Recommendation for project needing ~15 potentiometers

why don't you multiplex in inputs by connecting more than one pot to each pin and switching between them using transistors or relays at the time of read.

eg
pin 1 high enables pot 1 disables pot 2
read pot 1 (a0)

pin 1 low disables pot one enables pot 2
read pot 2 (a0)

so on and so forth.