Apify Market Gap Finder

Compare user-declared niches against the public Apify Store and rank evidence-backed market gaps. The Actor uses only GET https://api.apify.com/v2/store. It returns transparent cohort metrics, confidence, and ranked opportunities without inventing market-size claims.

What you get

• Scores each seed query against an isolated public Store cohort.
• Ranks the niches by the shared Wave 3 opportunity formula.
• Returns one dataset report row with scored opportunities and source metrics.
• Writes the compact run summary to default KVS key OUTPUT.

How to use

1. Click Try for free and enter at least two niche queries.
2. Set a unique requestId and optionally choose Store categories.
3. Start the run and read ranked opportunities from the dataset row.

Pricing

Pay-per-event:

• apify-actor-start: $0.005
• result-found: $0.10

Input

{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "requestId": "gap-001",
  "seedQueries": ["market gap", "pricing gap"],
  "categories": ["LEAD_GENERATION"],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "freshnessMinutes": 60,
  "detailLevel": "compact"
}

Output

{
  "schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "requestId": "gap-001",
  "reportType": "market_gap_report",
  "generatedAt": "2026-07-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "sampleConfidence": "low",
  "evaluatedQueryCount": 2,
  "opportunities": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "niche": "market gap",
      "opportunity": { "score": 61.2 }
    }
  ]
}

Missing fields stay null. No revenue, profit, or private-account data is inferred. The business envelope is written to KVS key OUTPUT; the same requestId is a replay and cannot create another Dataset row or result-found charge.

Related tools

Related tools for adjacent workflows in in-house factory tooling.

Actor	What it does
Apify Actor Idea Validator	Pair it in the in-house factory tooling workflow: Assess one proposed Apify Actor idea against public Store similarity, activity, quality, competition and...
Apify Niche Demand Radar	Pair it in the in-house factory tooling workflow: Produce a current demand-direction snapshot for one declared niche using observed public Apify Store user...
Apify Portfolio Expansion Planner	Pair it in the in-house factory tooling workflow: Rank user-supplied candidate niches by public Store opportunity and textual adjacency to a user-supplied...
Apify Pricing Benchmark Advisor	Pair it in the in-house factory tooling workflow: Summarize visible public Apify Store event-price distributions for a declared cohort

FAQ / Support

Does a small sample prove a niche is empty? No. Missing fields and limited cohorts remain explicit in the report.

What this is NOT. It is not a market-size, revenue, or autonomous niche-invention tool. Report bugs through the Actor page.