How niche is too niche?

There was a question on the topic on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questi... It was posted 1 month ago and collected 121k views. So it seems that you can get volume. Next is to check what subscription rate you can expect to see if the project can generate enought MRR.

Wow - I thought us targeting wealthy individuals was niche! I think niche can work. I remember this company called Charity Checkout which essentially was a payment widget for charities. There was no technical difference to being able to use the Paypal widget but these guys branded themselves as just for charities and made the checkout process white-labelled so that it looked like the charities own checkout widget. I seem to recall them charging £30pm and having a few thousand users back in 2014. Since then, they raised £7m in funding and seem to be going strong still (started 2009) albeit with a rebrand. The key I guess for you is execution - how do you get to your niche audience. SEO is unlikely to generate the traffic as it used to - much harder nowadays - and as @fabian_maume posted, there doesn't seem to be much search traffic. So perhaps think of ways to engage that specific audience in the forums they are in. Sounds like a clever solution though - well done.

A technique I've sent used a lot is to write a top quality guide about how to do it the *hard* way. So for you, it would comprise all the steps involved in an article titled "How to convert SQL queries into C# LINQ code" - which is literally the first thing I'd Google as a dev faced with that challenge. Assuming you write a good article you should get listed pretty highly on Google (eventually) As much as the temptation might be to just say "use our cool AI tool" you actually have to walk them through how to do it manually, but just point out the existence of your tool and how it can save them time. This type of article shows you know what you're talking about, and establishes trust that your tool will actually work. As to the original question - it depends on what you want to achieve and in what sort of timeframe. Serving a very niche community is great for product validation, but only if 1) that niche actually exists 2) you know how to reach them, or 3) the niche has a strong network effect (i.e. they'll tell each other). If you don't know where the niche hangs out then the best you can do to reach them is long form content that might get organic traffic; coupled with hanging around in Stack Overflow where you can answer users directly (though you should answer the question they ask, not just spam them)