About DemandRadar

A curated brief that turns community complaints into product openings.

Why this exists

Most builders know real demand lives inside communities like Reddit and Discord — but the volume is brutal and most of it is noise. Tens of millions of posts, and only a handful actually map to something you could build.

DemandHunt does one simple thing: reads first. It picks the posts where someone clearly wants something that existing tools don't do, translates them, tags them and keeps the link. You only have to answer one question: can I build this?

Inclusion criteria

Real people, real words — public questions, feature requests and help threads. No marketing posts, no self-promotion.
A readable need — the post contains a signal such as "is there a tool for", "I can't find an alternative", "we do this by hand", "I would pay".
Checkable — every entry links to the original thread with its date, so you can read the context and replies.
Buildable — we only keep needs that map to a product shape: tool, plug-in, service or physical good.

Field guide

Original quote — verbatim from the thread, not rewritten.
Translation — a faithful, sometimes condensed rendering.
Pain / A way in — our reading and suggested angle; subjective.
Demand — 1–5, from wording strength, engagement and repetition of the same need.
Existing options — known incumbents; not exhaustive.

Sources and updates

This build reads Hacker News, Stack Exchange (Software Recommendations and Web Apps), Shopify Community, n8n Community, Ghost Forum, Obsidian Forum, Godot Forum, OpenAI Developer Community, Discourse Meta, Bubble and Glide.

On Reddit and Discord: these are the two sources we most want to add, but they must be crawled from a network that can reach them (neither the Reddit API nor Discord is open from restricted networks). The data layer already reserves platform and url, so new sources drop in without touching the front end. This first build sticks to communities we can crawl reliably and verify link by link — "the links are real" comes first.

Disclaimer

All quoted text remains the property of its authors and communities; this site only aggregates, translates and comments. Demand scores and product suggestions are editorial judgement, not investment or business advice. If you are an author and want your content removed, contact us.

Tech notes

A pure static site — no database, no backend. Data lives as JavaScript objects under assets/data/; adding a need means appending one object to the matching category file. Deployment is handled by the one-click Cloudflare script in the project root.

Where to start

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