The prevalence of IT topics is surprising to me. I didn't think there were that many of us out there. Is there any bias of the results toward tech topics?
Now I want to backtest this strategy: How long after something becomes a google trend does it become irrelevant? My intuition says that by the time something is trending, it's far too late to get in.
I think it really depends on the trend. Some can be spikes or fads especially in fashion or food. But equally, some keep rising and turn out to be part of broader industry trends that you regret not getting in when you first discovered them. The hard thing is spotting the difference!
Thanks for building this project! I'm a big fan. With that said, I think you should add a filter for "at least X searches per month" because right now Vue.JS appears right next to Juul, and these are vastly different market sizes. Also, having a filter "Between X and Y searches/month" would be great.
It was a Show HN project not long ago and people seemed to like it: https://trennd.co
I've also noticed a lot of larger trends that other commenters have highlighted too:
- data privacy focussed products (DuckDuckGo/SimpleAnalytics)
- everything machine learning
- meat substitutes
- alternative forms of entertainment (axe throwing/escape rooms)