Opportunity dossier O-0054

Recurring need documented in 2 independent public source items.

First seen 2026-07-09 · Last updated 2026-08-29 · Recalculated daily

3.3

Evidence confidence, not a return forecast

Independent source items, deduplicated by post

Public source families

Payment evidence: current spend or explicit intent

ProblemThe source-linked evidence below documents the recurring problem.

People affectedPeople represented in the linked public discussions.

Named alternativesNo existing alternative is named in the qualifying evidence yet.

Weekly mentions · 12 weeks▼ Fading

06-0807-0608-0308-24

Trend factor ×0.5, capped at 2.0.

Representative evidence

2 public excerpts · 2 items in the full chain

Need★★★☆☆Unmet need

Post title: Ask HN: Protecting your Sites/Services from Unwanted Traffic?

If PoW (proof-of-work) schemes like Anubis ultimately don't' work in practise, because Bots/Crawlers are increasingly using headless browsers, are able to solve captures, proofs, etc; What options do …

Hacker News2026-07-26View source ↗

Pain★★★☆☆First-hand pain

Post title: Ask HN: Who is running the abusive scrapers?

Personally I once had to triple app capacity and double database capacity just for just one scraper.

Hacker News2026-07-09View source ↗

What this evidence does not show yet

To reach Corroborated we still need:

1 more independent post(s) — we have 2
the same need restated in another source family, or by 3 different authors

No first-hand payment statement is on record here, so this page carries no pricing suggestion. A price with no payment evidence behind it is a guess wearing a number.

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Scoring summary

Evidence confidence = strength × evidence volume × source diversity × payment × competition × trend × 10. Counts use independent content items; only first-hand pain, current spend, explicit willingness to pay and concrete feature requests affect the score. Repeated posts by one author are discounted. Scoring and status changes follow deterministic rules.

“Payment-backed” means first-hand payment evidence exists in the record. It does not mean the business is worth building. “Fading” is a recency tag shown alongside any evidence level, not a lower level. Read the full methodology.