Niche trade/market data is locked up or unusable — ⚠️ validated willingness-to-pay

Reddit · r/Entrepreneurmixed2026-10-15

Pain point

A commenter built an interactive dashboard of 5 years of South African fresh-fruit export volumes and **already has a paying subscriber**. That's a real dollar on the table for packaging public data.

Signal

28 upvotes, one thread — but this is the closest thing here to an "I'd pay for it" signal, since someone *is* paying.

Opportunity

Repeatable template: take a public customs/trade/ag dataset, wrap in a clean dashboard, sell $49-199/mo to exporters, brokers, and buyers in that commodity. Quick to build;

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