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).

19241
Monthly collected tasks
2857
features in current results
1 / 2
Contributing this period / total integrated
6160
Total Mentions This Period
As of 2026-10-06 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
2581 ▲1304 Video Editing and Research for YouTube Channel Content Creation Video Editing Software Content Research Tools 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 17 mentions, +750% change, median budget $84. ▲ +750% 17 mentions 15 potential 2582 ▲179 Turnkey Interior Design and 3D Visualization for Residential Villas Other AutoCAD Adobe After Effects 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 8 mentions, +100% change, median budget $226. ▲ +100% 8 mentions 15 potential 2583 ▲64 European Travel Destination Guide and City Itinerary Blog Ghostwriting Marketing & SEO WordPress Yoast SEO 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 6 mentions, +50% change, median budget $500. ▲ +50% 6 mentions 15 potential 2584 ▲191 Meta Ads for Women’s Apparel Digital Marketing Meta Ads 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 6 mentions, +100% change, median budget $84. ▲ +100% 6 mentions 15 potential 2585 ▲1601 Cinematic Narrative YouTube Video Editing Video & Media Production Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 5 mentions, +400% change, median budget $20. ▲ +400% 5 mentions 15 potential 2586 ▲648 Modern Vibrant Business Card Design Design & Creative Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 5 mentions, +150% change, median budget $92. ▲ +150% 5 mentions 15 potential 2587 ▲54 Custom TradingView Pine Script Strategy & Indicator Automation Finance & Fintech Pine Script TradingView 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 5 mentions, +25% change, median budget $84. ▲ +25% 5 mentions 15 potential 2588 ▲83 Commercial Product Photo Retouching and Poster Graphic Design Other Adobe Photoshop Frequency Separation 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 4 mentions, 0% change, median budget $500. — 4 mentions 15 potential 2589 ▲104 Indonesian SEO Blog Post Copywriting for Lifestyle and Health Content & Writing WordPress Yoast SEO 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 4 mentions, +33% change, median budget $500. ▲ +33% 4 mentions 15 potential 2590 ▲333 Scalable Full-Stack Web Application Development with React and Node.js Web Development React Node.js 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, +50% change, median budget $300. ▲ +50% 3 mentions 15 potential 2591 NEW Mixed-Media Corporate Explainer and Product Launch Video Production Video & Media Production Video Editing Software Motion Graphics Software 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $300. No comparison baseline 3 mentions 15 potential 2592 ▲37 High-Authority Guest Post Outreach and Contextual Backlink Building Marketing & SEO Ahrefs Semrush 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, 0% change, median budget $300. — 3 mentions 15 potential 2593 NEW Enhanced Skill Matching for Data Entry Roles Product & Feature Requests User Interface Database Schema 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $300. No comparison baseline 3 mentions 15 potential 2594 ▲26 Off-Page SEO Specialist Needed Marketing & SEO Ahrefs Semrush 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, 0% change, median budget $300. — 3 mentions 15 potential 2595 ▼290 B2B LinkedIn Sales Navigator Prospecting and Lead Generation Marketing & SEO LinkedIn Sales Navigator Apollo.io 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, -25% change, median budget $84. ▼ -25% 3 mentions 15 potential 2596 ▲2046 AI-Generated Cinematic Video Editing and Viral Reels Production AI & Automation Runway Gen-3 Kling AI 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 3 mentions, +200% change, median budget $12. ▲ +200% 3 mentions 15 potential 2597 ▲31 AI-Powered E-Commerce Storefront Modernization E-commerce Next.js Shopify Storefront API 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, 0% change, median budget $681. — 2 mentions 15 potential 2598 ▼319 Custom Romantic Rhyming Poetry Writing for Special Occasions Design & Creative Typeform RhymeZone 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, -33% change, median budget $500. ▼ -33% 2 mentions 15 potential 2599 ▲2200 Dedicated Category for Social Media Ad Campaign Management Web Development Meta Ads Facebook Ads 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, +100% change, median budget $335. ▲ +100% 2 mentions 15 potential 2600 ▼399 Modern 3D House Model on SketchUp Video & Media Production SketchUp 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, -33% change, median budget $326. ▼ -33% 2 mentions 15 potential 2601 ▼824 WooCommerce Digital Download Store Setup E-commerce WordPress WooCommerce 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, -50% change, median budget $220. ▼ -50% 2 mentions 15 potential 2602 ▼1041 Indonesian Beginner Social Media Coaching and Instagram Video Strategy Marketing & SEO Canva Meta Business Suite 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, -60% change, median budget $140. ▼ -60% 2 mentions 15 potential 2603 ▼552 End-to-End Post-Production for Conversational and Interview Podcasts Video & Media Production Adobe Premiere Pro DaVinci Resolve 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, -33% change, median budget $140. ▼ -33% 2 mentions 15 potential 2604 ▼1110 Dynamic YouTube Video Editing for Finance and Entertainment Video & Media Production DaVinci Resolve Adobe Premiere Pro 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, -50% change, median budget $48. ▼ -50% 2 mentions 15 potential 2605 NEW AI-Generated Marketing Video AI & Automation AI Video Generation Machine Learning 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $20. No comparison baseline 2 mentions 15 potential 2606 NEW Third-Party Apple Developer Account Hosting and App Store Submission Mobile Development iOS App Store Connect 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, no comparison baseline, median budget $16. No comparison baseline 2 mentions 15 potential 2607 ▼97 Cinematic Scenic Travel Video Editing and Post-Production Video & Media Production DaVinci Resolve Adobe Premiere Pro 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, 0% change, median budget $16. — 2 mentions 15 potential 2608 ▼978 Engaging Cover Design for Non-Fiction Mathematics Book Design & Creative Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 2 mentions, -33% change, median budget $12. ▼ -33% 2 mentions 15 potential 2609 ▼1481 Outbound B2B Sales Representative for AI Automation and Web Development Customer & Sales Apollo.io LinkedIn Sales Navigator 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, -75% change, median budget $675. ▼ -75% 1 mentions 15 potential 2610 ▼1019 High-Deliverability B2B Bulk Email Platform Marketing & SEO SMTP Management Email Deliverability Optimization 🌐 Global Lead Why it ranks:This period: 1 mentions, -50% change, median budget $545. ▼ -50% 1 mentions 15 potential