Idea Miner
Public Demand Signals for Indie Developers · 2 Months

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).

Top Feature Mention Trend Site Verifier Management Platform →
39805
2 Months collected tasks
4726
features in current results
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Contributing this period / total integrated
13672
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
2281 — Electromechanical Device Power System Architecture & Circuit Design CAD, Architecture & Engineering Altium Designer LTspice 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, +100% change, median budget $29. ▲ +100% 3 mentions 30 potential 2282 — Localized Cross-Border Litigation and Insolvency Due Diligence Business & Consulting OSINT Public Records Search 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, +100% change, median budget $27. ▲ +100% 3 mentions 30 potential 2283 — Established-Account Reddit Community Outreach & Niche Research Marketing & SEO Reddit AutoModerator 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, +100% change, median budget $20. ▲ +100% 3 mentions 30 potential 2284 — Photorealistic 3D Exterior Architecture and Landscape Garden Visualization CAD, Architecture & Engineering 3ds Max SketchUp 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, +200% change, median budget $20. ▲ +200% 3 mentions 30 potential 2285 — Vodafone Fiji M-Paisa Payment Gateway Integration for E-Commerce Platforms E-commerce Vodafone Fiji M-Paisa API Shopify 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, +100% change, median budget $12. ▲ +100% 3 mentions 30 potential 2286 — AI-Powered Plumbing SaaS Development 📋 Brief: worth building Other Next.js PostgreSQL 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $7.6K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2287 — Architectural Drafting for Open-Concept Modern Home CAD, Architecture & Engineering AutoCAD DWG 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $7.5K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2288 — Custom Claymation Video Ads for Software Startups Video & Media Production Dragonframe Stop Motion 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $3.8K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2289 — STM32 Real-Time Audio DSP & PCB -- 2 Software Development & QA STM32 CMSIS-DSP 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $2.6K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2290 — Full-Stack MVP Engineering for Fintech Savings Platforms Finance & Fintech React Node.js 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $2.4K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2291 — Full-Stack Application Development with React 19, TanStack, and Supabase 📋 Brief: worth building Web Development React Supabase 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, 0% change, median budget $2.4K. — 2 mentions 30 potential 2292 — On-Site Conference Multimedia Coverage & Rapid Highlight Production Video & Media Production Sony Alpha Canon Cinema EOS 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $2.2K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2293 — Realistic Adventure Children's Book Digital Illustration 📋 Brief: worth building Design & Creative Adobe Photoshop Clip Studio Paint 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $1.6K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2294 — On-Demand Pet Grooming Marketplace MVP Mobile App Development Mobile Development 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $1.5K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2295 — Android DPC & Web Dashboard Revamp -- 2 Mobile Development Android SDK Kotlin 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $1.5K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2296 — Physical-to-Digital Memorialization Platform with Interactive Family Trees Other React Native React 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $1.4K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2297 — API-Ready Classified Ads Platform with Social Interaction Modules E-commerce Node.js PostgreSQL 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $1.3K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2298 — Logo minimalista Naturaleza Viva Design & Creative Adobe Illustrator Figma 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $1.2K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2299 — PHP Dating Website Development, Fixes & Monetization System Web Development PHP 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $1.2K. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2300 — Roblox Full-Stack Developer per "ELYRA Perfume Simulator" Software Development & QA Roblox Studio Luau 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $885. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2301 — Commission-Based B2B Software Development Deal Sourcing Customer & Sales LinkedIn Sales Navigator Apollo.io 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $882. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2302 — High-Authority Guest Post Outreach for Restricted and Adult Niches Marketing & SEO Ahrefs Semrush 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $812. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2303 — EB-2 NIW Dossier Audit & Pre-Filing Risk Assessment Business & Consulting 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $812. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2304 — Automated AI Lead Qualification and Meeting Scheduling Funnel AI & Automation n8n OpenAI API 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $689. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2305 — Full-Cycle Human-Authored Comic Book Production Design & Creative Clip Studio Paint Adobe InDesign 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $604. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2306 — 3D Character Animation for Original Narrative IP and Music Videos Video & Media Production Blender Autodesk Maya 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $581. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2307 — Educational Mobile App Conceptualization and MVP Development Mobile Development Flutter React Native 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $522. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2308 — Full-Scale Website Redesign and Feature Enhancement 📋 Brief: worth building Web Development WordPress WooCommerce 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $500. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2309 — Regional Discord Game Night Hosting & Community Engagement Marketing & SEO Discord Discord Bots 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $500. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential 2310 — LinkedIn B2B Outreach and Appointment Setting in LATAM Marketing & SEO LinkedIn Sales Navigator Calendly 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $500. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 30 potential