Indie opportunities in Google's graveyard

I remember listening to a story by Sam Parr on the My First Million podcast about how Google kills projects even if they made a few hundred million in revenue per year.

Hundred million a year!

Hell that’s a whole lot of money! But it’s a pittance to the multi-billion dollar business that is Google, so comparatively, it’s nothing to them, and not worth the effort to pursue. These are good, functioning businesses, not just lame ones like Google+. Just killed because it’s deemed too small for a giant.

But imagine the potential of these products for us non-giants – solo entrepreneurs, indie hackers, bootstrapped founders. Even a fraction of that hundred million dollar business will be a life-changing amount of money.

It’ll be FU money. That kind of money that we can say we’re free. Totally, financially free.

I wonder if people had ever looked through the graveyard of Google projects and made an indie version of it.

Just look through the ideas here on killedbygoogle.com. There’s 264 of them currently. Just a quick scroll down shows some good potentials already:

App Maker (2016 - 2021)
App Maker was a tool that allowed its users to build and deploy custom business apps easily and securely on the web without writing much code. It was about 4 years old.

Google Photos Print (2020 - 2020)
Google Photos Print was a subscription service that automatically selected the best ten photos from the last thirty days which were mailed to user’s homes. It was 5 months old.

Shoelace (2019 - 2020)
Shoelace was an app used to find group activities with others who share your interests. It was 11 months old.

These are great, isn’t it? They might not all be million dollar revenue projects, but with some slight tweaks they can go on to be great indie products for niche audiences.

Makes me want to go make some now!