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ECOMMERCE ValidatedEvidence 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
see the posts →
12
different people asking
across 2 platforms
who →
3
rivals shipping · web scan
see prices →
$2.99
cheapest rival / mo
range →

In their words

"I get around 100 new bot customers daily…" — a builder, verbatim · sign in free to trace the source ↗

What they tried & dropped

Extracted word-for-word from the evidence posts below — every item is quoted verbatim from a real builder.

Shopify Support — "couldn't help" verbatimsign in to trace ↗
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 ↗
Argil — (no stated shortcoming) sign in to trace ↗

Pain, in numbers

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

Competitor pricing

Named rivals & real prices 🔒
Rivals charge $2.99-$9.99/mo · names — log in ↗
Open-source check · GitHub · 2026-07-15
🔵 3 open-source attempts, all unmaintained (top ⭐0) — no winner yet · verify ↗
Competitor adoption · official registry · 2026-07-22
Stripe: 15,939,298 npm downloads/week

How we checked

Where we searched
3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces
Verification funnel
24 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below
Last scan
3d ago · auto-refreshed every 30 days

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Every source post · named rivals with real prices · what builders tried & dropped · quantified pain — all traceable to the original posts

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What the numbers suggest

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 before see the curve → demand is cooling.
12 demand signals vs 3 shipping rivals → demand outweighs supply — the gap is real.
0 willingness-to-pay quotes yetno 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
2025-11-03 · +1 post · 1 on record2025-12-23 · +1 post · 2 on record2026-03-05 · +1 post · 3 on record2026-04-01 · +1 post · 4 on record2026-04-11 · +2 posts · 6 on record2026-04-13 · +1 post · 7 on record2026-04-16 · +1 post · 8 on record2026-05-04 · +1 post · 9 on record2026-05-12 · +1 post · 10 on record2026-05-17 · +1 post · 11 on record2026-05-20 · +1 post · 12 on record2026-05-24 · +1 post · 13 on record2026-05-28 · +2 posts · 15 on record2026-06-03 · +1 post · 16 on record2026-06-04 · +1 post · 17 on record2026-06-14 · +1 post · 18 on record2026-06-15 · +2 posts · 20 on record2026-06-16 · +6 posts · 26 on record2026-06-17 · +3 posts · 29 on record2026-06-22 · +2 posts · 31 on record2026-06-23 · +1 post · 32 on record2026-06-29 · +1 post · 33 on record2026-07-02 · +1 post · 34 on record2026-07-07 · +2 posts · 36 on record2026-07-09 · +1 post · 37 on record2026-07-13 · +1 post · 38 on record2026-07-15 · +1 post · 39 on record2026-07-23 · +2 posts · 41 on record2026-07-26 · +1 post · 42 on record 42 0 Nov 2025 today

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.

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