IdeaFast is a customer research platform that automatically analyzes Reddit to uncover recurring customer pain points and market opportunities.

It clusters real customer problems, scores them by frequency, and links every insight back to the original discussions, helping founders understand what people actually struggle with instead of relying on assumptions.

Ideal for founders, indie makers, product teams, and market researchers looking to understand their market, validate ideas, prioritize features, and build products people genuinely want.

Features

Analyze one or multiple subreddits simultaneously (plan-based).
Broad Mode automatically discovers relevant subreddits based on a niche, company, profession, or interest.
Analyze discussions from the last 7, 30, or 90 days.
Automatically identify and cluster recurring customer pain points.
Score pain points by frequency and relevance.
Generate startup ideas based on validated customer problems.
Link every insight back to the original Reddit and Hacker News discussions for verification.
Search across both Reddit and Hacker News.
Discover niche-specific communities through built-in subreddit recommendations.
Use AI to summarize large volumes of customer discussions into structured research reports.
Export and revisit customer insights for future research.

Use Cases

Research a new market before building a product.
Validate startup ideas using real customer conversations.
Discover unmet customer needs and market opportunities.
Prioritize product features based on recurring customer pain points.
Find exact customer language for landing pages, ads, and positioning.
Identify buying intent by discovering discussions where users express willingness to pay.
Jump directly into relevant discussions to engage with potential customers.
Monitor how customer problems evolve over time (7/30/90-day analysis).
Generate startup ideas backed by real-world demand instead of assumptions.
Understand a niche quickly without manually reading hundreds of Reddit posts.
Support continuous customer research throughout the product lifecycle.
Create evidence-backed market reports for founders, product teams, and researchers.
Find communities where your target customers already hang out.
Reduce hours of manual Reddit research to a structured report in minutes.

I built IdeaFast because I was tired of spending hours reading Reddit posts every time I wanted to understand a new market. I'd end up with dozens of tabs, scattered notes, and still wonder if I'd missed something important.

So I built the workflow I wanted: scan a subreddit, surface recurring customer pain points, jump back to the original discussions, and use those insights to validate ideas, improve positioning, and talk to potential customers.