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Find the unmet need before anyone else builds it.

NicheRadar scans trends and community pain points to surface small, underserved niches where people are actively asking for an AI tool or product — each idea scored for demand, competition, and how buildable it is.

Words and phrases with rising momentum in the demand data — useful for SEO, naming, and spotting where attention is moving. Momentum is a heuristic read of how fast a term is surfacing.

The watering holes where unmet needs get voiced first. These are the highest-signal communities to monitor for "I wish this existed" and "does anyone know a tool for…" posts. Open one and search for the pain phrases below.

🔎 Pain-phrase search kit — paste into any community's search: "I wish there was" · "is there a tool" · "does anyone know an app" · "someone should build" · "I'd pay for" · "so much time" · "hate that I have to"
Honest note on data. When live, this board reads real, current Reddit posts pulled directly from public old.reddit.com listings (run locally, from a normal home connection) plus live Google Trends — no intermediary sites. Detection is heuristic (phrase + engagement) and reads post titles, not full bodies. If no live data is loaded, it falls back to a built-in curated snapshot. Nothing here is investment advice; validate demand yourself before building.

What NicheRadar does

It answers one question: where are groups of people actively asking for a tool or product that doesn't exist yet — and which of those gaps can a solo builder realistically fill? Each opportunity is scored 0–100 from four inputs:

  • Demand signal — how loudly and how often people voice the pain.
  • Low competition — how underserved the niche is today.
  • Willingness to pay — whether this buyer already pays for something (even inferior).
  • Buildability — how feasible an MVP is for a small team.

Where the data comes from

SourceStatusWhat it feeds
Reddit — public old.reddit.com listings, fetched from your own connectionLiveOpportunities, Hot Keywords, Communities
Google Trends (US trending feed)LiveTrending Now
Built-in curated snapshotFallbackShown only when no live data is loaded
Reddit post bodies → AI clustering into named ideasRoadmapSummarized opportunities
Amazon Movers & Shakers / r/BuyItForLifeRoadmapPhysical-commodity opportunities

How the refresh works

Run node refresh-local.mjs on your own machine: it reads public old.reddit.com listings for a set of idea & builder subreddits, detects and scores the demand signals, pulls Google Trends, and injects the fresh data straight into this page. Re-run it (or schedule it) and redeploy — that's what moves the "Last refreshed" date, with no server running 24/7.

Why it runs from your machine (and what's next)

Reddit now returns 403 Blocked on its .json API for everyone, and self-serve API apps were closed by its Nov-2025 Responsible Builder Policy. The public old.reddit.com pages still load fine from a normal home connection — so the refresh runs locally, from your own IP, and needs no Reddit app. Next steps:

  • Post bodies + AI clustering — fetch each post's full text and group raw requests into named, summarized product opportunities.
  • Breakout Google Trends per niche — beyond the general top-trends feed.
  • Physical-product signals — Amazon Movers & Shakers, r/BuyItForLife and r/Anticonsumption gap-spotting.
  • Always-on option — a hosted refresh so the shared site updates without you (the worker/ folder is a start, though Reddit often blocks cloud IPs).