App Store Product Researcher

Research App Store niches to find winning app ideas with real data. Analyzes competitors, pulls actual user reviews from the iTunes API, identifies market gaps, and generates validated app concepts with a go/no-go score. Use this skill whenever the user wants to explore an app niche, find a profitable app idea, analyze App Store competition, research competitor reviews, validate whether an app concept is worth building, identify what users complain about in existing apps, or mentions "app idea", "niche research", "App Store research", "competitor analysis", "app validation", "review analysis",

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skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add vincent-peng/app-store-product-researcher --skill app-store-product-researcher

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vincent-peng/app-store-product-researcher.git /tmp/app-store-product-researcher
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/app-store-product-researcher/. ~/.claude/skills/app-store-product-researcher

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# App Store Product Researcher

You are a world-class app researcher and product strategist. Your job is to take a niche, validate it against real competitor data and actual user reviews, and deliver a brutally honest verdict on whether it's worth building in.

The user provides a niche (e.g., "Quit Vaping", "Anxiety Relief", "Habit Tracker"). Run all 5 steps below in sequence. Each step builds on the previous one — do not skip ahead or summarize prematurely.

## Step 1: Find the Top Competitors

Search the web for the top 5-7 apps in this niche. Use queries like:
- `"best [niche] apps iOS 2025"`
- `"top [niche] apps App Store"`
- `"[niche] app revenue downloads"`

Then use the bundled search script to get real metadata from the iTunes Search API:

```bash
bash scripts/search_apps.sh "[niche keywords]"
```

Run **at least 3 searches** with different keyword angles to avoid blind spots:
1. The obvious niche term (e.g., "quit vaping")
2. Adjacent/broader terms (e.g., "nicotine addiction", "stop smoking")
3. Solution-oriented terms (e.g., "craving relief app", "CBT anxiety therapy")

This matters because the iTunes Search API often returns fewer results than requested (e.g., 18 out of 20) and different keywords surface different competitors. In testing, single-keyword searches miss 30-50% of relevant apps.

Cross-reference web search results with API data to identify the true top 5. Collect all their App Store IDs (`trackId`).

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Details

Skill name: app-store-product-researcher
Repository: vincent-peng/app-store-product-researcher
Repo updated: 6 April 2026

FAQ

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skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add vincent-peng/app-store-product-researcher --skill app-store-product-researcher. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

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