Evidence, not optimism. Reddit research for founders

What your market actually needs.

Type a hypothesis. rawneed mines the subreddits where your customers complain, classifies every thread, and scores the pain — so you know the raw need before you build.

rawneed — live run$0.34
YOUR HYPOTHESIS
Indie founders struggle to get their first 100 customers without paid ads.
fetch1,240 threads · 5 subreddits
dedupe986 unique threads
classify312 relevant · pain tagged
scoresignal ready
PAIN SIGNAL
57/100
How it works

Four steps. About fifteen minutes. Under 40 cents.

01

State your claim

Write the hypothesis you'd bet your next six months on. rawneed sharpens it into something falsifiable.

02

Pick the subreddits

Suggested communities where your people actually talk, ranked by post volume against your claim.

03

Pipeline runs

Fetch, dedupe, classify. Every thread scored for relevance and pain — transparent, per-stage costs.

04

Read the signal

One pain-signal number, the themes beneath it, and every source thread one click away.

The report

Evidence, not optimism.

Every bar in the chart is built from real threads written by real, annoyed humans. Click any theme and read the receipts — then quote them in your next investor update.

Open the sample report →
First 100 Customers
312 relevant threads · 12 months
78/100
Cold outbound exhaustion34%
Community-led acquisition works28%
Paid ads burn cash pre-PMF21%
Launch spikes don't convert17%
1,240 fetched · 986 deduped · 312 classifiedtotal $0.34
Founders use it to argue less

Decisions made with receipts.

"We were about to spend a quarter building the wrong thing. One $0.30 run showed the pain was in onboarding, not pricing. Changed our whole roadmap conversation."

MK
Maya K.
Solo founder, devtools

"I pasted three rawneed quotes into our investor update. The reply was 'this is the most convincing traction section you've sent.' It was literally Reddit threads."

DR
Dev R.
Co-founder, HR SaaS

"It killed two of my ideas in an afternoon. That's the nicest thing a tool has ever done for me."

JT
Jonas T.
Indie hacker
FAQ

The need behind
the noise.

Where does the data come from? +

Public Reddit threads, fetched against your queries across the subreddits you choose, within your time window.

How is the pain signal calculated? +

Each thread is classified against your exact claim for relevance and pain intensity. The score aggregates them — and every number links back to its source threads.

What does a run cost? +

Free while we're in beta. Under the hood a claim costs about $0.15–$0.40 to run, and you see per-stage costs before and during every run — that transparency stays when pricing arrives.

What if my market isn't on Reddit? +

The subreddit picker shows post volume against your claim before you spend anything — if the rooms are empty, you'll know up front.

rawneed.

Know the raw need before you build.

Free while in beta · no demo calls

See a sample report