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Marketing data sources for SaaS and developer founders

Find external data for market research, competitor analysis and content: data tools, public datasets, industry benchmarks, surveys and reports. Compare coverage, access and limitations.

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GDELT Project

Explore public news coverage, narratives and event patterns as a discovery signal for emerging topics.

Coverage: Global media coverage; source coverage varies by language and region · Large-scale records and APIs for news, events and media analysis

Open news-media monitoring and event datasetsFree
Public datasetsPublic data

Common Crawl Open Web Crawl Repository

Common Crawl provides raw public web crawl data for discovery research, web measurement and content analysis.

Coverage: Coverage depends on the source's documented geographic and time scope · Provider-described dataset or API records available at the indicated geography and time scope.

Large-scale public web crawl corpusPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic

Data.gov

Find public demographic, economic, scientific, and administrative datasets for prototypes, enrichment, benchmarking, and vertical data products. A practical starting point for data-product founders who need authoritative public data to enrich developer or AI workflows.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Find public demographic, economic, scientific, and administrative datasets for prototypes, enrichment, benchmarking, and vertical data products.

Government open-data catalogPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic

AWS Registry of Open Data

Locate cloud-optimized training, geospatial, scientific, climate, and public-interest data suitable for AI prototypes and data-intensive product experiments. Good fit for AI and data-engineering founders who need large datasets near cloud compute without assuming a single universal license or access pattern.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Locate cloud-optimized training, geospatial, scientific, climate, and public-interest data suitable for AI prototypes and data-intensive product experiments.

Cloud-hosted public dataset registryPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsAccount or API key

BigQuery Public Dataset Program

Run SQL exploration and repeatable benchmarks on public mobility, weather, economic, and other datasets without first operating a data lake; validate schemas and analytics features for a SaaS prototype. Developer and data-product founders can test analytical workloads, create reproducible demos, and estimate warehouse economics against real public data using SQL and standard cloud tooling.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Run SQL exploration and repeatable benchmarks on public mobility, weather, economic, and other datasets without first operating a data lake; validate schemas and analytics features for a SaaS prototype.

Cloud public-data warehousePrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic

NOAA NCEI Access Data Service API

Prototype weather/climate features, location intelligence, risk models, data connectors, and time-series benchmarks for analytics or developer APIs. A credible primary source for founders whose products need real-world environmental signals, especially when building APIs or demos that must use reproducible, machine-readable scientific data.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Prototype weather/climate features, location intelligence, risk models, data connectors, and time-series benchmarks for analytics or developer APIs.

Scientific and environmental data APIPrice not confirmed
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Common Crawl

Study public documentation, pricing pages, changelogs, ecosystem pages, and historical web presence at scale; build searchable or longitudinal datasets from public web snapshots. Especially useful for developer-tool founders doing competitive intelligence and documentation/ecosystem research without relying on excluded search or social platforms.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Study public documentation, pricing pages, changelogs, ecosystem pages, and historical web presence at scale; build searchable or longitudinal datasets from public web snapshots.

Open web-crawl corpus/indexPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsMixed

opendata.swiss

Research Swiss market structure, public-sector and regional demand, transport, geography, health, and economic indicators; inspect downloadable metadata for pipeline construction. A useful primary source for founders testing Swiss or multilingual European markets and building localized public-data products.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Research Swiss market structure, public-sector and regional demand, transport, geography, health, and economic indicators; inspect downloadable metadata for pipeline construction.

National open-government data portalPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsDownload

OpenStreetMap Planet and Extracts

Build geospatial developer products, routing/location intelligence, coverage analysis, place/entity enrichment, and infrastructure or mobility research. A foundational, technically rich geospatial source for data-product founders who need reusable location entities and continuously changing map data.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Build geospatial developer products, routing/location intelligence, coverage analysis, place/entity enrichment, and infrastructure or mobility research.

Open geospatial database/technical data dumpPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsAccount or API key

U.S. Energy Information Administration Open Data

Create energy-market intelligence, carbon/energy analytics, infrastructure monitoring, or forecasting datasets and APIs for technical and data-product customers. Good fit for data-product founders who need a maintained official time-series source that can be embedded in developer-facing analytics and planning tools.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Create energy-market intelligence, carbon/energy analytics, infrastructure monitoring, or forecasting datasets and APIs for technical and data-product customers.

public statistical datasetPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic

NASA Open Data Portal

Discover and link research-grade space, Earth-science, and aeronautics datasets into searchable catalogs, domain-specific data products, educational tools, or model pipelines. Useful for developer-tool and data-product founders building dataset discovery, scientific search, provenance, or domain-specific aggregation layers.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Discover and link research-grade space, Earth-science, and aeronautics datasets into searchable catalogs, domain-specific data products, educational tools, or model pipelines.

research dataset catalogPrice not confirmed
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Databricks Marketplace

Find partner data and AI assets for lakehouse applications, or distribute a data/AI offering to organizations using Databricks and Unity Catalog. Excellent fit for data-platform and AI-tool founders targeting enterprise lakehouse teams and seeking a partner marketplace with governed sharing options.

Coverage: Use the geography stated by the source; coverage can vary by dataset and release. · Find partner data and AI assets for lakehouse applications, or distribute a data/AI offering to organizations using Databricks and Unity Catalog.

Cloud data and AI marketplacePrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic catalog

CDC Open Data

Health risk, public-sector product, epidemiology and population segmentation

Coverage: United States and global datasets depending on topic · Dataset-specific; often county/state/time series

Official public-health open-data catalogPrice not confirmed
Public datasetspublic API plus web/download

EPA Envirofacts Data Service

Environmental risk, location intelligence, regulated-customer discovery and compliance products

Coverage: United States · Facility, address/geography, environmental program, pollutant and compliance record

Government environmental data API and portalPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic catalogue

European Data Portal

Finding public statistics, government datasets and country-specific market signals

Coverage: European Union and European countries · Catalogue, dataset, distribution, publisher, theme and geography

Government open-data catalogue and metadata portalPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic/API account

FAOSTAT

Food, agriculture, commodity and climate-adjacent market sizing

Coverage: 245+ countries and territories · Annual and indicator-dependent; country/region; 1961-present

Official food and agriculture statisticsPrice not confirmed
Public datasetspublic/account-dependent datasets

Hugging Face Datasets

AI training/evaluation, domain corpus discovery and developer ecosystem research

Coverage: Global; dataset-specific · Dataset, split, row/example, modality and file format

Machine-learning dataset hubPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsAccount or API key

Kaggle Datasets

Prototyping data products, model experiments and market/domain exploration

Coverage: Global; dataset-specific · Dataset, file, version and record

Public dataset hosting and collaboration platformPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic/product account

NASA Earthdata

Climate, geospatial intelligence, infrastructure and environmental market research

Coverage: Global Earth science observations · Raster/granule/observation/time; product-specific

Official Earth-observation data platformPrice not confirmed
Public datasetspublic platform plus data access

OpenAQ

Environmental intelligence, location analytics, public-health products and sensor benchmarking

Coverage: Global; monitoring-location and measurement-specific · Measurement, pollutant, monitoring location, timestamp and provider

Global air-quality data platformPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsFree account/API

UN Comtrade Trade Data

Import/export market sizing, competitor and supply-chain analysis

Coverage: Global reporting economies · Bilateral trade; commodities; reporting-period dependent

Official international trade databasePrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic browser

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Browser

Education market sizing, workforce pipeline and country benchmarking

Coverage: Global countries · Indicator/country/year; SDG and benchmark series

Official internationally comparable education/science/culture dataPrice not confirmed
Public datasetsPublic/API

WHO Global Health Observatory

Health-market sizing, public-health product research and regional benchmarking

Coverage: Global countries and territories · Country/indicator/time series; daily COVID dashboard where applicable

Official health indicator databasePrice not confirmed
Public datasetspublic catalog with account/plan variability

data.world

Finding company, public-sector and market datasets and building data-catalog workflows

Coverage: Global; dataset-specific · Dataset, table, field, metadata and organization

Collaborative data catalogPrice not confirmed
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