Feature-Abandonment Audit for Inventory SaaS

Separate the flashy features nobody uses from the ones used daily

Problem

Inventory tool builders keep hitting the same gap: barcode scanning, stock lookup by bin, transfers and low-stock alerts get used every day, while custom report builders, fancy dashboards and forecasting charts are requested in every demo but rarely opened three months later. What buyers ask for in demos and what survives in production are two different products.

Solution

A lightweight usage-analytics component that instruments each feature module's visit frequency and retention, compares across roles and merchant sizes, and produces a demo-favorite vs. daily-favorite list so SaaS builders can decide what to cut, price, or rebuild.

Users

Indie developers and small teams building vertical SaaS such as inventory, POS, scheduling or lightweight ERP

MVP

Embeddable SDK or script with per-feature instrumentation; auto-generated feature usage heatmap; flag features that are demo-requested but low-usage; compare usage before and after churn by tenant; exportable monthly feature audit

Revenue

Subscription by number of tracked features or tenants; one-off feature audit reports for existing products

Why now

AI made adding features cheap, so products are bloated, yet indie builders have no product-analytics team; existing tools track traffic and conversion, not what to cut