Executive Summary

Too many founders, product managers, and the roughly 12M SMBs/startup teams face the same problem: they build features on intuition or sparse feedback and discover too late that customers don't care, after burning months and thousands of dollars. Traditional market research is slow and expensive or unavailable to solo and micro teams, leaving most teams choosing between risky guesses and $2,000+ agency studies that arrive too late to change course. You could build an AI-first idea-validation service that returns a quantitative demand score and a concise human-readable rationale in about 10 seconds by aggregating search trends, social signals, marketplace listings, paid ad intent and other APIs, then applying LLM-based synthesis and calibrated heuristics. The product would include a one-minute prompt flow, an embeddable API, experiment templates (pricing, landing-page MVPs), confidence intervals and recommended next steps so teams can move from idea to validated bet within a day. Pricing can be structured to aim for the $2,000 ARPU among paying teams while offering a freemium tier for indie makers and volume or agency plans. The timing is favorable: the addressable market is approximately $24.0B (12M teams × $2,000 ARPU), market score 88/100 and revenue potential 86/100, because LLMs and democratized data APIs make real-time multi-source synthesis viable while indie-founder activity grows. Competition is medium—a mix of boutique research firms, DIY analytics tools and a few AI natives—so differentiation must rest on speed, transparent provenance, and integrated workflows rather than raw modeling alone. Standing out will require honest trade-offs: invest early in data-quality, calibration against paid studies, explainability and privacy controls to build trust, while accepting non-trivial API costs and occasional false positives as operational challenges to manage in the roadmap.

Market Opportunity

Stop building unloved products — AI instant idea-validation in 10s targets a $24.0B = 12M SMBs/startup teams x $2,000 ARPU (annual market-research/validation spend per team) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 18% (estimated growth in DIY-market-research & startup tools adoption).

Key trends driving demand: AI-synthesized insights -- LLMs enable fast interpretation and summarization of multi-source signals for non-experts; Indie-maker growth -- more solo founders and micro-startups demand lightweight validation over expensive agencies; Data democratization -- APIs provide real-time access to search, social, and marketplace signals enabling instant scoring; Lean-validation practices -- founders prioritize speed-to-decision; paid tools that cut months to minutes gain traction.

Key competitors include Exploding Topics, SparkToro, Ahrefs, Google Trends / Keyword Planner, Product Hunt / Indie Hackers (workaround).

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Stop building unloved products — AI instant idea-validation in 10s

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