Reddit Problem Tracker & Validation Platform

Instead of guessing at startup ideas, systematically track real problems people post on Reddit and HN. Build a tool that aggregates, scores, and catalogs user pain points by frequency and severity. Help founders validate ideas before building. Target solopreneurs and early-stage founders.

The surge in "build in public" culture and the popularization of mom-test-style validation frameworks have made pain-point mining a recognized discipline, so demand for tooling around it is real. The closest substitute is Exploding Topics or tools like GummySearch, which already does Reddit-specific audience research for founders — that's a meaningful incumbent to displace, not just a loose competitor. At $1k–5k/mo, the revenue ceiling is tight: solopreneurs and early-stage founders are notoriously price-sensitive, and the TAM of people willing to pay monthly for validation tooling (rather than just doing it manually) is probably smaller than it looks. The biggest risk is that Reddit's API pricing changes — which already burned multiple third-party apps in 2023 — make the data layer expensive or inaccessible, turning a simple scraping play into an ongoing infrastructure cost that crushes margins at this revenue band.