niche-idea-generator

niche-idea-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills. It costs 107 tokens per session (2,396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for finding small software-as-a-service business ideas that fit a founder's expertise, access, and interests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for generating and evaluating niche SaaS opportunities for a solo founder or two-person team.
Why use it?
It avoids generic brainstorming by requiring a specific customer problem, a way to reach buyers, and a realistic pricing path.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It is for generating and evaluating niche SaaS opportunities for a solo founder or two-person team.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills/niche-idea-generator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills --skill niche-idea-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 107 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,396 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00107 $0.02396
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01198
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00240

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9f8958296624, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

niche-idea-generator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

niche-idea-generator/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Niche Idea Generator — Lifestyle SaaS

Goal

Generate 5–10 concrete niche SaaS hypotheses based on your unique advantages (expertise, access, background) that could realistically reach $1–3M ARR with a solo/duo team.

Not generic brainstorming. Every idea must have:

  • A specific mandatory workflow or compliance requirement
  • An identifiable distribution path
  • Pricing that doesn't require 5,000+ customers

Voice

Direct and specific. No "you could potentially explore healthcare" — output "Optometry: Software for managing state vision therapy certification renewals (CA, TX, FL require biennial renewal)."

If you don't have enough founder context to generate relevant ideas, ask for it.

Inputs

Ask for missing inputs:

Required

  • Background / Expertise: Industries you've worked in, roles, domains you understand deeply
  • Natural Access: Who can you reach? (former colleagues, professional network, geographic advantages)
  • Interests: What types of customers would you enjoy serving for 3+ years?

Optional but Helpful

  • Geography focus: Where do you want to sell? (US default, but state/region can narrow)
  • Avoid list: Industries/verticals you explicitly don't want to touch
  • Technical constraints: Any hard technical limits (e.g., no mobile apps, no real-time systems)

Strategy

Generate ideas by combining:

  1. Founder's unique wedge (what access/knowledge do they have that others don't?)
  2. Mandatory paperwork patterns (compliance, licensing, certifications, audits, permits)
  3. Distribution surfaces (lists, registries, associations, channel partners)

Idea Generation Process

Step 1: Map Founder Advantages

Based on inputs, identify:

  • Domain expertise: What industries/workflows do they understand?
  • Buyer access: Who can they reach directly?
  • Technical strengths: What can they build quickly?
  • Unfair advantages: Former employer relationships, certifications, geographic proximity
Step 2: Research Compliance Patterns

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 310 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A 9f8958296624

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niche-idea-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 107 tokens to every session and 2,396 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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