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What's in the storage bin

Labelled boxes you still have to open.

Opportunity score

5,319 / 10k

Worth a weekend. Demand is real, execution decides it.

Rank

#78

Gap

B

  • Demand

    43

    6,710 contestable searches a month across 25 related keywords.

  • Momentum

    33

    Last three months ran down 20.0% against the three before, seasonality smoothed out.

  • Competition gap

    59

    16 real products rank on page one for this, ad competition 0.20.

  • Crowd

    44

    6 head-to-head rankings from builders, counted at partial weight until 20.

  • Willingness to pay

    63

    Advertisers pay $3.57 a click for this search — some money moves here.

What this score is based on

evidence checked 9/27/2026

  • Search demand verified against Google Ads data
  • 12 months of search history
  • 25 related keywords clustered
  • No firsthand pain signals collected yet
  • 16 competitors analyzed from page-one results
  • 6 crowd rankings from builders

Search demand comes from Google Ads data via DataForSEO and refreshes daily. Competitors come from a live scan of page-one results. Crowd input comes from builders ranking ideas 1-2-3 on the market.

Keyword cluster

25 keywords · 6,710 searches a month combined

Demand counts the whole cluster: 6,710 searches a month across every relevant way people look for this problem. The intent label on each keyword tells you how close that searcher is to wanting software.

KeywordIntentSearchesCPCAd comp.
home inventory appwants a tool1,300$3.320.16
household inventory appwants a tool1,300$3.320.16
house inventory appwants a tool1,300$3.320.16
home inventory applicationunclear1,300$3.320.16
naic home inventory appwants a tool210-0.02
home inventory softwarewants a tool170$3.540.29
best home inventory appwants a tool170$3.680.17
home inventory management softwarewants a tool170$3.540.29
free home inventory appwants a tool140$4.120.14
naic home inventoryunclear110-0.00
personal inventory appwants a tool50$3.600.19
inventory app for homewants a tool50$3.030.35
home inventory app for insurancewants a tool50$5.220.33
insurance home inventory appwants a tool50$5.220.33
magic home inventoryunclear50-0.00
best home inventory softwarewants a tool30$3.820.37
home food inventory appwants a tool30$0.300.08
home grocery inventory appwants a tool30-0.12
home pantry inventory appwants a tool30$0.970.07
best free home inventory appwants a tool30$6.760.21
nest egg inventoryunclear30-0.12
home inventory trackerwants a tool30$3.480.48
encircle home inventoryunclear30$8.550.27
best home inventory app for ipadwants a tool30-0.00
sortly home inventoryunclear20-0.06

CPC is what an advertiser pays Google for one click on that phrase — a rough price tag on how valuable the visitor is. Ad comp. runs 0 to 1 and is how full the ad auction is: near 1 means advertisers are fighting over it (money is there, but ranking is hard), near 0 means almost nobody bids.

Who has the problem

Labels on storage boxes are too broad to pinpoint individual items, forcing them to open and search through many containers to find one specific belonging. This manual searching is time-consuming and frustrating, negating the effort of initially labeling the boxes.

Who experiences it
Someone trying to find a specific item stored in a box after moving or decluttering
When it happens
They need to locate a specific belonging, knowing it's 'somewhere in a box' but unable to remember which labeled box contains it.
How often
This happens repeatedly as they need various items from storage, leading to searches like 'home inventory app' (1,300/mo).
What they do today
They use generic labels like 'Kitchen' or 'Books' on boxes, which proves insufficient for locating specific items without opening multiple containers.

Read off 25 search phrases, 9/27/2026.

Why now

Demand is cooling; build only if you have an angle the incumbents lack.

  • Searches are down 32% year over year

    1,414 a month twelve months ago → 957 now for "home inventory app".

  • Cooling 20% over the last quarter

    Last three months of searches against the three before them.

  • Peaks in December

    Demand swings 116% across the year, so ship roughly two months before December.

  • Advertisers pay $3.57 a click here

    Buying this intent instead of ranking for it would run roughly $7,186 a month — money is already chasing these searches.

  • 5 real products on page one

    Alongside 11 articles and reference pages, which is room a focused tool can take.

Search data

verified · dataforseo:us · refreshed 9/27/2026

Lead keyword
home inventory app
Cluster volume
6,710 / mo
across 25 related keywords; lead phrase is 1,300 / mo
CPC
$3.57
what an advertiser pays for one click here
Ad competition
0.20
0-1 scale: barely any advertisers bidding

Opportunity score 5,319 = 40% contestable search demand (6,710 a month across 25 keywords) + 25% how open the competition still is (16 products on page one) + 15% momentum (last three months vs the three before, capped so one bucketed month can't swing it) + 10% willingness to pay ($3.57 a click) + 10% crowd rankings (Elo 1498, 6 head-to-heads, weighted by how many votes exist). Anything we can't measure is dropped and the rest re-weighted, so a blank signal never counts as an average one. Search data refreshes daily from Google Ads via DataForSEO.

Monthly searches for "home inventory app"

6 votes · demand from dataforseo:us, updated 9/27/2026

1,414
Sep 25
1,414
Oct 25
2,067
Nov 25
1,741
Dec 25
1,414
Jan 26
1,088
Feb 26
1,414
Mar 26
1,088
Apr 26
1,088
May 26
957
Jun 26
957
Jul 26
957
Aug 26

Peak 2,067 · latest 957 · low 957 searches a month

Google reports monthly volume in fixed buckets (…27,100 · 33,100 · 40,500 · 49,500), so steady months land on the exact same number. Weekly data isn't published.

This chart tracks the single lead phrase. The demand score uses the whole cluster of 25 related phrases (6,710 searches a month), listed below.

Revenue potential

estimate, not a promise

Priced and converted as a prosumer subscription — the funnel below changes with that model, because a freemium consumer app and a B2B tool convert nothing alike.

MRR by month 12

$218 – $1,336

11–67 paying users · +1–7 new a month at 5% churn

Year-one run rate

$2,615 – $16,031

the month-12 number annualised — you earn less than this during the ramp

Price

$20/mo

same price as the business model below

24-month projection

log scale

Month 24 · hover to scrub

Slow build $261Good execution $1,733Breakout $25,867

The two solid lines are the range above: a slow build and good execution on a slice of this demand. The dashed line is the breakout — you become the default answer for this problem, take roughly a quarter of the intent, convert far better because people arrive already sold, and churn halves. That's the outcome worth chasing, and it's about $25,867 a month by month 24 (3,221 paying users). Most ideas land on the bottom line; the point of the chart is that the ceiling isn't the estimate.

How we got there

  • 6,710 cluster searches a month, 1.6x for app stores and word of mouth.
  • You reach 0.9-5.6% of that, scaled by ad competition 0.20.
  • 10% of visitors sign up, 12% of those pay. Trial-led: people arrive already shopping, so trial-to-paid runs high.
  • That wins 1-7 new subscribers a month. Stack 12 months of that against 5% monthly churn and you're holding 11-67 paying users by month 12.
  • Price $20/mo, taken from the business model below.

Who already builds this

5 real products · 11 articles, explainers and store pages · scanned daily on Google for "home inventory app"

5 real products own this search. Everything else on page one is a roundup, review post or explainer, listed separately below.

  • #6Smarthomeamerica

    Ranks #6 on Google for "home inventory app".

    smarthomeamerica.org · from live Google results · verified Aug 18

  • #9Homezada

    Ranks #9 on Google for "household inventory app".

    homezada.com · from live Google results · verified Aug 18

  • #12Theblueplum

    Ranks #12 on Google for "home inventory app".

    theblueplum.com · from live Google results · verified Aug 18

  • #15Sagesure

    Ranks #15 on Google for "household inventory app".

    sagesure.com · from live Google results · verified Aug 18

  • #17Shelf

    Ranks #17 on Google for "home inventory app".

    shelf.nu · from live Google results · verified Aug 18

Also ranking, but not products (11)

Roundups, review posts, explainers and store pages. They compete for the search, not for the job — they don't count against the competition gap.

Likely business model

willingness to pay 50/100

Prosumer subscription

People are actively shopping for a tool here, so charge from day one.

Price to test · from ad click value

$8–$32/mo

No competitor pricing page was readable, so this band comes from what a click on this intent costs advertisers ($3.57) — a starting price to test, not a proven one.

What to charge for

Trial then subscribe. This crowd is already comparing paid tools, so ask for the card early rather than running a wide free tier.

What this data can't tell you

  • · Nobody's published price backs this band yet — treat the number as a test, and put a price up in week one to find out.

Willingness-to-pay evidence

  • Advertisers pay $3.57 a click for this intent — real money already chases it.
  • 76% of the 25-keyword cluster is commercial-intent wording (best, app, pricing, alternative).
  • Ad competition 0.20 — few advertisers fighting for it.

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