Founders and indie builders choosing a product idea from public user complaints

How much does Painbase cost?

Paid plans start at $9.99/mo, per Painbase's pricing page on 2026-10-26.

No. Its pricing page showed no free plan on 2026-10-26.

Is Painbase still maintained?

Actively maintained: site updated 2 days ago.

Does Painbase have a free trial?

Yes, a free trial, per its pricing page (2026-10-26).

What are alternatives to Painbase?

In Developer tools, by use: Replit, RapidNative, Shipper, AG-UI, APITier, ideavo.ai.

Painbase

Turns public complaints from Hacker News, app stores, GitHub issues and TabNews into scored product ideas and agent build specs.

From $9.99/moActively maintained

Developer toolsAnalyticsFree tier+1

painbase.io ↗

Open painbase.ioAlternatives Set it up for my team Is Painbase yours? Claim the card →

At a glanceswept Oct 25, 2026

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For: Founders and indie builders choosing a product idea from public user complaints
Price: From $9.99/mopricing page, read Oct 26, 2026 Trial & discounts: free trial
Activity: Actively maintainedsite updated 2 days ago
Company: since 2025per their site
Runs as: API
Used for: Find product ideas in complaints on Hacker News and app stores
Check whether an idea is worth building by asking real communities
Generate a build spec and interview script for a chosen idea
read off painbase.io on Oct 26, 2026

Worth knowingcomputed from what we read · each with its source

Has an MCP server (1 in the registry)public registry →
Publishes llms.txt, a file written for AI assistantspainbase.io ↗

Pricingpricing page, read Oct 26, 2026

From $9.99/mo

Trial & discounts free trial

pricing page

The companyeach fact with its source · read Oct 26, 2026

Founded2025per their site ↗

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read Oct 26, 2026

MCP serverio.painbase/painbaseverified in the MCP registry
Stateanswers, requires sign-inchecked 2026-10-26
Address to connectpainbase.io/mcp
API docspainbase.io/developerthe vendor's page ↗
MCP docspainbase.io/developerthe vendor's page ↗

MCP server details →

This card as JSON, for your agent →

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.

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Questions this page answers

What is Painbase?
Turns public complaints from Hacker News, app stores, GitHub issues and TabNews into scored product ideas and agent build specs. It is listed in the Atlas under Developer tools.
Who is Painbase for?
Founders and indie builders choosing a product idea from public user complaints
How much does Painbase cost?
Paid plans start at $9.99/mo, per Painbase's pricing page on 2026-10-26.
Is Painbase free?
No. Its pricing page showed no free plan on 2026-10-26.

Do people use Painbase?
Little sign of use.
Is Painbase still maintained?
Actively maintained: site updated 2 days ago.
Does Painbase have a free trial?
Yes, a free trial, per its pricing page (2026-10-26).
What are alternatives to Painbase?
In Developer tools, by use: Replit, RapidNative, Shipper, AG-UI, APITier, ideavo.ai.

How we read a tool

No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.

Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.

How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.

How we read every tool → · By INITE Atlas Desk