Nearly thPaste in your data → get 10 different chart styles optimized ...
...for clarity, storytelling, or aesthetics. Bonus: pick a vibe (professional, Gen Z, investor deck).ere, we are summarizing our findings for you...
The market has seen several mediocre solutions that nobody loves. Unless you can offer something fundamentally different, you’ll likely struggle to stand out or make money.
Should You Build It?
Don't build it.
Your are here
Your idea of creating a tool that converts data into various chart styles falls into a crowded space. Our analysis reveals 16 similar products, indicating high competition. The average engagement for these products is low, with an average of just 3 comments per launch, suggesting many either don't get traction or fail to resonate with users. There's no clear positive signal for either 'use' or 'buy' across these similar products, meaning you're entering a market where standing out is a challenge and people are generally neutral. The 'Swamp' category aptly describes this situation: numerous solutions exist, but few are truly loved. You should prepare for an uphill battle to differentiate and capture user attention.
Recommendations
- Before proceeding, deeply analyze why existing chart generation solutions haven't achieved widespread success. Identify their shortcomings in terms of user experience, feature set, and pricing. For example, several similar products received criticism for lack of customization and integrations with other design platforms (Figma, Canva) - build on that!
- If you're set on pursuing this idea, narrow your focus to a specific niche or user group with unique data visualization needs. Don't try to be everything to everyone; instead, become indispensable to a smaller segment. For example, focus on financial charts for individual investors, or infographics for academic researchers.
- Consider developing tools or integrations that enhance the capabilities of existing charting platforms rather than trying to replace them outright. This could involve creating specialized chart templates, data connectors, or advanced analytics features that address specific pain points for users of tools like Excel or Tableau.
- Since generating a chart is frequently a commodity, it may make sense to pivot and solve the more challenging problems in data consumption, for instance, data cleaning, data transformation, data storytelling, or making data consumable on mobile devices. These may open up more promising opportunities.
- Given the crowded landscape and the absence of strong positive signals, be prepared to re-evaluate your strategy and potentially abandon the project if it fails to gain traction early on. It's better to save your resources for a more promising opportunity than to sink time and money into a saturated market. Consider this a minimum viable experiment, not a guaranteed success.
- When launching, ensure your data import process is extremely clear and easy to use, addressing a key criticism from similar products. Create a video demo on your landing page illustrating the entire process from data input to chart generation.
- Prioritize making your charts visually appealing and modern, as users often compare new tools to existing options like Excel. Invest in high-quality design and offer a variety of aesthetically pleasing templates.
Questions
- What unmet needs do specific user groups have when it comes to data visualization, and how can your tool uniquely address those needs better than existing solutions?
- How can you create a sustainable competitive advantage in a crowded market beyond just offering different chart styles, such as through proprietary algorithms, exclusive data sources, or integrations with niche platforms?
- What is your plan to get users to switch from their existing charting methods (e.g., Excel, Google Sheets) to your new tool, and how will you measure the success of your adoption strategy?
Your are here
Your idea of creating a tool that converts data into various chart styles falls into a crowded space. Our analysis reveals 16 similar products, indicating high competition. The average engagement for these products is low, with an average of just 3 comments per launch, suggesting many either don't get traction or fail to resonate with users. There's no clear positive signal for either 'use' or 'buy' across these similar products, meaning you're entering a market where standing out is a challenge and people are generally neutral. The 'Swamp' category aptly describes this situation: numerous solutions exist, but few are truly loved. You should prepare for an uphill battle to differentiate and capture user attention.
Recommendations
- Before proceeding, deeply analyze why existing chart generation solutions haven't achieved widespread success. Identify their shortcomings in terms of user experience, feature set, and pricing. For example, several similar products received criticism for lack of customization and integrations with other design platforms (Figma, Canva) - build on that!
- If you're set on pursuing this idea, narrow your focus to a specific niche or user group with unique data visualization needs. Don't try to be everything to everyone; instead, become indispensable to a smaller segment. For example, focus on financial charts for individual investors, or infographics for academic researchers.
- Consider developing tools or integrations that enhance the capabilities of existing charting platforms rather than trying to replace them outright. This could involve creating specialized chart templates, data connectors, or advanced analytics features that address specific pain points for users of tools like Excel or Tableau.
- Since generating a chart is frequently a commodity, it may make sense to pivot and solve the more challenging problems in data consumption, for instance, data cleaning, data transformation, data storytelling, or making data consumable on mobile devices. These may open up more promising opportunities.
- Given the crowded landscape and the absence of strong positive signals, be prepared to re-evaluate your strategy and potentially abandon the project if it fails to gain traction early on. It's better to save your resources for a more promising opportunity than to sink time and money into a saturated market. Consider this a minimum viable experiment, not a guaranteed success.
- When launching, ensure your data import process is extremely clear and easy to use, addressing a key criticism from similar products. Create a video demo on your landing page illustrating the entire process from data input to chart generation.
- Prioritize making your charts visually appealing and modern, as users often compare new tools to existing options like Excel. Invest in high-quality design and offer a variety of aesthetically pleasing templates.
Questions
- What unmet needs do specific user groups have when it comes to data visualization, and how can your tool uniquely address those needs better than existing solutions?
- How can you create a sustainable competitive advantage in a crowded market beyond just offering different chart styles, such as through proprietary algorithms, exclusive data sources, or integrations with niche platforms?
- What is your plan to get users to switch from their existing charting methods (e.g., Excel, Google Sheets) to your new tool, and how will you measure the success of your adoption strategy?
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Confidence: High
- Number of similar products: 16
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Engagement: Low
- Average number of comments: 3
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Net use signal: 13.0%
- Positive use signal: 15.1%
- Negative use signal: 2.1%
- Net buy signal: 0.0%
- Positive buy signal: 2.1%
- Negative buy signal: 2.1%
Help
This chart summarizes all the similar products we found for your idea in a single plot.
The x-axis represents the overall feedback each product received. This is calculated from the net use and buy signals that were expressed in the comments.
The maximum is +1, which means all comments (across all similar products) were positive, expressed a willingness to use & buy said product. The minimum is -1 and it means the exact opposite.
The y-axis captures the strength of the signal, i.e. how many people commented and how does this rank against other products in this category.
The maximum is +1, which means these products were the most liked, upvoted and talked about launches recently. The minimum is 0, meaning zero engagement or feedback was received.
The sizes of the product dots are determined by the relevance to your idea, where 10 is the maximum.
Your idea is the big blueish dot, which should lie somewhere in the polygon defined by these products. It can be off-center because we use custom weighting to summarize these metrics.
