Pain Radar
A live index of SaaS friction

Pain Radar.
Friction, indexed.

Pain Radar reads real complaints from Reddit and product forums, clusters and scores them into validated pain cards. Collect the ones that rhyme, and it turns them into a concrete plugin idea for the marketplace they came from.

For indie hackers and marketplace-app builders hunting the next plugin worth building.

Live index
Signals2428
Pain cards1228
Chrome opportunities1200
Marketplaces53
Evidence4621
Avg score0.26
What you actually do here

Collect pains, get a plugin idea

Pain cards are the raw material, not the product. The product is what they add up to.

1 · Collect

Hit Collect on pains that describe the same problem for the same user. They land in one collection — your working set for a single plugin idea.

2 · Generate

Open the collection and generate the idea: the wedge, the persona, the competitor gap, a pricing angle and a build brief — grounded in the exact complaints you collected.

3 · Check

Brought your own idea? Validate it against the corpus and see which real pains support it — and which only look like they do.

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How to read a pain card

Four signals, one card

Every pain card distills a cluster of real complaints into a single scored signal. See the full methodology →

Pain score

One number (0–1): does this pain deserve someone's attention? Weighted product of four signals.

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Monetization

Whether people voiced willingness to pay — the strongest signal that a pain is a market.

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Cluster

How many separate complaints merged into one card. Bigger cluster = louder, more validated pain.

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Evidence

Real user quotes the card is built from — each links back to its source thread.

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Live signal

What's hurting users right now

top 8 · updated recently
DemandPainSignalMomentum
1.0
Shopify merchants lose vendor history and PO features when Stocky retires
Shopify App Store
.99
Shopify merchants oversell due to broken multi-location inventory sync
Shopify App Store
.94
Shopify merchants can't trust ad spend as GA4 and Meta tracking diverges
Shopify App Store
.94
Shopify merchants can't reconcile purchases as Analytics and Meta both miscount
Shopify App Store

The hottest pains aren't only in the obvious marketplaces.

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Coverage

53 marketplaces under observation

Atlassian Marketplace
Marketplace
Cards
6
Shopify App Store
Marketplace
Cards
161
ActiveCampaign Apps & IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Autodesk App StorePro
Marketplace
Cards
132
BigCommerce Apps & IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
4
Canva Apps MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
10
GitHub MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
15
GrafanaPro
Marketplace
Cards
132
HighLevel MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
1
HubSpot App MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
42
Qlik CommunityPro
Marketplace
Cards
2
RingCentral App GalleryPro
Marketplace
Cards
2
Salesforce AppExchangePro
Marketplace
Cards
22
SketchUp Extension WarehousePro
Marketplace
Cards
151
Slack App DirectoryPro
Marketplace
Cards
7
Zendesk MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
6
Zoho MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
11
Zoom App MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
2
Asana Apps & IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
112
Calendly Apps & IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Clio App DirectoryPro
Marketplace
Cards
22
Clover App MarketPro
Marketplace
Cards
4
CrowdStrike MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Cursor (AI IDE)Pro
Marketplace
Cards
84
Dialpad App MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Dropbox App CentrePro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Elastic (Elasticsearch / Kibana)Pro
Marketplace
Cards
13
Eventbrite App MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
2
Genesys AppFoundryPro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Hugging Face HubPro
Marketplace
Cards
10
Klaviyo IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
6
Linear IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Mailchimp Integrations DirectoryPro
Marketplace
Cards
4
Mindbody IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
4
Monday MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
4
Netlify IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Notion Integration GalleryPro
Marketplace
Cards
27
OpenAI Platform & APIsPro
Marketplace
Cards
91
Pipedrive MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
8
Procore App MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Prolific MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
26
QuickBooks App StorePro
Marketplace
Cards
13
Relativity App HubPro
Marketplace
Cards
2
Sage Business Cloud App MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Squarespace ExtensionsPro
Marketplace
Cards
7
StreamlitPro
Marketplace
Cards
7
Stripe App MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
2
Todoist IntegrationsPro
Marketplace
Cards
13
Typeform ConnectPro
Marketplace
Cards
1
Webflow AppsPro
Marketplace
Cards
15
Workday MarketplacePro
Marketplace
Cards
6
Xero App StorePro
Marketplace
Cards
8
Discourse MetaPro
Marketplace
Cards
21
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Find your next plugin to build.

Browse 1228 validated pain cards across 53 marketplaces, collect the ones that rhyme, and generate the plugin idea they add up to — free covers Shopify & Atlassian in full.