# 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 is 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](https://xiry.app/topics/business-money.md)
- Topic: [Idea Validation](https://xiry.app/topics/business-money/idea-validation.md)
- 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, 30 June 2025](https://x.com/TomBilyeu/status/1939723236180173191): Establishes whether the problem is real and urgent before building.

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Updated 11 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/ai-pain-research-prompt

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