Organic Ad Underwriting Platform
Meta validated organic-to-paid workflow. The $37B opportunity is cross-platform prediction, rights management, and routing intelligence that platforms won't build.
Media & Creator
Media & Creator highlights how storytelling evolves in the digital age. We track new platforms, creator tools, and monetization models turning individual creativity into scalable business.
Weekly Template Drop Platform
CapCut templates hit 50,000+ uses each. Meta just launched a competitor. The formats people copy are becoming infrastructure.
Creator Operations Platform for Home Improvement
Major retailers launched first-party creator programs. The infrastructure for managing multiple affiliate relationships across platforms doesn't exist yet.
Identity Commerce Platform for Menswear
Quarter-zip phenomenon proves men buy identities, not clothes. $130B+ menswear market shifting from disposable microtrends to stackable, nameable uniforms with built-in community.
Cross-Platform AI Companion For Twitch & Discord
Character.AI users spend two hours daily with AI companions trapped in single apps. Nobody owns the cross-platform identity layer yet.
Knowledge Curation for Creators
Animoca just validated curated knowledge collections with institutional money. The boring SaaS version could capture recurring revenue without blockchain complexity.
Plant Tissue Culture Kits & Clone Lab Infrastructure
A YouTuber democratized tissue culture and crashed rare plant prices. The real money moved upstream to kits, skills, and infrastructure.
Live Host Guild for Live Commerce
Whatnot hit $6B GMV, but live streams remain tiny. The bottleneck isn't tech—it's talent. Build the guild that plugs hosts into inventory-rich merchants.
Vertical AI Content Desk for Niche Industries
TokTak validated URL-to-content for everyone. Now build the vertical agent that owns one industry's entire marketing workflow.
Trust Layer for TikTok Shop
TikTok Shop users regret 23% of purchases. Build the trust layer that captures post-viral buyers seeking quality over hype.
Micro-App Studio Opportunity
Wabi and Lovable validated AI app creation infrastructure. The real opportunity isn't building apps—it's becoming the monetization layer that captures portfolio value.
Longevity Distribution Platform from Japan
Japan's FOSHU-certified longevity products lack Western distribution while affluent 55-75 year-olds pay premium for credible healthspan solutions.
Commerce Platform for Psychic Industry
Spiritual practitioners generate billions in services but lack commerce infrastructure connecting bookings, inventory, memberships, and ritual calendars into one platform.
IRL Dating Event Infrastructure
Dating apps hit $6B while 78% of users burn out. Singles run clubs sell out instantly. Infrastructure demand is emerging.
Mood OS for Gen Z Emotional Commerce
Gen Z spends hundreds monthly on emotional regulation through "treat culture." The infrastructure connecting physical rituals, creator distribution, and behavioral data remains wide open.
Live Commerce Production Infrastructure
Whatnot's $11.5B valuation proves live commerce works—but seller success varies wildly. The missing layer is production infrastructure, not demand.
Premium Physical Notebook Brand Platform
Premium notebooks are growing 4–5% annually while Amazon KDP cracks down on AI spam—opening a compliance moat for curated physical products.
Roblox Creator Asset Production Pipeline
AI just commoditized 3D generation. Roblox demand is spiking. The gap between "cool demo" and "shippable, engine-ready assets" is wide open.
Outcome-Based Neighborhood Space Marketplace
NECF just launched a "trading desk" for idle broadcast capacity. The neighborhood layer—churches, coworking rooms, indie studios—remains wide open.
Solo Dining Discovery & Certification Platform
Solo dining searches up 271% on Yelp, reservations spiking 22% on Toast—but no platform owns the discovery layer or certification standard.
AI-Native Music Label Infra
Major labels just signed licensing deals with AI music platforms for the first time. The infrastructure shift creates a specific wedge for operators who understand rights, not just tools.
Identity-Driven Mushroom Coffee Brands
Big Beverage is buying culture, not chemistry. Mushroom coffee incumbents still sell generic benefits—leaving identity-first positioning wide open for micro-tribe operators.
Vertical AI Tools for Creative Micro-Cultures
Vertical AI hit $5B in legal. The $115B market is expanding at 24.5% CAGR—but creative micro-cultures remain underserved by generic tools.
Outdoor Experience Corridor Platform
Outdoor recreation hit $1.2T in 2023. A fragmented category with proven unit economics and finite infrastructure is consolidating—corridor access is the moat.