Example report · Discussion-led, to a warm audience
🕊️ SpiritualityA premium membership: Spirituality for people who want results, not another feed
With 300 US monthly searches for "meditation course" and 1600 worldwide, there is notable interest in the spirituality category, despite a year-on-year decline of 28.4% in searches. Among 21 communities, only 11 publish a monthly price, with a median of $25, indicating that pricing is often unpublished, making you stand out by clearly stating your price. Your discussion-led format with weekly Q&A aligns well with the community's needs, and your initial members will come from your warm audience, allowing you to leverage existing connections while dedicating 5 to 15 hours per week to foster engagement.
The evidence
Live data from the Spirituality category on Membership Index.
- 21
- communities indexed
- $25/mo
- median published price
- 11 of 21
- publish a price
| Price band | Communities |
|---|---|
| Free | 2 |
| Under $10 | 2 |
| $10–25 | 1 |
| $25–50 | 4 |
| $50–100 | 0 |
| $100+ | 2 |
Search demand
US · measured 19 hours ago- meditation course↓ -28% year on year300/mo
- spiritual community150/mo
- manifestation course150/mo
600 searches a month across these terms. Ranking difficulty 24/100, unusually soft for a topic this size. Search volume measures interest in the subject, not willingness to pay for a community about it. Treat it as the size of the room, not the size of the business.
The gap: Pricing here is mostly unpublished: 11 of 21 Spirituality communities show a monthly price, and 5 of those 11 are free or under $25 a month. Anyone who states a price plainly is already unusual.
Based on 11 listings with a published price, last recomputed 3 hours ago.
Proof the model works
Real communities from the index, nearest your suggested price band.
Live WiseSwarm$41.67/mo- 2 more comparables in the full report
Suggested model
What to charge, the format to run and the weekly cadence that fits your hours.
Unlock with your email ↓How to get the first members
The three channels that fit your audience, format and hours, with a first step for each, and the ones to avoid.
Unlock with your email ↓Narrower niches worth going after
Narrower segments inside your category, each with the search term and difficulty behind it.
Unlock with your email ↓Where to build it
Because owning the brand end to end supports premium positioning.
Because its single feed keeps discussion in one place.
Swarm is operated by Growth Maps Media Ltd, which also operates this index. The scoring used is a fixed, independent rules table that applies no preference to Swarm, and ties are broken away from it.
Other Spirituality examples
- Premium and live, from a standing start
- Low-ticket course to a large audience
- Mixed format, mid-sized audience
- Live sessions as a side income
Generated from the same six answers the Idea Finder asks, against live data from the Spirituality category. No real person’s report is published here.