Demand signal research
Mine what people already say, inspect the alternatives, and return up to ten evidenced gaps without padding a thin run.
Public and MIT licensed
Signal
Find the wish before you build the thing.
Somewhere, a person is explaining the exact thing they tried to find and could not. Signal is a disciplined way to find that request, prove it is real, and check whether someone already solved it.
Receipts first
Public method
MIT licensed
The method
Real demand leaves fingerprints.
Signal does not begin with a list of app ideas. It begins with people describing a problem in their own words, in places where they were already talking to each other.
- 01
Find the live complaint
Look for repeated requests, ugly workarounds, and the sentence that starts with “I tried three of these already.” Vendor blogs and generic idea lists do not count as demand.
- 02
Read the actual page
Open the thread, read the replies, and separate what the source says from what the researcher thinks it means. Search snippets are clues, not evidence.
- 03
Map what already exists
Check the current alternatives and name the gap they leave. If the problem is already solved well, the honest output is not an opportunity.
Minimum receipt
- What the person said
- The source URL
- The date the page was read
- Finding kept separate from diagnosis
Receipts or it did not happen
A quote, a source URL, and a checked date.
Every demand claim carries all three. The method refuses to dress a guess in a real citation or call an old thread “ongoing” without opening it. That makes the shortlist smaller. Good.
Point it either way
What should I make? Where do I show up?
Audience channel research
Find where those people gather, then open each venue’s rules and quote what it says about self-promotion before recommending that you walk in.
Use the part that fits
Skill, guided prompt, or manual method.
The public repository includes two installable agent skills, a guided prompt that interviews you first, and the underlying manual rubric. It is not tied to one assistant or one output format.
The old robot is still humming
The live site is an example, not the product boundary.
Static Hum once ran Signal as a daily publishing system. That experiment moved outside the Studio’s active product scope, so the full method was released under the MIT license. The original site remains online as a worked example of what the dossiers look like.