Free to read. Paid to watch.
The only Reddit pain feed that’s actually free — pay only when you want it watched for you. Every new account starts with 7 days of Pro features — one watch, everything on, no card.
FREE
For idea-hunters seeing what hurts before they build.
- The pain feed: every signal we pull from Reddit & HN — no paywall
- Pain clusters: real complaints grouped by problem across 270+ subreddits
- 3 saved panes: bookmark your top finds — Player keeps unlimited
- Growing Pains: the weekly “what’s hurting” email — free forever
PLAYER
For builders zeroed in on one niche.
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited saves: collect every pane worth building
- Topic Watch: name a niche — e.g. “AI tools for freelancers” — and we radar the feed for matching pains (1 topic)
- Fit ranking: your matches ranked to you — skills, capital & goals
- Pain alerts: get pinged the moment a saved pane or your topic watch spikes
- Top Sectors: the funding × pain leaderboard — which sectors are heating up & where the money’s moving (the BUILD tab)
- Solution Landscape: on any pane — who’s already building, their pricing, and where the gaps are
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PRO
For founders tracking their own product & rivals.
- Everything in Player
- Topic Watch, unlimited: track as many niches as you want — not just one
- Product Watch: track your own product — who’s mentioning it & how they feel
- Deep Scan: we re-check your competitors live, so the Solution Landscape never goes stale
- Weekly synthesis: a personalised written read on everything you track — topics, saved panes & your product
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Let the data do the talking
“Hand-curated” is a polite way of saying a guy picked these, once. We re-read the market every few hours and re-rank by what’s actually growing.
How we stack up
| Panegains | Idea catalogs | Reddit research | Keyword alerts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free full feed — no signup wall | ✓ | — | ⚠ tiny free tier | ⚠ raw alerts only |
| Continuous — re-ranked every cycle | ✓ | — curated once (in a while) | ⚠ you sift | ⚠ no ranking |
| Real, live data — linked to the actual complaint | ✓ | ⚠ | ✓ | ✓ raw |
| Multi-source: Reddit · HN · web · App Store | ✓ | ⚠ | — Reddit only | ⚠ varies |
| Capital-meets-pain — funding × pain | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Keeps watching — alerts, not one-shot | ✓ | — report & done | ⚠ some | ✓ |
| Reads your product & audience — not brittle keywords | ✓ | — no monitoring | ⚠ keyword search | ⚠ keywords only, noisy |
| Human-analyst option | ✓ Pane Intel | — | — | — |
| Ready-to-code blueprint | ⚠ scores, not code | ✓ | — | — |
| Tells you the feature to build — live gaps, kept fresh | ✓ | ⚠ static blueprint | — you infer | — |
| What “validated” actually means | live velocity + cross-source + real posts | a human picked it | filters — you judge | your keyword fired |
Compared against idea-catalog tools, Reddit-research tools, and keyword-alert tools as archetypes. One ⚠ is honest: some idea tools hand you a full code blueprint — we hand you the scored opportunity and the real sources, and keep watching it.
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