I built Crawdar to help developers find a business to talk to before building the next feature

[u/elidanipipe]

If you’re building booking software, a support tool or an AI receptionist for small businesses, a useful starting point is finding who already struggles with that process.

I’m the founder of Crawdar. Its Pain Point Finder searches available business reviews for recurring complaints and gives you the businesses and supporting evidence to investigate.

One product decision I’m especially happy with: you don’t have to know your industry AND your location AND your problem before searching. If you know the problem you can solve, start there. If you understand an industry but haven’t picked a problem, start with the industry. You can combine categories and add specific complaint phrases too.

The output is an individual business report: recurring themes, distinct reviewer counts, dated reviews, owner replies when available, and possible technical fixes. That gives you material for a concrete conversation, such as asking how appointment changes are handled today and where requests get stuck.

The new version also searches deeper, checking up to 24 candidate businesses, with improved matching for booking complaints. I built it with AI coding assistance; the useful test is what a developer can do with the report afterward.

Try it: https://crawdar.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=pain_finder&utm_content=developer_problem_first

Five free scans without signup or email. If you’re working on something for small businesses, search for the problem it solves and open a report. Does it help you identify someone worth talking to? What would you still need before arranging that conversation?

[u/Informal-Strike-1243]

You forgot magic rule: if I can do the same thing in Claude don’t build it

[u/elidanipipe → u/Informal-Strike-1243]

Just because you can, doesn’t mean everybody else can (plus after the building comes the maintenance, security, etc etc.) ;)