LedgerShield CrashGuard
9/10
Demand Score
Finance closes and pay runs cannot tolerate outages; each crash risks missed filings and penalties.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$500-3k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
An accounting-app-aware resilience layer that prevents and recovers from client and browser crashes. It isolates faulty plugins/add-ins, auto-restarts frozen services, runs the app in Safe Mode when u
Competitor Landscape
- Sentry
- Datadog RUM
- New Relic Browser
- Nexthink
- Lakeside SysTrack
Must-Have Features for MVP
Process watchdog with targeted auto-restart
Plugin/add-in isolation and kill-switches
Safe Mode launcher for known-bad versions
Update holdback/rollback via compatibility matrix
Session shadow capture and redaction for vendor support
Freeze/long-task detection for web UIs
MTBF/MTTR dashboards and alerting
One-click environment diff for failed vs. healthy sessions
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Vendor add-in ecosystems vary widely
- Desktop privilege requirements for watchdogs
- Capturing reproducible telemetry without sensitive data
- Change control in regulated environments
Risk Level: Minimal
🎯 Keys to Success
- >70% reduction in crash-induced downtime in first month
- Mean time to recover <60 seconds for common freezes
- Support ticket resolution time cut by 50% via reproducible traces
- Blocked/rolled-back problematic updates before impacting >5% of users
Ready to Build This?
This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.