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BestTime.app foot traffic data API, $9.5K MRR: venue forecasts and heatmaps
BestTime.app provides foot traffic data, venue forecasts, live busyness, search, filters, and heatmaps through an API. Its $9.5K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.
What it actually sells
BestTime.app is a foot traffic data API with visitor-pattern forecasts, live busyness, venue search, filters, and heatmaps. It provides hourly foot-traffic percentages from 0–100% for every hour of the week.
The API identifies daily high points, quietest hours, and peak intensity. It compares real-time venue activity against the average to flag surges or quiet periods, and it finds venues worldwide through natural-language queries.
How it charges
The Basic plan has a $29 monthly minimum. The site also offers a free test API key.
Month by month
Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.
| Month | Revenue (USD) |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | $4,219 |
| 2025-11 | $4,447 |
| 2025-12 | $4,487 |
| 2026-01 | $5,302 |
| 2026-02 | $9,184 |
| 2026-03 | $11,625 |
| 2026-04 | $10,758 |
| 2026-05 | $11,649 |
| 2026-06 | $11,171 |
| 2026-07 | $12,911 |
| 2026-08 | $17,094 |
| 2026-09 | $11,306 |
Where customers come from
The site provides API reference documentation and examples, a beginner’s guide, and additional tutorials. It offers credits or discounts for backlinks and revenue sharing for referrals. The site says it is “Trusted by data teams and researchers at”.
What stands out
BestTime.app provides forecasts for venues across 150+ countries worldwide. Its features include live busyness where data density allows, natural-language venue search, and heatmaps for finding busy or quiet areas.
The product is also described as providing visitor patterns and live busyness for public venues worldwide, including bars, restaurants, shops, and attractions.
From the official site
Trusted by data teams and researchers at
Automatically identify daily high points, quietest hours, and peak intensity.
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
BestTime.app's $9.5K MRR is higher than 93% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Analytics” category (646 projects) it is higher than 93% (category median $135). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
In my view, the demand would come from data teams and researchers who need venue-pattern information for software or analysis. Distribution would need to reach developers through API documentation, examples, beginner guides, and referral programs.
The hard parts would include maintaining reliable data coverage, handling support requests, managing API reliability, and competing for attention in the developer market. Those are general execution requirements for this type of product.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
BestTime.app combines a data API with search, heatmaps, forecasts, live busyness, developer documentation, and referral incentives. The site lists data teams and researchers as its audience.
Sources
- BestTime.app official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- BestTime.app pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
- TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure