Hidden Business Opportunity Detector Skill

Overview

This skill builds an automated business intelligence engine that:

1. Apify scrapes App Store reviews, Amazon reviews, Reddit, niche forums, and Product Hunt
2. Claude (OpenClaw) deep-analyzes the raw frustrations, recurring requests, and unmet needs
3. Produces a structured market gap report with validated SaaS ideas, scored by opportunity size

This is how the best indie hackers and founders find their next product — systematically.

🔗 Apify: https://www.apify.com/?fpr=dx06p

What This Skill Does

• Scrape App Store & Google Play reviews to find what users hate about existing apps
• Scrape Amazon reviews (1–2 stars) to extract product frustrations at scale
• Mine Reddit niche communities for recurring complaints and feature requests
• Crawl niche forums and communities for unmet needs
• Scrape Product Hunt for emerging tools and gaps in the market
• Feed all raw data into Claude for structured opportunity analysis
• Output a ranked list of business opportunities with validation signals
• Generate SaaS idea briefs with positioning, features, and GTM angle

Architecture Overview

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│           HIDDEN BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY DETECTOR                  │
│                                                                 │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │  LAYER 1 — DATA MINING (Apify)                          │   │
│  │  App Store │ Google Play │ Amazon │ Reddit │ Forums      │   │
│  │  Product Hunt │ G2 │ Trustpilot │ Indie Hackers          │   │
│  └──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘   │
│                             │                                   │
│  ┌──────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │  LAYER 2 — OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS ENGINE (Claude)         │   │
│  │                                                         │   │
│  │  • Frustration Extractor  → what people hate/struggle   │   │
│  │  • Pattern Detector       → recurring complaints        │   │
│  │  • Gap Analyzer           → what nobody is building     │   │
│  │  • Opportunity Scorer     → market size x pain level    │   │
│  │  • SaaS Idea Generator    → concrete product briefs     │   │
│  └──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘   │
│                             │                                   │
│  ┌──────────────────────────▼──────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │  LAYER 3 — OPPORTUNITY REPORT                           │   │
│  │  Ranked ideas │ Validation signals │ GTM angles          │   │
│  │  JSON export │ Markdown report │ Notion / Slack push     │   │
│  └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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