demand-discovery

A research workflow for finding underserved problems that independent developers could build products for. It gathers evidence from seven sources and scores each opportunity for demand and feasibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research pain points in sources such as Reddit, G2, Product Hunt, GitHub Issues, Hacker News, AlternativeTo, and Google Trends, then produce scored reports.
Why use it?
It turns scattered complaints, requests, and trend data into a consistent way to compare possible niches.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/ddhjx-code/demand-discovery-skill/demand-discovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00016 $0.00297
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured yesterday against content hash 536616f7327f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

demand-discovery scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/demand-discovery.mdc · 32 lines

What it actually says

Demand Discovery Skill

When the user asks for "demand discovery", "niche research", "find niches", or similar:

  1. Read SKILL.md for the complete 9-stage workflow
  2. Read references/niche-rotation.md for the 26-category rotation with keywords
  3. Read references/estimation-methodology.md for scoring formulas

Data Sources

Use web search to gather data from these 7 sources:

  • Reddit — Search for pain points in category-relevant subreddits
  • G2 — Find competitor low-star reviews
  • Product Hunt — Discover trending alternatives
  • GitHub Issues — Find feature requests with high reaction counts
  • Hacker News — Analyze developer discussions (use hn.algolia.com API)
  • AlternativeTo — Map software alternatives and gaps
  • Google Trends — Validate search volume trends

Output

Write reports to output/reports/YYYY-MM-DD-<category>.md (relative to this skill's directory) following the format in SKILL.md.

Scoring

Each demand gets a composite score (0-100) from weighted signals across all 7 sources, plus a feasibility score (1-5). See references/estimation-methodology.md for formulas.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 32 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 536616f7327f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

demand-discovery is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 297 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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