Evidence engine, not an oracle

Find problems worth investigating.

Entangled Code searches for repeated signs of pain, connects evidence across sources, and explains why an opportunity may or may not be worth your time.

Idea of the day
Jul 22
Small teams can't tell if their analytics setup is actually privacy-compliant
Indie hackers and small teams shipping to EU/UK/California users aren't confident their analytics and cookie setup meets GDPR/CCPA requirements, and lack an affordable way to check.
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01  The research

How the research works

Every opportunity starts as scattered complaints, feature requests, and workarounds across forums, review platforms, issue trackers, and surveys. We group the similar ones, look for existing solutions and competitors, and score what is left with the evidence attached. Not a verdict; a starting point for your own judgement.

02  Reports

Example opportunities

Demonstration records showing the shape of a report. Not live research: see the banner on each report.

03  The method

How it works

A pipeline of small, auditable steps rather than one large prompt guessing at ideas.

Gather signals

Recurring complaints, requests, and workarounds are collected from permitted public sources: official APIs, feeds, and user submissions, never uncontrolled scraping.

Group and cluster

Similar problems are grouped without erasing meaningful differences between them, so a cluster reflects one real problem, not a keyword match.

Map the alternatives

Direct competitors, indirect alternatives, manual workarounds, and "doing nothing" are all recorded. A real gap has to survive contact with what already exists.

Score transparently

Twelve weighted components (pain, frequency, evidence quality, feasibility, and more) combine into one score, with every component visible and explained.

You scrutinise it

Expand the evidence, challenge a source, reweight the score for your own situation, or request a deeper look. The report is a starting point, not a conclusion.

04  Scoring

Evidence-based scoring

Every opportunity score is a weighted average of twelve components. Nothing is hidden behind a single number. Open any report to see each component's score, weight, and rationale.

Pain intensity
How severe is the problem for the people who have it: lost money, lost time, blocked work, or emotional cost.
Frequency
How often the affected person runs into the problem. Daily friction scores higher than an annual inconvenience.
Independent sources
How many unrelated people or communities raised this without prompting each other.
Evidence recency
How recent the supporting evidence is. A live, ongoing complaint scores higher than a five-year-old thread.
Trend / growth signal
Whether mentions of the problem appear to be growing, flat, or declining over time.
Willingness-to-pay evidence
Direct evidence that people already pay for a workaround, or have said they would pay for a fix.
Weakness of existing alternatives
How poorly the current options (products, manual workarounds, or doing nothing) actually serve the need.
Competition density
How crowded the space already is, scored so that a crowded, well-served space pulls the total down.
Feasibility for a small team
Whether a solo builder or small team could realistically ship a first version.
Time to a meaningful test
How quickly a small team could get a real signal from real users, not how long a full product would take.
Evidence quality
How reliable, specific, and directly-observed the evidence is, versus vague or second-hand.
Evidence diversity
How many different kinds of sources (forums, reviews, issue trackers, surveys) corroborate the problem.
05  Caveats

Scores are hypotheses, not facts

A high score means the available evidence points somewhere interesting, not that success is guaranteed or even likely. A low score does not mean a problem is fake; it may just be under-evidenced so far.

We do not claim to find your million-pound idea, guarantee an opportunity, or hand you an "AI-validated" business. We show you what the evidence says, where it is thin, and let you challenge every part of it.

06  Brief

Weekly opportunity brief

A future weekly email summarising newly researched opportunities. Not sending yet. Sign up to get the first one when it exists.