Executive Summary

Many mobile teams building offline-first apps struggle to discover nearby devices reliably across iOS and Android due to OS-level BLE restrictions, background scanning differences, and platform fragmentation. This pain affects roughly 200,000 professional mobile app teams (collaboration, gaming, payments, local sync) who currently resort to cloud relays or fragile custom hacks. Build a cross-platform SDK plus lightweight native bridge that exposes deterministic peer-discovery primitives (advertise/scan/handshake) engineered for each platform’s quirks, with React Native and Flutter wrappers, automatic background/resume handling, and privacy-preserving serverless fallbacks. Package it with diagnostics, on-device consent flows, compliance guidance, and a licensing + support model so teams can integrate quickly and ship reliably. The addressable market is compelling: $1.2B estimated (200K teams × $6K ACV) driven by offline-first design, privacy/regulatory trends that push away from cloud relays, and rising cross-platform framework adoption; market and revenue scores (90 and 88) indicate strong willingness to pay. You can differentiate by focusing on engineering rigor—solving hard edge cases (iOS background advertising, Android OEM behavior), audited privacy defaults, and first-class React Native/Flutter integrations—instead of repackaging existing libs. Be upfront that platform policy changes and fragmentation are ongoing challenges requiring sustained platform expertise and support, but if you can maintain that operational edge the moderate competition and clear willingness to pay make this a promising business to pursue.

Market Opportunity

Reliable cross-platform BLE peer discovery for offline iOS-Android targets a $1.2B = 200K mobile app teams × $6K ACV per team (developer tools + SDK licensing & support) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 10-15% — growth in mobile infrastructure and edge-first applications (sources: mobile SDK market and IoT edge connectivity reports).

Key trends driving demand: Offline-first UX adoption — more apps are designed to function without consistent connectivity, increasing demand for device-to-device sync.; Privacy and on-device processing — regulatory and user preferences push companies to avoid cloud relays, creating demand for serverless discovery solutions.; Cross-platform frameworks growth — React Native and Flutter increase demand for SDKs that provide consistent behavior across iOS and Android.; Edge & IoT convergence — devices and mobile phones increasingly act as local nodes, creating overlap between IoT BLE solutions and app-level P2P needs..

Key competitors include Apple Multipeer Connectivity, Google Nearby Connections, Nodle, P2PKit (community SDKs and startups).

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