Pain points mined from daily community scans. Vote on what's worth building.
Founders file marks via cheap services, get a "register printout" instead of a real clearance search, then get opposed by large companies over loose similarities — after sunk branding/tooling costs.
Non-technical founders ship entire products with Claude Code, then can't tell if the result is secure, backed up, or architecturally viable. They default to hiring interns, which commenters say is dangerously wrong ("Are you cool for OWASP?", "when did you last test your backups in anger?").
"have you tried those 'adobe clones'? most of them are garbage, super slow and honestly just hyped ai slop" (10). And the money quote: **"Maintenance. That's why we pay for software. We want software where the functionality is predictable every time… what works keeps working"** (5). This is the closest thing here to an explicit "here's what I'd pay for."
Hiring teams can't distinguish real humans from AI-written applications, so they insert absurd trick questions — which sours good candidates and doesn't actually verify anything.
Carriers preemptively cancel/resell connecting seats; passengers arrive on time, are denied boarding, and don't know how to claim compensation (EU261, DOT) or fight back.
Consumers are actively refusing to buy products touched by generative AI (vibe-coded launcher, AI-upscaled portraits, "AI swarm" game). They have no reliable way to detect it pre-purchase.
Teams becoming dependent on underpriced AI products, expecting rug-pull pricing and future ad injection; no trust in vendor promises.
Backdoor Roth, MAGI eligibility, and pro-rata rules are documented everywhere but badly — "Everything you'll read online overcomplicates tf out of it" (71). Even helpers hedge: "I'm pretty sure... but may be incorrect" (37). Same flavor in the efficient-markets thread, where "priced in" is widely misunderstood (226, 220).
Community owners drowning in bot traffic; readers can't tell what's organic; nobody can verify whether engagement is real.
Decades of work with no financial progress; exhaustion from optimization-obsessed workplaces.
"Telling a shitty boss to go fuck themselves and quitting" and "taking a sabbatical" surfaced as *peak life experiences* — i.e., people treat escaping work as a dream, not a plan. Financial and logistical barriers block it.
Groups buy one item and camp 3+ hours, eating a third of seating capacity; staff confrontations turn into complaints/bad reviews.
Established founders ($1.6M ARR, 12 yrs) have no idea where to find a mentor who's actually scaled a comparable business; LinkedIn DMs to B2B SaaS founders go unanswered.
Suppliers won't ship small orders; customers want to pay later; importers warned *"Cashflow would be the thing I would look into first."*
Users can't get a straight answer on washing/seasoning. *"Wash your fucking pan… Who gives a shit"* vs. *"it makes me sad that nobody knows how to use a cast iron pan."* Plus an ESL confusion point: "seasoning" has two meanings.
$250 owed after delivery; small claims/lawyers cost more than the debt, so freelancers eat the loss. Comments show repeat offenders and a strong "turn the lights off" instinct.
Two flavors of the same underlying problem. (a) Roles were "agreed" verbally but there's no mechanism for who decides what, so every suggestion reads as a territorial incursion — commenters piled on OP as the problem. (b) The flip side: a solo founder wants a marketing partner but is warned "hold off on equity until you've worked together — do a paid trial 60-90 days" and "I wouldn't give up equity to have someone run your Google Ads."
Parents take jobs they may not want solely to get dependent-tuition benefits; many employers have quietly killed those benefits ("his kids don't get free education... he could personally take classes for free but not family").
Performance marketers kill ad creatives "on vibes" on day 2, and run tests where the budget can't produce enough conversions to conclude anything. Stated rule of thumb: test bud
Military/humanitarian operations reliant on Starlink can be switched off unilaterally. "Starlink needs to be taken over for national security reasons" (560); "Not the first time Starlink has been leveraged against the Ukrainians" (243) — explicit unmet need for an alternative.
One German contractor is actually a de-facto employee; founders must choose EOR vs. incorporating a GmbH with no in-house expertise. Hidden traps surface in comments: EOR in Germany is capped at ~18 months, and you need a Steuerberater.
Contacted about a 10+ year old debt; unclear whether it's past statute of limitations, whether it's a scam, and that making a payment can restart the clock. High-pressure tactics.
0% medical/retail financing retroactively charges all deferred interest if you miss the payoff window. People actively planning to arbitrage these (keep cash invested) don't know the fine print.
"Molecular biology with a master's… $18/hr." "Library science… two masters, $30k." "Do not become an architect." Students chose majors with no realistic salary/workload data.
Rates feel arbitrary and adversarial: promo rates are "cutesy" marketing, big banks pay near-zero, auto-renew traps roll you into bad rates, and nobody knows whether a CD beats a HYSA at all.
The "buy two" tip fails because (a) you don't know what the favorite will be until it's too late, and (b) once attached, the item is discontinued and unfindable.
Founders get a Product Hunt spike then nothing (~10 active users). "Launch traffic is mostly tourists… makers browsing other makers' launches, not people who have your problem today." OP: "Distribution is definitely my biggest struggle… no big budget for paid ads." Another: "finding these kind of same mindset of users is hard."
Founders ship for 6–12 months and get zero traction; they don't know how to get the first 10 paying customers or any repeatable channel.
Building is free; being noticed is impossible. Founders finish products and get "crickets." Advice is "you need a distribution strategy before you write a line of code," but no one offers a method for that.
People describe years of neglect, imbalance in household/mental load, and then a chaotic, expensive, information-poor exit.
People don't trust themselves not to blow a lump sum and explicitly want external spending guardrails. **Flagged highest-value signal: the post is literally a "does X exist?" request.** An advisor's anecdote about a widow burning ~$2M (44 upvotes) confirms the unmet need; top answer was "annuities," immediately qualified by "I generally don't like annuities."
Grandma burned through a multimillion-dollar estate; OP explicitly asks whether a *service* exists to dole out a monthly allowance. An advisor in-thread describes a client who inherited ~$2M and "immediately started spending — vacations, new kitchen, new car," and was powerless to stop it. Current answers are workarounds: annuities, or a law firm's legal secretary manually paying bills.
A first-time builder celebrates "global traffic" that commenters immediately diagnose as scrapers: *"Keep an eye on average engagement time per country... scrapers love inflating early global hits"* and *"Dont worry, it's just bots scraping your website."*
People feel priced out of casual/fast food; portion shrink, quality decline, and $15 mediocre meals. Recurs with general economic anxiety.
UNO with kids/students devolves into cheating accusations because nobody plays by the printed rules; adults lack a neutral arbiter.
Founders close deals on instinct, then fail to convert that into a repeatable playbook. Symptoms cited: handing off "way too early," SDRs who can't handle edge cases, accounts that "lived in one person's head," and the fact that "a call script alone won't tell someone when to stop chasing a bad fit." Hiring salespeople before this exists "just burns money."
"I'm from Iraq and can't use Stripe or PayPal. How can I sell subscriptions to my software?" — literal blocker on all revenue.
Hours of unpaid discovery, strategy and scoping documents are handed over for free; client ghosts and gives the blueprint to a cheaper vendor. No practical IP protection at the proposal stage.
Applicants hit absurd screening questions ("weed out AI"), feel baited, and disengage from the employer.
Users get confidently wrong/irrelevant AI summaries and still leave without the answer they searched for. Top comment is literally "Did you ever find out how?" — the information need went **unmet**.
Plan B swapped for a pregnancy test — a time-sensitive, private purchase failed, possibly due to shopper moralizing. Also price opacity (Plan B $15 at Family Dollar vs. much more elsewhere).
**Explicit unmet need**: "I haven't heard any updates on this case? Anyone know what's going on and where we
Viral video spreads with zero context; viewers can't tell what the protest/event actually is or whether the framing is honest.
Blister/foil packs on anti-diarrheal/gas meds can't be opened when you urgently need them; bulk bottles disappeared and unit prices soared.
Builders ship polished apps and get zero users, zero revenue, and no substantive feedback. One OP explicitly says: *"I found it quite difficult on this subreddit to get feedback for my product"* — a near-"I wish there was..." signal. Another ran 20 months at 99.99% uptime with 0 paying users.
Founders take money from investors they haven't diligenced, then end up in pro-rata/follow-on disputes and litigation. *"Ego. This is why you should be fastidious about who your investors are."*
Epic markets load speed while "lacking countless basic features" (930); "What is the obsession with launch time?" (268); Epic launcher on Linux expected to be "even worse" (4). Real wanted features: library mgmt, wishlists, reviews, cloud saves.
"The biggest change for us was not an AI tool, it was boring automation around follow up... nothing waits more than a day" (46). A consultancy owner separately says he "could never grow outside of myself" due to manual data entry/analysis.
Registered agent/EIN/"compliance tracking" sold at huge markups; *"compliance tracking is basically a Google Calendar alert with a $200 price tag."* Forming an LLC also floods your home address with credit offers.
Cost of inference is a live concern for SaaS margins; the top reply flags the real gap: **"The number
Tags tear off; people don't want their home address traveling with the bag (top comment: a sarcastic "thief here" warning, 30 upvotes). Competing advice (Sharpie on bag bottom, AirTag) shows no settled answer.
Ownership regret driven by endless, unpredictable, reactive repairs and the dread of what breaks next.
Workers burn half their day copying/reconciling data between 2–4 systems that don't talk to each other; chronic understaffing makes it worse.
Founders allocate budget across channels and genuinely cannot tell what converts; the post is literally asking strangers to audit the split.
Residents don't know where ALPR/Flock cameras are, who funds them, who queries them, or which vendors beyond Flock (e.g. Toka Group) operate quietly. "Shouldn't be living on public funds."
Devs collide editing the same code area; standup is being used as a manual, verbal "who's touching what" lock. "git pull --your hair."
Griddle/pan owners must cook and throw away real food to remove industrial anti-rust coatings — wasteful, confusing, and a perceived poisoning risk if skipped.
People notice "what the heck" issues in week one, forget them by month three, and when they do speak up they're shut down by tenured staff ("find out why it's done this way first"). Commenters also note that fixing inefficiency can endanger their own job.
A commenter built an interactive dashboard of 5 years of South African fresh-fruit export volumes and **already has a paying subscriber**. That's a real dollar on the table for packaging public data.
Founders with narrow corporate questions (share surrender, cap table, vesting, investor rights) get told "get a lawyer / go to a legal sub" — there's no cheap middle option between a Reddit guess and a $500 consult.
Founders get blindsided by payroll classification, sales tax nexus, state registrations, and sole-prop→LLC timing. Real money lost ($8k back taxes cited).
People with real money ($3M) can't tell whether their planner is advising or selling. Annuities, insurance products, and bundled AUM fees are suspected cash grabs.
Top comment on Anima: *"How do you check that the generated figures are scientifically accurate? A mechanism that looks right but is [wrong]..."* plus *"do the references sit inside each figure or in a separate list?"* — accuracy and citation provenance block adoption in academic/edu use.
Shared/rented fridges get set wrong (8°C here), silently spoiling expensive bulk meat. Dial setpoints ≠ real temps.
Trade-show samples look great under the lights; delivered goods are lower quality, and shipping + customs broker fees destroy margin.
People hand over $90k–$200k to advisors (often inherited relationships, e.g. "dad's advisor") or get stuck in employer 401(k)s with ~0.9–1% wrap fees, then discover the fee drag silently eats six figures of lifetime returns. One widow: *"We 'lost' so much in gains so brokers could make money."* One OP is bleeding ~$6,000/yr.
People hand money to advisors or are trapped in 1% AUM 401(k) plans, then realize the fee drag (one commenter computed ~$8,300 opportunity cost; another ~$6,000/yr in plan fees) dwarfs any value received.
Buyers resent paying more as teams grow when vendor costs don't scale; the workaround — shared logins — destroys attribution and audit data. Flagged explicitly: *"per-seat pricing pushes teams to share logins, which leaves your data incomplete."*
Buyers resent paying linearly for users when vendor costs don't scale that way; teams share logins or switch tools. Vendors in turn don't know how to price otherwise.
Experienced operators get constant free coffee-chat/advice requests and lack a graceful way to say no or convert them to paid.
Freelancers who deliver real results can't convert that into client #2. Referrals don't materialise because "it's extra work for someone to refer and most people don't care once the job is over." Also hits as sudden contract pauses leaving zero backup pipeline.
"Getting a Meta reviewer to approve your application is such a pain." OP: "took 2 months to get approval from Meta." Framed as a moat — meaning it's painful enough that surviving it has commercial value.
10k+ followers wiped with no human support contact; "rented followers" vs owned customer data.
"If everyone was fully aware of where this garbage was originating... why did it take Ukraine lobbing a drone into it to stop it?" — platforms won't act, and ordinary users have no way to tell a bot from a person.
Chronic anger/helplessness ("nothing is being done"), plus explicit complaints about arguing with in-laws over politics. Three of eight hot threads are political venting.
Steam JP wallet funds now die after 6 months unused; users confused and unaware of expiry dates. Note a competitive insight in comments: *"Nintendo eShop balance does not expire in japan... not the norm"* (28).
Users bounce from blank canvases, friction-y installs, and distracting UX. "I'd open on a tiny loop that's already playing... instead of staring at an empty canvas"; "That smooth scroll and cursor is infuriating. I'd turn it off, wouldn't hurt conversions"; "That Gatekeeper trap... canonical rite of passage for every Mac developer."
"All that was needed was proper scaling, new textures, bug fixes. Not only didn't they fix bugs, they introduced more" (105). Buyers of remasters/ports can't tell if the remaster is worse than the original + mods. One commenter notes free AI upscalers beat the studio's work (33).
Fear a burst wipes out savings while insiders are insulated — "Hello, it's 2008 again." Top comment (3,663) frames both outcomes as bad; people want to know their real exposure.
24x leverage ($312K equity on $7.8M position) with the holder apparently unaware how close they are to liquidation. Commenters do the math for him: "miles past a margin call," "What if this crashes 4% overnight?"
Founders can't get the first ~10 sellers/suppliers; one side fills up and the other won't.
Self-hosted customers break their own environments and consume eng time for free; pricing alone doesn't fix entitlement.
Recurring across threads: coding/product is solved, getting someone to *pay* isn't. "The code doesn't reject you." Cold calls and convincing buyers is the bottleneck.
Founders can't decide whether to expose unbuilt modules. Commenters are unanimous: dead tabs read as "unfinished," users don't return, and demoing the vision yields "zero usable feedback, because everyone reacts to the fantasy instead of the product."
"50% of traffic on the homepage, that's a single point of failure. I had a site where one page did 60% and one Google update cut my traffic in half overnight."
Top advice is "go find what boring SMBs pay for" — but doing that takes 2-3 months of lurking in forums. The research itself is the bottleneck.
Homeowner finds a potentially structural/urgent problem (5ft void under garage slab) and has no path to fast expert triage. Town public works and the water authority both deflected; everyone was closed by the time it was discovered.
Bot streaming is widespread; indie artists believe majors and platforms inflate numbers with impunity while one person gets jailed. Also distrust that royalty accounting is honest.
A student reviewed homework inst
Users want one-time/lifetime or usage-based pricing for tools they touch a few times a month; founders unsure whether subscriptions are costing them
"Microsoft Office charges me $129.99 a year forever. All I do is simple Excel and Word... **Give me a $500 version to own forever and leave me alone.**" Textbook stated willingness-to-pay for a perpetual license.
Copywriters/creatives are screenshotted every 5 minutes while much of the real work (thinking, reading, calls, notes) happens off-screen. Separately, clients worry monitoring contractors blows up their 1099/IR35 classification.
Founders can't get anyone to care. Cold outbound "doesn't work at all," ads are "absurdly expensive," and warm-ish prospects say "interesting, I'll consider" then vanish. Getting people to actually pay is the hardest step.
Drivers (consumer cars *and* $200K commercial trucks) can't operate shifters, HVAC, etc. by feel. OEMs gate fixes behind expensive software ("$3,000 plus $500/month").
Belief that domestic food quality has collapsed; "food quality when I travel abroad is night and day." Counter-comments show the real blocker is knowledge/effort, not availability: "You can still make food at home from single ingredient sources."
Dashcam shows unbelted driver with phone *and* dog in her lap causing a crash. Top comment: *"few people seem to have issues with dogs in laps. Anyone who has ever driven should know that isn't a good idea."* — explicitly framed as an awareness/enforcement gap.
Claimants (and families) with legitimate toxic-exposure claims have no visibility into claim status, timelines, or whether payouts will ever arrive; they feel at the mercy of political whim and of mass-tort law firms.
Hero-narrative posts spread with fabricated causality; users have to do the debunking manually and resent the platform for rewarding it.
Leak happened while away; by discovery it's a ceiling/wall problem. *"It's going to be Mold City up there pretty fast"* — the clock is the enemy, and remediation quotes are feared ("you're going to spend some serious money").
Widespread rage at billionaire wealth concentration; comments fantasize about violence/Death Notes rather than
Same objections repeated call after call; the fix is site copy, but founders don't know which objections to surface.
Three separate posts are the same question at different zeroes — a sudden lump sum and no framework for the pay-debt vs. emergency-fund vs. invest decision. These people are maximally vulnerable to the high-fee advisor in #1 precisely at this moment.
Settlement/inheritance recipients don't know where to park or deploy money, hold unrealistic return expectations (the "24% growth is atypical" correction at 173), and are prime targets for product-pushing advisors.