app-niche-finder

app-niche-finder is a skill for Claude Code from khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder. It costs 113 tokens per session (3,581 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for finding underserved ideas for Shopify apps, which add features to online stores using Shopify. It assesses competitor numbers, merchant complaints, market size, and whether a solo developer could build the idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find niches, compare competing apps, validate a proposed category, and rank opportunities with market and competition assessments.
Why use it?
It helps filter app ideas by customer pain, competition, Shopify fit, and practical build constraints before development begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the shopify-app-builder plugin — 32 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to find niches, compare competing apps, validate a proposed category, and rank opportunities with market and competition assessments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder/app-niche-finder
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.

Any agent
npx skills add khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder --skill app-niche-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shopify-app-builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 9 commands, 5 agents.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,581 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00113 $0.03581
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01791
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00716
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00358

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2adc18b4651b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-niche-finder 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 11d ago.

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.

skills/app-niche-finder/SKILL.md · 291 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 291 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use This Skill

Call this when:

  1. Finding a problem to solve: Merchant identifies pain in own store, needs to verify market viability
  2. Validating category fit: Founder has app idea, wants to assess competition density
  3. Generating ideas from scratch: Founder has skills but no clear problem direction
  4. Competitive analysis: App exists, needs to understand gap analysis before building

Do NOT use this if:

  • You're building in oversaturated categories (email, basic pop-ups, product reviews)
  • The idea requires deep ML infrastructure one founder can't handle
  • Shopify is likely to ship natively (Shopify's roadmap moves fast)

The 3-Step Gap-Finding Framework

Step 1: Low-App-Count Category Search Shopify App Store for the problem category. Count competitors doing similar thing well.

  • Tier 1 opportunity: 0-3 real competitors (established, but not saturated)
  • Tier 2 opportunity: 4-6 competitors (some fragmentation, room for differentiation)
  • Red flag: 8+ competitors all with 4.5+ rating (category is won)

Step 2: High-Merchant-Pain Signal Find evidence merchants actively complain about this problem.

  • App Store reviews: Low-star reviews on competitor apps (what's missing?)
  • Reddit r/shopify: Search for problem keyword, count complaint posts
  • Shopify Community: Same search—frequency of "how do I fix this?" posts
  • Twitter merchant complaints: Search "Shopify [problem]" + filter recent
  • Built for Shopify gaps: Check what gaps exist in official Shopify integrations

Step 3: Buildable-by-One-Person Can a solo founder build this in 4 weeks to MVP?

  • Yes: Webhook-based tools, dashboard apps, simple automations
  • Maybe: Requires API integration learning curve (Stripe, Twilio, etc.)
  • No: ML models, real-time data processing, complex 3rd-party orchestration

Demand Signals to Scrape

App Store Low-Rating Reviews (High-intent feedback) Look at competitor apps with 3.0-4.0 star ratings. Read 1-star and 2-star reviews.

  • Extract complaint phrases: "I wish it had...", "Missing feature:", "Doesn't work with..."
  • Tally recurring complaints (if 5+ reviews mention the same gap, that's a real gap)
  • Example gap: "Post-purchase page builder—everyone mentions lack of email capture"

Read the full file on GitHub · 291 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 291 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 2adc18b4651b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

app-niche-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository khadinakbarlabs/shopify-app-builder (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 3,581 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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