Unlike brainstormed lists or AI-generated ideas, these come directly from Google's autocomplete data – meaning real people typed these phrases when looking for solutions. Stuff like "an app to find parking spots," "an app for tracking plant watering," "an app that translates dog barks" (yes, really).
Built this in about 7 hours using the existing Google Autocomplete A-Z API I built. The data updates daily and I flag anything that appeared in the last 7 days as "new" to catch trending ideas.
What I'm still working on: Right now it's just a clean list of keywords, which feels a bit dry. I'm still looking for ways to surface the most interesting/viable ideas and trying to add context. If anyone has creative ideas for presenting this kind of data, I'm all ears.
Also curious: What other categories would be interesting to explore with this? I focused on app and website ideas first, but the same technique works for any seed phrases. What would be most valuable to the HN community? And for those building tools or doing research – this runs on the Google Autocomplete API if you want to experiment with your own keyword categories (free with rate limits).
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