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TECH Early signalⓘ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.

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builder post asking

latest ask seen 2mo ago

1 event tracked

see the posts →

person asking

across 1 platform

who →

rivals shipping · web scan

see prices →

cheapest rival / mo

range →

In their words

"I dont really intend to get this data, just in a disaster scenario" — 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.

S3 Glacier — "pricing" verbatimsign in to trace ↗

Backblaze B2 — (no stated shortcoming) sign in to trace ↗

Pain, in numbers

Quantified only where a builder stated a real figure — no LLM estimates.

$100-$200“100$ to 200$ of "free tier" for the first 12months for new accounts”

Hard requirements

Non-negotiables stated by builders in their own words. Miss one and they will not switch.

free tier for new accounts

Competitor pricing

Named rivals & real prices 🔒

Rivals charge $9/mo · names — log in ↗

How we checked

Where we searched

3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces

Verification funnel

20 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below

Last scan

28d 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

What the numbers suggest

Insufficient evidence to score — single-signal gap. We don't grade what we can't verify; the two facts below are all we know.

3 rivals shipping (fact bar) see prices → competition is thin; attack the weaknesses builders quote above.

1 builder post asking (fact bar) see post → too early to call it demand — watch, don't build yet.

Signal history

3 tracked posts (1 ask · 2 product/news) first post Apr 2026 0 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

3 source posts on record — each insight links back to a real one.

1 reddit1 r1 aws

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