30 ways to find your next $10K+ MRR idea for 2026: 1. Read GitHub issues and look for recurring pain points developers ignore. 2. Set Reddit alerts for “I wish someone would build…” and validate demand. 3. Build an agent around a single recurring vertical Upwork task that pays well. 4. Monitor API changelogs and build integrations the day they launch. 5. Summarize 1-star Chrome Store reviews with ChatGPT and fix the top three complaints. 6. Audit browser DevTools to see what power users still do manually. 7. Reverse-engineer topProduct Hunt hits, then apply AI to improve them. 8. Read YouTube tutorial comments to see what viewers still can’t figure out. 9. Watch Twitch streamers and note what workflows interrupt their flow. 10. Scan job listings for repeated “must-know” tools; build easier versions. 11. Dig through graveyard from companies like Google and ship the best abandoned projects. 12. Implement new AI research papers as usable web apps. 13. Explore niche subreddits and find problems that appear every week. 14. Review SaaS feature requests and build what the big players delay. 15. Connect open-source tools that don’t yet talk to each other. 16. Track “Chrome extension for X” search volume to spot new demand. 17. Feed GPT the top extension descriptions and ask for adjacent product ideas. 18. Use Perplexity Deep research etc to mine podcast transcripts on people's daily frustrations they’re telling you what to build. 19. Follow changelogs and tech-stack migrations of popular startups; build the missing glue. 20. Look at Zapier’s most-used zaps and each one could be an autonomous agent. 21. Track “AI for X” or “agent for X” search queries with SerpAPI. 22. Analyze public Notion templates and build vertical agents around them. 23. Browse LinkedIn for people describing manual data tasks and productize one. 24. Watch how startups use ChatGPT for customer support and make a vertical agent from it. 25. Rebuild niche directories (lawyers, therapists, realtors) as AI concierge services. 26. Create agents that plug into boring SaaS categories: procurement, compliance, HR ops. 27. Read changelogs from AI model providers; build tooling the day new capabilities appear. 28. Find spreadsheets that companies rely on and replace them with AI dashboards. 29. Identify agencies that charge per project and productize their work into recurring SaaS with agents. 30. I built a tool that automates a lot of this, http:// ideabrowser.com and we give away 1 free startup idea per day with paid plans for AI agents to help you. Maybe it'll get your creative juices flowing. I'm rooting for you. TLDR; – The next big idea is probably hidden in a comment thread. – Every complaint online is a free focus group. – Chase friction. every pain point is a map. find one, solve it, then look for the next one it connects to. keep solving until the solutions form a workflow people can’t live without. by owning the whole chain of pain you build defensibility. – Every repetitive task is a business model waiting for an agent. – The internet keeps leaving clues, just gotta listen