The AI Mystery Shopper for Restaurants ($9,750 MRR)
Twenty-two percent of diners now ask AI where to eat. Most restaurants have no idea what ChatGPT and Gemini say back, or which broken listing is to blame.
IC: Product Launches
New releases, app store shifts, and product feedback that show market traction.
Book Before Feed: The iOS Blocker That Demands Proof
Screen-time blocking is a commodity, and a solo developer already shipped camera-verified unlocking to nine App Store ratings. The gap isn't engineering. It's owning a ritual people will film.
Ghost Cart: The Checkout That Buys Nothing ($6K MRR)
Korean dopamine sites draw 30,000 weekly users who fake-order food that never arrives. Aimed at regretted impulse buying, that ritual becomes a Chrome extension with real subscription math.
The $5,455 Song: YouTube Creator Music's Hidden Bill
YouTube stops selling Creator Music licenses on August 10, pushing editing teams toward revenue-share tracks. Nobody prices that decision before the cut is locked.
The Physical Game Passport: Carfax for Discs ($273K ARR)
Sony ends disc production in 2028. Half of Xbox's physical games already require a download to function, and nothing on the box tells collectors which copy is which.
7,000 Agencies Automated the Dashboard. Nobody Automated the Paragraph
Agencies automated the PPC dashboard, then Meta and Google rewrote attribution three times in 2026. The monthly client explanation is still written by hand, and somebody has to sign it.
The $129 Shelf: GLP-1's Missing Medicine Cabinet
Ten million Americans store Ozempic and Zepbound pens next to the milk. Pharma made the drug, Whirlpool made the fridge, and nobody designed the six inches in between.
The Overflow Desk: $18,900 a Month From HVAC's Declined Calls
HVAC shops decline booked-intent calls all summer while competitors sit on open service windows. Contractor referrals already happen informally in every metro. The question is who formalizes them and collects.
The $50 Line Sitter: Drop Software for Viral Bakeries
Line sitters charge $50 to stand outside Butterfield Market for an $11 dot cake. Viral bakeries ration sellouts with paper tickets, and no software owns the allocation.
The $55K MRR Kill Switch in Front of OpenAI
Flat-rate AI products pay variable inference bills with no ceiling. OpenAI softened its own spend cap, Portkey gates budgets to Enterprise, and LiteLLM's enforcement has open bugs.
The Thrift Aisle Copilot: A $30K/Month Resale Tool
Thrift resellers lose two hours a trip building eBay searches in the aisle. Every scanner app automated the listing instead. The sourcing decision is still unclaimed.
The $10,000-Per-Violation PDF: Age Compliance for Indie App Studios
Google's Play Age Signals goes global before December and Apple's Declared Age Range is already live. The signal is free. Proving what you did with it isn't.
The SKU Resurrection Desk: $25K/Month From Dead Products
TRIANGL's neoprene relaunch sold out because the demand was already visible on eBay and Depop. Most DTC brands have the same evidence sitting in discontinued catalogs, unread.
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.
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.
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.