Evidence-based opportunity finder
Itch Finder scans the places people complain, groups the noise into scored pain points, and helps you validate before you build.
Freelancers lose hours chasing late invoices
Solo freelancers track unpaid invoices in spreadsheets and send reminders by hand, and still wait weeks to get paid.
“I spend every Friday writing polite emails to clients who owe me money.”
Reading signals from the places people actually complain
(00)The problem, briefly
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(01)Explore
Fig. 02 — The Explore screen, illustrative data
(02)Tune your feed
Pick your audience, B2B or B2C, and how much signal you need. Itch Finder reshapes the shelves to match.
Solo freelancers track unpaid invoices in spreadsheets and send reminders by hand, and still wait weeks to get paid.
“I spend every Friday writing polite emails to clients who owe me money.”
Small clinics juggle a phone line, a web form and a paper diary, so slots get booked twice and patients are turned away.
“We had two patients show up for the same slot and no way to know who booked first.”
(03)Under the hood
The research happens in the background. You notice mostly by not having to do it.
Hundreds of posts about the same pain collapse into one card, so you read the pattern once.
“Late invoices again, I hate this”
“How do you chase clients who ghost?”
“Spent my Friday writing reminder emails”
142 mentions, 1 pain point
Demand, trend, willingness to pay and competition, each linked to the posts behind it.
See who is solving it, who is struggling, and where complaints are spiking.
Plain-language questions return answers with sources, and can draft an MVP brief.
What do dentists complain about that nobody has solved?
Three unsolved problems, led by double-booked appointments across tools. 87 mentions, sources linked.
New pain points land in your inbox each morning, scored and sorted.
Itch Finder daily: 12 new pain points
Top: Clinics double-book appointments (84)
Save evidence, compare competitors and decide before you write code.
(04)How it works
Public posts and reviews are read around the clock, 24/7, across Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange and app stores.
As new complaints arrive, similar ones collapse into one pain point, with the quotes, dates and sources kept attached.
Demand, trend, willingness to pay and competition give every pain point a score that updates as new evidence comes in.
Check who already solves it, save the evidence to a project and decide whenever you are ready, before you write code.
(05)Everywhere
Rising problems
(06)Loved by builders
“I stopped scrolling Reddit for ideas. The evidence behind each pain point told me what to build first.”
“Seeing who already tries to solve a problem saved me a month of research on a crowded niche.”
“The willingness-to-pay signals are the part I did not know I needed. Real quotes, real dates.”
“I asked the chat agent about a niche I knew nothing about and got sourced answers in minutes.”
“The daily digest is the first email I open. Three new problems, scored, before breakfast.”
“We use it to pick side projects. If a problem scores well and has no good tool, it goes on the list.”
“Finally a research tool that shows its work instead of handing me a vague trend chart.”
“Bookmarking problems and comparing competitors in one place replaced three spreadsheets for me.”
(07)Pricing
Early access
Freewhile we build
No card needed.
(08)FAQ
Itch Finder is an evidence-based opportunity finder for indie hackers, founders and developers. It scans online communities for real problems people describe, groups them into pain points and scores each one.
Public communities and reviews such as Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange and app store reviews. Every pain point links back to the posts behind it.
Each pain point is scored on demand, trend, willingness to pay and competition, based on the mentions we collected and when they were posted.
Yes. You can create an account and start exploring problems for free while we are in early access.
No. It helps you pick a problem worth pursuing and shows who already serves it. You should still talk to the people who have the problem.
Create a free account and see what people are asking for today.