- You can name the competitors already, and the market is small enough to review in an afternoon.
- The answer depends on what people tell you in conversation, such as how they work today or what they would pay. No agent can ask them.
- You want to learn the market by reading it yourself, and the time is part of the point.
- You are checking one idea once, and an hour of searching will settle it.
Compare
Hunting Apps and doing the research by hand
Doing it by hand is how most people check an idea, and for a small market it works. Here is where hand research is the better choice and where an agent saves the weeks.
1.0 The alternative
Doing the research by hand, fairly
Researching by hand means searching the app stores and the web for who already sells a fix, reading their pricing and feature pages, reading forums and reviews for what buyers complain about, and writing down what you found. You read every source yourself, so you know what each one says and how much to trust it. You can also pick up the phone. For a narrow market with a handful of competitors, an afternoon of this is often enough, and it costs nothing but your time.
2.0 Side by side
What each way gives you
Row by row, for the decision a builder is making: whether one idea is worth weeks of work.
| What matters | Doing the research by hand | Hunting Apps |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Your own hours, spread across every market you want to check. A thorough pass on one market takes a day or more. | The agent does the searching and reading while you do something else. You spend your time on the result and on the questions it raises. |
| Cost | No fee. Your time has a price, and so does a wrong call made on a rushed look. | Credits. The estimate for a typical project is about 148 credits, which is $2.11 in the small pack. The figures are below. |
| Sources you can check | You read each page yourself, so you know exactly what you saw. | Every page behind a verdict is linked. You can open any of them, but you did not read them all yourself, so you decide how many to check. |
| Competitors and prices | As many as you have patience to find. People tend to stop after the first page of results. | The market check names the products it found and reads their own sites for prices or features. It can miss a product, and it can misread a page. |
| Depth on one market | You can follow a thread for as long as it stays interesting, including into places no search reaches. | Fixed by the kind of search and a search budget. It goes wide quickly and deep on what it was asked, and no further. |
| Talking to people | Possible, and the strongest evidence there is. | Not possible. It reads what people have already written in public, and nobody has been asked anything. |
| What you keep | Whatever you wrote down. Notes and tabs. | A saved project with the verdict, the sources, the competitor table and a build brief you can push to your own GitHub account. |
3.0 Choosing
When each one is the better choice
- You are weighing several ideas and cannot read a market for each one.
- You want every source kept and linked, so you can check a claim or show it to someone.
- You want the competitors and their prices in one table before you decide where to look harder.
- You want a verdict that can say stop, and a written reason to put beside your own judgement.
4.0 Sources
Figures and where they came from
Prices and features change. If something here is out of date, write to [email protected] and it will be corrected.
| Item | Figure | Source | Read on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical project, credits | About 148 credits (an estimate from the price list; a heavy user, about 450) | Hunting Apps price list, docs/40 §5, an estimate and not a measurement across customers | 26 October 2026 |
| Small pack ($10 for 700 credits) | 148 × $10 ÷ 700 = $2.11 for a typical project; 450 credits = $6.43 | https://huntingapps.io/#pricing | 26 October 2026 |
| Medium pack ($25 for 2,000 credits) | 148 × $25 ÷ 2,000 = $1.85; 450 credits = $5.63 | https://huntingapps.io/#pricing | 26 October 2026 |
| Large pack ($50 for 5,000 credits) | 148 × $50 ÷ 5,000 = $1.48; 450 credits = $4.50 | https://huntingapps.io/#pricing | 26 October 2026 |
| Free allowance | 200 credits for a new account, no card | https://huntingapps.io/#pricing | 26 October 2026 |
Questions
Does it replace talking to customers?
No. It reads what people have written in public, such as reviews, forum posts and listings. It cannot ask anyone a question. Use it to decide which conversations are worth having.
How do I know the sources are real?
Every source is linked to the page it came from, and a verdict may only cite sources the run actually read. Open the links for the claims that matter to your decision.
Can it be wrong?
Yes. It can miss a competitor, misread a price or weigh a thin signal too heavily. The verdict is a starting point for your own decision.
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