Idea Miner
Public Demand Signals for Indie Developers · Monthly

Building solo and not sure where to start?
Check public demand with posted budgets before guessing

Writing code isn't the hardest part — the hardest part is spending months on something nobody wants. Idea Miner distills recurring common demands from public outsourcing tasks with posted budgets, tracking mention frequency, median posted budget, and trends to help developers discover potential software opportunities (note: posted budgets do not equal completed transactions or payments).

19165
Monthly collected tasks
2837
features in current results
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Contributing this period / total integrated
6120
Total Mentions This Period
As of 2026-10-05 03:00 · Data methodology
This period's board is sourced from: freelancer. The data reflects that platform's public outsourcing demand, not the entire software market; posted budgets are not verified transactions, and the platform's user base, collection scope, and deduplication method can all affect the results.
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Bitbucket Docker Pipeline: Build and Smoke-Test an Image

Who this is for:Developers adding a Docker smoke test to Bitbucket Pipelines

  • Local build and HTTP marker checks passed.
  • Missing route and missing COPY source both failed as expected.
  • Bitbucket Cloud execution and registry push remain untested.

Not yet verified:Bitbucket Cloud execution, registry push and deployment remain untested.

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A Real Test of Three Synthetic PDFs: Where the Default Configuration Fails

Who this is for:Developers handling recurring PDF-to-spreadsheet work

  • Clean single-page tables: pdfplumber and pymupdf extract them perfectly in ~65ms -- off-the-shelf libraries already clear a high bar for this specific slice.
  • Cross-page tables: none of the libraries stitch pages automatically. camelot's lattice mode got all 276 cells right; pdfplumber/pymupdf each truncated 11 cells, traced to the test document's own too-narrow column, not a general few-point overflow.
  • Scanned tables: text-based libraries return nothing; adding OCR got 22/24 cells right but took 4.44s -- markedly slower, on a different input than the digital-text cases.

Not yet verified:Three synthetic documents cannot establish accuracy on customer files or willingness to pay.

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Physical Business Verification: What the Public Postings Show, and What Three Technical Checks Don't Prove

Who this is for:Builders evaluating field-verification workflows

  • Confirmis's own website claims 6,000+ trained verifiers already exist -- directly contradicting an earlier draft's 'no standing network' assumption, which has since been corrected.
  • Three passive technical checks (geocoding, EXIF GPS, image tamper detection) each have real, testable limits -- including one confirmed directly: forging GPS coordinates with a free command-line tool took under half a second and completely fooled the location check.
  • None of the three checks tested, alone or combined, supports a 'fraud-resistant' product claim.

Not yet verified:The tested checks do not establish fraud resistance; why such tasks keep being posted publicly remains unknown.

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Rank Common Demand Feature Trend (MoM) Mentions Potential Score 30-Day Trend
2251 ▲58 Legacy AI Automation Audit, Refactoring, and Feature Extension AI & Automation Python n8n 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $1.1K. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2252 ▲343 Large-Scale Multilingual Document Localization Across 90+ Language Pairs Translation & Localization Translation Management System (TMS) Trados Studio 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $1.1K. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2253 NEW On-Site Trade Show Booth Assistant and Local Event Coordinator Other WhatsApp Google Sheets 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $1.1K. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2254 ▼249 Custom TradingView Pine Script v6 Indicator Development Other TradingView Pine Script v6 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, -50% change, median budget $750. ▼ -50% 1 mentions 20 potential 2255 ▲186 Rapid Cross-Platform Mobile Application Development in Flutter Mobile Development Flutter Dart 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $675. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2256 ▲1014 A4 Multi-Page Commercial Product Catalog and Sales Brochure Design Design & Creative Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $675. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2257 ▼265 Cartoon Character Animation for Entertainment Projects Video & Media Production Blender Toon Boom Harmony 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, -50% change, median budget $675. ▼ -50% 1 mentions 20 potential 2258 ▲242 Formal Indonesian Letter Typing and Word Formatting Other 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $675. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2259 ▲554 WordPress to Shopify Full-Store and Content Migration E-commerce WordPress WooCommerce 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $675. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2260 NEW Multi-Creator Daily Engagement Campaign Operations for FMCG Marketing & SEO HypeAuditor Modash 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $675. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2261 ▲472 Traditional ADU and Garage Conversion Architectural Design CAD, Architecture & Engineering AutoCAD Chief Architect 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $20. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 20 potential 2262 NEW Unified RegTech Compliance and Audit Trail Infrastructure Business & Consulting PostgreSQL Kafka 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $635. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2263 NEW Remote Administration and Official Reporting for WAIS-IV Test AI & Automation Python Django 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $545. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2264 ▲1182 Δυναμικό Social Media Βίντεο AutoXClean Video & Media Production 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $545. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2265 NEW Minimalist 2D Mascot Character Animation for Product Lines Video & Media Production Adobe After Effects Toon Boom Harmony 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $545. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2266 ▲313 Destination Tourism Showcase and Booking Inquiry Website Web Development WordPress WPML 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $545. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2267 ▼800 GoHighLevel CRM Workflow Automation with Make and AI APIs AI & Automation Make AI APIs 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, -50% change, median budget $500. ▼ -50% 1 mentions 20 potential 2268 NEW Sports Highlights and Short-Form Social Reels Video Editing Video & Media Production Adobe Premiere Pro DaVinci Resolve 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $500. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2269 ▲1169 Multilingual French, Arabic, and English Certified Document Translation Translation & Localization SDL Trados memoQ 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2270 ▼136 Full-Stack Restaurant Membership and Loyalty Rewards Platform Other Next.js Node.js 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2271 NEW Arabic Earned Media PR Placements for Saudi Wearables Brand Web Development JavaScript HTML/CSS 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $500. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2272 NEW Barcelona Sagrada Familia Marriage Proposal Photography Web Development JavaScript HTML/CSS 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $500. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2273 NEW Android Mobile Application Development for Sales Order Management Web Development JavaScript HTML/CSS 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $500. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2274 ▲645 Monthly Graphic and Video Content Retainer for Beauty Brand Web Development JavaScript HTML/CSS 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2275 NEW Polished AI Visual Content Creation for Instagram AI & Automation Python Django 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $500. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2276 NEW Meta Ads Media Buyer for Lead Generation Campaigns Web Development JavaScript HTML/CSS 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $500. No comparison baseline 1 mentions 20 potential 2277 ▲116 App quản lý shop điện thoại Mobile Development Flutter Supabase 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2278 ▲122 Traducción y Programación Python Multilingüe Other Python 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2279 ▲124 Scanned Image Manuscript Transcription and Digitization Other 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 1 mentions 20 potential 2280 ▲1171 Teknoloji Blog Yazısı Yazımı Marketing & SEO SEO 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 1 mentions 20 potential