The $203B Supplement Industry Needs a Stripe for Evidence
The NIH has the data. NatMed Pro serves clinicians. Nobody's built the developer-friendly API for consumer wellness apps drowning in supplement chaos.
Platform Arbitrage
Startups leveraging under-priced attention or features on new platforms—TikTok, Shopify, Notion, X, or upcoming ecosystems. Focused on discovering early surfaces before they mature or saturate.
Blackbird's $50M Raise Exposes $200K Neighborhood Loyalty Gap
While Blackbird scales restaurant loyalty nationally, hyperlocal coalition programs capturing cross-merchant neighborhood data represent an untapped $200K-per-district opportunity.
Threads Opens Podcast API: The $2.6B Ad Revenue Infrastructure Play
Meta's Threads courts podcasters while Spotify opens comments—but nobody's unifying the fragmented conversation layer across platforms worth $8B in annual ad spend.
Pinterest-Style Commerce for the $18.5B Affiliate Market
Pinterest trained 522M users to shop by aesthetic, but creators can't monetize this behavior outside walled gardens. The embed economy awaits.
VRChat Mobile Launch: Build $12K Touch Worlds for Brands
VRChat's mobile launch opened mass distribution. Studios still design for headsets. Brands need phone-first worlds—nobody's shipping them yet.
Yelp's 12,276% Spike: Build the Digital Burn-away Engine
Burn-away cakes jumped 12,276% on Yelp. Instagram killed third-party AR. Build the cross-platform reveal infrastructure brands need now.
Discord's $2B Blind Spot: 1B Users, Zero Access
Discord locked paid subscriptions to U.S. only. Telegram's 1B global users need payment optimization. The infrastructure exists. The gap is execution.
Bob & Brad's $2.5k Amazon Play: Creator Hardware Hits Mainstream
Physical therapists with 5M YouTube subscribers launched $2,499 massage chairs on Amazon, proving creators can sell high-ticket hardware with zero customer acquisition cost.
Dubai Chocolate DIY Kits: $180K in 21 Days on TikTok Shop
Smart operators hit seven figures selling Dubai chocolate DIY kits while TikTok Shop's order-volume caps create an accidental moat against casual sellers.