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.
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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.
The Bid Radar: $60K MRR in Data Center Prequalification
Data center construction is pulling trillions through electrical and mechanical trades, but most regional contractors lose the package before pricing ever starts. The gate isn't price. It's prequalification paperwork.
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 Dirty-Data Tollbooth in USDA's AI Crop Push
USDA is funding AI tools for crop discovery. The breeding data those models need sits in incompatible files, and an April 7 rule change erased the grace period.
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.
Housecall Pro Skipped Septic. That's a $96K MRR Opening
Housecall Pro just verticalized into HVAC, plumbing, and electrical. Septic pumping got skipped, leaving 7,717 operators with three-to-five-year service cycles and no software built for the paperwork.
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.
Okara Sells an AI CMO for $99. Charge Lawyers $499.
Okara runs AI marketing for 120,000 businesses at $99 a month. Small law firms can't use it. Bar filing rules, disclosures, and attorney approval turn that gap into $499 software.
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.