroConf, Xconf, Indie World) have surged back but still use Eventbrite's generic attendee list, creating a massive gap between the value of the room and the value attendees actually extract.
Post-COVID in-person indie founder events (MicroConf, Xconf, Indie World) have surged back but still use Eventbrite's generic attendee list, creating a massive gap between the value of the room and the value attendees actually extract.
A form where attendees describe their problem and ideal connection, a cosine-similarity match against other attendees, and an email the morning of the event listing your top 5 matches with a one-line icebreaker each.
OpenAI embeddings match founder profiles semantically (e.g., 'struggling with churn' surfaces a founder who solved churn in the same vertical) far better than keyword or tag matching.
The distribution risk is high — you need conference organizers to adopt it as a pre-event tool, meaning every new event is a separate sales conversation and there is no self-serve viral loop among attendees.
Likely buyers are founders, operators, and small teams with a recurring business process. Start with Indie SaaS founders attending small-to-mid conferences and paid mastermind groups (50–500 attendees), and the organizers who run those events and validate whether this can replace a spreadsheet, manual review, or consultant workflow.
Find the first 10 users by searching for recent complaints around "community indie hacker" in Reddit, developer communities, GitHub issues, and niche Slack or Discord groups. Offer a concierge version first: manually solve the workflow for a few users, then automate only the repeated steps.
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A easy difficulty app like this typically costs $0-$5,000 for an MVP. Monetization: B2B2C — organizers pay $99–$299 per event to unlock attendee matching; attendees use it free.
Indie SaaS founders attending small-to-mid conferences and paid mastermind groups (50–500 attendees), and the organizers who run those events