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My first ever info product, would you be interested in this?

Hi everybody!

TL;DR:
I collected a list of 5k+ android apps with 100k+ downloads and lower than 3.2 ratings. I try to sell this as a pdf and txt (JSON) on Gumroad.
Link to the product: https://gumroad.com/l/validatedideas

Why I did it:
I got bored with my current projects and I wanted to think of an idea for a new project.
There are 2 ways:

  • come up with an innovative idea but it is time-consuming
  • get an already existing product and improve it

I thought I should go with the second because then I could be sure that there is demand for the product.

That's when I remembered this interview:
https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-i-keep-my-side-project-manageable-and-profitable-eb5544135c

The founder talked about how he tried to come up with a profitable side project idea. He wrote a script to scrape the app stores, looking for apps with low ratings but big potentials.

I commented on the post a few months ago asking for the script and he was helpful, he sent it to me via email.
But I just couldn't get it to work (I didn't really spend too much time to try to understand it, and I abandoned it very quickly).

A few days ago I wanted to try it again, but not with this script. I found a service which provides APIs to get app datas from the google play store (it's a paid service though).

I tried to collect only active apps (last update in the past few months), with low ratings but many downloads.
Then after going through the list, writing down some of them (which could be my next projects), I thought: why not try to sell this list?

I saw many databases/curated lists on Producthunt, so I thought I should try it.
Maybe this list isn't valuable for anyone, but it's worth a try.

Anyways, any feedback/opinion is appriciated!
Thanks for reading, have a nice day.

(BTW: this list contains all kinds of apps; even 18+ apps.)

on December 1, 2020