Beyond Midjourney: Finding Niche Opportunities in the AI Image Market

Is the AI Image Market Dead? No, It's Just Beginning

While Midjourney and Stable Diffusion dominate the mass market, deep-diving into community feedback reveals massive "pain" in professional workflows.

1. "Long-tail" Intent of Professional Users

In Trending Needs Analyzer, we extracted keywords around local control and reproducibility:

• Pain Point A: Lack of Predictability. Professional designers need "consistent composition," not random artistic flair.
• Pain Point B: Local Private Deployment. Enterprise clients need "out-of-the-box" UI that runs completely offline for copyright and privacy reasons.

2. Differentiation Strategies

Reference the 3rd path in our 2026 AI Search Intent Predictions:

• Vertical Fine-tuning: Targeted models for "E-commerce fashion" or "Architectural sketching" have much higher Willingness-To-Pay than general tools.
• Workflow Integration: Instead of a new website, build a high-efficiency plugin for Figma or Photoshop.

3. Key Data Metrics

Watch Open Issue tags on related GitHub repos. If there are many requests for "API export formats" or "Batch processing," that's your niche opportunity.