3 AI Prompts Every TPT Seller Needs for Market Research (We Tested Them Live)

What if you could do hours of market research in minutes — and actually get answers specific to your TPT niche? In this episode of Two Wacky Teacherpreneurs Tell All, Amanda and Jess test three powerful AI prompts live on screen using Claude to uncover exactly what middle and high school English teachers are buying, complaining about, and searching for on Teachers Pay Teachers right now.The results are surprisingly specific — and packed with product ideas. From the SEL and neurodiversity gap in secondary ELA, to the AI cheating crisis breaking the homework model, to what's almost completely absent on TPT that teachers desperately need, this episode is basically a free business strategy session powered by AI.The 3 market research prompts tested in this episode:Prompt 1: "What are my customers buying right now?" — Claude identified SEL resources, adolescent literacy and reading intervention, AI literacy and digital citizenship, neurodiversity-affirming classroom resources, and no-prep engagement-driven formats as the top categories where demand is surging for secondary ELA.Prompt 2: "What are my customers complaining about right now?" — The top pain points: AI cheating has broken the homework model, student behavior and disengagement are worsening, parents are becoming adversaries, burnout from non-teaching work is at an all-time high, students can't read at grade level, and there's no clear AI policy from administration.Prompt 3: "What's missing in the Teachers Pay Teachers marketplace?" — The biggest gap Claude identified: neurodiversity resources for general education secondary teachers. When you search neurodiversity on TPT, you get bulletin board crafts for awareness month and self-contained special ed resources for early elementary — almost nothing for the regular 7th or 10th grade ELA teacher with neurodivergent students already in their classroom.Also discussed:Why Claude's memory feature matters for market research — and how it personalizes results based on your store and nicheThe difference between Claude Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku (and which one to use for this)Why you should pair AI market research with SEO keyword tools like YDP to validate demand on TPTWhat AI gets wrong: why you still need real human conversations to spitball ideas and validate assumptionsJess's cautionary tale about a three-ingredient AI recipe that was pure slopWatch this episode on YouTube.Subscribe and leave a five-star review — and remember, if you share this podcast with 10 other people, you'll have good luck forever.