# Trend Seeker

> Market intelligence platform with 24K+ validated business ideas backed by 595K+ public market signals, including 225K+ matched app-review signals.

## Product Facts
- Matched market signals: 595,105
- Public business ideas: 24,474
- Canonical facts: https://trend-seeker.app/product-facts.json
- Data snapshot: 2026-09-17
- App and product reviews: 225,178 matched signals (Apple App Store, Atlassian Marketplace, Chrome Web Store, Google Play, Shopify App Store, WordPress Plugin Directory)
- Social media and communities: 35,220 matched signals (Reddit)
- Job ads: 191,385 matched signals (ClawJobs)
- Podcasts: 124,269 matched signals (Podcast feeds)
- Search interest: 19,053 matched signals (Google Trends)
- Product launches: 19,675 matched signals (AlternativeTo, Hacker News, Indiegogo, Product Hunt, Reddit)
- Recent pace: 84,566 matched demand signals in the last 7 days (about 12,081 per day)
- Explore: Live Signals feed, Demand Map, Idea Validator
- Updates: New signals are processed continuously; public facts refresh about every two hours.
- Pricing: Free browsing and idea validation are available; optional Pro features require a subscription.
- Interpretation: Matched-signal counts are deduplicated evidence attached to at least one idea. Inventory counts describe collected sources and records. Product launches are competition evidence and are excluded from the headline demand total. Counts indicate research priority, not market size, revenue, or guaranteed demand.

## Main Pages
- [Business Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas): Browse validated business ideas with evidence scores
- [Top Business Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/explore/top): Strongest startup and SaaS ideas ranked by total demand signal volume
- [Trending Startup Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/explore/trending): Fresh business ideas gaining new signals
- [Idea Validator](https://trend-seeker.app/idea-validator): Free tool to validate startup ideas against real market evidence
- [Live Signals](https://trend-seeker.app/signals): Watch new evidence arrive and explore signal history
- [Demand Map](https://trend-seeker.app/map): Explore where related problems, ideas, and evidence cluster
- [Signals Catalog](https://trend-seeker.app/signals/catalog): Browse the source inventory behind Trend Seeker's Signals
- [Newsletter](https://trend-seeker.app/newsletter): Weekly market signals and trending opportunities

## Research Pipeline
1. **Discover:** Collect user pain and market movement from communities, jobs, podcasts, reviews, search interest, and launches.
2. **Qualify:** Apply source-specific quality gates, normalize evidence, and reject weak or ambiguous signals.
3. **Match and cluster:** Deduplicate independent evidence and connect it to shared problems, buyers, and business ideas.
4. **Score and publish:** Combine evidence quality, depth, breadth, search trends, and competition into ranked, traceable opportunities.

## Opportunity Score v3
- Signal quality: 40% — Mean adjusted quality of the five strongest independent qualifying demand signals.
- Evidence depth: 15% — Log-scaled count of independent signals after recency decay.
- Independent source breadth: 10% — Log-scaled count of independent source identities after recency decay.
- Search trends: 15% — Recent Google Trends momentum with recency decay.
- Competition opportunity: 20% — Market validation from relevant competitors, reduced as effective competition becomes crowded.
- Recency: Qualifying evidence and trend snapshots use a 60-day half-life.
- Confidence: Reported separately to show demand, trend, and competition coverage.
- Interpretation: The score prioritizes research; it is not a success probability, market-size estimate, or revenue forecast.
- Excluded inputs: AI-generated market buildability, legacy urgency and specificity fields, and duplicate mention volume.
- [Full score methodology](https://trend-seeker.app/news/evidence-first-opportunity-score-v3): Read the formula, evidence gates, competition curve, and limitations

## Categories
- [SaaS Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas/category/saas)
- [Mobile App Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas/category/mobile-apps)
- [AI/ML Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas/category/ai-ml)
- [Developer Tools](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas/category/developer-tools)
- [Consulting and Services](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas/category/consulting)
- [Fintech](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas/category/fintech)
- [E-commerce](https://trend-seeker.app/ideas/category/ecommerce)

## Methodology
- [How Trend Seeker Finds Business Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/blog/how-we-find-business-ideas): Collection, qualification, matching, and clustering pipeline
- [Opportunity Score v3](https://trend-seeker.app/news/evidence-first-opportunity-score-v3): Evidence-first scoring formula and limitations
- [Validate Startup Ideas](https://trend-seeker.app/blog/validate-startup-ideas-guide): Evidence-based validation framework and limitations
- [API Documentation](https://trend-seeker.app/docs/api): Programmatic access to business ideas and trend data