Executive Summary

People and organizations increasingly lose access to Facebook comments and Messenger threads they need to preserve for legal, regulatory, sentimental, or estate reasons. This affects families planning digital legacies, journalists and litigators needing records for discovery, and roughly the 36 million users implied by the $3.6B market estimate who would plausibly pay around $100 annually for a reliable export capability. You could build a tool that extracts full comment histories and Messenger conversations into a permanent local store while preserving metadata (timestamps, read receipts, attachments, reactions) and offering exports in standard formats such as JSON, PDF, and WARC, with optional user-controlled encryption. Operational features would include incremental/delta backups, deduplication, signed manifests for chain-of-custody, a simple UX for nontechnical users, and enterprise/legal workflows like export certification and role-based access. The market is attractive now because privacy awareness, digital legacy planning, and the spillover of enterprise compliance into consumer expectations are all trending up, creating demand and trust pathways into professional customers. Regulatory pressure (GDPR/CCPA) and recurring data scandal headlines make a $50–$150 annual price point credible for many users and open channels to law firms and small businesses that will pay for compliance-grade exports. To stand out you must combine consumer simplicity with compliance-grade guarantees: local-first storage, end-to-end encryption, verifiable integrity, and clear legal export certificates, plus integrations or partnerships with estate planners and legal services. The strengths are a clear $3.6B TAM and multiple monetizable segments; realistic challenges are medium competition, platform API fragility and potential TOS/legal risk, and the credibility and sales effort required to win institutional buyers.

Market Opportunity

Extract Facebook comments and Messenger threads for permanent local export targets a $3.6B = 36M users × $100 ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% YoY growth in consumer privacy and digital-legacy tools (industry synthesis from privacy tooling market reports, 2022-2024).

Key trends driving demand: Privacy awareness is rising — as publicized data scandal stories and regulation increase, more users seek tools to control and preserve personal data.; Digital legacy planning is becoming mainstream — more people name digital executors and ask for archival exports, creating steady demand for export tools.; Enterprise compliance needs are spillovering into consumer awareness — government and legal customers rely on specialized archivers, validating demand and legitimizing the category.; Improvements in headless-browser and serverless tooling make reliable scraping and reconstruction more affordable, lowering technical barriers to build robust exporters..

Key competitors include ArchiveSocial, SocialSafe / Connected (consumer archiver), Native Facebook Data Download.

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