Public Demand Miner for Builders
Finds people actively looking for solutions across Reddit and Hacker News and surfaces them as leads or product ideas.
The problem
Public posts show ongoing demand for tools that detect buying signals and urgent requests across communities instead of relying on generic lead scraping.
Proposed solution
A community monitor that watches chosen niches, detects phrases like 'looking for a tool' or repeated complaint patterns, and turns them into ranked opportunities or outreach lists.
Target audience
Founders, agencies, and B2B sales teams
Key features
- Keyword and niche monitoring
- Buying-signal detection
- Lead or opportunity clustering
- Source links and context
- Saved searches
- Email or Slack alerts
Monetization strategy
Tiered SaaS based on niches tracked, alert frequency, and export/integration access.
Skills to build it
- Search/relevance systems
- Text classification
- Scraping/public data pipelines
- Alerting
- Basic CRM/export integrations
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