Has anyone here successfully gotten Reddit API access recently with the new policy? Curious how hard the approval process is now for indie developers and small SaaS apps. Would love to hear real experiences.
I have seen founders spending more time making Twitter threads, LinkedIn posts, aesthetic screenshots than actually talking to users. Sometimes I feel like people are building audiences for the products nobody truly needs it. Curious if others feel the same or build in public genuinely helped you get paying customers?
You will see founders spending 8 months polishing dashboards, pricing pages, and onboarding flows while having zero idea where their first 100 users will come from.
Meanwhile, another founder just ship an ugly MVP, talk to users everyday, post consistently on Reddit/Twitter, hang around niche communities, get roasted publicly, improve fast, and somehow wins.
A painful truth I came to learn is that the internet makes us overvalue building and undervalue attention.
If a tool could instantly show you competitor weaknesses, what would matter most?
Top customer complaints?
Why customers leave them?
Pricing changes?
Feature gaps?
Poor customer support patterns?
Negative Reddit discussions?
What insight would make you say:
“Yes, I’d pay for this.”
I’m trying to understand where the real value is.
Reading hundreds of reviews manually?
Figuring out why customers leave competitors?
Tracking pricing changes?
Finding real customer complaints hidden across Reddit, Trustpilot, G2, and Google?
What part wastes the most time for you?
I’m researching this problem deeply and would love honest answers from founders here.
What’s the most painful part of competitor research for you?