u/Opening-Comedian-874

Disclaimer: I am not freelancer, I wanted to start something and I was doing market research on various problems and niches. I landed on a scope creep problem in freelancers, something that they complain about a lot and I couldn't find much built specifically for it, only a few similar tools have popped up since.

I then looked through different subs such as r/freelance, r/videography, r/photography and other freelancing type subs and a couple things did stand out

- Scope creep does the most damage when the person does not know how to respond, even when it's clearly out of scope. Most people are too scared to say no, because it might ruin their relationship with the client.

- Like nobody expects a plumber to eat a "can you fix one more thing", but digital services like devs, designers and copywriters feel weirdly awkward for invoicing the same thing because it's less confronting for a client to request something over text rather than in person.

- Literally one thread I saw a post asking other designers "how do you document add-ons and get sign-off on fixed price project", and to be honest it is word for word the exact thing I ended up building. https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1rmbixa/designers_who_do_fixedprice_projects_how_do_you/

In short, I built DeliverFirm, you save your agreed scope, then paste in whatever the client just sent you, and it tells you whether it's in scope or not (particularly useful for big Scope of Works), and drafts a reply for you either way. There are some other features that reviews your scope document itself and flags its gaps (missing revision limits, no change order clause, stuff like that) before you even send to a client.

I'm just partly posting this to be upfront about how this got built, and I think I did the research and built for a gap rather than pretending I've lived this myself. Also partly because I'd genuinely like to know: does this match what you/people have actually run into? What's missing or what did I get wrong about how this actually plays out? I just need some guidance, especially for a first time founder.

Hi everyone, I hope everyone is having an amazing day

I am new on this subreddit, and just starting out a Subscription SaaS business (literally my first one) and just have been learning from claude + google.

I've explored a few things here and there, and ideas/niches using claude pro

I have landed on this idea of a Out-Of-Scope detector (via claude to research niche ideas) which uses an api to detect if a request is out-of-scope, and generates a reply you can email directly to your clients. It can also refine your scope/contract/quote, idk stuff like that I was thinking if would be useful for freelancers (especially beginner freelancers) so I built something using lovable pro + claude pro (and other tools like stripe, supabase, resend)

I've just recently started (like a week ago) and been using claude to make my prompts I can paste into lovable. Which I can then change/review to my liking.

I did get claude to do a deep research about this specific niche, and it says that it's relatively low competion, and moderate market demand, however I am just here to ask what you guys think, whether I should keep going or change my niche.

I don't really know where I'm going, because I'm just purely doing because I always told myself to start something instead of always thinking about it.

What do you think about this niche?

what can I do to improve this (it's a very broad question but I have no idea where else to start from here)

when do I start launching/selling it?

I probably have a thousand other questions, can't seem to find any on my mind right now.

I just need a little bit of guidance, so I can save time and gain knowledge from smart people like you guys.

In my opinion, the site seems relatively basic, and I'm not sure how to make it seem more "professional" as I feel like someone could tell it was made by lovable. It does seem generic in a way, but at the same time some other softwares are in this niche too and are doing okay?? (that I know of)

Thank you so much!! I will appreciate all help, feedback and advice. I am determined to learn through this journey of mine.

disclaimer: I am not promoting, I am just here for advice and feedback as I do not care about any customers/users yet.

btw this is like the 3rd time im posting cus i didn't read the rules mb.