Yep, this is a dropshipping idea. Most people are saying the gold rush is over, but there’s still a lot of money to be made, and a lot of aspects of the process could probably be helped by AI. Here’s one. Remember us when you’ve hit $10k MRR selling pickaxes 😘
Overview:
Imagine being the ops brain for Amazon sellers, but without the 20 tabs and doomscrolling. Every week you get a 5–7 point, no-fluff brief that tells you: what changed in Amazon’s world, where the money’s moving in your category, which keywords are heating/cooling, who’s undercutting you, and which policy landmines to avoid. It’s like a “ten‑minute Monday standup” for your FBA business, generated by scraping the right sources, running them through an AI that actually prioritizes what matters, and delivering it in an email or simple dashboard. Start basic, then layer in brand-specific watchlists and competitor alerts so you see exactly what’s actionable for your ASINs.
The Trends:
Amazon FBA remains the dominant fulfillment model with large and growing numbers of third‑party sellers, keeping demand high for seller-focused operational intelligence. (1, 2)
Sellers are rapidly adopting AI for listing optimization, customer service, and analytics, making AI‑powered summaries and automations a natural product fit. (3)
Amazon is tightening catalog quality and enforcement (catalog purges, creation throttling, storage/reimbursement rule changes), raising the value of timely policy alerts and compliance monitoring for sellers. (4, 5)
Niche, subscription‑based briefings and micro‑SaaS products for solopreneurs and SMB operators are growing—creators and small teams increasingly pay for curated, actionable intelligence rather than raw data. (1, 6)
Price wars and automated repricing are intensifying on Amazon, so sellers value concise, signal‑driven alerts about keyword shifts, competitor pricing moves, and repricer impacts on margins. (2, 1)
Your Answer:
Weekly AI-curated briefing for Amazon FBA operators that distills algorithm changes, emerging profitable niches, keyword shifts, price wars, and vendor/policy updates into 5–7 actionable insights.
Solves information overload and missed-opportunity risk by automatically scraping relevant sources, filtering noise with heuristics, and using an LLM to produce concise, prioritized recommendations sellers can action in 10 minutes.
Monetization: monthly subscriptions with tiered monitoring (category vs brand-level), paid upsells for custom brand audits/competitor alerts, and agency-style retainers for one-on-one strategy calls.
Go-to-market: seed audience via FBA communities, micro-content (short TikToks/LinkedIn threads showing wins), trial freemium brief, and referrals/affiliate partnerships with tools like Keepa/Helium10.
Why it wins: leverages trends (niche media + AI agents + solopreneur tools), delivers measurable ROI (faster repricing, caught policy shifts, niche discovery), and is low-cost to scale — high LTV from sellers who value timely, profit-driving intel.
Your Roadmap:
No-code MVP: Wire up scrapers (Apify/Octoparse) to pull ASIN-level price, BSR, review count, and Buy Box changes for 50 target SKUs.
Pipe scraped data into Airtable via Zapier/Make; normalize fields and set simple change-detection flags (price drop, BSR spike, review surge).
Use GPT (OpenAI) to generate a 1–2 page weekly briefing per seller: highlights, 3 tactical opportunities, and 2 risks—triggered automatically when flags appear.
Deliver via email (Mailgun/Postmark) + a tiny Notion or Glide dashboard with charts (Airtable/Chartly) and downloadable PDF report.
Monetize: $29/mo starter tier for automated weekly briefs; offer 1-off $199 custom brand audit as an upsell.