niche-success-scorecard

niche-success-scorecard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,765 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scoring method for judging whether a niche software business could reach $1–3 million in yearly recurring revenue with a solo founder or two-person team.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for rating a previously researched SaaS niche and deciding whether it is worth pursuing.
Why use it?
It turns information about customers, distribution, pricing, competition, and development effort into a weighted score and a pursue-or-stop decision.

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 rating a previously researched SaaS niche and deciding whether it is worth pursuing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills/niche-success-scorecard
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,765 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 $0.00095 $0.01765
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00882
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00177

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9a6272b60c23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

niche-success-scorecard 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-success-scorecard/SKILL.md · 240 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 240 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Niche Success Scorecard — Lifestyle SaaS

Goal

Generate a quantitative score (0–100) to determine if a niche can realistically reach $1–3M ARR with a solo/duo team.

When to Use

Run this after completing a First Pass evaluation. Requires concrete data on distribution, pricing, competition, and buildability.

Scoring System

Each dimension scored 0–5, then weighted. Total = 100 points max.


1. Distribution You Can Execute Solo (35%)

Score Criteria
0 No identifiable list, channel, or inbound path
1 Vague audience; would require paid ads with no proven playbook
2 Audience exists but no clean list; cold outbound only
3 One grindy channel that could work with sustained effort
4 Clear list OR strong inbound signal, but not both
5 Clean buyer list + at least one secondary channel/inbound confirmed

Weight: 35 points (Score × 7)


2. ARPA + Path to $1–3M ARR (20%)

Score Criteria
0 Requires 5,000+ customers to hit $1M ARR
1 Requires 3,000–5,000 customers
2 Requires 2,000–3,000 customers
3 Requires 1,000–2,000 customers
4 Requires 500–1,000 customers
5 Requires 200–500 customers (ARPA $150–$400/mo)

Weight: 20 points (Score × 4)


3. Willingness to Pay / Urgency (15%)

Score Criteria
0 Pure nice-to-have; no deadline or pain driver
1 Mild convenience; saves some time
2 Noticeable time saver; some frustration with status quo
3 Clear time/money saver; buyers actively looking for solutions
4 Compliance-adjacent or tied to revenue; strong motivation
5 Mandatory/deadline-driven; non-compliance = penalties or lost revenue

Weight: 15 points (Score × 3)


4. Scope + Support Load (15%)

Score Criteria
0 Heavy integrations, multi-jurisdiction, or extreme edge cases
1 Significant complexity; would need contractor help
2 Buildable but will have annoying support burden
3 Buildable in 6–10 weeks; moderate support expected
4 Buildable in 4–6 weeks; support load manageable
5 Buildable in 2–4 weeks; low support; clear scope

Read the full file on GitHub · 240 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 · 240 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 9a6272b60c23

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niche-success-scorecard is a skill published in the GitHub repository kirillpolevoy/claude-saas-eval-skills (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,765 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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