The Idea Library

What 12,631 founder requests actually say

We read public founder communities for a living. These posts report what the records show, with the counts attached and the weak evidence named.

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Price It Where One Person Can Approve It

The most common pricing mistake is not the number. It is the number of people who have to agree to it. A framework for finding the one-approver price.

November 20, 2026 · 4 min read

  • Vertical deep dives

    The Smallest Community in Our Library Has the Clearest Demand

    209 records from a freelancer community point at three jobs, not thirty. Concentration, not volume, is what makes a vertical worth building for.

    November 18, 2026 · 4 min read

  • Vertical deep dives

    Accounting Requests Are Not Software Requests

    We read 1,519 records from an accounting community. The largest themes are mentorship and job search, not tools. That changes what the data is worth.

    November 16, 2026 · 4 min read

  • Build or do not build

    What a Problem Statement Must Contain

    Most problem statements describe a solution with the word problem in front of it. Four parts make one testable, and one of them is usually missing.

    November 13, 2026 · 4 min read

  • Build or do not build

    Why Request Counts in Idea Libraries Mislead

    A library that says an idea was requested forty times is often counting tags, not buyers. Here is what our counts measure, and what they support.

    November 11, 2026 · 4 min read

  • Build or do not build

    How to Kill a SaaS Idea in an Afternoon

    Most idea checks take a week because they are designed to confirm. These five tests are designed to kill, and each one costs less than an hour.

    November 9, 2026 · 4 min read

  • SaaS is dead, and what replaced it

    SaaS Is Not Dead. 12,631 Founder Requests Say What Changed.

    The SaaS obituary is wrong about the market and right about the business model. Here is what 12,631 recorded founder requests show about who still pays.

    November 6, 2026 · 4 min read