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Show HN: Validated ideas 2.0-list of 9k popular but poorly executed products (gumroad.com)
4 points by jocc on Dec 31, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


Thanks for sharing. I purchased it and took a look at the "web apps list". I was a bit disappointed -- it looks like this is just a scrape of product hunt? There isn't much metadata associated, just the information product hunt shows.

It would have been great if you actually rated the execution of each site, i.e. your own personal opinion of 1 to 5. As well as potential market size or that company's current MRR (as is popular on IndieHackers).

Is it fair to say "validated" just means "submitted to product hunt"? If so, I think it would be better to state that up front.


Hi there! I scraped the web apps from PH, that is true.

"It would have been great if you actually rated the execution of each site, i.e. your own personal opinion of 1 to 5. As well as potential market size or that company's current MRR (as is popular on IndieHackers)"

I see what you mean, but this 9,000 list had a different goal than that. I plan to do something like this, but then I would have a fairly smaller list than this. Just this list took me 2 weeks to gather from start to finish, it would have been much more if I take the time and rate every one of them.

"Is it fair to say "validated" just means "submitted to product hunt"? If so, I think it would be better to state that up front."

No, I hope that I can clarify that for you. I used the following criterias when scraping from PH: - more than 249 upvotes (so it's fairly popular) - has more than 5 reviews - BUT the rating is lower than 3.21

This way my goal was to get popular but "badly" executed products from there.

I'm really sorry to hear that you are disappointed - do you want me to refund you? By the way, my next list will focus on Web apps completely. If you want, you can give me your email and either choose to: - get a refund - give you a massive, unique discount once my new list gets posted.

Tell me what you think. :D


Thanks for replying -- I appreciate you sharing your methodology! No need for refund, I feel the price is fair.


Hi everybody!

Since the first version of Validated ideas got good feedbacks, I decided to extend it. Now it has more than 9,000 products (iOS, Android, Web apps, Extensions).

This list is good for people looking for business ideas that are already validated (so you know that there is demand) but were executed badly so you can improve it based on the reviews. It's also good to get a feeling about the market and how people should avoid mistakes when building products.

For the first 500 buyers (465 left) there is a more than 50% discount.

I hope you find it useful. Happy new year!


Hi there, thanks for making this! I just bought it and will have a look. I've been learning flutter and godot the past weeks, I'll pick one of the ideas and try to implement it. Happy new year as well and good luck for your ventures!


Really happy to hear this! Thank you very much!

I wish you good luck with your app and have a happy new year you too!

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions. :)




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