Indie hackers, solo makers, and AI small-business builders — only the signals that matter for your week.
A trend on Trend Radar is not a single piece of news. We start from signals picked up in solo-founder communities (Reddit, Hacker News), then auto-promote when articles or official posts attach. Off-topic items get filtered out by the LLM stage.
Tiers: 🔴 Early signal — community only / 🟡 Spreading — 1–4 articles attached / 🟢 Mainstream — 5+ articles or official posts attached
Solo-founder decisions are fast and lonely. Instead of chasing Twitter, Substack, IndieHackers, Reddit, and HN every morning, this radar lets you start the week on one screen with only the signals that matter.
We collect Reddit (r/Entrepreneur, r/indiehackers, r/SideProject, r/nocode, r/ChatGPTPro, r/SaaS, etc.) and Hacker News (top stories + Algolia keyword search) every hour. The LLM filters out anything irrelevant to a one-person business, and the remaining signals are sorted into one of six categories. Tiers auto-promote as articles attach to the same trend.
Reddit (Entrepreneur, indiehackers, smallbusiness, SideProject, nocode, ChatGPTPro, SaaS, OpenAI, ClaudeAI, etc.) · Hacker News (top + Algolia keyword search) · IndieHackers, Stripe, Substack and other indie business outlets. Each source carries a weight based on reliability (official / verified / community).
Every trend has a 0–100 score and a tier. The score is bounded inside the tier.
| Tier / Factor | Description |
|---|---|
| 🔴 Early signal (0–59) | Lives only on Reddit/HN. High potential, low validation. |
| 🟡 Spreading (55–84) | 1–4 articles attached. Good moment to evaluate. |
| 🟢 Mainstream (80–100) | 5+ articles or official posts attached. Hard to ignore. |
| Within-tier weighting | Inside the same tier, mention intensity, source reliability, and recency are combined. |
We run only 6 categories aligned with the build → launch → grow → monetize loop of a one-person business.