GitHub Trending to Product Ideas: Automated Market Signal Pipeline Indie makers have a reliable problem: the gap between "I could build something" and "I know what to build." The usual advice is to scratch your own itch, which is fine when you have one. When you don't, or when you have built the itch-scratcher and are looking for idea number two, the gap becomes real. You end up doom-scrolling Twitter for product ideas, which is exactly the wrong input channel — Twitter surfaces opinions, not signals. The better inputs are places where people publicly announce what they are actually working on. GitHub trending shows what open-source projects are gaining stars this week — a leading indicator of what developers are adopting. Hacker News Show HN is the oldest and still best channel for early-stage project launches — pre-revenue, pre-PR, founder-posted. Reddit's r/SideProject and r/IndieHackers are where solo makers announce projects at the "I shipped something" stage, often with transparent metrics.…