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ProblemTotem

Find real, validated problems worth solving.

2025 · wound down

problemtotem.com · no longer online

ProblemTotem reads a lot of Reddit so you don't have to. It listens to where people are genuinely frustrated, clusters the complaints into themes, and surfaces the ones worth building against, each backed by the quotes that got it ranked. A short report, a few good problems, and the receipts.

I started it because I was tired of picking ideas from thin air. The validated-problem problem is older than software, and LLMs finally make it cheap enough to treat real user pain as the raw material for product work.

  • Reddit-based pain-point discovery
  • LLM theme clustering with source quotes
  • Ranked reports you can read in under five minutes

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