Sluice (n.)A trough miners use to filter dirt and catch gold. Here, a tool that filters the App Store and surfaces the apps worth building. the
App Store
for gold.

Type a niche. Get a verdict. Skip the noise.

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001 · Catalog
3.0K
apps cached and refreshed daily
002 · Demand signals
1.4K
from HN, Reddit, PH, GitHub, Bluesky, Apple Today
003 · Snapshots
12.4K
chart and keyword rank captures, growing every 6h
How it works

Three layers in every
Gold Brief.

01Pan

Real money, not hype

We pull active Meta ads for your niche, prune the false positives with an LLM relevance pass, then size the top spender. If nobody is paying to acquire here, the verdict is KILL. Every time.

  • Meta Ad Library
  • LLM relevance filter
  • Top-spender envelope
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02Listen

Demand from six firehoses

Every Show HN, every "somebody make this" thread, every Product Hunt launch, every GitHub trend, every Apple Today feature, every Bluesky wishlist, matched to your niche with token-aware regex.

  • HN · Reddit · PH
  • GitHub · Bluesky
  • Apple Today
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02
03Strike

Clone what works

The top live ad creatives in your niche, the localized terms that have open markets internationally, and a 5-step 90-day plan written for you. Don’t invent. Ship the proven format.

  • Clone targets
  • Localization gap
  • 90-day plan
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03

Three motions, in
under a minute.

Step 01

Type

Niche

A niche. Two words is enough. "habit tracker", "ai notes", "calorie counter". No spreadsheets, no tags, no onboarding flow.

Step 02

Pan

~10s

We score it on five layers — active-ad density, top-spender envelope, white-space, demand signals, and localization gaps. About 10 seconds.

Step 03

Strike

Ship it

Read the verdict. Open the clone-target ads. Follow the 5-step 90-day plan. Ship the first version this weekend.

Most app ideas are dirt.
Sluice catches the gold.

Free while we’re
in the creek.

Beta access
$0

Every endpoint, every page, every export. No card. No tier. No limits while we’re shaping the product.

Pricing lands when we ship watchlists, alerts, and the public API.

Pan a niche

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