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What digital products to sell on Etsy right now? I pulled the actual demand-vs-competition data instead of guessing
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What digital products to sell on Etsy right now? I pulled the actual demand-vs-competition data instead of guessing

Saw a lot of "what should I sell" posts lately, so instead of guessing I pulled real numbers this week: Etsy's own Marketplace Insights (30-day searches vs. listings), cross-checked against eRank, Pinterest and Google Trends, ranked by demand-to-competition ratio instead of raw search volume. Ran it as a 7-part pass, six ranked findings plus a correction round where I go back and kill anything that looked good but doesn't actually sell.

Revealing 2 of the 7 here:

Finding #1: "First day of school sign" is sitting at a 2.63 demand-to-competition ratio right now (171k searches / 65k listings). Typical printable keywords are under 0.05, so this isn't a small gap, it's one of the widest I've seen this quarter.

The correction that almost got past me: "Frutiger aero" had roughly 6x the ratio of anything else in the whole pass, would've been the headline finding. But Etsy's own conversion rating on it is "Very low," people search it constantly and buy almost none of it (screenshot attached). If I'd stopped at the ratio, this post would've sent people straight into a dead keyword. Ratio alone can lie to you if you don't check whether anyone's actually buying.

That's the pattern I keep running into: the number that looks best on paper is often the one you should trust least until you check it against something else.

The other 5, including a timing call on "senior 2027" that already peaked and is declining, the full keyword table, and the methodology breakdown, I'm keeping out of this post on purpose. It's a lot of tables and this isn't really the place for a data dump.

If you're tracking a different digital product idea right now, curious what you're seeing, does the "looks great until you check conversion" pattern show up for you too?

u/f5designstudio — 2 days ago
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Etsy's photo size rules aren't really about pixels, they're about shape. Here's what actually matters and a free resizer

Most sellers hit the same wall: a camera shoots rectangles, Etsy's listing grid wants squares. You upload a great photo and either Etsy crops it from the center (cutting off exactly the part that mattered) or you end up stretching/padding it and it looks off in the grid.

The pixel-count specs are the easy part, actual sizes are:

* Listing photos: 2000px minimum on the shortest side (square 2000x2000, or 4:3 at 3000x2250) * Shop icon: 500x500 square * Large shop banner: 3360x840 (4:1) * Mini shop banner: 1600x213 (7.5:1) * Search thumbnails: auto-generated from your listing photos, you don't control these directly

The part that actually changes how your listings look: shape matters more than resolution. Two things to do differently depending on the shot:

  1. If the product is the main subject, crop it deliberately so the product fills the frame. Don't let Etsy's auto-crop decide what gets cut off, it crops from the center and has no idea what part of your photo matters.
  2. If it's a flat lay or a composed/styled shot, keep the whole image intact rather than force-cropping it into a square, you lose the composition that made it work in the first place.

The fix that saves the most rework: shoot wider than you need with the subject centered and some breathing room. That gives you crop flexibility after the fact instead of being stuck with exactly one framing. And always check the shrunk-down thumbnail size before uploading, something that reads fine full-size can lose its whole point at grid size.

Made a free browser-based resizer for this, has the Etsy preset dimensions built in and lets you control the crop manually instead of guessing: [https://www.f5design.studio/tools/etsy-image-resizer\](https://www.f5design.studio/tools/etsy-image-resizer)

Runs entirely in your browser, nothing gets uploaded to a server.

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u/f5designstudio — 8 days ago
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Everyone's selling "AI will automate your whole shop" right now. Here's the honest version.

I build automation workflows for a living, so I get asked a lot whether AI is about to run people's shops for them. Short answer: no, but it genuinely helps with specific parts. Long version:

What it actually helps with: batch background removal and resizing across a whole catalog, first-draft mockups so you're not paying for a photoshoot on every variant, first-draft listing copy you edit instead of write from scratch, generating options fast so you can pick the strongest one instead of committing to your first idea.

What it does not do: figure out if your product idea is actually wanted, replace real quality control on a physical product, handle a customer who's genuinely upset, know when a trend is dying versus about to take off, or build trust with buyers for you.

The pattern I see with sellers who get burned: they buy a course promising a "fully automated" shop, spend weeks building a pipeline, and skip the part where they need to know their niche and actually look at what sells. The tools are real. The automation replacing your judgment is the part that's oversold.

If you're using AI tools in your workflow and it's actually working for you, curious what it's doing for you specifically. And if you tried something that flopped, that's useful to hear too.

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u/f5designstudio — 10 days ago