Idea intelligence

Stop collecting ideas. Start pricing them.

Everyone has a notes app full of ideas. Nobody has the twenty hours per idea it takes to find out whether one of them is worth a year of their life. IdeaNetWorth does that part — market size, unit economics, named competitors, and an honest verdict — for every idea in the library.

No card, free forever, and it takes about twenty seconds. Your notes, ratings and pipeline are yours to keep, on any plan.

Ideas researched
30
Data points each
40+
Scored dimensions
7
Combined modelled TAM
$268B
Library · sorted by IdeaNetWorth Score

Takedown: Malicious Domain Response Network

B+67

A shared abuse-response platform giving registrars verified threat evidence and an auditable takedown workflow.

TAM
$5.4B
To build
$460K
To MVP
8 mo
LTV:CAC
7.1×

Plainpaper: Research, Explained

B+67

Paste a DOI and get a layered explanation of the paper, plus an honest read on how much the finding should be trusted.

TAM
$7.9B
To build
$190K
To MVP
4 mo
LTV:CAC
7.3×

Quietly: Keyword Muting Across Every Feed

B64

Hide posts and recommendations containing your chosen topics, semantically, across every major feed at once.

TAM
$2.9B
To build
$45K
To MVP
2 mo
LTV:CAC
10.5×
Who it is for

Three people get very different value from the same library.

Solo founders and indie hackers

Find the one you can actually ship

You do not need a thousand ideas. You need the handful you could build alone, this year, that someone would pay for.

  • Filter by what constrains you: cost to build, time to MVP, capital intensity, whether it needs a team.
  • Re-weight the score to your thesis — set speed and feasibility high, and the library re-ranks to what you can ship.
  • Read the verdict that tells you when not to build something. Eight of the first thirty say park it.
  • Every idea carries a wedge: the narrowest first market you could actually win.
Angels, scouts and small funds

See the shape of a market before the pitch

You get sent decks with a TAM slide built to flatter. Come to the meeting with your own number.

  • TAM, SAM, SOM and CAGR on every idea, with the sizing logic written down, not just asserted.
  • Unit economics side by side: CAC, LTV, payback, gross margin, break-even month.
  • The opportunity matrix shows where a whole category sits on demand against buildability.
  • Compare up to six ideas on one radar before you take the call.
Product and innovation teams

Argue from the same numbers

Most idea reviews are the loudest person in the room winning. Start from one ranked list that nobody in the room wrote.

  • Set the scoring weights to what your team actually optimises for, and rank against those.
  • A shared filter link, so "our thesis" is a URL rather than a memo.
  • Your own pipeline from Inbox to Building, with ratings and notes on each idea.
  • Export to CSV for the deck your committee actually reads.
What is behind every idea

Forty data points, not a one-line prompt output.

Every record is researched to the same template, so ideas are genuinely comparable — which is the whole point, and the thing a list in a spreadsheet can never give you.

Market sizing

TAM, SAM, SOM and growth rate, with a note explaining how each number was arrived at.

Full financial study

Startup cost, burn, price point, gross margin, CAC, LTV, payback, break-even month, Year-3 revenue, funding needed.

Seven scored dimensions

Market, monetization, feasibility, differentiation, momentum, moat and speed — each judged separately.

Named competitors

Real companies, and specifically where each one leaves a gap. Including when a free platform feature already does it.

The wedge

The narrowest first market you could win, rather than a fantasy about the whole category.

Three honest risks

The reasons it fails, written to be uncomfortable rather than reassuring.

Validation steps

Three concrete things to do next, cheapest first, so research turns into a week of work.

A confidence flag

Every estimate is labelled low, medium or high. Filter to the well-grounded ones when it matters.

How it works

Four steps, and the library gets better every time you use it.

Bring or browse

Start with the curated library, or paste in the ideas you have been collecting for years. Both live in the same place.

We research it

Each idea goes through the same research pass — market, competitors, economics, risks — and a curator reviews it before it is published.

Filter to your constraints

Set your thesis weights and your limits on cost, time and capital. What survives is a shortlist you can act on.

Work it, do not just read it

Move ideas through your pipeline, rate them, keep notes, compare finalists, and export the shortlist.

Pricing

Free to look. $19 to stop counting.

Two plans, because there is really only one question: is the exact figure worth $19 to you. A free account browses the whole library — every idea, all seven scores, every chart — and opens five of them in full every day. What $19 buys is precision, depth, and no counting.

Explorer

Free forever

See everything the library holds, and find out whether any of it is for you.

  • Every idea browsable, with all seven scores and every chart
  • 5 ideas a day opened in full — and what you open stays open, permanently
  • Money as ranges: "$1B – $5B", not "$7.9B"
  • Compare 2 ideas side by side
  • 50 credits a month — enough to take part
  • Your own private ideas, kept in your library and visible to nobody else
  • Follow contributors, like and discuss ideas, earn credits when people rate yours
Create a free account
Everything

Serious

$19 / month

For the person who is actually going to build one of these.

  • Exact financials — every figure, no ranges
  • No daily limit — every idea in the library, open
  • Business plan, implementation plan, case study and go-to-market on every idea that has them
  • Compare 6 ideas at once
  • 300 credits a month, and you can top up
  • CSV and JSON export of anything you filter
Start free, upgrade later

Line by line

 ExplorerfreeSerious$19/mo
Browse every idea, all seven scores, every chartYesYes
Ideas you can open in full5 a dayNo limit
Market size and unit economicsRangesExact figures
Business plan, implementation plan, case study, go-to-marketNoYes
Compare side by side2 ideas6 ideas
CSV and JSON exportNoYes
Credits each month50300
Buy more creditsNoYes
Pipeline, ratings, notes and shareable filter linksYesYes
Private ideas — your own, visible to nobody elseYesYes
Follow, like, comment, shareYesYes
Contribute ideas, keep the byline, earn creditsYesYes
Ideas you have already openedYours permanently, on either plan

Everything on the free tier is there for good — it is not a trial and it does not expire. The paid tier is one number: $19 a month, cancel whenever, and a month can also be earned with contribution credits instead of paid for.

The contributor economy

The library belongs to the people filling it.

Most idea databases are a vendor talking at you. This one pays the people who make it worth reading — because the best ideas come from someone who just watched the problem happen.

+50credits a month free, +300 on Serious
−30to put an idea in front of people — a curator reads it either way
−10to keep one to yourself instead, +20 to send it for review later
+1from every member who likes it — paid by them, not printed by us
+3from every member who comments
+1from every member who shares it
−250if you ask us to run the research on our own model
3,000credits = 50% off one month. There is no free month.

A closed loop. Credits come in three ways — your monthly allowance, the welcome grant, and buying them — and leave three ways: putting an idea in front of a curator, asking us to run the research, and redeeming a discount. Everything else is members paying each other. Approval is spent, not printed: a like costs the person giving it exactly the credit you receive, and so do a comment and a share. Nothing here creates credits by approval, which is why it cannot be farmed — two accounts passing credits between themselves end up precisely where they started, and you cannot react to your own idea anyway.

Publishing pays you nothing. That is deliberate. An idea is worth what its readers say it is worth, not what a curator awards for accepting it — so putting one in front of people costs 30 and earns whatever the audience sends it afterwards. An idea nobody reacts to cost its author 30, and that is the right answer.

And credits do not buy their way out of paying. 3,000 of them takes 50% off one month — at 300 a month that is about ten months of saving for one half-price month, applied to your Stripe invoice. Contributing should earn you a discount, not an exit.

Keep the byline

Accepted ideas carry your name and link to your profile, with your acceptance rate and the average score of what you have contributed. It is a portfolio of your judgement.

Earn a discount

3,000 credits takes 50% off a month, redeemed from your account page in one click and applied by Stripe to your next invoice. No expiry on the credits while you save them up.

Or keep it to yourself

Not everything is for publishing. An idea you mark private goes straight into your own library and no further — no curator, no queue, nobody else — and costs 2 credits instead of 10.

Every account is topped up

50 credits a month free, 300 on Serious, and subscribers can buy more. Nobody can end up unable to take part because they spent what they had on ideas that were not published.

A person reads every one

Nothing reaches the library without a curator accepting it, and a rejection comes back with the reason. That is why the queue is capped at ten submissions a day and why volume earns nothing on its own.

Straight answers

The questions worth asking first.

Are the numbers real?

They are modelled estimates from a structured research pass, not audited market data — and every record says so, with a confidence flag of low, medium or high. They are internally consistent, which makes them a fair yardstick for ranking ideas against each other. They are not something to put in an investor deck without your own primary research, and we would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.

What stops this being a list I could generate myself?

Nothing stops you generating one. What is hard is generating five hundred to the same template, so that the numbers are comparable, and then having a human check them. Comparability is the product. A pile of individually plausible summaries is not a library.

Do I lose my work if I stop paying?

No. Your pipeline, ratings, notes and private ideas are yours permanently, and everything you have ever opened stays open — the daily number is an allowance on opening new ideas, not a lease on the old. Downgrading returns you to five new ideas a day. Export is a Serious feature, so that one does stop.

Who owns an idea I contribute?

You keep the credit and the byline. You grant IdeaNetWorth a licence to publish the researched version in the library. Ideas are not property — execution is — so nobody here is buying your idea, they are paying you for finding a problem worth looking at.

Why do I need an account just to look?

The research is the product, and it is expensive to produce, so it is not left sitting on the open web to be scraped. Signing up is free and takes about twenty seconds, and it puts the whole library in front of you: every idea, every score, every chart, and five of them opened in full every day.

Why is the free tier this generous?

Because a locked library cannot show you it is worth paying for. A free account browses every idea and every score, and opens five of them in full a day. What you pay for is precision — exact market sizes and unit economics instead of ranges — and the business and implementation plans behind them.

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