ECOMMERCEValidatedⓘ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.
Shopify Bot Traffic Blocker
12
builder posts asking
+1 product post seen in community · 10 events tracked
geoblocking app — "doesn't seem to be working"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Locksmith — "blocks Google's Rich Results Test from seeing Product schema, Review schema, or other structured data when country restriction is enabled"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Creatify — "haven't tested because i don't know the cost"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Quantified only where a builder stated a real figure — no LLM estimates.
100 new bot customers daily“I get around 100 new bot customers daily”
$1k–$20k/month“$1k–$20k/month in ad spend”
15 units sold“15 units sold last month, organic”
$340“Shopify ate $340 of my revenue”
Hard requirements
Non-negotiables stated by builders in their own words. Miss one and they will not switch.
smaller DTC stores$1k–$20k/month in ad spendallow legitimate search engine crawlers to fully index storeallow Googlebot to crawl product pages normallysmall budgetmeasurable ROI
3 rivals shipping (fact bar)see prices → competition is thin; attack the weaknesses builders quote above.
12 requests from 12 different people (fact bar)see posts → demand is independently reported, not one person repeating themselves.
8 new tracked posts (all types) in the last 30 days vs 17 the month beforesee the curve → demand is cooling.
12 demand signals vs 3 shipping rivals → demand outweighs supply — the gap is real.
0 willingness-to-pay quotes yet → no one has named a price — validate pricing before building.
Signal history
42 tracked posts (12 asks · 30 product/news)first post Nov 2025▲ 8 in the last 30 days
Cumulative tracked posts (asks + products + news) by original post date · 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 12 signals on record — each insight links back to a real one.