The Hotel Data Cleanup: $52K MRR from 150 Boutique Properties
Radisson hired Accenture to clean its property data before launching inside ChatGPT. Independent hotels face the same broken rooms, fees, and policy records with no consultant coming.
IC: Consumer Signals
Shifts in search trends, traffic, and demand that highlight rising consumer intent.
Meta Made the Chatbot Free. India's Boutiques Still Lose Orders.
India runs $65 billion of e-retail through chat, and Meta's free WhatsApp agent answers questions it can't verify. Instagram boutiques still close orders from a spreadsheet.
The Relocation Math Zillow Won't Show You ($20K MRR)
Zillow shipped climate risk on every listing, then pulled it. Nobody calculates whether a raise survives housing, childcare, commuting, and homeowners insurance in one specific county.
PepsiCo Pays $5,000 a Month for Food Trends. Bakeries Get Instagram.
Enterprise food trend platforms sell signal to PepsiCo at $5,000 a month. The 9,112 independent bakery cafés running limited-time offers get nothing they can actually bake.
YouTube Deleted 130,000 Channels. The Expensive Niches Survived.
YouTube's enforcement wave removed 130,000 mass-produced channels and left the highest-CPM niches nearly empty. Small-business tax pays $15 to $30 per thousand impressions, and almost nobody is there.
The Flare File: A $39-a-Year Journal for Long COVID
Long COVID clinics are closing, the FDA just widened its general wellness lane, and 250,000 patients already pay for condition-specific software. A solo founder can ship in six weeks.
The Creative Supply Chain: Customer-Made Ads at $25K MRR
Target recruits shoppers with 500 followers into weekly content missions. Shopify brands sitting on 50,000 buyers have the same creator pool and no software to run it.
The $5,000 JPEG: Real Estate's New Disclosure Compliance Market
New York City moved to require AI-alteration disclosure on rental listings. California's AB 723 already does. Brokerages have no system of record for listing photo provenance.
The Permission Layer: $375K ARR Hiding Inside Youth Sports Video
The NBA turned creators into official distribution. Youth sports operators own the footage and the sponsor money, with no system for releasing clips to creators safely.
The Recipe Clean Room: Licensed Food Data at $16K MRR
AI meal planners need clean recipe JSON. Publishers are blocking crawlers. The money sits in governed ingestion: provenance, licensing rules, and field-level confidence for content customers already own.
The $797 Bucket in Your Basement Has No Software
Households now spend $800 on emergency food kits and track them on paper. FEMA says 73% keep supplies; no app owns the rotation, expiration, and days-of-coverage layer.
The New-Market Launch Desk: $60K MRR From Restaurant Openings
Zaxbys opened in Manhattan, where nobody knows the brand. Regional restaurant chains now cross state lines faster than their reputations, and franchise grand-opening budgets are sitting unspent.
The Electric Bill Autopsy: A $36K MRR Micro-SaaS
U.S. households will spend $792 on electricity this summer and can't tell why. Bill parsing, Price-to-Compare data, and rate-case alerts make a $29-a-year forensic product.
The Roofing Quote Layer: $39K MRR Bolted Onto Someone Else's Website
Roofing is a $92.5 billion market split across 109,000 contractors, and almost none will show a homeowner a price before a salesperson calls. Private equity is buying anyway.
Kalshi's $178 Billion Gold Rush Needs a Bookkeeper
Kalshi's $178 billion in volume minted millions of new prediction market traders. The exchange shows a balance; nobody turns fills, fees, and cost basis into records a CPA will sign.
The $5.51 Locker Handoff: Reseller Software USPS Forgot to Build
USPS launched a $5.51 Smart Locker exchange for local buyers and sellers, then shipped no software around it. High-volume resellers on Facebook Marketplace and OfferUp are the customer.
The Densifying Shelf: A $14,500/Month Shampoo Brand on TikTok Shop
Dove, Redken, and Oribe are all racing to own the word densifying. Fourteen launches hit in April alone. The postpartum customer is still unclaimed on TikTok Shop.
The Creator Bundle: 20 Niche Influencers, One Invoice ($60K Campaigns)
U.S. creator ad spend hits $44 billion in 2026, yet a third of buyers still can't find the right creators. The fragmented middle is a packaging problem.
The Compact Disc Arbitrage: 100-Copy Editions, $500 a Drop
U.S. CD sales grew 16% this year while vinyl stalled at 2.4%. Independent artists want collectible editions, but the short-run drop infrastructure between manufacturers and Shopify does not exist yet.
TikTok's Human Mandate Created a $2B Live-Host Scramble
TikTok Shop now requires a live human on every shopping stream, and account health scores punish failure. Millions of live hours suddenly need staffing nobody has built.
The Resurrection Index: Dead SaaS Domains Worth $15K a Month
Expired domain marketplaces price names, not products. Nobody scores whether a dead SaaS is worth rebuilding for its residual demand, and that judgment layer is the business.
The $3M Sensory Kit Business Hiding Inside the Squishy Boom
Schylling can't keep NeeDoh in stock, but schools and clinics need something no toy brand sells: documented, procurement-ready sensory kits with cleaning protocols and annual refresh contracts.
They Ship 50 Apps a Year and Have No Ad-Sales Department
Prolific app creators are shipping dozens of tiny apps and building real attention. Nobody has built the sales layer that turns that attention into brand sponsorship revenue.
Climate Merchandising: $10K MRR Hiding Inside K-Beauty's Heat Wave
CJ Olive Young merchandises beauty by heat index and UV forecast. A managed Shopify and Klaviyo service can bring weather-triggered merchandising to U.S. beauty retailers.