Catherine Beck

About

I’m the founder and hands-on builder behind Rival Shark, making competitive intelligence useful for businesses of every size. A local business owner often needs the same answers as a Fortune 500 strategy team: What are competitors changing? Where is the market moving? What should we do next? Too often, those answers are buried in spreadsheets, browser tabs, scattered data, or costly reports that take months to complete and arrive outdated. Rival Shark turns competitor, industry, and local market research into clear reports a business can act on the same day. My goal is for it to become the tool an owner checks before deciding where the day or week goes. Launching here soon. If you’ve abandoned a competitor spreadsheet or received a stale market report, I’d love to hear from you.

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Maker History

  • Rival Shark
    Rival SharkCompetitor, industry, and local market intel in minutes
    Aug 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJuly 17th, 2026

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18h ago

Rival Shark - Competitor, industry, and local market intel in minutes

Most businesses discover a competitor's move after it has already cost them. Rival Shark turns competitor, industry, and local market research into clear reports you can act on in minutes. See what changed, where your category is moving, how saturated your market is, and who leads it. Every finding includes what it means, what to do next, and how quickly to act. Run reports on demand or schedule competitor monitoring without an analyst team or a months-long research project.

2mo ago

What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

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