Stop guessing what to build next.
Every day, thousands of developers and founders post problems they’d pay to solve. Niche Sonar finds them, validates whether there’s a real buyer and budget, and gives you a BUILD, INVESTIGATE, or SKIP verdict — computed, not guessed.
Every opportunity gets a verdict
BUILD · INVESTIGATE · SKIP
Developers can’t reliably extract structured data from inconsistent PDF invoices
Small teams struggle to track async decisions made across Slack, Notion, and email
Developers want better syntax highlighting themes in their terminal
Verdicts are computed from a transparent weighted formula — buyer clarity, budget ownership, existing spend, ROI measurability.
Here’s what showed up this morning
A live, ranked feed of commercially validated opportunities — pulled from Wednesday, June 10’s discussions across tech communities. Start your free trial to see today’s in full.
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Built for indie hackers, micro-SaaS founders, and solo builders who want signal before they commit to a build.
How It Works
From raw community discussions to a commercial verdict in three steps
Collect
Scrapes 160+ posts daily from Hacker News (top, ask, show), GitHub issues, Stack Overflow, and Product Hunt. Fresh signal every day.
Analyse
Claude identifies the top 15 most important emerging problems and extracts: buyer identity, existing spend evidence, market gap, competition weakness, and commercial strength.
Verdict
A transparent weighted formula scores each opportunity on buyer clarity, budget ownership, existing spend, and ROI measurability. Result: 🟢 BUILD, 🟡 INVESTIGATE, or 🔴 SKIP.
Commercial Gate
Every opportunity is tested against 4 hard checks: identified buyer, payment feasibility, spend evidence, and solution demand. No buyer = no verdict.
AI-Powered Analysis
Claude analyzes the top 15 emerging problems daily, extracting buyer clarity, budget signals, market gaps, and competition weakness from real community discussions.
Verdict Engine
Each opportunity gets a BUILD, INVESTIGATE, or SKIP verdict — computed from weighted commercial signals, not gut feel.
Computed Confidence
Confidence bands (🟢 Strong / 🟡 Moderate / 🔴 Weak) are calculated from a transparent weighted formula you can audit — no black-box scores.
Multi-Source Signals
Automatically aggregates discussions from Hacker News, GitHub, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and Product Hunt — 160+ posts scanned daily.
Daily Auto-Refresh
Fresh opportunities every day. The pipeline checks for new posts before re-running analysis — no wasted compute, no stale data.
Who Uses Niche Sonar
Solo Founders
Validate startup ideas before writing a line of code. Know if there's a paying buyer before you commit weeks to a build.
Indie Hackers
Skip the "is this a real problem?" phase. Every opportunity has been screened for commercial viability — not just engagement.
Micro-SaaS Builders
Find niches with proven spend patterns. The confidence bands tell you how much evidence there is before you invest build time.
Product Managers
Stay ahead of market shifts. Bring commercially validated signals to roadmap discussions instead of gut feel.
Freelancers & Agencies
Spot recurring pain points in your client's market before your competitors do.
Developers
Premium tier: integrate opportunity data directly into your own tools via REST API.
By the numbers
Data Sources
160+ posts scanned daily across four communities where real buyers describe real problems
Hacker News
Top · Ask · Show
GitHub Issues
Most-reacted
Stack Overflow
7 tech tags
Product Hunt
Newest launches
Know what to build before you build it.
15 commercially screened opportunities, every day. BUILD verdicts mean a buyer exists, a budget exists, and spend evidence exists. No more building for an empty market.
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