PAIN TRIGGERS
Highlights sites reveal scores in thumbnails and titles making spoilers unavoidable.
Other· football (soccer) fans delaying match viewingPain 6.00/10WTP 4.0/10Market 7.0/10Validation 6.0Confidence 75%Apr 19, 2026
SpoilerFreeFooty: Score-Hidden Soccer Highlights Viewer
Highlights sites and Twitter reveal match scores in thumbnails and titles, spoiling results before viewing.
content-discoveryfootballmobile-appproductivityspoiler-preventionsportssports-fansweb-app
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STAGE 01 · PROBLEM
Is the problem real?
CANONICAL PROBLEM
Football fans encounter spoilers from scores in thumbnails, titles on highlights sites and Twitter before watching matches.
FREQUENCY
Multiple repeated complaints in the post and comments.
INTENSITY
Users explicitly describe existing tools as bloated/overkill and mention workaround behavior.
EVIDENCE
After a year of nights and weekends, I finally shipped my football highlights site: after90fc.com
r/SideProject22
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STAGE 02 · CUSTOMER
Who feels this pain?
TARGET USERS
football (soccer) fans delaying match viewingDelayed Viewing Premier League Fans
Soccer fans who watch matches delayed and avoid spoilers
Context
Access spoiler-free football highlights and updates.
Opening Twitter on Sunday mornings despite spoiler risk.
Current Workarounds
Opening Twitter despite spoiler risk on Sunday mornings
Avoiding highlights sites entirely
Manually muting score-related keywords
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STAGE 03 · MARKET
Where's the gap?
EXISTING SOLUTION GAPS
All existing highlights sites include scores in thumbnails and titles.
Twitter displays match scores prominently on timelines.
OPPORTUNITY & VALUE
Why Now
Repeated complaints about highlights sites thumbnails/titles and Twitter timelines spoiling scores.
Value Proposition
Only platform that bakes spoiler protection into all visual and textual elements, unlike existing sites.
Product Direction
A web/mobile app delivering soccer highlights with scores completely hidden in thumbnails, titles, and timelines until user unlocks.
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STAGE 04 · BUSINESS
How does it make money?
MONETIZATION
$0Free core · Pro $4.99/yr for custom filters + stats
Model
Freemium subscription
WILLINGNESS TO PAY
Fans repeatedly complain about unavoidable spoilers disrupting enjoyment, but signals show tolerance for risky workarounds like opening Twitter anyway; pro features could appeal to dedicated fans already using manual muting.
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STAGE 05 · EXECUTION
How do you ship it?
MVP PLAN
“Browse Twitter and highlights spoiler-free in one click.”
A web/mobile app delivering soccer highlights with scores completely hidden in thumbnails, titles, and timelines until user unlocks.
Core Features
Score-masked thumbnails and titles
Timeline filter to hide match results
One-tap 'reveal score' after watching
Twitter integration for spoiler-free feeds
Weekly Roadmap
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W1-W2
Core Twitter score hiding works on timelines.
- •Manifest V3 Chrome extension scaffold
- •CSS selectors for Twitter score elements
- •Basic toggle switch UI
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W3-W4
YouTube thumbnails and 3 highlights sites blurred.
- •YouTube thumbnail score detection/blur
- •Filters for 101greatgoals, FootyRoom, SoccerHighlights
- •League selection dropdown
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W5
Polish, Firefox port, and 50 r/soccer dogfooders.
- •Firefox WebExt compatibility
- •Settings persistence + error logging
- •Beta test with r/soccer users
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W6
Chrome Store launch with first 1k installs.
- •Submit to Chrome/Firefox stores
- •r/soccer + Product Hunt launch post
- •Analytics for install/usage tracking
Launch Strategy
Launch in Reddit r/soccer and r/football, Twitter soccer fan accounts; SEO for 'spoiler free highlights'.
RISKS & ASSUMPTIONS
Top Risks
DOM changes on target sites
Twitter and highlights sites update layouts frequently, breaking CSS selectors and requiring constant maintenance.
Chrome Web Store approval delays
Extensions with content filtering may face review scrutiny or rejection for policy violations.
Limited repeat engagement
Usage is match-timed, leading to low retention outside weekends and big fixtures.
Weak pro upgrade conversion
Core free version may fully solve the pain, leaving little incentive for paid features.
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STAGE 06 · DECISION
Should you build it?
NEED A CLEARER CALL?
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Generate an investment memoWhat this score means
This idea scores in the upper-middle range of opportunities surfaced by MonetScope, with a validation sub-score of 6/10 against 1 independently sourced evidence signals. A "promising" rating usually indicates a real pain has been detected and discussed in the open, but the pipeline did not find enough signal to flag it as urgent or high-frequency. These opportunities can still produce excellent businesses — they often correspond to "boring" problems that established players have ignored — but the founder should expect a longer customer-development cycle to confirm willingness to pay.
Why this matters for Other founders
It sits at the intersection of "content-discovery", "football", "mobile-app", which makes it relevant to a specific subset of founders rather than a generic horizontal opportunity. Opportunities in this category typically reward founders who can describe the pain in the user's own language — both because that's the basis of effective marketing, and because it's the strongest signal that the founder has done the upfront listening. The MonetScope pipeline surfaces this category alongside other other signals, which is why it appears here rather than in a generic "trending ideas" feed.
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