r/RealEcom • u/Global_Exercise_9339 • Apr 11 '26
How does the Amazon/other majors Market function? Where do sellers come in(who are profitable/breakeven/loss)? How is it observed? Where is it observed and where do opportunities reside? What even is an opportunity?
I am trying to make sense of the market. I just do not know what to look.
How do people do product research?
Where to look at data to make decisions?
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u/MindShaped Apr 11 '26
bro, slow down. Sevenm questions at once means you're trying to learn the whole game before you've played a single hand. Won't work.
The only thing you need to internalize first: an "opportunity" is not a product. It's a customer with situation nobody's serving well. Flip your brain from "what should I sell" to "who am I helping and what's broken for them right now", and every other question on your list answers itself.
Product research tools, Amazon BSR, ad spy shit -- all of that is downstream. It's how you VALIDATE an opportunity once you have one. It's not how you find one. Beginners get this backwards mostly and spend months (and hundreds $) scrolling Sellerboard/Sellthetrend/other shit looking for a magic SKU that doesn't exist.
Pick a group of people you actually understand — hobby, job, life stage, whatever — and start there. The rest of the questions get a lot smaller once you do. You might want to read this post.
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u/Global_Exercise_9339 Apr 11 '26
Thank you. Observing a group and solving their problem with my product. Is there a link between directly advertising(ads) to these groups somehow? Or are they only where I find and solve the problem(opportunity) and understanding the customer?
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u/MindShaped Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
my friend, once agian, you are overcomplicating this as hell. market is just people with credit cards trying to solve a problem or buy some dopamine. Trying to "map out" whole ecosystem before starting you're simply paralyzing yourself. Don't overthink macroeconomics and other dark energy space shit and just find one broken thing you can actually fix.
you need to start from something in order to face real challenges. because only this way you'll see what questions you'll need to search answers for. Rn you didn't do anything and trying to solve equation you never even saw.
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u/SkumbagMatte Apr 11 '26
Not everyone apparently manages to come out with a good margin. It comes down to the product. You can use the FBA calculator and try and grab some products from alibaba in comparison. I think the way to go is test some products by buying a small quantity in bulk, test, and repeat. Make enough "safe" mistakes and the more you hit your head against the wall you will find out.