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Real problems, pulled from Reddit, with proof.

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  • Find a startup idea
  • Validate an idea
  • Plan your roadmap
  • Write better copy
  • Find buyers
  • Research a new market
  • Content ideas

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© 2026 Gripes

Build what people
already complain about

Gripes reads Reddit for the customer you describe and hands back their real problems.

  • Describe your customer in one sentence
  • Gripes reads the subreddits they actually post in
  • Every problem comes back with a quote and a link
Start a search›Watch demo

indie devs shipping side projects

42 found
  • “I've shipped four side projects this year and every one died at zero users.”

    312r/SideProjectRecurring
  • “Every newsletter felt essential when I subscribed. Now my inbox is unusable.”

    1.4kr/productivityManual work
  • “Brands keep asking for my UGC rates and I'm making the numbers up.”

    89r/NewTubersMissing tool
Reading r/SideProject
“I keep building things nobody asked for. I need to talk to actual people before I open the editor again.”
r/indiehackers
“Spent a weekend reading three years of threads in my niche and got more out of it than a year of analytics.”
r/Entrepreneur

You already have the answers.
They're in someone else's thread.

People describe their problems in public every day, for peers, not for your survey. Gripes goes and reads them.

No guessing. No scrolling. No leading questions.

Without Gripes

  • You guess what to build.
  • You scroll Reddit for hours.
  • You ship it and nobody wanted it.

With Gripes

  • You see what people actually complain about.
  • You read one short list with proof.
  • You build something people already asked for.

One sentence in.
A list of real problems out.

  1. 1

    Describe your customer

    One sentence, like “indie devs shipping side projects.” You don't need to know where on Reddit to look.

  2. 2

    Gripes reads Reddit

    It finds the right communities, reads the recent posts, and throws out the noise.

  3. 3

    You get real problems

    Each one as a plain sentence, the words they used, and a link to the post. Ready in minutes.

One search, seven jobs.
Pick the one you're doing today.

  • Find a startup idea

    Pick a trade you understand and read what the people in it are already fed up with.

  • Validate an idea

    See whether anyone complains about the problem you picked, without asking a single leading question.

  • Plan your roadmap

    Search your own category and read what people say is missing from the tools they already pay for.

  • Write better copy

    Every problem comes with a verbatim quote. That is your headline.

  • Find buyers

    Every problem links back to the post it came from, and the person who wrote it is still there.

  • Research a new market

    Read a segment's real problems before you commit a quarter to it.

  • Content ideas

    Every complaint is a post, a video or a newsletter someone already asked for.

One plan, ten dollars a month.
Two thousand posts to spend.

You are charged for the posts a search actually reads. Four subreddits at twenty five posts each is a hundred.

subreddits × posts each = posts used

Your first 100 posts are free on a new account.

$10/ month

2,000 posts a month

  • As many searches as you like
  • Planning, naming and editing a search
  • Every post judged, quoted and scored
  • Keyboard review, notes and export
  • Cancel any time
Start a search›
2,000
Posts every month
$0.005
Per post searched
$0
To plan and edit a search

Questions.
The ones people actually ask.

Where do the problems come from?
Real Reddit posts. Every problem links back to the post it came from, so you can read it yourself.
Do I need to know where on Reddit to look?
No. You describe your customer and Gripes finds the right places for you.
How long does a search take?
A few minutes. You can close the tab and come back when it is done.
What can I do with the list?
Keep the ones worth building, add your own notes, and download the whole thing.
What does it cost?
Ten dollars a month for 2,000 posts. You are charged for the posts a search actually reads, and your first 100 are free.

Stop guessing.
Go read what they said.

Start a search›