Reverse-engineering indie products. Measured, not repeated.https://teardown.gaiya.cc/zh-CNhttps://teardown.gaiya.cc/teardowns/adscreator/https://teardown.gaiya.cc/teardowns/adscreator/Paste a URL, get ad creative. The product is the easy part — the asset is the 534-page SEO net around it, 171 pages of which never mention AdsCreator in the title. This revision found something the first pass missed: the video feature it now leads with does not exist in its pricing or its API docs.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSEOGEOAI adsNext.jsVercelhttps://teardown.gaiya.cc/teardowns/transcribeaudio/https://teardown.gaiya.cc/teardowns/transcribeaudio/A transcription tool six weeks old. 186 endpoints, every one annotated in Chinese, sitting on a backend with subscriptions, credits, refunds and dunning already wired — while the site itself has no way to pay. This revision adds the arithmetic on how long it can afford to stay free.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsite networkreverse engineeringFastAPIAlibaba CloudChina outboundhttps://teardown.gaiya.cc/research/intel-sites/https://teardown.gaiya.cc/research/intel-sites/Finding ideas and finding revenue are not the same search, and they do not use the same sites. Graded by who the number is accountable to: filed, checked, estimated, timely. This revision corrects three wrong fee figures from the first version and demotes Flippa out of the top grade.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTsourcesrevenue datamethodhttps://teardown.gaiya.cc/research/pain-mine-01/https://teardown.gaiya.cc/research/pain-mine-01/28 subreddits scanned, 21 threads read closely, five patterns that cut across industries and ten buildable web products. Includes the sampling method, the four I threw out, and two assumptions that would invalidate the whole ranking.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdemand researchRedditproduct opportunitieshttps://teardown.gaiya.cc/research/pain-mine-02/https://teardown.gaiya.cc/research/pain-mine-02/Part one was all B2B process. This round took 34 different subreddits into caregiving, health insurance, education, creative work and household logistics. The most valuable thing that came out of it was not the ten openings — it was several practitioners turning up to explain why the obvious product will not work.Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTdemand researchRedditproduct opportunitiescounter-evidence