An app that'll solve the biggest dev-client issue!
Hello people,
I'm Badii, a javascript developer.
Earlier I had this idea of side-hustle project to make. And I'm trying to gather some points of views and feedbacks about it.
So my target clients are developers obviously.
And the pain-point I'm solving is related to the developer-customer relationship, exactly the problem of the clients that can't seem to deliver a well explained specifications, and just keep coming and going each time with a new feature or crucial changes that were never expected from the developer.
So my idea is creating a platform for developers to manage their projects and clients, and most importantly providing a guided simple and straight forward questionnaire for the developer to ask the client the needed questions and keeping all the answers and questions tracked, along with the client's ability to answer the questions in an easy way using whatever form of media they desire (text, audio, video, file or image).
And the key point about the questionnaire, is that I'll make the questions creation process easy and automated for the developer, saying that I'll suggest on them the most important questions you ask a client, the most frequent one, if it's a past client, the algorithm learns from their answers and suggest a better more personalized questions..etc...
Same for the client, I'll work on making their process of answering the question more intuitive and straightforward.
Thinking about about the business model I thought it'll be more like 5$/month.
I'm open for all critics and feedbacks please advice me.
So I toyed around with a very similar idea - platform for devs to manage their projects with clients and keep communication very clear. The main value being both the client and dev are on the same page for the project and can track and update deliverables as they happen.
The main issue I came up with was that clients would probably not actually use it. They hired you to do a job, and now you're telling them to do that job they need to use yet another communication app? It's hard enough getting people off email, let alone onto a whole new app that they have to sign up for and actively use for it to work properly.
That's why I've not pursued the idea much further. It felt like there would be too much friction to overcome for people to see the value. I believe the core idea is great but it probably doesn't need a whole new platform to solve it.
thanks a lot for the comment, that's really helpful