GripeFind scans Reddit, Hacker News and forums for scored business pain points. Free Reader plan; Subscriber plan is $29/month.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
GripeFind is an AI-powered research tool that scans Reddit, Hacker News, and independent forums for real complaints and scores them as business opportunities. A user types a niche and receives validated pain points sorted by opportunity score, instead of scrolling through threads. The site says it indexes more than 14,000 gripes per week.
The company positions GripeFind as a replacement for GummySearch, which it says shut down after Reddit's API changes. It states that it does the same job without depending on the Reddit API, and adds Hacker News and forum coverage, AI scoring, an opportunity pipeline, and standing alerts.
Each query runs live searches across Reddit, Hacker News, and independent forums, roughly 12 searches per query. Claude then reads the results, extracts the underlying complaints, and scores each one. The user does not read the raw threads, only the distilled pain points and their scores.
Every gripe receives a 0-100 composite score built from five dimensions: how painful the problem is, how often it comes up, whether people would pay for a fix, how crowded the space is, and how feasible a solution is to build. The weekly issue publishes the top-scoring opportunities.
The research desk handles search, filtering, and scoring across the three source types. The opportunity pipeline lets users move promising ideas through a validation workflow, and shareable research reports make it simple to pass findings to a partner or advisor. The weekly issue arrives by email with the top opportunities.
Standing alerts cover ongoing monitoring. Users save their search criteria, and GripeFind re-runs them every 6 hours, then sends an email when new high-scoring opportunities match. Paid users also get deeper analysis on Claude Sonnet, which the site describes as sharper and more thorough than the fast basic-model analysis on the free plan.
GripeFind is an AI-powered research tool that scans Reddit, Hacker News, and independent forums for real complaints. It scores them as business opportunities and sorts them by opportunity score. Users type a niche instead of reading threads manually.
The Reader plan is free. The Subscriber plan costs $29 per month and includes 50 research queries, 5 standing alerts that re-run every 6 hours, and email alerts on new high-scoring matches.
Yes. The Reader plan costs $0 per month with no card required. It includes 3 research queries to start and then 1 per month, the weekly issue by email, the opportunity pipeline, and shareable reports.
Each gripe gets a 0-100 composite score across five dimensions: pain intensity, frequency, willingness to pay, competition, and buildability. Claude reads the search results, extracts the complaints, and applies the scoring.
Each query runs live searches across Reddit, Hacker News, and independent forums, roughly 12 searches per query. The company says it does not depend on the Reddit API.
The site says GummySearch shut down after Reddit's API changes. GripeFind does the same job of finding pain points in online communities, and adds Hacker News and forum coverage, AI scoring, an opportunity pipeline, and standing alerts.
The source pages do not list any integrations. They mention secure OAuth login on all plans, shareable research reports, and email delivery of the weekly issue and alerts.
It suits founders, indie makers, and research-driven builders who want evidence of real pain points before building a product. The company describes itself as serving founders of any size.