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AI Pain Research Prompt
Prompt sequence to mine customer complaints and validate problem urgency.
A two-step AI prompt designed to surface real user complaints across forums, Reddit, and review platforms about a specific problem. It extracts direct quotes, identifies common emotional phrasing, and rates problem severity on a 1-to-10 scale before you build a product.
The prompt
"Search Reddit, forums, and review sites for people complaining about [your problem]. Find 50+ complaint threads from the last 6 months. Look for phrases like 'there has to be a better way' or 'I hate how [current solution] works.' Give me direct quotes and links." Follow-up: "Analyze these complaints. What specific words do people use? How urgent does their frustration sound? Rate the pain level 1-10."
What it's for
- Validate business ideas by identifying authentic customer frustrations
- Gather exact customer language and terminology for marketing copy
- Assess the urgency and pain level of a specific market problem
Key points
- Scrapes or surfaces recent complaint threads from Reddit, forums, and review sites
- Targets specific friction phrases such as 'there has to be a better way'
- Requests direct quotes and source links to verify context
- Analyzes emotional intensity and frequency of specific keywords
- Assigns a 1-to-10 pain severity rating to summarize market urgency
Pricing
Free
Details
- Type
- Prompt
- Category
- Business & Money
- Topic
- Idea Validation
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- Web
- For
- Founders, indie hackers, and product managers validating new ideas
- Tags
- prompts, idea validation, market research, chatgpt, customer discovery
Why it was saved
- @TomBilyeu: Establishes whether the problem is real and urgent before building.
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