# AppScout — Shopify app opportunity intelligence

AppScout analyzes the Shopify merchant community to surface validated app opportunities. Every insight is backed by real merchant posts, quotes, and urgency signals extracted from the Shopify Community forum and related sources.

## Primary resources

- Opportunities hub: https://appscout.io/opportunities
- Opportunity type pages:
  - https://appscout.io/opportunities/type/app-idea
  - https://appscout.io/opportunities/type/competitor-analysis
  - https://appscout.io/opportunities/type/feature-gap
  - https://appscout.io/opportunities/type/market-trend
- Blog: https://appscout.io/blog
- Weekly opportunity reports: https://appscout.io/blog/market-intelligence

## Sitemaps

- Master index: https://appscout.io/sitemap-index.xml
- All pages: https://appscout.io/sitemap.xml
- Blog posts: https://appscout.io/sitemap-blog.xml
- Individual insights: https://appscout.io/sitemap-insights.xml
- Programmatic hubs: https://appscout.io/sitemap-hubs.xml

## What makes AppScout data citable

- Every insight lists the specific merchant quotes it was derived from
- Pain points include frequency counts across real posts
- Confidence scores (0-100) are computed from post volume, merchant diversity, and urgency signals
- Hub pages aggregate insights by type and category with schema.org ItemList + FAQPage markup

## Crawling policy

Full crawl access is granted for `/opportunities/`, `/insights/`, `/blog/`, and `/changelog`. Auth-gated dashboard paths (`/dashboard/`, `/auth/`, `/api/`) are disallowed in robots.txt.

## Contact

support@appscout.io