# Business Idea Depot

> Business Idea Depot validates business idea market demand using 7 live public data sources — Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Wikipedia Pageviews, Dev.to, and App Store. Enter any keyword and receive a signal score (0–100), 12-month trend chart, revenue model, AI competitor map, and step-by-step build path in under 30 seconds. One-time lifetime purchase with no subscription.

Business Idea Depot is a real-time market demand intelligence tool for founders, indie hackers, and product teams. Unlike static idea databases, it queries live public APIs and computes a composite signal score that measures genuine market interest across independent sources. A strong signal on a single platform is discounted; corroboration across multiple platforms increases confidence.

The signal score (0–100) blends momentum (is interest accelerating?) and volume (how much discussion exists?), scaled by source agreement. Scores above 60 indicate moderate demand worth investigating; scores above 75 indicate strong demand. The score measures discussion interest, not guaranteed revenue.

## Core tool
- [Business Idea Validator](https://businessideadepot.com/): Validate any business idea or keyword against 7 live data sources and get a complete demand report in 30 seconds.

## Public pages
- [Trending Business Ideas](https://businessideadepot.com/ideas): All validated ideas ranked by composite demand signal score, filterable by industry.
- [Blog](https://businessideadepot.com/blog): Startup idea guides, market trend analysis, and demand validation insights for founders and indie hackers.
- [About — How It Works](https://businessideadepot.com/about): How the signal scoring methodology works, what each data source measures, and who the tool is for.
- [Pricing](https://businessideadepot.com/pricing): Lifetime access pricing for unlimited idea validations and the full feature suite.

## Data sources queried per validation
- Hacker News (via Algolia API): story and comment volume, momentum
- Reddit (public JSON API): post and comment activity, subreddit spread
- GitHub (search API): repository count and star momentum
- Stack Overflow (Stack Exchange API): question volume, answer rate
- Wikipedia (Wikimedia Pageviews API): article view momentum
- Dev.to (public API): article count and engagement
- App Store / iTunes Search API (Apple): app count, release date momentum, ratings volume