Etsy POD Analyzer
Print-on-demand market intelligence dashboard
A curated dashboard for Etsy print-on-demand sellers covering ranked product types, niche scoring, SEO keyword pools, seasonal calendars, pricing bands, production-cost benchmarks, and a 30-day launch plan.
Open the live appproblem
New POD sellers waste weeks of weekends reading anecdotal blog posts about which products and niches sell on Etsy. The data is real but scattered, and most of what people share is a year out of date.
solution
Compiled the research once — Etsy stats, EtsyHunt data, Printify and Printful production costs — and shipped it as a single Flask app rendering Tailwind cards and Chart.js visualisations. Ten endpoints, one page, opinionated rankings.
architecture
external → compute → store → ui
outcome
Replaces about ten browser bookmarks worth of POD research with one page, and gives a new seller a 30-day plan to follow.
stack
capabilities
- →Ranked product types and niches by profitability score
- →Real bestseller examples with pricing patterns
- →SEO keyword pools and seasonal demand calendar
- →30-day action plan for new sellers
- →Production cost breakdowns per provider
lessons learned
- 01A clearly-dated static dataset is more useful than a half-built live integration. Trust comes from "as of March 2026" labels.
- 02Single-file dashboards age well — no JS bundle, no client-side data fetching, just gunicorn and Tailwind.
- 03Ranking is opinionated content. The score formulas are documented on the page so users can disagree on purpose.