A directory of what people actually want. Classified, clustered, ranked and updated daily
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Deep-dive: a simple workflow to validate a SaaS idea in 48 hours (without asking "Would you pay for this?"). 1) Start from *pain*, not features. Pick a workflow people already pay for (CRM, invoices, client reporting). Go to Reddit, G2, Capterra, and filter for 1★–3★ reviews. Copy every complaint into a doc. 2) Cluster the complaints. Group by themes: "too slow", "missing integrations", "broken exports", "poor mobile", etc. You’re looking for phrases like "every day", "again", "takes hours", "we’re stuck" — these signal real, repeating pain. 3) Cross-check with search behavior. Take those phrases and plug them into Google: "how to [phrase]", "[tool] alternative", "[workflow] with [tool]". Use Google Trends to see if the problem is flat, spiking, or slowly compounding. Flat + tiny volume? Probably too niche. Growing + boring? That’s your friend. 4) Map willingness to pay. Anywhere you see "we’re stuck with it" or "can’t switch because…" in reviews, that’s a budgeted problem with switching friction. Your wedge is: "same outcome, less pain on this *one* recurring task" — not a full replacement on day one. 5) Run a text-first validation. Before writing code, write the landing page + onboarding email sequence that solves exactly one of those clustered pains. Share it with 10–20 people who actually left those complaints (or people in the same role). Ask for calendar time or pre-orders, not opinions. If you want a tool that turns review scraping + complaint clustering + trend checks into a repeatable pipeline instead of a weekend hack, that’s what I’m building with SaaSScout: https://t.co/vFUx1dG0Lh