The catalogue

Opportunities

A small set of demonstration opportunity reports showing the shape the platform will produce from real research. Filter, compare, and open any report to see the evidence and score behind it.

Mixed content. Reports tagged Live research below come from the real automated pipeline and a human review queue; the rest are hand-authored demonstration examples of the report format, not live research results. See each report's evidence section for details.
10 opportunities
63.9
On-call alerting tools assume a team that a solo SaaS founder doesn't have
Solo and two-person SaaS founders get paged by generic incident-alerting tools built for teams with rotations, and end up either ignoring alerts or burning out from always-on vigilance.
Solo technical founders and very small (1-3 person) SaaS teams running their own infrastructure.
3 signals 3 source types researched 20 Jul 2026
Developer tools / infrastructure persistent medium confidence medium complexity medium competition
57.8
Freelancers lose unbilled hours chasing their own overdue invoices
Independent freelancers and tiny agencies spend recurring, unpaid time manually tracking and chasing overdue client invoices instead of billing for new work.
Solo freelancers and agencies under ~5 people who invoice clients directly rather than through a platform that handles collections.
2 signals 2 source types researched 10 Jul 2026
Freelance / small business operations persistent medium confidence low complexity high competition
52.3
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.
Indie hackers and small teams (1-10 people) without in-house legal or compliance staff, shipping consumer-facing products.
2 signals 2 source types researched 22 Jul 2026
Developer tools / compliance emerging low confidence medium complexity medium competition
59.3
Show HN: MLT2FCP, a Kdenlive – Davinci Resolve ConverterLive researchUnreviewed
“Turns out there's no way to export from Kdenlive to anything Resolve can import, so I wrote a quick and dirty importer over the weekend.” One of 8 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
8 signals 1 source types researched 20 Aug 2026
Not yet categorised emerging high confidence unknown complexity unknown competition
47.3
AMD Announces 7950X3D, 7900X3D Upto 128MB L3 CacheLive researchUnreviewed
“>This seems like a rather significant scheduling nightmare to me.” One of 4 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
4 signals 1 source types researched 15 Aug 2026
Not yet categorised emerging medium confidence unknown complexity unknown competition
47.1
I exposed "AI" logo makers stealing fontsLive researchUnreviewed
“I made a massive spreadsheet of all the biggest logo builders, dug into their source code to see what fonts they were using and manually checked if they were properly licensed.” One of 2 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
2 signals 1 source types researched 6 Sep 2026
Not yet categorised emerging high confidence unknown complexity unknown competition
60.9
Show HN: Lumina – Open-source observability for LLM applicationsLive research
“The Problem: I've been building LLM apps for the past year, and I kept running into the same issues: - LLM responses would randomly change after prompt tweaks, breaking things - Costs would spike unexpectedly (turns out a bug was hitting GPT-4 instead of 3.5) - No easy way to compare "before vs after" when testing prompt changes - Existing tools were either too expensive or missing features in…” One of 19 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
19 signals 1 source types researched 6 Sep 2026
Not yet categorised emerging high confidence unknown complexity unknown competition
62.0
Ask HN: Where do I go?Live research
“I often wish there was a group of people hanging out in a chatroom somewhere, all of whom would be obsessed with making awesome sofware of some sort or another, and everyone would be amazing djs or at least be into some sort of awesome electronica.” One of 25 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
25 signals 1 source types researched 7 Sep 2026
Not yet categorised emerging high confidence unknown complexity unknown competition
51.5
Show HN: App based on idea from Y Combinator blogLive researchUnreviewed
“It is not convenient to switch into email, send email, then manually update spreadsheet, manually write follow up emails but it was OK for a few invoices per month.” One of 3 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
3 signals 1 source types researched 9 Sep 2026
Not yet categorised emerging high confidence unknown complexity unknown competition
60.9
Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: StudyLive researchUnreviewed
“This has been so annoying I've considered jailbreaking it, learning Kotlin and Android development, and releasing an MIT-licensed application for the company to bundle with the phone.” One of 8 pieces of evidence collected from Forum / discussion. Automated grouping by shared topic — not yet a human-reviewed conclusion.
8 signals 1 source types researched 11 Aug 2026
Not yet categorised emerging high confidence unknown complexity unknown competition