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This definately has a market, but i'm not sure SaaS is it. More typical eCommerce products have a "flavor of the day" like effect, where an article is written

by swalsh 7y ago

This definately has a market, but i'm not sure SaaS is it. More typical eCommerce products have a "flavor of the day" like effect, where an article is written in some niche community, and everyone in that community rushes out to buy the thing. Then a few months later, the craze is over. If you're Amazon, you can spot these trends easily (because they have everyone's sales data from the marketplace). If you're a small eCommerce company, unless you just happen to have that product on hand, and someone just happened to have found you, you may never even realize the trend existed. Being alerted that there is a sudden demand for a product, might give you a headstart on marketing and might help you negotiate a deal with a supplier before the supplier realizes what they have.

jsonne 7y ago
I'm a moderator of one of the bigger Facebook advertising groups that exist. This caught my eye instantly as the e-commerce and affiliate crowd are going to be all over it. They love being able to catch trends relatively early. This product is ready made built for flavor of the moment marketers.
- jhow15 7y ago
  That's awesome to hear! If I were to build Trennd towards these e-commerce guys, what would you improve/add/change to make them love it?
  - jsonne 7y ago
    For sure. So shorter term. They're going to want to move faster than 3 months. Maybe like a past 30 day trend if possible? I would say also if there's a way you could dig into Alibaba and see if there's a bunch of new items of the same type getting listed recently that would be extremely interesting for them as well.
    - jhow15 7y ago
      Last 30 days - got it! That's an interesting angle regarding Alibaba. The hard part might be automatically grouping similar items, but definitely can see the huge value in this.
  - AznHisoka 7y ago
    When I was doing affiliate marketing a decade ago, what I did manually was watch informercials and jot down the names of all those products. Then manually run searches in Google Trends to see which ones were spiking, and create content for those products (ie reviews, guides, etc). Here's an example of a product that really took off after they did an informercial in 2006: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=almighty%20cleanse https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=almighty... . I created a page for this product and was ranked #1 instantly. Because nobody else was writing about it. I stopped doing affiliate marketing so don't know what people do now, but just throwing you some ideas.
    - bluepeter 7y ago
      Per the discussion above, this seems to be a pretty spot-on ID of one of these "flavors of the day"...!
- mtnGoat 7y ago
  not sure i agree so much because its not showing things that are just starting to trend, which is where the real money is at... being in front of the ball rather then behind/beside it. best i can tell this service just shows you the search volume history from about 1100 select terms that anyone can already lookup using googles trend tools. id be much more interested to see terms each day whose search volume has increased 10x or something... that would be very useful for people trying to get in front of trends.
jhow15 7y ago
Appreciate your insight - really trying to figure out who I should be building this for, so I know what features and direction to focus on. I was thinking eCommerce entrepreneurs could be it, but then a lot of other people potentially find it valuable too. I want to see who keeps coming back to Trennd in the future, the power users, and ask them why/what they're using it for!
- amerf1 7y ago
  Thanks Josh, I sent you an email I think you answered most of the stuff here though just came back to the comments now. Would still be great to have a chat sometime
amerf1 7y ago
The "flavor of the day" comment really caught my attention, been thinking of a startup between those lines. I think with people having hundreds of decisions to make everyday from a million choices, it would help to answer those questions for the users without them having to spend time deciding. I mean its great to have review sites, but what should I have for lunch today? what is trending just give me the answer I am happy to pay $5 a month you decide for me. What programming language is trending? Will look into it at some point, happy to have a chat with anyone who's interested my email is in my profile

by swalsh 7y ago

jsonne 7y ago

I'm a moderator of one of the bigger Facebook advertising groups that exist. This caught my eye instantly as the e-commerce and affiliate crowd are going to be all over it. They love being able to catch trends relatively early. This product is ready made built for flavor of the moment marketers.

jhow15 7y ago
That's awesome to hear! If I were to build Trennd towards these e-commerce guys, what would you improve/add/change to make them love it?
- jsonne 7y ago
  For sure. So shorter term. They're going to want to move faster than 3 months. Maybe like a past 30 day trend if possible? I would say also if there's a way you could dig into Alibaba and see if there's a bunch of new items of the same type getting listed recently that would be extremely interesting for them as well.
  - jhow15 7y ago
    Last 30 days - got it! That's an interesting angle regarding Alibaba. The hard part might be automatically grouping similar items, but definitely can see the huge value in this.
- AznHisoka 7y ago
  When I was doing affiliate marketing a decade ago, what I did manually was watch informercials and jot down the names of all those products. Then manually run searches in Google Trends to see which ones were spiking, and create content for those products (ie reviews, guides, etc). Here's an example of a product that really took off after they did an informercial in 2006: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=almighty%20cleanse https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=almighty... . I created a page for this product and was ranked #1 instantly. Because nobody else was writing about it. I stopped doing affiliate marketing so don't know what people do now, but just throwing you some ideas.
  - bluepeter 7y ago
    Per the discussion above, this seems to be a pretty spot-on ID of one of these "flavors of the day"...!
mtnGoat 7y ago
not sure i agree so much because its not showing things that are just starting to trend, which is where the real money is at... being in front of the ball rather then behind/beside it. best i can tell this service just shows you the search volume history from about 1100 select terms that anyone can already lookup using googles trend tools. id be much more interested to see terms each day whose search volume has increased 10x or something... that would be very useful for people trying to get in front of trends.

jhow15 7y ago

Appreciate your insight - really trying to figure out who I should be building this for, so I know what features and direction to focus on. I was thinking eCommerce entrepreneurs could be it, but then a lot of other people potentially find it valuable too. I want to see who keeps coming back to Trennd in the future, the power users, and ask them why/what they're using it for!

amerf1 7y ago
Thanks Josh, I sent you an email I think you answered most of the stuff here though just came back to the comments now. Would still be great to have a chat sometime

amerf1 7y ago

The "flavor of the day" comment really caught my attention, been thinking of a startup between those lines. I think with people having hundreds of decisions to make everyday from a million choices, it would help to answer those questions for the users without them having to spend time deciding. I mean its great to have review sites, but what should I have for lunch today? what is trending just give me the answer I am happy to pay $5 a month you decide for me. What programming language is trending? Will look into it at some point, happy to have a chat with anyone who's interested my email is in my profile