In terms of market research, you should be aware of two things.
Those are;
In order to understand your competitors, you should know how people can search for your product on Google, which is a high-intent keyword.
For example; if you are building a product related to SaaS landing pages, potential buyers will make this kind of searches on Google:
And when I search for it like this, I see this page which is full of potential competitors.
In order to get more detail about your competitors - like website traffic - and high-intent keywords’ search volume, you can use solutions like SEMrush, Ahrefs, Similarweb, UberSuggest.
Through SEMrush, I can see the search volume of saas landing pages and its keyword difficulty.