Indie SaaS founders on r/indiehackers and HN frequently post public roadmaps to build trust and reduce churn, then quietly slip on promised features — eroding exactly the trust they were building. RoadmapDebt lets founders log every public roadmap commitment with the date promised and the channel it was made (Twitter, changelog, email, Product Hunt), then tracks the gap between promise and ship date over time. It generates a 'promise debt score' and a plain-English customer communication draft for any item that has slipped past its expected window, turning an embarrassing silence into a proactive trust-building update.
Solo SaaS founders who publish public roadmaps or make feature promises in changelogs, newsletters, or social media
$12/mo for unlimited roadmap items and auto-generated slip communication drafts; free tier capped at 5 tracked promises
Multiple Sources: Build-in-public culture has normalized public roadmap commitments, but no lightweight tool exists to close the accountability loop — the behavior is widespread and the pain is felt acutely at renewal time.
Build-in-public culture has normalized public roadmap commitments, but no lightweight tool exists to close the accountability loop — the behavior is widespread and the pain is felt acutely at renewal time.
A simple CRUD interface where founders add a promise, the date made, and the channel; a dashboard shows days-overdue per item and generates a one-click slip-notification email draft.
AI drafts a context-aware customer slip notification for each overdue item that matches the founder's typical communication tone (inferred from pasted sample copy) and suggests a revised ETA framing.
Founders may resist logging promises they intend to break — the tool only works if they use it honestly, meaning the audience is self-selecting toward the conscientious minority who already worry about this.
Likely buyers are founders, operators, and small teams with a recurring business process. Start with Solo SaaS founders who publish public roadmaps or make feature promises in changelogs, newsletters, or social media and validate whether this can replace a spreadsheet, manual review, or consultant workflow.
Find the first 10 users by searching for recent complaints around "SaaS indie hacker" in Multiple Sources, developer communities, GitHub issues, and niche Slack or Discord groups. Offer a concierge version first: manually solve the workflow for a few users, then automate only the repeated steps.
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A easy difficulty app like this typically costs $0-$5,000 for an MVP. Monetization: $12/mo for unlimited roadmap items and auto-generated slip communication drafts; free tier capped at 5 tracked promises.
Solo SaaS founders who publish public roadmaps or make feature promises in changelogs, newsletters, or social media