Pick a trade you understand and read what the people in it are already fed up with.
indie devs shipping side projects
42 found“I've shipped four side projects this year and every one died at zero users.”
“Every newsletter felt essential when I subscribed. Now my inbox is unusable.”
“Brands keep asking for my UGC rates and I'm making the numbers up.”
You describe an audience. Gripes picks the subreddits where that audience talks about its own work, then reads the recent posts.
Each one comes back as a plain sentence, the words the person used, and a link to the post they wrote.
Complaints are tagged by type, so manual work, broken workflows and missing features separate themselves.
See whether anyone complains about the problem you picked, without asking a single leading question.
Search your own category and read what people say is missing from the tools they already pay for.
Every problem comes with a verbatim quote. That is your headline.
Every problem links back to the post it came from, and the person who wrote it is still there.
Read a segment's real problems before you commit a quarter to it.
Every complaint is a post, a video or a newsletter someone already asked for.