Exploding Topics

Check out ExplodingTopics.com 💥

It shows you “top emerging content ideas and low-competition keywords.”

But perhaps more interesting is the story of how that site came to be, as shared by founder Josh Howarth on Reddit a couple of days ago.

Excerpts:

I’d started to realize that it’s 100X easier to bootstrap a profitable online business if you ride a big market trend. Jump on the opportunity before the competition gets too fierce.

[…] businesses take years of sales, marketing and general hard work even after you’ve launched. I’d like to know that life force is going into a growing opportunity, not a shrinking one.

Josh built Exploding Topics over a 6-month period and recently sold part of it to Brian Dean of Backlinko:

We settled on an amount equivalent to how much I’d earn as a US-based engineer working 6 months, but then multiplied by X for the traction/success factor already achieved. And I also still have a stake in the project going forward.