OPEN SOURCE · MIT · FREE

Stop guessing what to build.
Find the pain first.

Painfinder mines Reddit for your niche and returns a ranked list of what users actually complain about — with verbatim quotes, source links, and a product opportunity for each theme. 5 minutes, one command.

★ Star on GitHub Run it yourself See a sample report

01What you'll get

A markdown report with 5–10 ranked pain themes for any niche. Each theme includes:

✅ The pain in one sentence
✅ Who is affected
✅ Verbatim evidence — real quotes from real threads
✅ Source links — click straight through
✅ Frequency (frequent vs scattered)
✅ An implied product opportunity

02Sample report (real run: dental practice software)

FREQUENT Dental PMS software is buggy and fragmented

"They both suck and I hate them."

"Most of it just flat sucks."

OPPORTUNITY Build a modern, cloud-based dental PMS that's actually usable.

FREQUENT No automation for recalls / patient reactivation

"The real problem is doing something with the list while the phones are ringing, patients are checking in, the schedule is changing, and urgent problems need attention right now."

OPPORTUNITY Automated recall & reactivation workflows for front desks.

SCATTERED Imaging software switchover pain

"I need something that integrates smoothly with our existing systems and doesn't require retraining the whole team from scratch."

OPPORTUNITY Imaging software with drop-in integration, zero retraining.

03Run it yourself — 1 minute

git clone https://github.com/kragent66-glitch/painfinder
cd painfinder
pip install -r requirements.txt
echo "DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=sk-..." > .env     # get one at platform.deepseek.com
python3 painfinder.py "dental practice software"
# → reports/dental-practice-software-2026-08-11.md

Requires Python 3.10+, rdt-cli (one-time rdt login), and a DeepSeek API key (pay-as-you-go, fractions of a cent per niche). Full docs in the README.

04How it works

1. Harvest

12 pain-signal searches per niche (annoying, hate, expensive, sucks, alternative…) + optional subreddit front pages.

2. Filter

Drops removed posts, self-promo, non-English, memes. Keeps only relevant threads.

3. Cluster

One LLM pass groups complaints into 5–10 pain themes with verbatim evidence.

4. Report

Ranked markdown report with sources + JSON dump for auditing.

Don't want to set it up?

I'll run painfinder on your niche and send back the full report.
You pay only the API-token cost — no markup, no service fee.

✉️ kragent66@gmail.com