App Idea Miner

Collects "I wish there was an app" posts, clusters them with HDBSCAN, scores sentiment with VADER, and shows the clusters with evidence links in a React dashboard. The backend is FastAPI.

Role: Creator
Years: 2025
Status: Live
Stack: Python
FastAPI
React
HDBSCAN
NLP
Redis
PostgreSQL

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The brief

Real user needs are scattered across forums and social media.

The build

An ingestion pipeline with deduplication, NLP idea extraction, clustering and a FastAPI backend.

What shipped

Live at app-idea-miner.vercel.app.

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