TrendGap docs
Getting started
What TrendGap is and how it works
TrendGap turns real complaints about apps and tools into scored product ideas, each with its evidence and a full report.
Explore TrendGap before you sign up
What you can read and try on the TrendGap website without an account: how it works, pricing, free tools and the public data pages.
Create your account and sign in
Sign up with your email (or Google, where offered), confirm your address, answer the welcome questions, and reset a forgotten password.
What the free plan includes
What a free account opens: today's free idea, a fixed preview of the library and small allowances. What stays locked, and how to see more.
Your Home page
Home shows your week at a glance: library counts, the Gap of the week, today's free idea, what changed since your last visit and ranked lists.
Find your way around the app
The menu groups, the top bar, search, your account menu, the product tour, Settings and the feedback form.
How often TrendGap updates its data
What the "Updated", "Data for" and "Not measured yet" labels mean, how often each kind of data is refreshed, and where to see the latest runs.
Key terms
Plain definitions of the words TrendGap uses, from idea and Gap Score to track, credits, watch, alert and Market Radar.
Find ideas
Browse the library of opportunities
Find ideas in Opportunities: read the cards, filter and sort the list, switch to a table, and see what opens a locked card.
Tracks: browse ideas by platform
Tracks split the library by where a product would live: SaaS, mobile, browser extensions, WordPress and developer tools, each tab with its own count.
Search TrendGap and save searches
Find niches, trend topics, apps and tools from one search box, search in plain words, and save a view to get notes on new matches.
Gap of the week and the Weekly Gap Report
Gap of the week is the one niche Home puts first. The Weekly Gap Report collects the week's measured changes in one issue you can read and copy.
Save ideas to lists, hide them and triage
Keep a shortlist: add niches to your own lists, hide the ones that don't fit, and triage a view one niche at a time.
Trends: search demand for builder topics
See which software topics people search for more, read a topic's demand line and the complaints behind it, and look up any keyword.
Pain clusters: weekly themes across ideas
Pain clusters group related niches, trend topics and apps into themes on a ring. Click a theme to see its summary and what it holds.
Judge an idea
Read an opportunity report
How a report is laid out: the head, the key numbers, the three acts, the Data, AI and Standard labels, and what you can do from the page.
The complaints behind an idea
Where the evidence comes from, how each complaint is dated and labelled, how fresh it is, and how to filter the full list in the evidence drawer.
The Gap Score
What the Gap Score measures, the five parts it adds up from, what Score pending means, and how to use the score when you compare ideas.
Demand and keywords
Read the Demand section of a report, look up any keyword with the keyword deep dive, and know which of these steps cost credits.
Competitors and the market
Read the Incumbents, Room to win and Why now sections of a report, plus Willingness to pay, Market size and Compare where you have them.
What to build and how to ship: the plan inside a report
The plan in a report's last two acts: who it's for, the MVP, pricing, risks, a validation plan, first customers, build and launch, and names.
Fit for you: your founder profile and fit score
How Fit for you scores an idea against your founder profile with a fixed formula, where the score shows, and how to change your answers.
Share links, PDF and export
Share a read-only link to a report, save a PDF, copy it as Markdown or JSON, and download its evidence as CSV. Who gets what, and how.
Check your own idea
Check your own idea with the idea evaluator
Describe your idea, run a quick AI check or a full report, and read the score, verdict and evidence behind it.
Your private idea vault and idea watches
Every idea you check stays in your private vault. Open or delete runs, and watch an idea's market for changes.
The free quick idea check
Run a free quick AI check on the public Idea Evaluator page, and see how it differs from the idea evaluator inside Validate.
Compare ideas side by side
Put niches and your evaluated ideas next to each other on one measured yardstick, then save the comparison.
Teardown, feature matrix and idea generator
Get ideas built on stored complaints, tear down an app or a website, and compare competitors' features with a SWOT for each one.
Rate, flag or re-run a report section
Vote on a report section, flag it as wrong, or on Pro and above ask AI for a better version of it.
Watch a market
Your watchlist and every watch type
Watch niches, apps, keywords, trend topics, rankings, AI brands and domains in one list, and see what changed and when it was last checked.
Alerts, alert rules and the inbox
How alert rules decide what reaches you, how to add your own rule, and how to work through the alerts, summaries and notices in your inbox.
Email preferences and unsubscribing
Choose which optional emails TrendGap sends you, how alert emails work, and how a single click unsubscribes you.
Market Radar: products, chart movers and company profiles
See who is launching and growing: new products and startups, app chart movers, top websites by category and company profiles.
Keyword monitors, source scans and pain clusters
Track your keywords in developer forums, scan a past window for grouped pains, and read the weekly pain themes.
Webhooks: send alerts to Slack, Discord or your own app
Send your alerts to Slack, Discord or any HTTPS address as signed JSON, check the signature, and understand retries.
Build it
Build this with AI: turn a report into a build prompt
Turn an opportunity report into a ready prompt for an AI coding tool, an app builder or a planning chat, then open it in the tool you use.
Playbooks: a build and go-to-market plan for each idea
A quick build and go-to-market plan for every niche your plan opens: first steps, a stack, pricing ideas, risks, competitors and names.
Projects and the build journey
Keep everything about one idea in a project: a guided journey to your first customers, tasks, a launch checklist, decisions and watches.
Build and launch tools
Write a build pack for your coding agent and a launch kit, find a name and your first customers, and grade your landing page.
Planning tools: estimate, stack, priorities and launch readiness
Five free tools that run in your browser: the MVP estimator, the stack picker, prioritisation, the readiness score and the launch checklist.
Tools
How tools work: runs, credits and history
Open the Tools hub, see each tool's price before you start, run it, wait for the result and find it again in your run history.
Keyword, SEO and website tools
The Research and Site health groups: find keywords, see how hard they are to win, track your Google positions and check your own website.
Competitor and app store tools
The Competitors and App stores groups: traffic and keyword gaps, backlinks, ads, tech stacks, company profiles, store listing help and review replies.
AI visibility tools
See whether AI assistants mention your brand, whether AI crawlers can read your site, and how Google shows your brand.
Free tools on the public site
What you can use on the Free tools page: the idea evaluator, plus lookup tools, founder calculators and the fit quiz when they are switched on.
Ask, connect and community
Ask TrendGap questions about the data
Ask questions in plain words and get short answers from TrendGap's own data, with every statement linked to the rows it used.
Connect your AI assistant to TrendGap (MCP)
Let your AI assistant read TrendGap's data through MCP: connect it with a sign-in, choose whether it may spend credits, and revoke it any time.
Claim a niche and see what other founders watch
Tell other founders you are building a niche, see builder cards on reports, and follow real counts of what founders watch and export.
Monthly rankings and the Pain Index
Monthly rankings list rising topics, niches heating up and slipping incumbents; the Pain Index is a quarterly look at where users complain most.
Account and billing
Plans and pricing
What Free and the paid plans include, how monthly and yearly billing differ, and where to find the current prices.
Credits and credit packs
What credits pay for, how your monthly credits work, how to read your balance and ledger, and how credit packs add more.
Free trial, upgrades and downgrades
Start a free trial when one is offered, move to a bigger or smaller plan, switch between monthly and yearly, and see what happens to your credits.
Cancelling, pausing and refunds
How to cancel your plan, what you keep, why there's no pause button, how refunds work, and what happens when a payment fails.
Invoices, payment methods and billing details
Download your invoices, add a billing name and address, and change your card through Polar's billing portal.
Your account settings
Change your name, change or set your password, sign out of every device, and find each Settings tab: profile, billing, credits, email and more.
Privacy and your data
What TrendGap keeps about you, what stays private, how to set cookies, delete your ideas or your account, and how to ask for a copy.
Referrals: invite people and earn credits
Share your referral link. When someone new signs up through it and pays for a plan, you can earn credits, and they can too.
Give feedback and get support
Send feedback from any page of the app, add a marked-up screenshot when that's on, and reach the TrendGap team by email or the contact form.
Write to support at trendgap.io and a person on the team will answer.