gap-finder

Validate product opportunities through market research and adversarial idea analysis.

4|Updated Feb 23, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/npow/claude-skills --skill gap-finder
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
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Skill: gap-finder
Source: https://github.com/npow/claude-skills/tree/main/gap-finder
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/npow/claude-skills --skill gap-finder

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps turn vague product or business ideas into viable opportunities by systematically researching markets, testing recurring pain, analyzing competitors, validating monetization, and documenting why weak ideas should be rejected.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Adversarial Idea Validation: Generates concrete ideas and evaluates them against existing solutions, recurring demand, competition, technical feasibility, monetization, and distribution.
  • Deep Opportunity Discovery: Explores a market through a depth-first tree of specific opportunity tuples, including the target customer, entry wedge, unfair advantage, and timing catalyst.
  • Evidence-Based Ranking: Records killed ideas, supporting market evidence, named incumbents, go-to-market paths, surviving opportunities, and optional VC-grade fundability assessments.
  • Use Case: A founder exploring developer tools can use this Skill to evaluate multiple product concepts, identify underserved customer segments, and produce a ranked shortlist with concrete buyers, pricing evidence, competitors, risks, and launch paths.

Quick Start

Ask the gap-finder skill to find and rigorously validate three viable product opportunities for a specific market, customer type, budget, or technical constraint.

Frequently Asked Questions about gap-finder

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

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How do I validate a product idea against existing competitors and market demand?

Deep opportunity discovery explores a market through a depth-first tree of specific tuples, including target customer, entry wedge, unfair advantage, timing catalyst, and named incumbents, producing a ranked shortlist of surviving opportunities with concrete buyers.

Can I use this to evaluate SaaS, open-source tools, and API business opportunities?

Yes, you can generate and rigorously validate multiple product concepts by asking it to find viable opportunities for a specific market, customer type, budget, or technical constraint, producing a ranked shortlist with concrete buyers and competitors.

What is the best way to discover underserved customer segments for developer tools?

Adversarial idea analysis generates concrete ideas and evaluates them against existing solutions, recurring demand, competition, technical feasibility, monetization, and distribution, recording killed ideas and supporting market evidence to reject weak concepts.

How does competitor analysis work when assessing a new business opportunity?

Competitor analysis identifies named incumbents and records supporting market evidence, applying adversarial idea evaluation and optional cross-model critique to assess defensibility and produce a ranked shortlist of surviving opportunities.

When should I not use structured opportunity discovery for project validation?

You should avoid this approach when you lack a specific market or customer type to evaluate, as the adversarial analysis requires evidence-backed search, recurring-pain validation, and documented rejection criteria to effectively kill weak ideas.