you can also use a project like this to find Startup Ideas the setup: - scrapes target subreddits + YouTube comment sections + twitter replies on a schedule - filters for specific phrase patterns - "is there a tool for," "does anyone know a way to," "I wish there was," "so tedious," "I hate having to" - tags every match with source, upvotes/likes, and how many people replied "same" or "+1" - sorts by frequency - same complaint showing up 40 times across 3 platforms outranks a clever one-off why this beats manual scrolling: - people are already telling you exactly what they want to pay for, in their own words - you're just not reading enough of it to see the pattern - one complaint is an anecdote. the same complaint from a fitness subreddit, a YouTube tutorial's comments, and a twitter thread is a market - a 2-star review with 4,000 users still using the product tells you more than any survey - people who hate something but haven't left yet are your easiest customers the sources it hits and what each one is actually good for: - reddit - raw, unfiltered demand ("is there a tool for X" searches surface this instantly) - YouTube comments on tutorials - people narrating exactly where they got stuck trying to stitch 8 tools together to do one thing - twitter replies - froth and complaints in real time, good for catching something before it's saturated the real unlock isn't finding one idea. it's finding the idea that's already been asked for 40 times by people who'll be your first customers before you've written a line of code