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Google Play category rank tracker for obscure sub-categories

daily top-200 free/paid/grossing rank within niche categories (e.g. 'Finance > Investing', 'Health & Fitness > specific')

Feed detail
Measures
daily top-200 free/paid/grossing rank within niche categories (e.g. 'Finance > Investing', 'Health & Fitness > specific')
Source
Play Store unofficial category listing scrape (play.google.com/store/apps/category/{CAT}/collection/topselling_free) — no official API
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
rank climbs in a thin sub-category are a leading indicator of user acquisition spend and product-market fit for small fintech/health apps pre-IPO or pre-earnings
Maps to
small-cap fintech/health app companies, pre-IPO signal for late-stage private cos
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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