🚀 After 400+ founder comments, one insight changed my product
A few weeks ago I started building VIDI - an AI tool that helps small businesses understand contract risks before signing.
When I first shared the project on Indie Hackers, I expected a few comments and some feedback.
Instead the discussions across a few posts grew to 400+ comments from founders and builders.
Reading through those conversations changed how I think about the problem.
The biggest insight was this:
Most founders don’t think in terms of “contract analysis.”
They ask a much simpler question:
“Am I about to sign something that could cost me money later?”
That reframing changed how I’m thinking about the product.
Instead of focusing on “analysis”, the goal is helping someone quickly understand if a contract contains something risky before they sign it.
A few weeks ago I launched the project on Product Hunt where it reached #54 of the day.
At that time the product was extremely simple - there wasn’t even a registration system. It was just a single page where you could upload a contract and see the analysis.
Since then I added accounts and started improving the output based on feedback.
So far:
• 57 contracts analyzed
• 18 users signed up
It’s still early, but the feedback from this community has been incredibly helpful.
If anyone here deals with contracts like:
• service agreements
• SaaS contracts
• vendor agreements
• partnership contracts
• NDAs
• leases
I’d really appreciate your feedback.
You can upload a contract and the tool will highlight potentially risky clauses and explain them in plain English.
https://joyful-granita-8415bc.netlify.app
Curious to hear from other founders here:
How do you usually review contracts before signing?
is it free?
Yes, right now it's free while I'm still testing and improving the product.
In the future I’m planning to introduce a paid subscription once the analysis and features become more mature.
Curious about something after all the discussions here.
When you receive a contract, what do you usually do first?
Would be interesting to hear how founders here usually approach this.
Interesting side note while building VIDI.
Another founder here, Jayesh Somani, is building a tool called Klovio that tackles a different part of the freelancer risk problem.
While VIDI focuses on helping people understand risks before signing a contract, Klovio focuses on the moment after delivery - locking files behind payment so they automatically unlock once the client pays.
Thought it was an interesting perspective on the freelancer workflow.
https://klovio.co
Really appreciate the mention Meirambek! The contract-to-delivery pipeline is genuinely broken for freelancers end to end — VIDI protecting them before signing and Klovio protecting them at handover covers the two moments where most freelancers lose money. Happy to be building in the same space with you. Good luck with the 100 user target!
Thanks Jayesh, really appreciate that.
It’s interesting how many freelancers and founders mentioned similar problems in the discussions here. Contracts before signing and payment protection after delivery really do feel like two parts of the same workflow.
Curious to see how builders in the community approach both sides of that problem.
Exactly — most tools pick one side or the other. Would be interesting to see if there's overlap in our user base down the line. Let's stay in touch as both products grow.