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The Eureka Database
Turn a Reddit complaint into your next company
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Turn a Reddit complaint into your next company
94 followers
AI will happily generate a thousand startup ideas. It can't tell you which one people will actually pay for. The Eureka Database is a library of ideas mined from real complaints on Reddit, reviews, and forums. Every idea comes with the receipts: who wants it, who's already profitable, and a working demo. Connect over MCP and your AI agent pulls the full build spec for any saved idea: the problem, the stack, the schema, even the design taste, no prompt engineering needed.
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@jeremy_galang This is actually something that I was looking for recently. Are you considering Quora as well? There are a lot of threads there where people directly ask for ideas or describe a gap. This might be a good additional source.
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@alieksia Quora is genius! Thank you, Anastasiia. I'll be adding that into our list of sources :)
"I could waste weekends faster" hit a nerve, I'm on the other side of that right now, built the product first and I'm doing the demand-validation work in reverse. One thing I'd push on: a repeated complaint proves the pain is real, but people complain about plenty of things they'd never pay to fix. Does the database distinguish "loud problem" from "monetizable problem" beyond listing competitors who charge? That gap is where most idea-mining tools miss.
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@cannetjam Thanks Kenneth! Good question, and it's the thing we spend the most time on.
We don't really weigh how loud a thread is. What moves the needle is whether someone's already spending time or money on a workaround, so "I wish this existed" barely registers, but "I've tried three tools and I'm still stuck in a spreadsheet" scores high. Whether competitors already charge is a smaller signal on top, it doesn't decide much on its own.
Half of the good indie products started as someone's Reddit complaint anyway, you just made the pipeline official. How do you filter complaints that are loud from complaints people would actually pay to fix? Congrats on the launch
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@alex_tomilin Hey Alex! Couple things that actually do the work here:
A single loud thread is almost a red flag for us. The way the math works, upvotes get put on a log scale, so going from 50 to 5,000 upvotes barely moves the score, one viral rant is usually just one bad week for a product. Frequency is its own separate input though, so the same complaint quietly recurring across different subreddits over months counts for way more than one big thread.
Before any of that, there's a filter that reads the actual language of the post. It's looking for phrases that signal a real job-to-be-done, things like "alternatives to X," "what do you all use for," "still doing this in a spreadsheet," and it throws out pure venting and "someone should fix Facebook" posts before they ever become an idea.
Then whether people would pay is its own score, blended from a few things, how severe the pain is, how often it recurs, and willingness-to-pay signals, each weighted separately so upvotes can't fake it. Recency plays in too, we only pull from the last year so a pain that fizzled out won't surface.
Thanks for the kind words on the launch :)
would love to see a freshness score on each idea so we know how recently the underlying complaints popped up, since some pain points fizzle out fast and others keep showing up year after year
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@ceyda299740 Great idea, Ceyda! Right now we only pull threads from the last year and surface the most recent ones first, so everything in there is at least reasonably fresh. But a visible freshness score is better, it'd let you tell a pain point that's been building for years apart from one that just spiked last week. Adding it to the list. Thanks!
I have shipped over 30 projects and my problem was never building, it was picking ideas nobody asked for, so this speaks to me. One thing I keep wondering though. If hundreds of members see the same top idea with the same build spec, do we all end up shipping the same product? Any way to see how many people already pulled a spec?
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@abdullah_javaid3 You're 100% right, Abdullah. Under the hood we already only pull from the last year and rank the newest complaints first, so nothing's coming from a five year old thread. A trend signal on the idea itself is the better version, whether the complaint is picking up or fading, and whether the profitable players are actually growing. Puts it right in front of you instead of asking you to trust it. On the list :)
finally a tool that skips the brainstorming step and gets straight to building. i pulled a saved idea over mcp and it dropped the schema into my agent without me touching a prompt
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@recep763495 Glad you like the tool, Recep!
The idea of pulling real build specs directly through MCP is genuinely useful, saves so much guesswork. One thing that would make this a no-brainer for me is a freshness or trend signal on each idea, something like how often the underlying complaint is being mentioned recently or whether the existing profitable players are gaining traction. Right now an idea could be mined from a five year old thread and feel current when it's actually fading.