Although admittedly NDepend isn't a huge product, it would be helpful if there was a secondary deployment option which was just NDepend.Console.exe and its dependencies. No GUI tools, power tools, integration extensions etc. Just the absolute basics so that you can easy stick it on a build agent or in SCC as part of a tools folder without including stuff that a build agent would never use.

Of course, this now has its own problems as v7 seems to use an activation model whereas with v6 you could just include the license file to your agents. (Not to mention the console application for some reason has indirect references to the DevExpress WPF GUI components)

I recently ran across a new project called 'Hound' http://robots.thoughtbot.com/introducing-hound that help developers fight the smaller code quality issues by commenting on github pull requests. This made me think of NDepend as a Service and would be a nice way to integrate NDepend into my workflow - by simply commenting on offending lines of a pull request a team could start to have an automated way of having the team fix things that might otherwise be missed. I really like how hound talks about removing the 'human' from some of the littler issues.

I could see this starting out as a Freemium thing, where NDepend provides some really basic help, and then for paid plans you could put a project file in your repo and start getting even more advanced assistance.

I realize that the kind of analysis that NDepend does is at a macro code level, hound is very much a line by line micro level. So I am not sure how directly applicable NDepend will be, but some kind of web hook analysis of a github repo would indeed be nice.

Once there is a SaaS style offering the historical analysis of a project would be very interesting as well.