Choosing Your Niche and Platform
With a category chosen from Chapter 2, the next step is narrowing to a specific niche within it. "A Notion template" or "a resume template" describes an entire market, not something a buyer can actually search for and find.
Reading Demand Signals
Browsing what's currently popular or featured there is a direct, Notion-specific demand signal, useful even if you plan to sell elsewhere.
Search results reveal what's already selling, though digital templates share search results with many other product types, so results are noisier than a template-only search would be.
A major discovery channel specifically for Canva templates and printables — genuinely useful for spotting rising visual-template trends early.
Niche-specific forums and communities where people ask "does anyone have a template for X" are a direct, unambiguous demand signal.
Niches That Work Well
Teachers, real estate agents, freelancers, therapists — each with genuinely different workflow needs a generic template doesn't serve.
Students, new parents, college applicants — time-bound needs shared by a large, findable audience.
Fitness tracking, meal planning, travel planning — recurring personal-organization needs.
The Sub-Niche Strategy, Again
The same intersection approach Print-on-Demand Design used for design niches works here too: combine a broad category with a specific angle rather than targeting the broad category alone.