Reddit Problem Aggregator & Tracker

Use Reddit and HN to automatically find real user problems (not trends), score them by frequency and pain level, and sell curated problem lists to founders/builders. Monitor recurring complaints across platforms to identify validated product opportunities.

Demand for "validated" problem discovery has grown alongside the no-code and indie hacker movements, with communities like r/startups and IH themselves repeatedly surfacing the pain of building things nobody wants — so the timing is real, even if modest. No clear incumbent owns this exact niche, though tools like Exploding Topics and Treendly serve adjacent trend-discovery use cases, and a determined founder could approximate this workflow manually in a weekend. The $500–2k/mo revenue band is honest given the audience: indie hackers are notoriously price-sensitive, churn fast when they find a free workaround, and the product is essentially a research shortcut rather than mission-critical infrastructure. The biggest risk is that the output is only as defensible as the curation logic — Reddit's API restrictions post-2023 have made scraping costlier and less reliable, and a competitor with better prompt engineering or data access can replicate the core value proposition in days.