03 / EVIDENCE
Opportunity assessment
Experimental prototype-fit heuristic—
This score is a prioritization aid, not a probability of success, market size, or revenue forecast. Your manual assumptions affect it.
PUBLIC BETA · NO LOGIN · REAL EVIDENCE LINKS
Find a market gap.
Prove it deserves attention.
Search a niche, measure recent public discussion against the previous month, examine original stories, and generate five buyer-specific product hypotheses. Save your research before investing money.
Source connected today: Hacker News / Algolia. Etsy, Amazon, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube and Google Trends are not connected yet.
01 / START YOUR RESEARCH
RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
Evidence first, opportunity second.
Public technical discussion is a useful early signal for software ideas, but it is not a measure of what buyers are paying, consumer search volume or marketplace sales.
02 / OPPORTUNITY BRIEF
Research brief
Mentions / last 30 days—
Mentions / prior 30 days—
Change in mentions—
Indicative unit profit—
04 / HIDDEN ADJACENCIES
Five product directions
Hypotheses to validate with customers — generated from transparent templates, not claimed AI analysis.
05 / RESEARCH LIBRARY
Saved niches
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No research saved yet.
METHODOLOGY & LIMITS
Know what you are measuring
Public signals
Matching Hacker News story counts from the last 30 days are compared with the preceding 30 days. Recent stories link to their original sources.
Manual assumptions
Your price, cost, and competitor inputs are not gathered automatically. Margin calculations exclude overhead, taxes, fees, refunds and marketing.
Next validation
Interview buyers, search real competing products and investigate willingness to pay. No product sales, search volumes or platform-wide virality claims are made.
Niche Hunter Signal Lab is a free research beta, not investment or business advice. Hacker News is a technology-focused community and absence of mentions is not evidence of absent demand.