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Ranked by overall score (1-10), the average of Market size, Ease to start, Profit potential.

  1. Shopify Checkout Bug Retainers

    7.3

    Charge merchants $500–$2,000 monthly for response-time guarantees during checkout incidents.

    Market size 6/10Ease to start 8/10Profit potential 8/10
    • Shopify Payment Retry Audits

      7.0

      Sell fixed-price audits that recover failed orders by testing gateway settings against anonymized transaction logs.

      Market size 7/10Ease to start 8/10Profit potential 6/10
    • Shopify Plus Holiday War Rooms

      6.7

      Charge high-volume retailers $3,000 per launch week for staffed checkout monitoring and rollback support.

      Market size 5/10Ease to start 6/10Profit potential 9/10
    • Shopify Checkout App Conflict Tests

      6.7

      Offer agencies a per-release test suite that flags app collisions before client storefront deployments.

      Market size 6/10Ease to start 7/10Profit potential 7/10
  2. Postgres Query Tuning Clinics

    7.3

    Run paid half-day sessions for SaaS teams, using before-and-after query benchmarks to prove savings.

    Market size 7/10Ease to start 9/10Profit potential 6/10
    • Postgres Incident War-Room Retainers

      7.0

      Charge SaaS teams monthly for on-call query triage, with a 30-minute response SLA.

      Market size 5/10Ease to start 8/10Profit potential 8/10
    • Database Migration Benchmark Reports

      6.7

      Sell fixed-fee reports to teams moving from MySQL, comparing PostgreSQL costs on production-shaped workloads.

      Market size 6/10Ease to start 7/10Profit potential 7/10
    • Postgres Index Review for Agencies

      6.3

      Offer white-label reviews per client project; agencies can bundle your findings into higher-priced delivery packages.

      Market size 4/10Ease to start 9/10Profit potential 6/10
  3. Legacy PHP Upgrade Sprints

    6.7

    Offer two-week PHP 7-to-8 upgrades to agencies, priced per repository and tested deployment.

    Market size 6/10Ease to start 7/10Profit potential 7/10
    • Laravel 5 Agency Rescue Weeks

      7.0

      Charge per application; fixed-scope dependency and test upgrades let agencies quote migrations without hiring full-time specialists.

      Market size 6/10Ease to start 8/10Profit potential 7/10
    • Composer Dependency Risk Reports

      7.0

      Offer a fixed-price report with upgrade paths and exploit exposure; automate scans to deliver each audit in a day.

      Market size 7/10Ease to start 9/10Profit potential 5/10
    • PHP 8 Runtime Cutover Testing

      6.7

      Sell a staging cutover package per repository, including rollback drills that reduce release risk for small SaaS teams.

      Market size 5/10Ease to start 7/10Profit potential 8/10
  4. HIPAA Integration Audits

    6.0

    Sell fixed-price audits to small clinics before they connect scheduling tools to patient records.

    Market size 4/10Ease to start 5/10Profit potential 9/10
  5. Accessibility Fixes for Universities

    5.3

    Bid on scoped remediation projects where procurement budgets and documented compliance deadlines support larger fees.

    Market size 5/10Ease to start 3/10Profit potential 8/10

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