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.
"I have had my shop for almost a decade and have never had any issues. Now within the past two days I am getting a high volume of clearly fraudulent orders"
— 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.
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 ↗
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”
$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 normallypreserves guest checkoutallows legitimate small purchases
9 rivals shipping (fact bar)see prices → market is crowded; differentiate on the unmet requirements above, don't compete on breadth.
14 builder posts asking · 14 different people (fact bar)see posts → demand is independently reported, not one person repeating themselves.
14 demand signals vs 9 shipping rivals → demand and supply are balanced — differentiation decides.
0 willingness-to-pay quotes yet → no one has named a price — validate pricing before building.
last new signal 8 days ago → conversation is recent.
1 builder publicly declared on this → the window is being noticed — move fast or differentiate.
Signal history
28 tracked posts (14 asks · 14 product/news)first post Nov 2025▲ 1 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 the 28 tracked posts, picked as evidence — each insight links back to a real one.