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Opportunity Intelligence

A local-first market intelligence engine that reads public business conversations, scores the opportunities hiding in them, and publishes its own research every week, without a single paid API call.

The problem

Builders guess. Then they build the wrong thing.

Public communities are full of people describing expensive, repeated problems in their own words. That signal is buried in noise, scattered across platforms, and gone by next week. Most founders never see it. They build from intuition and validate after the fact, when changing course is most expensive.

The approach

A pipeline instead of a hunch

Five deterministic stages, each one inspectable and reproducible. The same run always produces the same verdict.

  1. 01

    Collect

    Pulls public posts from Reddit business communities (RSS) and Hacker News (Firebase API). No scraping tricks, no paid data.

  2. 02

    Detect pain

    Deterministic keyword scoring finds posts where people describe real problems, weighted toward what they put in the title.

  3. 03

    Score opportunities

    Each candidate gets a 0 to 100 score across pain frequency, community spread, monetization, build difficulty, competition, and cross-source validation.

  4. 04

    Find gaps

    Opportunities are grouped into industry-level gaps, so a single loud post never outweighs a quiet repeated pattern.

  5. 05

    Publish

    A weekly digest becomes an article, a newsletter, and a publish-ready package. Exported as JSON straight into this website.

Live metrics

Straight from the pipeline

These numbers are exported by the engine itself on every run. The same JSON this page is built from.

510
Public signals analyzed
150
Pain signals detected
11
Opportunity candidates
7
Industry gaps found
11
Opportunities tracked

Last export: June 10, 2026

See it work

The system publishes its own proof

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