Buyers, not listings.

A Notion planner at $18 holds 627 ratings. An n8n tool at $1+ shows 2,805 sales. Faceless-YouTube pages talk like a business. We could verify five buyers. The difference is the whole product.

Paid Notion demand is real, and it is crowded. One planner carries most of the weight. Free second-brain and watchlist files add hundreds more ratings; those are downloads, not a price floor. Habit trackers, measured later the same day, repeat the pattern: 185 ratings in the sample, 27 of them on the only fixed-price listing we opened — $15, 403 sales. The rest sit on $0+ files, including one with 6,458 sales printed on the page.

n8n buyers cluster on a dollar. The workflow generator has 36 ratings and 2,805 sales at $1+. A $27 pack next to it had a full page and no public rating count. Midjourney looks thick until you split the pile: 761 of 939 ratings sit on a pay-what-you-want guide. The only fixed-price listing we opened with ratings is a $25 ChatGPT-and-Midjourney mix (97). Obsidian is the cleaner paid signal. A $99 vault shows 386 sales and 15 ratings. Free vaults beside it show thousands of downloads. Do not add those together and call it a $99 market.

Some shelves are loud and empty. Faceless YouTube: copy about six figures, five verified ratings on a $17 guide. Wedding websites: $10, $68, $150. Two ratings across four pages. Shopify themes on Gumroad: 29 ratings, 24 of them on a $29 theme last updated in 2019. Etsy printables: 161 of 163 ratings sit on a free shop-planning worksheet. Paid wall-art packs printed a price and stopped. Courses about selling on Gumroad list at $9.99 and $88+. Neither page showed a buyer.

How we count

We open the public listing page. We write the price the page prints. If the page prints a rating count, that count is a buyer count — one rating, one purchase we can see. Sales and downloads enter the table only when the listing itself displays them. 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. Neither is a blog that cites “459 ratings across the top 8.” If we did not open the page, the number is not here. 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. Unrelated cards get dropped. A writing app ranked for “claude code” is not a Claude Code product.

This is a listing sample, not a census. 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 we could not read a number. Go means we saw a cluster of buyers, including paid ones. Caution means listings exist and the buyer pile is thin, free, or concentrated. No-go means we opened pages and could not verify a rating or a sale.

Free table · eight more niches

Measured 17 Aug 2026, after Week 1

Same rules as Week 1. Habit tracker overlaps the Notion row — do not add those totals. Midjourney’s 97 paid ratings sit on a mixed ChatGPT bundle. Raw notes: data/week-1b.json.

Niche	Call	Verified ratings	Listings opened	Prices seen	Visible sales	Note
notion habit tracker	Go	185	3	$0+ to $15	6,458 sales on a $0+ file; 403 on a $15 file	27 paid ratings on HabitFlix. The other 158 sit on pay-what-you-want. Crowded, next to Week 1 Notion.
midjourney prompts	Go	939	5	$0+ to $25	—	761 ratings on a PWYW guide. 97 on a $25 ChatGPT-and-Midjourney mix. Trained on free.
obsidian templates	Go	103	4	$0+ / $99	386 sales on a $99 vault; thousands of free downloads	Paid demand at $99. Do not read free downloads as a $99 price floor.
resume template	Caution	64	4	$0+ to $5+	4,026 downloads on a free Google Sites file; 34 sales on a $5+ Word file	Four paid ratings. Attention is on free Notion and Google Sites files.
shopify themes	Caution	29	5	$29 to $180	65 and 31 sales on two $49 themes	24 of 29 ratings sit on a $29 theme last updated in 2019. Thin, not empty.
etsy printables	Caution	163	6	$0+ to $29.99	44 downloads on a free calendar	161 ratings on a free Etsy-shop worksheet. Paid wall-art pages: price only.
wedding website	Caution	2	4	$2+ to $150	—	Finished pages at $10, $68, and $150. Two ratings. Pretty supply.
gumroad course	No-go	0	2	$9.99 / $88+	—	How-to-sell-on-Gumroad listings. No ratings or sales on the pages opened.

Free table · Week 1, same day

The first ten, for the record

Full sources on Week 1. Life planner and second brain reuse Notion listings. Do not add those three rows.

Niche	Call	Verified ratings	What the pages actually showed
notion template	Go	991	627 of them on one $18 planner. Paid demand. Crowded shelf.
n8n templates	Go	36	2,805 sales on a $1+ generator. Buyers cluster on the cheap incumbent.
life planner	Go	627	The same Dream Life Planner. Overlap. Do not double-count.
second brain	Caution	245	All on a $0+ Notion file. Attention, not a paid floor.
cold email	Caution	25	A 2021 course still has 25 ratings. Newer packs: price only.
claude code	Caution	0	14 sales on one guide. No public ratings on the pages opened.
faceless youtube	Caution	5	Loud copy. Five ratings on a $17 guide. The rest: price only.
digital planner	Caution	—	Listings at $8–$13. Live rating counts were not readable.
cursor rules	Caution	0	Packs for sale. No ratings or sales on the pages opened.
excel dashboard	No-go	0	Products listed. No verified ratings or sales.

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You name the term. We open the live listing pages already in that niche and write the same table: URL, price, rating count, visible sales, then go / caution / no-go. If a number is not on the page, it stays blank. $2, one time. Not a subscription.

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Chatbots guess and recap. Recaps are not a count. If you already know the term, the scan is the count.