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Freelance capacity planning tool

Create a visual dashboard showing project pipeline vs. bandwidth for solo developers. Helps avoid overcommitment.

Why now

Independent devs struggle with opportunity cost anxiety when saying no.

Who for
Solo developers and freelancers
Business model
One-time purchase
Effort
A weekend

Freelancers lack clear visibility into their true capacity, leading to stress about turning down work.

A simple calendar-based tool could visualize committed hours vs. available capacity from past velocity data.

Freelancers would pay to reduce decision fatigue around project acceptance.

MVP: Manual time entry with basic capacity forecasting.

Risk: May not account for unpredictable project scope creep.

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