# Etsy product research with ChatGPT: make up session (/docs/quick-skills/etsy/product-and-niche-research/etsy-product-research)

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title: "Etsy product research with ChatGPT: make up session"
description: "Shanawar Aslam's Etsy make up session on finding newer shops with digital sales, studying competitors, planners and trackers, AI-assisted product creation, and Motion Invest research."
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    title: "Etsy module, Make up session: Product Research, taught by Shanawar Aslam"
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*This make up session in the Etsy module was taught by Shanawar Aslam.
It is filed in Sir Zafar Ali's Etsy section at the owner's request; the
teacher of this session is Shanawar Aslam.*[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes]

## Find newer shops with digital sales

Connect **Etsy** to ChatGPT through a plugin. Ask ChatGPT to find shops that
are **no older than 6 months** and have made **100 digital sales**.
Visit those shops, inspect their products, and use them to find ideas for
products you could make.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes]

The supplied infographic phrases the criteria as **under 6 months old**
and **100+ reported digital sales**. It also says to check shop age,
listings and sales signals, because exact digital sales may not be
public.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-infographic]

## Use competitors as a research guide

Follow competitors' footprints: your competitor is your best friend.
Study what they do, follow their approach, and aim to do better.
When you like a product, give its link to ChatGPT and ask for ideas and
help making a product.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes]

The notes explicitly say **"wahi product, wahi title"**: have AI make the
same product and title to use. The infographic gives different guidance:
use competitor insights as inspiration, create an original product, and
write fresh titles and unique content rather than copying the same design
and identical wording.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes][^etsy-product-research-makeup-infographic]

**Open question:** the notes and infographic disagree about reusing the
same product and title. The intended instruction needs clarification;
both source statements are preserved here.

## Niches highlighted in class

The two niches recommended in the notes are **planners** and
**trackers**.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes]

The infographic expands these into daily, weekly, monthly, goal and
productivity planners, and habit, budget, fitness and progress
trackers.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-infographic]

## Let AI help with the work and the prompts

Have AI do as much of the work as possible, including writing the prompt
needed to create the product. The class workflow starts with a product
link and uses ChatGPT to help turn the idea into a
product.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes]

## Research ideas through Motion Invest

The notes recommend working with **Motion Invest**, compare it to
**Flippa**, and describe it as a market for digital products. Look at
listings with good monthly income to get
ideas.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes]

The infographic describes Motion Invest as a marketplace for online
businesses rather than an Etsy-only marketplace, and suggests studying
niches, traffic, earnings and how those businesses make
money.[^etsy-product-research-makeup-infographic]

**Open question:** the notes' description of a digital-product market and
the infographic's online-business description differ. The precise scope
intended in class remains to be clarified.

[^etsy-product-research-makeup-notes]: Owner-supplied notes for the Etsy
    module, Make up session, Product Research, taught by Shanawar Aslam.
[^etsy-product-research-makeup-infographic]: Owner-supplied Etsy Product
    Research Cheat Sheet infographic for the same make up session.

## Class infographic

![Infographic: Etsy product research with ChatGPT, make up session (Shanawar Aslam)](etsy-product-research-infographic.webp)