Painspotter
Surface AI-scored startup opportunities from Reddit, Hacker News, and Product Hunt while researching what to build next.
Overview
PainSpotter is an Idea-phase MCP server that returns AI-analyzed startup opportunities from Reddit, Hacker News, and Product Hunt with commercial scores.
What is this MCP server?
- AI-analyzed opportunities sourced from Reddit, Hacker News, and Product Hunt
- Commercial scores to prioritize pains worth pursuing
- Free tier: get_overview and get_opportunity; Pro unlocks all MCP tools
- X-API-Key header (psk_live_) from painspotter.ai/account
- Remote MCP at painspotter.ai/mcp; metadata links github.com/archoor/reddit-insight
- MCP server version 1.0.0
- Remote endpoint: https://painspotter.ai/mcp (streamable-http)
- Data sources named: Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt
What problem does it solve?
You waste weeks on ideas because scanning communities for real pain is slow and hard to rank without structured scoring.
Who is it for?
Indie hackers in early research who want MCP-driven opportunity scans before prototyping or landing-page tests.
Skip if: Post-launch growth analytics or teams that already locked product scope and only need execution tooling.
What do I get? / Deliverables
Your agent pulls scored opportunity briefs from PainSpotter so you can shortlist problems worth validating next.
- Overview and opportunity summaries from PainSpotter indexes
- Commercial scores to rank which pains to validate first
- Agent-repeatable research pulls without manual subreddit scrolling
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Journey fit
Idea-phase research is where you hunt problems and demand signals before committing months to a build. Research fits aggregated community pain and commercial scoring across Reddit, HN, and Product Hunt rather than deep competitor teardown alone.
How it compares
Community opportunity intelligence MCP, not a code scaffold or deployment integration.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is ai.painspotter/painspotter for?
Solo builders researching what to ship next who want agent calls into PainSpotter’s scored Reddit, HN, and Product Hunt opportunity feed.
When should I use ai.painspotter/painspotter?
Use it during Idea (research) when comparing problems, before Validate scope or landing experiments, via get_overview and get_opportunity on the free tier or full tools on Pro.
How do I add ai.painspotter/painspotter to my agent?
Register https://painspotter.ai/mcp as a remote MCP server and set header X-API-Key to your psk_live_ key from https://painspotter.ai/account.