Aside: This is a great title.
It shows what you made (a dataset of Gumroad products), why/to whom it matters (to spot market opportunities), and it implies how (dataset/scraping). Nice!
I don't sell on Gumroad, but I do sell on Etsy, and use a somewhat similar software (albeit much more robust) called eRank to help spot trends and get ahead of the curve. You should look into amending this product with some more robust features:
* Utilize the API to let a Gumroad seller import their actual Sales numbers, to help further refine your reviews to sales numbers.
* Connect with google to spot search trends that lead to Gumroad products
* Run some sort of AI analysis to help the seller understand their copy is failing them for SEO, etc.
Check out eRank, and look at their offerings, and you can get a lot of ideas on how to grow this product from $50 once to $10+/mo.
I have been looking through IndieHacker reported revenues for inspiration like this. What I found is a surprising number of ideas work and make $5k+ MRR and so not to get too hung up on the idea as long as it is feasible that people will pay for it.
For example someone is charging $30/m to convert PDF bank statements to CSV, and someone a similar price to effectively static site generate off a Google Sheet. It is all in how you sell it I guess! These are not trivial products but they are not things you need a team to build.
My thought is to build quick, get in front of people and then iterate on that feedback. Instead of building stealth then finding no one wants it.
Well done on this launch!
I was tempted to build something like this off IH but felt that I am not adding much value since IH already spill the beans. Although maybe running an LLM over each idea to spit out a summary might be cool (maybe I will do that).
I have some other ideas along the idea of build X but sell the side effects, the problems solved along the way.
What’s the legality of reselling a dataset like this?
Is this a clone of trendsvc, as advertised on the home page?
"Originally, I took pre-orders for my Trend Reports on Gumroad. But I received... exactly $0. So I changed tactics: I made half of my report free, and the other half paid. Today, 99% of Trends.VC revenue is recurring in the form of annual and quarterly subscriptions.” Dru Riley sells business insights and expertise"
How did you collect this data? Did you just use webscraping? What tools did you use for this?
Can you also see the actual reviews of the products, or just the total number per star? If the reviews are also available there's potential room for sentiment analysis to automatically determine the common complaints about those products.
Why invest this effort? Couldn't gumroad just shut it down or outperform you tomorrow?
I have discovered other ideas like this but the lack of leverage makes it really hard to justify the squeeze
How are you estimating sales? Or how accurate is it?
Insanely cool, love these analytics types of tools. Have you done this for any other markets or had any in mind?
How'd you build the website? Using AWS for anything? Where's the database live?
Awesome, site looks great. This is the type of stuff I love to see on Hacker News.
Do you have an affiliate program? I'd be interested:)
Sorry for the cynicism, but part of me wonders that if the market opportunities the tool finds are so valuable, why isn’t the person behind this pursuing them instead of selling this data?
I like that you show a 4-star review first :)
is there some way i can reach out to you? i just bought and have a few questions
"Texture Brushes by Gal Shir for Procreate and Photoshop"
That is quite some brush!
Heh, I remember doing this for WordPress plugins back in 2010ish. Basically look for plugins with high install rate but not been updated in a long time. Fork it, add on paid services, then market the hell out of it on Reddit/etc. I was making ~4-5k a month from that before I had to give it up due to a COI policy at work.