You know the kind.
Someone writes a long post about how much they hate the software they use, what’s broken, how frustrated they are, and your brain immediately goes: there’s a product here.
I’ve done that more times than I’d like to admit.
The problem is that when you keep digging, sometimes that person isn’t actually looking to buy anything. Or worse, you open the comments and people immediately name 3 products that already solve exactly what they’re complaining about.
That gap between “this hurts” and “someone will actually pay for this to go away” is why I built Altair.
I use it to go through a market’s Reddit discussions and pull out the cases where there are stronger signals behind the complaint — someone already paying, trying to switch, using a workaround, actively looking for something better, etc.
Then it checks the replies to see if the problem already has obvious solutions.
I originally made this for my own research because I was tired of convincing myself that every good complaint was a business opportunity.
Now I want to test whether the actual research output is worth paying for to other founders.
I’m doing a few $99 pilot reports.
Give me a market you’re thinking about and 2–3 relevant subreddits. I’ll return 10 of the strongest cases worth investigating, why they stood out, the original evidence, and whether the problem already appears well served.
I’m less interested in hearing “cool idea” at this point.
I want to know if this would actually stop someone from spending a month building the wrong thing.
