About Competitor Scan

Every founder should ask "who else is doing this?" before writing a line of code. Competitor Scan answers it in a few seconds using free public data.

How the score works

The 0–100 score blends, on a log scale: Show HN launches (30%), recent launches (10%), Wikipedia companies, apps and websites (25%), GitHub repository count (15%) and the star count of the top repository (20%). If GitHub's free limit is hit, its weight is dropped and the rest are rescaled.

0–24 Open field · 25–49 Some players · 50–74 Crowded · 75–100 Very crowded

Data

HN Algolia API, GitHub search API (keyless, 10 searches a minute) and the Wikipedia search API. Results are cached for a day.

Built by Ellery Newton (Pocket Scientist)Rebuilt from my Devpost ideas "Database to search competitors to a startup idea", "Idea stealer" and "Competitor stealer". More apps, music and comedy: linktr.ee/pocketscientistpodcast