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Mines public online community threads for recurring user complaints, then ranks each by estimated demand and build feasibility.

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For
Indie hackers, founders and product managers choosing what to build next from validated online complaints
Price
Free plan · From $20/mopricing page, read 2026-10-13 ↗
Activity
Actively maintainedsite updated 2 days ago
Company
Domain since 2026domain registered
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What people do with itread off painspotter.ai on 2026-10-13
  • Scan Reddit and Hacker News for recurring user complaints
  • Rank complaints by pain, willingness to pay and feasibility
  • Track emerging pain points within a chosen niche
The companyeach fact with its source · read 2026-10-13
  • Domain since2026domain registered
Your datawhat they publish, each line with its page · read 2026-10-13

These are Pain Spotter's own statements, read from its pages. We did not audit them. A line that is missing was not found on the pages we read; it does not mean the practice is absent.

How a program reaches itfound, not claimed · read 2026-10-13
  • MCP serverai.painspotter/painspotterverified in the MCP registry
  • Stateanswers, 7 toolschecked 2026-10-13
  • Address to connectpainspotter.ai/mcp
  • OpenAPI spec4 pathsthe spec ↗
  • API docspainspotter.ai/developersthe vendor's page ↗
  • MCP docspainspotter.ai/developersthe vendor's page ↗

MCP server details →

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.

Questions this page answers
  • What is Pain Spotter?

    Mines public online community threads for recurring user complaints, then ranks each by estimated demand and build feasibility.

  • Who is Pain Spotter for?

    Indie hackers, founders and product managers choosing what to build next from validated online complaints

  • How much does Pain Spotter cost?

    Pain Spotter has a free plan; paid plans start at $20/mo, per its pricing page on 2026-10-13.

  • Is Pain Spotter free?

    Yes, Pain Spotter has a free plan, per its pricing page on 2026-10-13.

  • Do people use Pain Spotter?

    Little sign of use.

  • Is Pain Spotter still maintained?

    Actively maintained: site updated 2 days ago.

  • Is Pain Spotter safe?

    We do not audit vendors. What Pain Spotter publishes, read 2026-10-13: GDPR, CCPA stated on its privacy policy.

  • How do I cancel Pain Spotter?

    In its own words (terms of service, 2026-10-13): “You can cancel at any time; the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.”

Not quite it? Describe the job

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Five tools from the Atlas that fit it, each judged against what you wrote.

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.