7 Market Research tips and tools (6 free)
7 Market Research resources, picked out of 3 saved Instagram reels and 6 liked tweets, from creators like @tedx_ai, @digitalsamaritan, @neilpatel. 6 of them are free, freemium or open source.
A structured market research framework developed by @tedx_ai and @jelanifuel that pairs Grok 3 and OpenAI's Deep Research models. It guides founders from an initial value proposition through competitor teardowns on social media, market sizing, and full business plan generation. The workflow provides ready-to-use prompts tailored to the strengths of each model.
Exploding Topics is a trend discovery and market research platform that analyzes search volume and online chatter to spot growing topics months before they peak. It combines machine learning algorithms with human curation to help entrepreneurs, marketers, and investors find emerging niches and product ideas. The service provides a searchable database with growth metrics alongside free keyword and SEO research tools.
A breakdown of survey results from 242 business owners gathered via organic lead magnets on social platforms. It details real budget tiers, adoption hurdles, and vertical demand for AI implementation agencies and consultants. The data highlights that lack of direction and time constraints outweigh budget concerns for most buyers.
CompactKnow is an automated research and insight platform designed to analyze public discussions and comments across platforms like YouTube. It ingests large volumes of comments into a vector database and runs multi-agent analysis to surface market gaps, audience sentiment, and business insights.
NicheProwler is a cross-platform research tool that tracks creators, communities, and audience trends across TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, and Instagram. It helps founders, marketers, and creators validate business ideas, spot content gaps, and analyze competitor activity from a single dashboard.
A structured prompt designed for OpenAI Deep Research or similar web-browsing models to evaluate total addressable market size. It guides the model to synthesize raw data from industry reports, community discussions, and reviews using top-down and multi-method market sizing approaches.
A data framework based on OpenAI's usage study analyzing roughly 1.1 million sampled ChatGPT conversations from 2024 to 2025. It categorizes real-world user intent into major buckets like practical guidance, writing, information seeking, and technical help. Founders and product builders use this breakdown as objective reference data to identify market demand and unbundle ChatGPT into vertical software.