The latest articles on DEV Community by Demandproof (@demandproofhq). https://dev.to/demandproofhq https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4081458%2F3ea1def2-f41e-43a8-8c6b-2383bcb9b6fa.png https://dev.to/demandproofhq en Demandproof Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:15:57 +0000 https://dev.to/demandproofhq/i-opened-live-gumroad-pages-for-10-niches-a-rating-is-a-buyer-most-pages-had-none-4nid https://dev.to/demandproofhq/i-opened-live-gumroad-pages-for-10-niches-a-rating-is-a-buyer-most-pages-had-none-4nid <p>I did not scrape Gumroad. I opened public listing pages on 17 August 2026 and wrote down only the ratings, prices, and sales those pages printed. A rating is a buyer I can see. A listing with no ratings is supply.</p> <p>This is the opposite of a large scrape recap. Someone already published a "most niches don't have buyers" post from a scrape. Fine. I wanted numbers I could click. If I did not open the page, the number is not here.</p> <h2> The table </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Niche</th> <th>Call</th> <th>Verified ratings</th> <th>Listings opened</th> <th>Prices seen</th> <th>Visible sales</th> <th>Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>notion template</td> <td>Go</td> <td>991</td> <td>5</td> <td>$0+–$29</td> <td>3,199 downloads on one free file</td> <td>639 ratings on paid listings. One $18 planner holds 627. Crowded.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>n8n templates</td> <td>Go</td> <td>36</td> <td>2</td> <td>$1+ / $27</td> <td>2,805 sales on the $1+ generator</td> <td>Buyers exist. They already trained on a dollar.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>life planner</td> <td>Go</td> <td>627</td> <td>1</td> <td>$18</td> <td>—</td> <td>Same listing as the Notion planner. Do not add the rows.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>second brain</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>245</td> <td>1</td> <td>$0+</td> <td>—</td> <td>Same Simple Second Brain file as the Notion row. Free/PWYW.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>cold email</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>8</td> <td>3</td> <td>$9–$47</td> <td>—</td> <td>Thin paid sample.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>claude code</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>6</td> <td>3</td> <td>$9–$29</td> <td>—</td> <td>A writing app ranked in search and was dropped.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>faceless youtube</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>5</td> <td>3</td> <td>$17–$49</td> <td>—</td> <td>Sales-page copy talks like a business. Five verified ratings.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>digital planner</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>4</td> <td>3</td> <td>$8–$27</td> <td>—</td> <td>Supply is easy to find. Buyers on the pages I opened are not.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>cursor rules</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>$5–$19</td> <td>—</td> <td>A screen ruler ranked in search and was dropped.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>excel dashboard</td> <td>No-go</td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>$9–$29</td> <td>—</td> <td>Products listed. No rating or sale I could read.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p>Eight more niches, same day, same rules:</p> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Niche</th> <th>Call</th> <th>Verified ratings</th> <th>Note</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>notion habit tracker</td> <td>Go</td> <td>185</td> <td>Overlaps the Notion row. 27 ratings on the only fixed-price listing ($15, 403 sales).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>midjourney prompts</td> <td>Go</td> <td>939</td> <td>761 of those sit on a PWYW guide. The paid cluster is a $25 mixed ChatGPT/Midjourney pack (97).</td> </tr> <tr> <td>obsidian templates</td> <td>Go</td> <td>15+</td> <td>A $99 vault shows 386 sales and 15 ratings. Free vaults show thousands of downloads. Do not add them.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>resume template</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>thin</td> <td>Listings exist. Buyer pile is thin.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>shopify theme</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>29</td> <td>24 of 29 sit on a $29 theme last updated in 2019.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>etsy printables</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>163</td> <td>161 of 163 sit on a free shop-planning worksheet.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>wedding website</td> <td>Caution</td> <td>2</td> <td>Prices $10 / $68 / $150. Two ratings across four pages.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>gumroad course</td> <td>No-go</td> <td>0</td> <td>$9.99 and $88+ pages. Neither showed a buyer.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <h2> How I count </h2> <ol> <li>Open the public listing page.</li> <li>Write the price the page prints.</li> <li>If the page prints a rating count, that count is a buyer count. Sales and downloads enter the table only when the listing itself displays them.</li> </ol> <p>A card in search is not a source. A snippet that says "59 ratings" is not a source until the page loads and repeats the number. Chat recaps are not evidence.</p> <p>Free and pay-what-you-want files count as demand of a weaker kind: someone took the file. They did not necessarily pay a fixed price.</p> <p>Go means I saw a cluster of buyers, including paid ones. Caution means listings exist and the buyer pile is thin, free, or concentrated. No-go means I opened pages and could not verify a rating or a sale.</p> <h2> What this week does not claim </h2> <p>This is a listing sample, not a census. Gumroad Discover is client-rendered and often returns a card or two. Missing sales on a page is not proof of zero sales. It is proof I could not read a number.</p> <p>Life planner and second brain reuse listings already counted under notion template. Habit tracker overlaps that row too. Do not add those totals.</p> <h2> Sources </h2> <p>Full write-up with listing URLs: <a href="https://demandproof.kylevarga.com/week-1.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Week 1 report</a></p> <p>The table also lives at <a href="https://demandproof.kylevarga.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">demandproof.kylevarga.com</a>. A custom term, same method, is $2.</p> showdev webdev indiehackers discuss