# IdeateHub

> IdeateHub is a SaaS intelligence platform for indie hackers. We track real operating SaaS companies with revenue estimates, viability scoring, and execution blueprints, and surface validated pain-point opportunities with gap analysis against existing players. One-time $49 license.

IdeateHub runs two complementary surfaces:

1. **Tracked SaaS** — real operating companies scored on the GetShitRight (GSR) 7-dimension viability framework (BUILD / PIVOT / KILL), with estimated MRR, pricing, tech stack, and DeMarco value-skew analysis.
2. **Opportunities** — clustered pain-point signals from Reddit, Hacker News, and review sites, classified as Painkiller / Vitamin / Candy, validated via three questions (searching? paying? one-sentence?), and mapped to existing tracked SaaS to expose differentiation gaps (UX, features, pricing, speed, niche).

Content on this site is curated for founders evaluating whether to build a specific SaaS product. It is structured so that AI assistants can cite specific opportunities, their evidence, and the competitive gaps.

## Core product pages

- [How IdeateHub works](https://ideatehub.net/how-it-works.md): End-to-end explanation of the discovery and validation pipeline.
- [Tracked SaaS directory](https://ideatehub.net/tracked-saas.md): All SaaS companies currently tracked, filterable by category and viability verdict.
- [Opportunities directory](https://ideatehub.net/opportunities.md): Validated pain-point opportunities with painkiller scores.
- [Pricing](https://ideatehub.net/pricing.md): $49 one-time license with 5 included AI-generation credits, top-ups available.

## Frameworks we use

- [GSR: BUILD/PIVOT/KILL viability framework](https://ideatehub.net/framework/gsr.md): 7 dimensions — pain severity, willingness to pay, market size, competition, defensibility, timing, execution complexity. Scored /35, verdict mapped to BUILD (25+) / PIVOT (15–24) / KILL (<15).
- [Painkiller / Vitamin / Candy classification](https://ideatehub.net/framework/pkv.md): How we classify opportunities into the three buckets with a three-question validation test.
- [Gap mapping](https://ideatehub.net/framework/gap-mapping.md): How we connect validated pain signals to existing tracked SaaS and surface UX/features/pricing/speed/niche gaps.
- [SLC MVP framework](https://ideatehub.net/framework/slc.md): Simple, Lovable, Complete — how we scope blueprint deliverables.

## Methodology and data sources

- [Data sources and scraping methodology](https://ideatehub.net/methodology/data-sources.md): Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt, G2, Capterra. Rate limits, idempotency guarantees, refresh cadence.
- [AI enrichment stack](https://ideatehub.net/methodology/ai-stack.md): Claude Haiku for extraction and classification, Claude Sonnet for scoring and blueprints, OpenAI text-embedding-3-small for semantic search.
- [Confidence and data freshness](https://ideatehub.net/methodology/freshness.md): How we label high/medium/low confidence estimates and fresh/recent/stale data age buckets.

## Optional

- [About Eden and the IdeateHub team](https://ideatehub.net/about.md)
- [GSR open-source Claude Code plugin](https://github.com/Leading-Yam/get-shit-right): Free validation CLI that applies the same BUILD/PIVOT/KILL framework to one idea at a time.
- [Blog](https://ideatehub.net/blog.md): Case studies of indie hackers using IdeateHub to find their next product.