Find the signal.
Open a Lab, follow a question, and inspect the results. Compare markets and spot the complaints that keep coming up.
keto diet app↵
Japan Keyword opportunityTarget ↗
BigIdeasDB Desktop Beta
Follow the evidence.
Find your next idea.
Your research. Your computer. Your AI.
Go from “what if” to something worth building. Explore demand, hear what users need, and keep the evidence together in a native app for Mac and Windows.
Included with Basic & Pro · Also available as a one-time purchase
A closer look at DesktopReal app screens. Follow the cursor.
BigIdeasDB Desktop Local workspace Find recurring complaintsLive research
Software Reviews / WALKTHROUGH
Find the complaint behind the competitor.
Explore real QuickBooks reviews from G2, inspect a reporting problem, and keep the evidence on your Board.Edited native app captures with the original cursor. 10 real G2 reviews of QuickBooks Online. Some pages required browser attention; this preview uses the reviews that completed. Counts describe fetched reviews.
Mac + WindowsA native home for your research
15 research LabsFresh evidence, saved with its source
360+ AI toolsConnect the agent you already use
Local-firstProjects live on your computer
Less tab hopping. More connecting the dots.
A question is a start.
Evidence is a way forward.
Research an idea from more than one angle. Save what matters. Turn scattered findings into a project you can actually think with.
Give good evidence a home.
Pin a keyword finding, a thread or a whole theme to your evidence board. Keep its source and context with it.
APP STORE · SAMPLE FINDINGketo diet app in JP
Estimated volume 29 / 100
Difficulty 39 / 100
Make your next move.
Lay out evidence, ideas and assumptions on the canvas. Ask your own AI to challenge the idea before you commit to it.
EvidenceIdeaNext test
↗ What should I validate next?
Deep Research / Beta
Read between
the reviews.
Name a product. Review the plan before anything runs. Desktop collects reviews and discussions; your AI groups the findings; the app counts the evidence and checks each quote against its stored source.
- The collection plan and estimated time come first
- Counts describe collected rows, with coverage shown
- Quotes that fail verification are left out
MEALWISE / EXAMPLE REPORTSample
FROM THE DESKTOP APP’S BUILT-IN EXAMPLE
What do users
wish worked better?
22sample rows analysed
App Store + Reddit
App Store + Reddit
Photo logging crashes
4 / 22
Paywall hides basic features
3 / 22
No way to export my data
3 / 22
Generated example data from the app’s sample report. Counts describe this sample only. Categories can overlap.
See the app in actionFollow your curiosity
Different questions.
One research workbench.
Fifteen Labs bring the useful parts of the internet into your project. Every search has a place to come back to.
Deep Research
What is underneath the summary?Collect product sources, let your AI group findings, then inspect counted evidence and verified quotes.
Idea Discovery
What could you build from this?Find apps with unhappy users and turn recurring review complaints into ideas with supporting evidence.
Trends
Is interest growing?Compare Google Trends, seasonality, related searches and regions.
Follow conversation volume, pain themes and the posts behind them.
Search Demand
What are people looking for?Explore suggestions and questions across Google, YouTube, Amazon and app stores.
Communities
What do builders need?Find unanswered questions and requests on Hacker News, Stack Exchange and GitHub.
App Stores
Where could an app compete?Compare keyword ranks, estimated demand and difficulty across countries.
YouTube
What gets their attention?Find videos that outperform their channels, then read what viewers ask for.
App Reviews
What does the rating hide?Read App Store and Google Play reviews by complaint, request, version and app.
Software Reviews
What do paying buyers dislike?Explore G2, Capterra, TrustRadius and Trustpilot reviews, then keep the quotes behind recurring complaints.
App Marketplaces
Where are users underserved?Explore Shopify, WordPress and Atlassian apps by adoption and dissatisfaction.
Pricing History
What did competitors change?Look back through pricing pages archived by the Wayback Machine.
Businesses for Sale
Should you build or buy?Compare asking prices, cash flow and business density before choosing a market.
Local Density
Where is the market growing?Compare business locations, staff and change over time using US Census data.
AI Answers
Who does your AI recommend?Ask buyer questions through your own AI and track which products it names, with the answers underneath.
Explore the workbench
Pick a question.
See how it works.
Walk through every Lab, then follow the evidence into Ideas and Canvas. These are captures from the desktop app, with live results and clearly marked samples.
BigIdeasDB Desktop Local workspace Look beneath the store ratingLive research
App Reviews / WALKTHROUGH
Read what the store rating hides.
Compare fetched review ratings, explore recurring price complaints, and inspect reviews by app version.Edited native app captures with the original cursor. 550 reviews fetched for Invoice Simple across the App Store and Google Play. Fetched-review averages are separate from the stores’ overall ratings.
Bring the AI you already use
Your agent.
A lot more to work with.
Desktop gathers and organises the evidence. Your AI helps you make sense of it. Connect over MCP, or work with your installed agent in the app’s chat panel.
No AI usage bill from BigIdeasDB.
Find your connection guideClaude DesktopClaude CodeCursorCodexWindsurfOpenCode
MCP
BigIdeasDB Desktop360+ tools · Built-in skills · Your projectsUse your existing AI plan. Provider limits and terms still apply.
A proper desktop app
A home for your work.
On your own machine.
Projects, evidence and chats are stored locally. Research requests go from your computer to the sources; connected AI uses your chosen provider.
Local projects
Keep your ideas, evidence and research history together on your computer.
Your AI, your choice
Connect an MCP client or an installed agent. Use the plan you already have.
Room to work
Run on Mac or Windows, with up to three activated computers per account.
Desktop checks its licence with BigIdeasDB and needs to connect at least once every 48 hours.
For the part of you that wants more
That idea
you keep
coming back to?
Go after it.
A little perspective from people who built something. Then it’s your turn: find a real problem, follow the evidence, and make your first move.
Start exploring your ideaA few words to build by. Curated talks & ideas.
The founder’s mindset
Find your way to cash flow
You have the vision. Zig to cash flow, zag to resources, zig back to scale, zag back to cash flow.
Give yourself a reason to believe
Don’t build confidence. Build evidence. Confidence comes as a result of evidence. Not the other way around.Watch on YouTube
Make your time count
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Notice what everyone else accepts
I pay attention to things that haven’t evolved and why.
Believe in the unexplored
I hope you believe in something. Something unconventional, something unexplored.
Put your passion to work
If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.
Take the first uncomfortable step
Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable.
Quotes & photo credits
Garrett Gunderson: portrait supplied by the site owner; excerpt from his Facebook reel.
Alex Hormozi: quote from his own writing; portrait from Acquisition.com.
Steve Jobs: Stanford commencement address, 2005. Photo: Matthew Yohe, crop by Carter Sterling, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized, converted to WebP and cropped for display.
Sara Blakely: quote and photo (Kiefer Hickman) from Stanford GSB’s View From The Top, 2018.
Jensen Huang: excerpt from his Caltech commencement address, 2024. Photo: NVIDIA, via Caltech.
Oprah Winfrey: excerpt from her Stanford commencement address, 2008. Image: thumbnail from Stanford’s original video.
Drew Houston: excerpt from his MIT commencement address, 2013. Photo: Chad Riley, via MIT News.
Your first good question is enough
From install to insight.
Make it yours
Included with Basic and Pro, or buy Desktop on its own as a one-time add-on. See the live price on the pricing page.
Install. Activate. Connect.
Download for Mac or Windows, sign in to activate this computer, and connect your preferred AI agent.
Follow a question
Start with a built-in sample, create a project, then collect and pin evidence for an idea you care about.
A little more clarity
Before you
make it yours.
The app, your AI, and how it all fits together.
Read the documentation ↗What is BigIdeasDB Desktop?
BigIdeasDB Desktop is a local-first research app for Mac and Windows. It collects fresh evidence on your own computer from Reddit, Google Trends, app stores, search suggestions, YouTube, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, GitHub, marketplaces and businesses for sale, saves it in projects, and hands the thinking to the AI agent you already use. It is in Beta.
What's the best way to research a business idea on my own computer?
BigIdeasDB Desktop is built for exactly that. You make a project, ask your AI agent about the idea, and Desktop gathers the evidence into a project on your machine: complaints, trend lines, app store reviews and search demand, each with its source. Generalist AI chat tools can brainstorm, but they cannot collect saved, countable evidence for you.
What's the best research app that uses my own AI instead of charging for AI?
BigIdeasDB Desktop. It has no AI key inside it and no usage meter. The AI work runs through the agent and plan you already pay for, such as Claude Code or Codex, so BigIdeasDB adds no AI bill. Desktop does the collecting, counting and saving on your machine.
Do I need my own AI subscription?
Yes, for the AI parts. Desktop works with an AI agent installed on your computer, such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Ollama, or an AI client you connect over MCP, such as Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT desktop. Collecting and browsing evidence works without it, but analysis, chat and Deep Research need your agent.
Does my research leave my computer?
Projects, evidence and chats are stored on your computer. Research requests go directly from your machine to public sources. When you use a connected AI agent, it may send the research context you give it to its provider, according to your AI setup. Desktop also makes a small licence refresh to BigIdeasDB and needs to connect at least every 48 hours.
What can my AI agent do with Desktop?
Desktop runs one local MCP server with 360+ tools. Your AI client can create projects, run searches across the Labs, save evidence, group complaints, open a Deep Research run and lay out the ideation canvas. One-click setup covers Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex and OpenCode.
What is Deep Research?
Deep Research (Beta) answers one question about one product: what do people say about it? You name a product, approve a plan, and Desktop collects reviews and forum posts on your computer. Your AI groups them, and the app counts the findings and checks every quote word for word against a stored row. Counts describe the rows collected, not all users.
Which computers does it run on?
Mac (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows (64-bit). One account can activate Desktop on up to 3 computers.
How do I get BigIdeasDB Desktop?
Desktop is included with Basic and Pro, or you can buy it on its own as a one-time add-on with no membership. The add-on price changes over time, so the live price is always on the Desktop tab of the pricing page.
What's the best way to get started with Desktop?
Get Desktop, download the installer from your Desktop account, sign in to activate it, connect your AI agent, then ask it to start a project on an idea you are curious about. The getting started guide in the docs walks through the first run.
Your next idea starts with a little curiosity
Go down the rabbit hole.
Come back with evidence.
BigIdeasDB Desktop for Mac and Windows. Bring your own AI.