A product research assistant - doraithodla/notes GitHub Wiki

Find a product and its ecosystem

Why?

I come up with a product idea and want to make sure there is a market and other products are in the space.

I want to know the leading players, influencers.

I need to predict whether I can be a player in the market place.

What?

Given a product find other simillar product
Given a product, I want to find its category (market/industry segment)
I want to identify the potential growth of the market segment from public information
I want to discover the eco-system - other players, influencers, parthnerships, channels etc.

Who?

Startups
Product Groups
Incubators

How?

recursive search
lists and directories
conferences and events
velocity of propagation of the news

Misc

get a product description and search for the category
Do specific searches to get related information (companies, competition, marketplace etc.)

Let us try A manual experiment of PRA