I built a tool that reads thousands of social comments so founders can pretend they “listen to customers.” Roast me.
Hey r/roastmystartup,
I’m building FeedPulse, a tool that analyzes comments from places like YouTube, TikTok/Instagram-style feeds, etc. and turns the chaos into something a founder, creator, marketer, or product team can actually use.
Basically: instead of spending hours reading 2,000 comments like a madman, FeedPulse pulls them in and tells you:
- what percentage are positive / negative / neutral
- what people are complaining about
- what people are praising
- what questions keep coming up
- what feature requests or content ideas are hiding in the noise
- which comments are actually worth responding to
The idea came from seeing how much useful feedback is buried in comment sections. A YouTube video, Reddit thread, launch post, or viral TikTok can have hundreds or thousands of people telling you exactly what they think — but nobody has time to read all of it unless they’re procrastinating from something more important.
The problem
Founders say they want customer feedback.
Creators say they want audience feedback.
Marketers say they want social listening.
But in practice, most people either:
- skim the top few comments,
- look at likes/views and call it “analytics,”
- paste a few comments into ChatGPT, or
- ignore the whole thing because comment sections are where human dignity goes to die.
I’m trying to turn that mess into a dashboard that shows the actual “pulse” of an audience.
Who it’s for
My current guesses:
- YouTubers / creators who want to know what their audience liked, hated, or wants next.
- Founders launching products who want to mine launch comments for objections and feature requests.
- Marketers tracking sentiment around campaigns, products, competitors, or content.
- Ecommerce brands trying to understand product complaints/praise from social media.
- Agencies managing multiple clients who need a quick read on audience feedback.
I’m still figuring out which of these is the real customer and which are just me making the classic founder mistake of saying “everyone with comments is my market.”
Current stage
MVP/demo stage.
Right now I’m focused on the core loop:
- Connect or enter a feed/source
- Pull comments
- Classify by sentiment and topic
- Surface trends
- Produce actionable feedback
I threw in some bonus features like sending feedback to Linear, and having a shared team/org
Business model
Subscription SaaS based on number of feeds and comments analyzed.
Competitors / alternatives
The obvious alternatives are:
- manually reading comments
- ChatGPT copy/paste
- social listening tools
- sentiment analysis tools
- ignoring feedback and saying “users don’t know what they want”
The gap I’m aiming for is: less enterprise “brand monitoring command center,” more practical “tell me what people are actually saying and what I should do about it.”
What I want roasted
Please be brutal on:
- Positioning: who should this actually be for first?
- Willingness to pay: who has the strongest pain here?
- Landing page/demo: does this sound useful or like AI slop with charts?
- Feature set: what would make this a must-have instead of a nice-to-have?
- Pricing: should this be creator-cheap, agency-expensive, or usage-based?
- Trust: what would make you believe the analysis instead of dismissing it as LLM horoscope output?
If you think the idea is viable, what features should I add next? I've been considering things like auto reply, or more feed types (Reddit, X, LInkedIn)
Link: https://www.feedpulse.app
Honest feedback appreciated!