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Startup ideas from Reddit complaints and workflows

Reddit is one of the highest-signal sources for founder research because users describe detailed pain publicly.

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AI agents scan recurring complaints and workflow friction from Reddit, Subreddit search, comment threads. Ideas are scored for demand, competitiveness, and solo-founder execution risk.

Updated daily. Last refresh: February 22, 2026.

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Founders using community intelligence to de-risk idea selection.

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Problem summary, target user, demand signal, and opportunity score.

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Food & Lifestyle 9.5/10

PantryChef

  • Problem summary: The #1 cooking complaint across Reddit: staring at a full fridge with no idea what to make. Every recipe app starts with 'search for a recipe' — backwards. People want to...
  • Target user: Cooking and Meal Planning teams
  • Demand signal: Hacker News; search interest: Breakout
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Social & Community 9.4/10

ThirdPlace

  • Problem summary: 57% of Americans are lonely (Cigna 2025). 67-80% of Gen Z report loneliness. Americans with zero close friends jumped from 3% (1990) to 17% (2024). Time with friends drop...
  • Target user: Anti-Loneliness and IRL Events teams
  • Demand signal: Cigna 2025 / American Survey Center; search interest: Breakout
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Social & Career 9.3/10

NotLinkedIn

  • Problem summary: LinkedIn has become the cringe capital of the internet. r/LinkedInLunatics has 903K members and nearly quadrupled in 2 years. There are 13.4M LinkedIn parody posts on Tik...
  • Target user: Anti-LinkedIn and Career teams
  • Demand signal: BNN Bloomberg / Reddit; search interest: High
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FinTech 9.3/10

ClearBudget

  • Problem summary: Mint shut down, displacing millions. YNAB costs $14.99/month and has a 2-3 month learning curve most never complete. Monarch Money is $9.99/month. Copilot is $70/year. Ba...
  • Target user: Personal Finance and Budgeting teams
  • Demand signal: MoneySavingExpert / Bogleheads; search interest: Breakout
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Finance & Business 9.3/10

AutoPilot

  • Problem summary: MileIQ was so valuable that Microsoft acquired it, then Bending Spoons bought it for $233M in July 2025. It was the #1 grossing finance app on iTunes for 20 consecutive m...
  • Target user: Mileage Tracking and Tax teams
  • Demand signal: Wikipedia / TechCrunch; search interest: Very High
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Wellness 9.2/10

Enough

  • Problem summary: The self-help industry is $13B+ but there's a growing backlash. 45% of people report 'wellbeing burnout' — exhaustion from the constant pressure to optimize. Whitney Good...
  • Target user: Mental Health and Anti-Optimization teams
  • Demand signal: Global Wellness Summit 2026 Trends; search interest: Breakout
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AI & Trust 9.2/10

RealOrNot

  • Problem summary: 88% of Americans say it's harder to tell what's real online. Only 37% say they can confidently spot AI-generated misinformation. Deepfakes surged from 500K to 8M cases be...
  • Target user: Anti-AI and Authenticity teams
  • Demand signal: Checkr Consumer Trust Report 2025; search interest: Breakout
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Creator Economy 9.1/10

CreatorLedger

  • Problem summary: Micro-influencers (1K-100K followers) manage brand deals through DMs, email threads, Google Sheets, and memory. They don't know what to charge, can't track deliverable de...
  • Target user: Influencers and Content Creation teams
  • Demand signal: Creator industry survey
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Market analysis

  • PantryChef: pricing window Free (3 scans/day) → $5.99/mo premium. Affiliate revenue from grocery delivery. Target 500K users Y1.; TAM signal US food delivery: $74B. Meal kit market: $12B. Recipe app market: $1.5B. The real TAM is the 128M US households that cook at home — PantryChef intercepts the 'what's for dinner?' moment that happens 365x/year..
  • ThirdPlace: pricing window Free (browse, 3 events/week) → $5.99/mo or $49.99/year (unlimited, vibe match, go-with). B2B: event organizers $29-99/mo for featuring. Target 200K users Y1 in 3 launch cities.; TAM signal Loneliness economy: $460B in lost US productivity. Mental health apps: $7.48B (2024) → $17.52B (2030). Meetup does $138M revenue with terrible UX. Timeleft hit 18M EUR ARR for just dinners. The run club boom (59% growth) proves people want IRL. Total addressable: 130M+ lonely Americans willing to pay for connection..
  • NotLinkedIn: pricing window Free (core networking) → $9.99/mo premium (salary benchmarking, advanced insights). B2B: $299/mo verified employer pages. Target 100K users Y1.; TAM signal LinkedIn: $15B+ annual revenue, 1B+ members. Glassdoor: $300M+ revenue. Professional networking is a massive market — but the incumbent is universally mocked. 903K r/LinkedInLunatics members = built-in launch audience..
  • ClearBudget: pricing window Free (1 account) → $4.99/mo (unlimited). Deliberately 67% cheaper than YNAB. Target 500K users Y1.; TAM signal Personal finance app market: $31.7B. 150M+ Americans need budgeting tools. Mint had 3.6M orphaned users. YNAB has 2M+ users paying $14.99/mo ($360M ARR potential at full base). The Etsy template revenue ($1.6M from one shop) proves massive willingness to pay for even basic financial tracking..

Pain point breakdown

  • User quote: Recipe sites are the absolute aids. Ad covered, half the time they feature some bullshit story nobody cares about. (Hacker News)
  • User quote: 57% of Americans are lonely. Gen Z: 67-80%. Americans with zero close friends: 3% (1990) → 17% (2024). (Cigna 2025 / American Survey Center)
  • User quote: r/LinkedInLunatics: 903K members. Nearly quadrupled from ~10K (March 2021) to 903K now. (BNN Bloomberg / Reddit)
  • User quote: YNAB has a 2-3 month learning curve that most people never complete. The price creeps up year on year. (MoneySavingExpert / Bogleheads)

Competitor weakness map

  • SuperCook: Requires manually typing every ingredient. No photo scanning. Dated interface. Recipes are mediocre quality.
  • Bumble BFF: Treats friendship like dating. Swipe-match-message is fundamentally wrong for platonic relationships. Aggressive paywall. Ghosting epidemic.
  • LinkedIn ($15B+ revenue): THE cringe. Feed is unusable. Algorithm rewards engagement bait. No salary transparency. Humble-brag culture is structural, not a bug. They won't fix it because it drives engagement.
  • YNAB ($14.99/mo): 2-3 month learning curve. Zero-based budgeting philosophy alienates casual users. Price increased again. Sync issues.

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