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Folks, I am an Income Tax employee who is given the task to gather filing feedback.

People who file their own ITR in India: what is the most confusing or frustrating part of the process?

If you’ve filed your own ITR, I’d love to understand:

1. What was hardest to understand the first time?
2. How did you figure out which ITR form to use?
3. Were you confident about what information you needed to enter?
4. Was there any point where you thought, “I should just ask a CA”?
5. Did you use the Income Tax portal directly or a service like ClearTax/TaxBuddy/etc.? Why?
6. What part of filing made you most worried about making a mistake?
7. What did you Google or ask someone while filing?

I have more questions, so if anybody interested sharing his/her feedback can DM me.

Had sony 4k Bravias (55 inch and 65 inch) in past. First one worked for 7 years and second for less than 2 years. I don’t want to spend much as I have trust issues with current appliances. Budget is 20-30k inr.

Had sony 4k Bravias (55 inch and 65 inch) in past. First one worked for 7 years and second for less than 2 years. I don’t want to spend much as I have trust issues with current appliances.

I find existing apps outdated, cluttered and full of ads

I find existing apps outdated, cluttered and full of ads

I am working on a SaaS that will help freelancer/exporters track their FIRCA and their income from foreign business/services.

I’m exploring a micro-SaaS idea for Indian freelancers who receive international payments, and I’d love some honest feedback.

Problem I’m seeing:

If you’re getting paid via Wise / Payoneer / direct bank transfer, tracking FIRC (or e-FIRC/FIRA) is messy and often ignored until tax season.

- Documents are scattered across emails, PDFs, and bank portals

- Banks are slow/unpredictable when you request FIRCs

- CAs ask for documents you don’t have readily

- There’s no single place to track payments + compliance status

Idea:

A lightweight “FIRC & foreign payment tracker” specifically for Indian freelancers.

Core features I’m thinking:

- Track all incoming foreign payments in one place

- Map payments ↔ FIRCs ↔ invoices

- Highlight missing FIRCs (like a compliance checklist)

- Simple dashboard: “you’re missing X documents”

- Generate CA-ready reports for tax filing

Goal:

Not to replace CAs, but to make freelancers audit-ready without scrambling at the last minute.

Why this might work:

This isn’t a “nice-to-have productivity tool”—it sits directly in the compliance + money flow layer.

What I’m trying to validate:

- Do freelancers actually care about FIRC tracking?

- How are you currently managing this? (Excel? CA? ignoring it?)

- What’s the most frustrating part—banks, docs, or tax filing?

- Would you pay a small monthly fee to automate this?

I’m planning to do ~10 user interviews before building anything.

Would really appreciate brutally honest feedback 🙏