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I’m validating a new product idea: PainMiner

The problem:

Founders often validate ideas using guesswork, surveys, or weak demand signals.

But competitors already have public review data showing exactly what users hate.

PainMiner analyzes negative reviews and converts them into structured opportunity reports.

The goal:

Help founders identify real product gaps before building.

Currently validating demand.

Would this be useful in your workflow?

Live page:
https://www.getpainminer.com/

I kept seeing founders spend weeks validating ideas through surveys, cold outreach, and guesswork.

Meanwhile, competitors already have thousands of users publicly explaining what frustrates them inside 1-star reviews.

So I’m testing something called PainMiner.

It analyzes negative competitor reviews across platforms like G2, Capterra, and app stores to surface unmet product opportunities before founders build.

The idea is simple:

Instead of asking people what they want, analyze what they’re already complaining about.

I just launched the landing page and I’m validating whether this solves a real problem.

Would this actually help your workflow?

How do you currently figure out what to build next?

Founder here.

While researching how people validate SaaS ideas, I kept seeing the same pattern:

A lot of founders rely on:

• surveys
• waitlists
• polite conversations
• “would you pay for this?” style outreach

But these often produce weak signals.

What stood out to me is that some of the strongest validation data is already public:

Negative competitor reviews.

Unlike surveys, these are written by people actively paying for a solution and describing what’s missing or frustrating.

It made me wonder whether founders underuse this as a validation source.

Curious:

Have any of you used competitor review mining as part of your validation process?

If yes, how did you approach it?

I’m exploring this space right now and trying to understand whether it’s genuinely useful or just sounds clever in theory.