{
  "product": "Demandproof",
  "report": "week-1",
  "measured_on": "2026-08-17",
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "method": {
    "rule": "A public Gumroad rating is treated as one buyer. Sales and download counts are recorded only when the listing page itself displays them. Prices are recorded from the listing. Numbers that could not be read on a live public page are omitted or marked unverified. Third-party recaps are not used as verified counts.",
    "sources_used": [
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=claude+code",
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=digital+planner",
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=cursor+rules",
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=n8n+templates",
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=notion+template",
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=cold+email",
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=faceless+youtube",
      "https://gumroad.com/discover?query=excel+dashboard",
      "Individual public Gumroad listing pages opened 2026-08-17"
    ],
    "limits": [
      "Gumroad Discover pages are heavily client-rendered. Fetch often returned one or two ranking cards, not a full first page. Product-count totals for a search term were not independently readable this week.",
      "Many listings hide sales. Absence of a sales number is not evidence of zero sales.",
      "Free and pay-what-you-want listings inflate download counts relative to paid demand.",
      "Discover search is noisy. Unrelated products sometimes rank (example: a screen-ruler utility under 'cursor rules'; a writing app under 'claude code'). Those were excluded from the rating totals."
    ]
  },
  "verdicts": {
    "go": "Ranked listings show a real cluster of ratings, including at least one paid product with buyers, or a large paid-rating count on a single listing.",
    "caution": "Listings exist and some buyers are visible, but the sample is thin, mostly free, or dominated by one product.",
    "no-go": "Listings exist but no verified ratings or sales could be read on the pages opened this week."
  },
  "niches": [
    {
      "term": "notion template",
      "verdict": "go",
      "verified": true,
      "listings_opened": 5,
      "verified_ratings_total": 991,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 639,
      "price_range_seen": ["$0+", "$5+", "$18", "$29"],
      "visible_sales": [
        {
          "title": "Watchlist Tracker (Aesthetic)",
          "url": "https://poonamsharma.gumroad.com/l/wrhac",
          "figure": 3199,
          "label": "downloads",
          "price": "$0+"
        }
      ],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "The Dream Life Planner Simple & Aesthetic Notion Template",
          "url": "https://slowcozykelly.gumroad.com/l/2025notionplanner",
          "price": "$18",
          "ratings": 627,
          "rating_avg": 5.0,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Simple Second Brain for Notion",
          "url": "https://ance.gumroad.com/l/simple-second-brain-for-notion",
          "price": "$0+",
          "ratings": 245,
          "rating_avg": 5.0,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Watchlist Tracker (Aesthetic)",
          "url": "https://poonamsharma.gumroad.com/l/wrhac",
          "price": "$0+",
          "ratings": 90,
          "rating_avg": 5.0,
          "sales": 3199,
          "sales_label": "downloads",
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Notion Life Hub Full Template",
          "url": "https://laurenjessica.gumroad.com/l/notion-lifehub-2023",
          "price": "$5+",
          "ratings": 17,
          "rating_avg": 4.9,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Course Builder Notion Template",
          "url": "https://soltwagner.gumroad.com/l/course-builder-notion-template",
          "price": "$29",
          "ratings": 12,
          "rating_avg": 4.8,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Marketsy and other third-party recaps of Notion planner revenue. Not first-party listing pages."
      ],
      "note": "Clear paid demand. One $18 planner alone has 627 ratings. Free second-brain and watchlist templates add volume but should not be read as paid willingness. A new generic Notion template still has to beat a crowded, already-rated set."
    },
    {
      "term": "n8n templates",
      "verdict": "go",
      "verified": true,
      "listings_opened": 2,
      "verified_ratings_total": 36,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 36,
      "price_range_seen": ["$1+", "$27"],
      "visible_sales": [
        {
          "title": "n8n Workflow Generator",
          "url": "https://alexk1919.gumroad.com/l/n8n-workflow-generator-v1",
          "figure": 2805,
          "label": "sales",
          "price": "$1+"
        }
      ],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "n8n Workflow Generator",
          "url": "https://alexk1919.gumroad.com/l/n8n-workflow-generator-v1",
          "price": "$1+",
          "ratings": 36,
          "rating_avg": 4.8,
          "sales": 2805,
          "sales_label": "sales",
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "10 n8n Workflows for Gumroad Sellers",
          "url": "https://corbettrevops.gumroad.com/l/ndiadx",
          "price": "$27",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17",
          "note": "Live page showed $27 and a full description. No rating count or sales count was visible."
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Several other n8n workflow listings found by search ($15+, $19, $39/$19, $49) with no rating count readable in the snippet. Not opened in full this week."
      ],
      "note": "Buyers exist. The visible sales pile up on a $1+ generator (2,805 sales, 36 ratings). A $27 bundle listed with no public ratings. Demand is real; a new paid pack still has to earn its own ratings against a cheap incumbent."
    },
    {
      "term": "life planner",
      "verdict": "go",
      "verified": true,
      "overlap_with": ["notion template"],
      "listings_opened": 1,
      "verified_ratings_total": 627,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 627,
      "price_range_seen": ["$18"],
      "visible_sales": [],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "The Dream Life Planner Simple & Aesthetic Notion Template",
          "url": "https://slowcozykelly.gumroad.com/l/2025notionplanner",
          "price": "$18",
          "ratings": 627,
          "rating_avg": 5.0,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17",
          "note": "Same listing counted under notion template. Included here because Discover also surfaces it for planner-style terms."
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [],
      "note": "Paid buyers are concentrated on one well-rated Notion life planner. Overlaps the notion-template row. Do not add the 627 twice if you are summing the week."
    },
    {
      "term": "second brain",
      "verdict": "caution",
      "verified": true,
      "overlap_with": ["notion template"],
      "listings_opened": 1,
      "verified_ratings_total": 245,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 0,
      "price_range_seen": ["$0+"],
      "visible_sales": [],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "Simple Second Brain for Notion",
          "url": "https://ance.gumroad.com/l/simple-second-brain-for-notion",
          "price": "$0+",
          "ratings": 245,
          "rating_avg": 5.0,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Third-party mentions of a Second Brain Template with 27,700 sales. Not confirmed on a live listing this week."
      ],
      "note": "245 ratings on a pay-what-you-want listing. That is buyer attention, not proof people will pay a fixed price for another second-brain system."
    },
    {
      "term": "cold email",
      "verdict": "caution",
      "verified": true,
      "listings_opened": 2,
      "verified_ratings_total": 25,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 25,
      "price_range_seen": ["$27", "$37"],
      "visible_sales": [],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "The Complete Cold Email Course 2021 - B2B Lead Generation",
          "url": "https://joshgeorge.gumroad.com/l/cold-email-course-b2b-lead-generation",
          "price": "$27",
          "ratings": 25,
          "rating_avg": 5.0,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Cold Email Mastery Bundle",
          "url": "https://smartflowlab.gumroad.com/l/hhjcp",
          "price": "$37",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Discover card for The Art of X (4.9, 497 ratings) under the cold-email query. Product is an X/Twitter business guide, not a cold-email product. Excluded as search contamination.",
        "SheetSmart (4.9, 18 ratings) mentions cold-email generation inside a Google Sheets tool. Adjacent, not counted in this term.",
        "Other cold-email swipe-file listings at $25.39 and prompt packs with no visible ratings."
      ],
      "note": "A 2021 course still shows 25 five-star ratings at $27. Newer packs list at $25–$37 with no public ratings on the pages opened. Buyers exist. The term is not empty. It is also not a thick first page of rated products."
    },
    {
      "term": "claude code",
      "verdict": "caution",
      "verified": true,
      "listings_opened": 4,
      "verified_ratings_total": 0,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 0,
      "price_range_seen": ["$5", "$5+", "$12", "$14.97"],
      "visible_sales": [
        {
          "title": "AI Code Review with Claude Code: Complete Implementation Guide",
          "url": "https://rseventh.gumroad.com/l/ai-code-review-claude-code",
          "figure": 14,
          "label": "sales",
          "price": "$5+"
        }
      ],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "AI Code Review with Claude Code: Complete Implementation Guide",
          "url": "https://rseventh.gumroad.com/l/ai-code-review-claude-code",
          "price": "$5+",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": 14,
          "sales_label": "sales",
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Complete Guide to Claude Code — Beginner to Productive in One Day",
          "url": "https://hyperautomationlabs.gumroad.com/l/claude-code-guide",
          "price": "$14.97",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Claude Code Skills Kit",
          "url": "https://davidson6128.gumroad.com/l/smkpx",
          "price": "$5",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Claude Code Starter Kit — .claude/ Rules, Agents & Skills",
          "url": "https://villagalvan.gumroad.com/l/ehqpz",
          "price": "$12",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Discover card for ZimmWriter, 4.8 (168). Writing software, not a Claude Code product. Excluded.",
        "40 Claude Code Commands listing. Fetch timed out; ratings not confirmed."
      ],
      "note": "Supply is real and recent. One listing shows 14 sales and no ratings. The other three show price only. People are listing. Public proof that many people are buying is still thin."
    },
    {
      "term": "faceless youtube",
      "verdict": "caution",
      "verified": true,
      "listings_opened": 3,
      "verified_ratings_total": 5,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 5,
      "price_range_seen": ["$10.85", "$17", "$69.99"],
      "visible_sales": [],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "YouTube Ai Automation & Faceless Channel Guide 2026",
          "url": "https://mydigiassetsstore.gumroad.com/l/aiyoutubeautomation",
          "price": "$17",
          "ratings": 5,
          "rating_avg": 5.0,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Faceless YouTube Secrets - The 6 Figure Blueprint",
          "url": "https://thefacelessytacademy.gumroad.com/l/6figureblueprint",
          "price": "$69.99",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "The Faceless Creator Blueprint",
          "url": "https://radodo.gumroad.com/l/ciienq",
          "price": "$10.85",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Discover card for The Faceless YouTube Engine, 5.0 (5). Seen on the Discover snippet only. Product page not opened this week. Treated as unverified.",
        "YT Automation Blueprint fetch timed out."
      ],
      "note": "Courses exist from $11 to $70. Only one opened listing showed ratings, and only five of them. Hype on the sales pages is loud. The public buyer count is not."
    },
    {
      "term": "digital planner",
      "verdict": "caution",
      "verified": false,
      "listings_opened": 3,
      "verified_ratings_total": 0,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 0,
      "price_range_seen": ["$7.99", "$9.99", "$12.99"],
      "visible_sales": [],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "Ultimate All-in-One Digital Planner 2025–2026-2027 & Undated – Beige Edition",
          "url": "https://plamarplanners.gumroad.com/l/retsbv",
          "price": "$7.99",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "All-in-One Digital Planner 2026-2027 | GoodNotes & Notability",
          "url": "https://jewelwing0.gumroad.com/l/zsfpmc",
          "price": "$12.99",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "All-in-One Business Planner",
          "url": "https://stixellostudio.gumroad.com/l/ycnprb",
          "price": "$9.99",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Free Monthly Digital Planner (emmastudies.gumroad.com/l/free-monthly-digital-planner). Search snippet said 59 ratings. Live fetch timed out. Unverified.",
        "All-In-One Digital Planner Bundle (iplannerlife.gumroad.com/l/bmegm). Search snippet said 5.0 (2). Live fetch returned almost no body. Unverified.",
        "Marketsy category tables and a DEV Community recap citing 5,461 products / 459 top-8 ratings / 27,700 sales. Third-party. Not used as verified counts."
      ],
      "note": "Supply is obvious. GoodNotes planners list in the $8–$13 band. This week we could not independently confirm rating totals on the planner pages we opened. Do not treat the niche as empty. Do not invent a first-page rating sum. Verdict is caution until a later scan reads the live rating counts."
    },
    {
      "term": "cursor rules",
      "verdict": "caution",
      "verified": true,
      "listings_opened": 2,
      "verified_ratings_total": 0,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 0,
      "price_range_seen": ["$1", "$13+"],
      "visible_sales": [],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "AI Coding Starter: 10 Cross-Tool Rules for Cursor, Claude Code & Codex",
          "url": "https://rulestack.gumroad.com/l/pykkol",
          "price": "$1",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Set Up Cursor Right the First Time: Rules, Security & Automation",
          "url": "https://buildtolaunch.gumroad.com/l/cursor-setup-guide",
          "price": "$13+",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Discover card for Screen Ruler Pro, 5.0 (8). A measuring utility, not Cursor IDE rules. Excluded as search contamination.",
        "Other rules-pack listings (AgentForge, Vibe Stack) found by search with no rating counts in the snippet."
      ],
      "note": "People are packaging .mdc / .cursorrules files at $1 and $13+. No ratings or sales were visible on the pages opened. Early market, not a measured buyer pile."
    },
    {
      "term": "excel dashboard",
      "verdict": "no-go",
      "verified": true,
      "listings_opened": 3,
      "verified_ratings_total": 0,
      "verified_paid_ratings": 0,
      "price_range_seen": ["$14.99", "$14.99", "$29+"],
      "visible_sales": [],
      "listings": [
        {
          "title": "Digital Product Seller Profit & Content Tracker",
          "url": "https://anahitstudio.gumroad.com/l/nxqiai",
          "price": "$14.99",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Seller Profit & Fee Tracker | Online Business Spreadsheet",
          "url": "https://smadsby.gumroad.com/l/ejxcg",
          "price": "$14.99",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        },
        {
          "title": "Automated E-Commerce Bookkeeping Dashboard",
          "url": "https://vivre05.gumroad.com/l/xytjqh",
          "price": "$29+",
          "ratings": null,
          "rating_avg": null,
          "sales": null,
          "status": "verified_price_only",
          "fetched": "2026-08-17"
        }
      ],
      "skipped": [
        "Supplier Quality Scorecard ($16) and Financial Ratio Dashboard ($33.47). Prices seen in search; live rating counts not confirmed.",
        "SheetSmart, $0+, 4.9 (18 ratings). Google Sheets AI helper, not an Excel dashboard. Kept out of this term's total."
      ],
      "note": "Dashboards are for sale. None of the Excel-dashboard pages opened this week showed a rating or a sales count. Until a later scan finds rated listings, this is a no-go on public buyer evidence — not a claim that the category is empty."
    }
  ],
  "week_summary": {
    "terms_measured": 10,
    "go": ["notion template", "n8n templates", "life planner"],
    "caution": ["second brain", "cold email", "claude code", "faceless youtube", "digital planner", "cursor rules"],
    "no_go": ["excel dashboard"],
    "strongest_verified_signal": "Dream Life Planner, $18, 627 ratings at 5.0 on Gumroad.",
    "strongest_verified_sales": "n8n Workflow Generator, $1+, 2,805 sales and 36 ratings.",
    "honesty_note": "Do not add overlapping rows (notion template + life planner + second brain) into one grand total. Life planner and second brain reuse listings already counted under notion template."
  }
}