FounderRadar monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and GitHub, clusters similar problems with PainGraph, and ranks them using an explainable Opportunity Score—so you ship what users are actually asking for.
Privacy-first. Only public data. Handles optionally hashed. Sources always linked.
Example opportunities with preserved sources, scores, and trendlines. Full reports in-app go deeper.
“I’m tired of manually syncing .env files. We’ve tried Doppler/Vault; too heavy or pricey for small teams…”
“Docs are fragmented, setups differ per GPU, and runs aren’t reproducible across team laptops…”
“Cloud bills spike and we don’t know why. Want transparent, self-hostable insights without a 12-month contract…”
{
"generated_at": "2025-09-03T10:00:00Z",
"opportunities": [
{
"problem_statement": "Teams struggle to sync environment variables across developers",
"category": "Developer Tools",
"score": 0.82,
"metrics": { "mentions": 19, "authors": 17, "first_seen": "2025-08-27", "last_seen": "2025-09-03" },
"sources": ["https://reddit.com/...", "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...", "https://github.com/.../issues/..."]
},
{
"problem_statement": "Local LLM fine-tuning is tedious and non-reproducible",
"category": "AI/ML",
"score": 0.76,
"metrics": { "mentions": 23, "authors": 20, "first_seen": "2025-08-26", "last_seen": "2025-09-03" },
"sources": ["https://reddit.com/...", "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=..."]
}
]
}
PainGraph clusters semantically similar posts and comments. OpportunityScore ranks them with transparent weights.
Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub Issues—fresh every 6 hours. Handles rate limits and stores raw data for reprocessing.
Semantic dedupe with embeddings + ANN. DBSCAN/HDBSCAN locally merges near-duplicates. All source links are preserved.
Frequency 30% • Severity 30% • Engagement 20% • Author Diversity 20%. Tune weights; scores are explainable.
We’re transparent about what the system does and how we measure it.
Cut through noise and walk into the weekend with 2–3 defensible theses to validate.
Every card links back to source posts and shows factor breakdowns for trust.
Tune weights per category. Know why an item ranks where it does.
CSV/JSON export, Slack/email notifications for high-value spikes.
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Opportunity Score v1 combines Frequency (30%), Severity (30%), Engagement (20%), and Author Diversity (20%). We normalize each factor and keep weights transparent.
Reddit (targeted subs), Hacker News (Ask/Show), and GitHub Issues to start. More sources—Product Hunt, forums—on the roadmap.
We embed title + content with sentence-transformers (MiniLM-L6-v2), use ANN to find neighbors, then DBSCAN/HDBSCAN to cluster similar posts. We keep every source link.
We process public data only. We can hash handles in stored records. Opt-outs and platform ToS are respected.
CSV/JSON export at launch; full API access in Pro. Webhooks and Slack alerts for high-value spikes.
No. Alerts are throttled and respect quiet hours. Default cap: 5/day above a configurable score threshold.