Building a niche SaaS for tailors — curious how others picked their first niche
Hey everyone 👋
I'm Kamran, founder of Azkkan (a software & product design studio). We've worked on a few client projects, and now I'm building our first in-house product TailorTech, a SaaS to help tailoring businesses manage orders, customer measurements, and follow-ups in one place instead of registers and WhatsApp chats.
It's a pretty unglamorous, offline-heavy industry to build for, but that's exactly why I think there's room — most tools out there are built for tech-savvy industries and skip over small local businesses like this.
Curious to hear from other makers here: how did you decide on your first niche/customer segment? Did you go after something broad and popular, or something narrow and underserved like I'm trying to do? Would love to hear what worked (or didn't) for you.
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Built vertical SaaS for restaurants and grocery stores, same offline heavy space tailoring sits in. What worked was picking the segment already tracking things on paper, since the pain is obvious to them on day one, nobody needs convincing. Narrow and underserved wins on time to first paying customer, even if the ceiling looks smaller going in.