Find validated startup ideas by mining Reddit pain points with AI

AI scans Reddit discussions for real frustrations and turns the best ones into startup ideas in a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each reddit post.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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A stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
RedditGoogle SheetsOpenRouter

The problem it solves

You're guessing what people want unless you pay for expensive market research. Real customer frustration is scattered across forums, and reading through it all by hand to find a pattern takes forever.

Who it fits

An entrepreneur, product team, or investor looking for validated problems worth solving.

How it works

  1. The system pulls top posts and comments from a chosen subreddit
  2. It filters out posts with little engagement or no real frustration behind them
  3. AI evaluates whether each post describes a genuine, solvable business problem
  4. AI generates a business idea and rough plan for the strongest opportunities
  5. Results, with links and upvote counts, are saved to a spreadsheet
What you get

Startup ideas surfaced while you slept

You get real customer frustrations from Reddit turned into validated startup ideas sitting in a spreadsheet.

What you get

A running spreadsheet of validated business ideas sourced from real Reddit discussions.

What you need

A Reddit account with API access, an AI model API key, and a Google Sheets account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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