💡 SaaS Idea: OralDocs (AI Interviewer for Engineering Knowledge)

Web app that interviews engineers and technical staff with structured prompts, captures screen/code snippets, and generates living architecture docs, decision records, and onboarding guides. Auto-links to repos, tickets, and owners.

Platform: web

Why it's a good idea?

1. Problem & Idea Recap

Onboarding and maintaining architectural knowledge is painful. Teams rely on tribal knowledge that lives in senior engineers’ heads or scattered tickets. OralDocs proposes a web app that:

  • Runs a structured AI‐led interview with engineers (voice / chat prompts)
  • Captures code snippets / screen-share while they talk
  • Auto-generates living docs: Architecture diagrams, ADRs, onboarding guides, links to repos, Jira tickets, owners, etc.

2. Evidence of User Pain in the Wild

Signal Details
HackerNews thread (id 45459893) >120 up-votes, 60+ comments. Most comments confirm documentation is always out-of-date and ask for tooling that ‘extracts info from people’s heads’.
Reddit r/softwarearchitecture Frequent threads on “How do you keep ADRs up-to-date?” (e.g. 19 votes, 11 comments – 2024-11-25).
Blogs / Medium Multiple 2024-2025 posts on “building an ADR writer agent”, “streamlining ADRs with AI”, etc.
Corporate blogs (Red Hat, Microsoft) Promote ADRs / doc automation best-practices, showing enterprises care.

3. Keyword Research (Google)

Keyword | Monthly Volume | Difficulty | Meets 500+ & <30? ---|-...

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