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Patent Gnome
Patent search in minutes for $30. Attorneys charge $1,500+.
Patent attorneys charge $1,500–$4,000 and take months. Patent Gnome takes minutes and costs $30. Enter your idea in plain language, get real patent numbers, direct conflicts, and if you're blocked, 5 alternative directions to explore. Not a legal opinion. The research that informs one.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Viacheslav, a software developer and builder who got frustrated watching inventors and founders waste months and thousands of dollars on patent research before validating their ideas.
Patent attorneys are great — but $1,500–$4,000 and months of waiting is overkill for a first sanity check. You just need to know: is this space clear, or am I walking into a wall?
So I built Patent Gnome.
Enter your idea in plain language. In minutes it searches EPO, OpenAlex academic database, and the global web index — analyzes 150+ patents — and tells you:
Clear: here's the landscape, no direct threats found
Blocked: here are the exact patents you'd collide with, with links
If you're blocked, there's an experimental "escape routes" feature that generates 5 alternative idea directions that might avoid the conflicts.
$30 per search. No subscription. No lawyers needed for this step.
Happy to answer any questions about how it works technically — AMA.
If you're a hardware builder, biotech researcher, or working on any physical product idea — this is built for you. Would love your feedback on the results quality.
Common question: is this a replacement for a patent attorney? No. This is the research step that happens before you hire one — or that helps you decide whether hiring one is even worth it. Think of it as the $30 check before the $3,000 commitment.
To show what the output looks like, here's a real search we ran on a wearable glucose monitor idea: patent-gnome.com/#/examples/glucose-monitor . It found 4 direct collisions with real patent numbers. This is exactly what you get.
About Patent Gnome on Product Hunt
“Patent search in minutes for $30. Attorneys charge $1,500+.”
Patent Gnome was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 9 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #45 on the daily leaderboard. Patent attorneys charge $1,500–$4,000 and take months. Patent Gnome takes minutes and costs $30. Enter your idea in plain language, get real patent numbers, direct conflicts, and if you're blocked, 5 alternative directions to explore. Not a legal opinion. The research that informs one.
Patent Gnome was featured in Productivity (653.8k followers), Artificial Intelligence (471k followers) and Tech (625.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 403.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Patent Gnome?
Patent Gnome was hunted by Viacheslav Zgordan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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