TECHValidatedⓘEvidence tiers: Early signal = 1 uncorroborated request — treat as radar, not a validated opportunity · Corroborated = 2-3 requests · Validated = 4+ requests from 2+ different people. Every count appears exactly once, in the fact bar below — each traces to a real source post.
"I love this device which saved my sump pump on 3 different vacations, so I am not looking for a different hardware"
— a builder, verbatim · sign in free to trace the source ↗
What they tried & dropped
Quoted from the posts below — each quote is checked word-for-word against the stored post.
BT RSSI — "can’t draw a clean boundary in a garage"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Tuya Zigbee Water Valve (TS0601 / _TZE204_a7sghmms) — "regularly loses its Zigbee connection or enters an unrecoverable deep sleep state"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Pumpfuse — "I have been searching with no success whether pumpfuse had a HA integration"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Pain, in numbers
Only where a builder stated a figure — quoted word-for-word from the post.
“There are currently 5.2 trillion AI integrations spread across the official sources and HACS”5.2 trillion AI integrations
“which saved my sump pump on 3 different vacations”3 different vacations
Hard requirements
Summarised from the posts below. Miss one and they will not switch.
draw a clean boundary in a garageconsolidationintegration with Zimi Cloud Connect HubStandalone / Local Memoryintegration with Home Assistantno ecovacs account
⚠️ Established open-source player: fuatakgun/eufy_security ⭐1,389 — Home Assistant integration to manage Eufy Security devices as cameras, home base stations, doorbells, motion and contact
19 rivals shipping (fact bar)how verified → market is crowded; differentiate on the unmet requirements above, don't compete on breadth.
13 builder posts asking · 13 different people (fact bar)see posts → demand is independently reported, not one person repeating themselves.
16 new tracked posts (all types) in the last 30 days vs 11 the month beforesee the curve → demand is rising.
13 demand signals vs 19 shipping rivals → supply already outweighs demand — enter only with an edge.
0 willingness-to-pay quotes yet → no one has named a price — validate pricing before building.
last new signal 3 days ago → conversation is live now.
Signal history
44 tracked posts (13 asks · 31 product/news)first post Nov 2017▲ 16 in the last 30 days
Cumulative tracked posts (asks + products + news) by original post date · 5 earlier posts before this 12-month window carried into the baseline · GapMine tracked communities — not search volume · every step traces to a real post in the evidence record (sign in to read them).
Evidence pool
Top 10 of the 44 tracked posts, picked as evidence — each insight links back to a real one.