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Validate Your App Idea with AI Deep Research - AI Foundations Day 5

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Research Your Idea with Perplexity Deep Research

5:03 with Travis Alstrand

The three-phase pipeline you're working through, why Perplexity is the right tool for this phase, and the full market research prompt run live: market size, competitive landscape, demand signals, growth signals, and risk factors, all with sources attached.

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Rapid Market Assessment Prompt

You are a senior market analyst. Conduct a rapid market assessment for this business idea.

BUSINESS IDEA: [Place your business idea here]

TARGET AUDIENCE: [Place your target audience here]

GEOGRAPHY: [Place your desired initial geography here]

I need the following, with sources for every claim:

  1. MARKET SIZE
    • How big is this market overall?
    • How big is the specific segment I'm targeting?
    • Is this growing or shrinking?
  2. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
    • Top 3-5 direct competitors
    • What do they do well?
    • What gaps do they ALL leave?
    • Who's underserved by current solutions?
  3. DEMAND SIGNALS
    • Are people actively searching for this?
    • Is there Reddit/forum activity around this problem?
    • Any recent product launches suggesting market activity?
  4. GROWTH SIGNALS
    • Top 3 trends driving demand right now
    • Top 3 threats or headwinds
  5. RISK FACTORS
    • Regulatory concerns?
    • Technology dependencies?
    • Timing risk — too early or too late?

FORMAT: Structured report with headers. Every number has a source or is labeled "estimated." Flag low-confidence findings explicitly.

Vocabulary

  • Stress test — Deliberately attacking your own idea, spec, or prompt to find the weak points before reality does.

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    You picked your top idea yesterday. 0:00
    You debated it, stress-tested, and wrote a one-paragraph summary. 0:02
    Today you find out if the market agrees. 0:07
    90% of products fail because founders skip this step. 0:09
    They brainstorm, get excited, build for a few months, and launch to… crickets. 0:13
    The smartest builders flipped this. They use AI to compress weeks of research 0:19
    into hours and validate demand before writing a single line of code. 0:24

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