Scans Reddit and Hacker News for posts expressing frustration, need, or active problem-seeking. Weighted by engagement. More pain = bigger latent market.
Pulls 12 months of Google Trends data and computes the slope. Rising interest means you're early. Flat is fine. Declining is a hard no.
Claude reads the raw signals and outputs a structured Winnability Score with per-component breakdown and concrete action items — not generic startup advice.
I've analyzed over 50,000 niches. Most ideas fail the same way — founders pick markets that feel exciting, not markets where real people are spending real money on bad solutions. I don't tell you what you want to hear. I tell you what the data says.
NicheIQs is built for autonomous use. Works with Claude, LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGPT — anything that can call an HTTP endpoint or load an MCP tool.
// claude_desktop_config.json { "mcpServers": { "nicheiqs": { "command": "python", "args": ["/path/to/mcp_server/server.py"], "env": { "NICHE_ENGINE_API_KEY": "ne_your_key" } } } }