What Is Problem Scout?
Problem Scout is an AI-powered market intelligence platform designed for indie hackers, solopreneurs, and product teams who refuse to waste months building the wrong product. We scan thousands of real app reviews, user complaints, and 1-star ratings across major app stores and SaaS platforms to surface validated Technical Utility Gaps — the specific friction patterns where existing products are failing their users.
Instead of relying on surveys, guesswork, or Reddit hunches, Problem Scout delivers structured, evidence-based market intelligence. Our engine identifies recurring pain points, maps competitor weaknesses, and generates actionable product briefs so you can build with conviction from day one.
How It Works
Problem Scout continuously ingests data from app stores, review platforms, and community forums. Our AI extracts and normalizes individual complaints into structured problem signals, then clusters related issues to reveal market-level patterns. Each cluster is scored for frequency, recency, and severity to help you prioritize the highest-conviction opportunities.
Once you identify a promising friction pattern, Problem Scout generates solution directions, validates the opportunity with a Reality Check analysis, and produces a no-code-ready MVP Build Specification — taking you from market intelligence to prototype without writing a single line of code.
Who It's For
- Indie founders who need market intelligence before committing a single sprint to an idea.
- Vibe coders shipping wedge products from real friction signals, not hunches.
- Product teams prioritizing features that close Technical Utility Gaps competitors missed.
- Creators monetizing audience frustration with tightly-scoped digital products.
Key Features
- AI-powered problem discovery across 1,200+ tracked apps
- 24,000+ validated market gaps with evidence and scoring
- Reality Check conviction filter to validate ideas before you build
- Auto-generated MVP Build Specifications for no-code platforms
- Solution direction generation with target persona mapping
- Trending problems feed with momentum tracking