Research · Do this yourself

Sell weekly reports of real problems people want solved.

Found on Reddit in r/SaaS, r/SideProject (2 threads).

🔥 14 posts this week · 2 likes

Based on u/HopefulBread5119 on Reddit (opens in new tab)

Where this came from (Reddit)

Builders keep saying the hardest part is knowing what to build, and that digging for real pain points by hand takes weeks.

The threads (in our words)

Reddit blocks automated reads, so we couldn’t record upvote or comment counts. The business below is our own design inspired by these threads.

Who it’s for

Indie hackers, agencies and product teams hunting for validated ideas.

Adapt it to your industry

  • Start with one niche or customer type, then expand.
  • Ask your first 10 customers what they would pay before you build more.
  • Keep a human check on anything sent in a customer’s name.

Step by step

  1. Use official APIs or feeds where allowed (Reddit’s API terms, Hacker News API, app store reviews) and respect rate limits.
  2. Have Claude tag each post: problem, who has it, existing tools, willingness to pay.
  3. Score and group them weekly into 10 opportunities with links to the public threads.
  4. Publish a free sample on beehiiv and a paid tier through Stripe.
  5. Post one free finding a day on X with Buffer.
  6. Review the top 10 yourself before each send.

Ready-to-copy prompt

Here are 50 forum posts: [paste]. Group them into problems, and for each give who has it, how often it appears, current tools people mention, and signs they would pay.

Start with AI

Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.

Open in ChatGPT (opens in new tab)Open in Claude (opens in new tab)Open in Grok (opens in new tab)
Time
1–3 hoursOur estimate

Your autonomous stack

Autonomy: Agents gather sources, write the report and email it. Your part: Spot-check one report a week for accuracy (about 1 hour).

Every layer an agent-run business needs, in order. Prices are public list prices, checked Oct 16, 2026.

  1. Agent (the brain): Claude (incl. Claude Code) (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Pro $20/mo). Runs the business day to day: writes, answers, decides small things and reports to you. Grok Bot, Claude Code or Codex can also run scheduled jobs.
  2. Build and hosting: Supabase database (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Pro from $25/mo), beehiiv newsletter (opens in new tab) (Free up to 2,500 subscribers). The product or service your customers use.
  3. Payments: Stripe payments (opens in new tab) (No monthly fee · 2.9% + 30¢ per card payment). Automatic checkout and receipts. Other options: PayPal Checkout (3.49% + 49¢) or Lemon Squeezy (5% + 50¢, handles sales tax).
  4. Customer acquisition: Buffer (scheduled X posts) (opens in new tab) (Free plan (3 channels, 10 queued posts each) · Essentials $5/mo per channel, billed yearly), beehiiv newsletter (opens in new tab) (Free up to 2,500 subscribers). Agent-written SEO pages, scheduled X posts and a weekly newsletter.
  5. Delivery: Make automations (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Core $16/mo). Automations deliver the product or result as soon as someone pays.
  6. Support: Make automations (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Core $16/mo). An AI inbox or chat answers questions; anything unclear is flagged for you.
  7. Monitoring and schedule: Make automations (opens in new tab) (Free tier · Core $16/mo). Scheduled runs (cron) each day: send, check for failures, alert you if something breaks.
  8. Analytics: Google Analytics (opens in new tab) (Free). Tracks visits, signups and sales so the agent can report what works.
  9. Human checkpoint: Spot-check one report a week for accuracy (about 1 hour).
  10. Price: charge $19 per subscriber (monthly subscription to the report). Offer the first 3 customers a founding price for honest feedback.
Monthly cost$0–$66/monthFree tiers → paid plans of the tools above. Card fees come out of each sale.
What you could earn · EstimateEstimate: 60 subscribers × $19 = $1,140/moOur estimate, not a fact or a promise. It’s simple math if you land these customers at this price.
Details: source, numbers and tags

What they did

Agents scan public forum posts for “is there a tool for…” and package scored opportunities for builders. We designed this business from real Reddit threads; it is an idea for you to build, not a description of the posters’ businesses.

How it went

Found on Reddit in r/SaaS, r/SideProject (2 threads). Upvote and comment counts weren’t retrievable, so none are shown. On X, 14 posts matched our search for this idea in the 7 days to 2026-10-16.

Worth knowing

Quote briefly and link the original; don’t republish whole posts or scrape against a site’s terms.

Difficulty
BeginnerOur rating
Time to build
Not reportedOur estimate
Monthly cost
Not reported
Revenue
Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
Engagement
No public countThe source shows no number
X buzz
16.3 · 14 posts in 7 days2 likes, 1 reposts, 10 replies, 0 quotes on 2 top posts · fetched Oct 16, 2026 · query: ("pain points" OR "is there a tool") (reddit) (startup OR saas OR idea) -crypto -is:retweet lang:en

Posted · Added Oct 16, 2026

Original builder recipe

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  1. Use official APIs or feeds where allowed (Reddit’s API terms, Hacker News API, app store reviews) and respect rate limits.
  2. Have Claude tag each post: problem, who has it, existing tools, willingness to pay.
  3. Score and group them weekly into 10 opportunities with links to the public threads.
  4. Publish a free sample on beehiiv and a paid tier through Stripe.
  5. Post one free finding a day on X with Buffer.
  6. Review the top 10 yourself before each send.

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