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 didn't want to rent access to my own checkboxes, so I built The Forge Habit Tracker"
— 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.
Structured — "if I want to add a task that isn’t time sensitive I need to add it to my inbox which is hidden and not easy to see"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Habit Tracker (Davetech co.) — "If only this had a daily planner feature"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Loop Habit tracker — "I really like Loop Habit tracker but I have a lot of things I like to track and would like more organization within the app if possible"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
productivity systems — "all the productivity systems I had tried before"verbatimsign in to trace ↗
Pain, in numbers
Only where a builder stated a figure — quoted word-for-word from the post.
“a single £3 one-off payment”£3 one-off payment
“I’ve downloaded like 800 habit apps and haven’t found one that fits yet”800 habit apps downloaded
Hard requirements
Summarised from the posts below. Miss one and they will not switch.
daily planner featureorganize habits by timecolour codinggrouping/tagscollapsible groupsstats like calendar and percentage
31 rivals shipping (fact bar)see prices → market is crowded; differentiate on the unmet requirements above, don't compete on breadth.
16 builder posts asking · 16 different people (fact bar)see posts → demand is independently reported, not one person repeating themselves.
35 new tracked posts (all types) in the last 30 days vs 29 the month beforesee the curve → demand is rising.
16 demand signals vs 31 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 1 day ago → conversation is live now.
Signal history
169 tracked posts (16 asks · 153 product/news)first post Mar 2024▲ 35 in the last 30 days
Cumulative tracked posts (asks + products + news) by original post date · 1 earlier post 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 169 tracked posts, picked as evidence — each insight links back to a real one.