About Idea Miner
Many independent developers get stuck at the same wall: no direction, no idea what to build, no way to know if what they build will have any value. Idea Miner is the world's first developer market trend platform built exclusively on real, budget-backed paid demand — answering these questions with hard evidence, not guesswork.
Our Positioning
Most 'indie hacker trend sites' rely on Github Stars, Twitter discussions, or Product Hunt votes. These vanity metrics can be easily inflated and fail to represent real payment intent.
Idea Miner takes a different approach: we focus exclusively on hard evidence of real spending. We collect paid job postings from leading global freelance platforms through compliant channels, including Freelancer.com's official public API and search-engine snippet indexes. Using large-scale data analysis and AI synthesis, we distill tens of thousands of scattered development jobs into common product demand features, then track their frequency, growth, and budget size.
Our Value
- Helps indie developers avoid validating ideas from scratch, building instead on top of real buyer demand.
- Helps product teams pinpoint high-value blue-ocean features to boost conversion rates.
- Provides fully-compliant and traceable raw task evidence, protecting privacy while proving real-world intent.
Our Compliance Redlines
Compliance is our paramount rule. We commit: never simulate human logins or bypass anti-scraping blocks; we only reference summaries and attribute backlinks.