Research

The Opportunity Finder

Type a keyword the way a reader would search it. RoyaltyMiner collects the live Amazon results for it — the titles on page one, their prices, ratings and review counts — and gives the niche an opportunity score out of 100.

A repeat of the same keyword within twelve hours is answered from what was already collected and costs nothing extra.

What the score means

The score measures competition — how crowded and how beatable a niche looks: how deep the competition goes, how much room there is on price, how concentrated the reviews are, how stable the results are from one reading to the next.

It never measures reader demand. Nothing the app collects can see how many people want a book, and it will not pretend otherwise. Every screen that shows a score says so.

Two things you can rely on:

• Every score explains itself. The factors that moved it are listed, each with its reading.
• What could not be measured is listed too. Seasonality needs a year of history; trend needs weeks. Until there is enough, the page says not measured yet rather than inventing a figure.

Angles

Angles reads the competing titles and reports the audiences, formats, methods and promises the market actually uses, and how entrenched each one is. It deliberately does not invent titles for you — it shows you the ground so you can pick the gap.

Concepts

The one place the app writes during research. From a measured brief it drafts a book concept — title options, positioning, a description, keywords and categories — that you can export or hand straight to the book writer. It is charged as its own step, with the price on the button.

Categories

A mirror of Amazon's Books browse tree as collected, so you can see where a niche sits and what the neighbouring categories look like.

The Opportunity Vault — Research Vault Pro

A shelf of niches we researched and checked before you ever type a keyword, published as a drop each month. Each row carries the keyword, its live score — read fresh when you open the page, not a figure that was true once — and how many factors that score could measure. Open one and it runs in the Opportunity Finder like any other keyword, with the full breakdown and the competing titles.

From a concept to a book

A concept drafts five titles and you keep the ones worth writing. Each kept title is its own book: they all appear on the Books screen under From your research, and writing one leaves the rest there for later.

The book you start opens with its setup already filled in — who it is for, what it promises, the argument, the objections, the voice, plus the description, keywords and categories for the KDP listing. You are editing the research's answers rather than answering the same questions twice. The one field worth rewriting is what the book draws on: the app proposes what a book like this would need, but it cannot know your experience.

Saved research

Everything worth keeping saves into a research project: keywords, competing titles, concepts. A project reopens later without a new search, and a book can be started from it with the research pre-filled.

Royalties, while you research

"What you would earn here" applies KDP's royalty maths to the niche's observed prices — list price, Amazon's share, printing cost — so you can compare a niche's typical price with what that price leaves you. It costs nothing and it never claims to know how many copies will sell.

Limits

Your plan sets how many fresh searches you can run each month, how many research projects you can keep, and how far back history goes. The Research Vault Pro upgrade removes those caps. See Plans and upgrades.