All ideas / SaaS and subscription founders
Pain-point feed for indie founders choosing what to build
Validated pain-point feed for indie founders choosing what to build
How much it itches 24 of 40
Will people pay 0 of 35
- Job to be done
- When an indie micro-SaaS founder is searching for a worthwhile idea and validating demand, they need a curated feed of real, urgent customer complaints with budget and role signals, so they can pick something buildable and likely to be paid for.
- Buyer
- Solo and indie micro-SaaS founders
- How often it comes up
- One-off
- How critical
- Medium
- Evidence layers
- 2 of 9
- What to build
- A curated feed of complaints can be built with scraping and filters, with AI adding useful urgency and budget scoring.
Customer complaints 8
Owners and users describing the problem in their own words: Reddit, low-star reviews, App Store, Ask HN.
Founders struggle to find a micro SaaS idea that is worth building, and brainstorming does not produce one; the ideas that worked came from living the problem or reading repeated complaints in communities.
r/microsaas 391 upvotes
A founder accumulates many half-formed startup ideas in notes and cannot compare or choose among them, so none get built.
r/indiehackers 57 upvotes
Struggles to find a steady flow of good, buildable app ideas that are worth doing.
r/microsaas 39 upvotes
Telling whether people would actually pay for a micro-SaaS idea before building it, since current validation methods rely on guesses, keyword demand, or scraped comments.
r/indiehackers 4 upvotes
Founder spent weeks manually scrolling Reddit to find real SaaS pain points worth building for.
r/SaaS 1 upvotes
Repeatedly finding that a problem already has a tool after researching a software idea, and struggling to compare tools by specific feature fit.
r/indiehackers 1 upvotes
Finding customer pain points by manually searching Reddit, Twitter and Hacker News and copy-pasting into a spreadsheet takes hours.
r/microsaas 0 upvotes
Founder found manually validating startup ideas through landing pages, ads, and analysis repetitive and slow.
r/startups 0 upvotes
Creator patterns 1
What startup creators on YouTube are pitching, with the exact moment in the video.
Pain-point research tool that scrapes YouTube, Reddit, X and communities to surface business ideas
Reddit surfaced 835 price sentences with a consistent band. So like just a tool that does one boring thing really well can charge 50 bucks a month and people are happy to pay that.
Nate Herk | AI Automation 102,531 views
No evidence found yet for: Paid tasks, Success stories, Funds raised, Product sunsets, Compliance needs, Search trends, Incumbent gaps.