Validating Products for People Who Don't Want to Be Found
Most idea validation assumes you can talk to the people you're building for. But some of the best niches are made of people who actively don't want to be found.
I noticed this trying to reach an old classmate who did really well and then wiped every profile he had. No LinkedIn, no traces, nothing. And it hit me that there's a whole category of high-value users who treat visibility as a liability. Privacy-obsessed professionals, quietly wealthy folks, anyone who's decided being searchable costs more than it's worth.
That's an awkward market to research the normal way, because your target won't fill out your survey or reply to your DM. You have to read the demand indirectly, from what people stop doing, not what they post.
I built SoloVault to pull those quieter signals into concrete micro SaaS ideas, so you're not only chasing the loud, obvious markets everyone already sees.
How do you validate a product for people who don't want to be reachable?
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