Somewhere on Reddit, X and Hacker News, real people are publicly venting about the exact problem your SaaS solves. We find 25 of them from the last 90 days and write you a first-draft DM for each. No ads budget. No "build an audience for 2 years". Just warm doors to knock on.
$19 flat · delivered in 48h · pay only if it's useful
ComplaintScout is a done-for-you lead research service for SaaS founders stuck at $0 MRR. Instead of ads, directories or "building an audience", we mine Reddit, X and Hacker News for people who publicly complained about the exact problem your product solves in the last 90 days. Every thread is read by a human: we judge whether the person is actually in pain or just chatting, score the signal, and keep only the 25 hottest leads.
Each report ships in 48 hours with a permalink, the verbatim quote, a signal score, and a personalized DM draft written from the lead's own words — the approach a founder documented at a ~20% close rate on replies. One flat $19, and you only pay after reading the report if at least 20 of the 25 leads feel relevant.
"What actually moved it was dm'ing 8 people a day who'd publicly complained twice about the same problem in the last 90 days… the ones who replied closed at ~20%." — a founder who escaped $200 MRR, r/microsaas, May 2026
A 2-minute form: your product URL and the exact problem it solves. That phrasing is the search seed.
We scan Reddit, X and Hacker News for unprompted public complaints from the last 90 days, score each person's pain signal, and keep the 25 hottest.
Within 48h you get the list: permalink, verbatim quote, signal score, and a personalized DM draft for each lead. Send 5 a day, adjust, repeat.
"You launch on Reddit, Product Hunt, X, Hacker News, directories… and then spend weeks wondering: 'Does the product suck, or did nobody simply see it?' That uncertainty is mentally exhausting."
Browse the full 10-lead sample report - every permalink is live, every quote is verbatim.
Everything in the features list is included in every report — there's one product, one price, no tiers to compare. The only decision is whether your pain point is specific enough; if it isn't, we'll tell you before starting.
Want better terms? The founding campaign locks founder pricing for life until June 24.
Pay only if it's useful: we send the full report first with a payment link. If fewer than 20 leads feel relevant, don't pay. We keep the downside.
Today every report is hand-researched. We're building the self-serve ComplaintScout: paste your pain point, get your 25 leads — same human-grade scoring, minutes instead of 48h. Like a Kickstarter, early backers fund the build and get terms nobody will ever see again.
All-or-nothing: pledging costs $0 today. If the goal isn't reached by June 24, every pledge dissolves and nobody pays a cent.
A done-for-you research service: we find 25 people who publicly complained about the exact problem your SaaS solves (Reddit, X, Hacker News, last 90 days) and write a first-draft DM for each. $19, delivered in 48h.
The report is $19 flat - and you only pay after reading it, if at least 20 of the 25 leads feel relevant. The Complaint Index and the playbook are free.
Tools find keywords. We read threads, judge whether the person is actually in pain or just chatting, and only keep complaints a human would reply to. The DM drafts are written from each lead's own words.
If we can't find 25 strong leads, we'll tell you before starting - and that itself is a signal about your positioning, free of charge.
Cold-pitching strangers is spam. Replying to someone's public cry for help with a relevant fix is service. Our drafts open with their problem, not your product.
Alt-Tab Studio - a small French web studio. We built the research pipeline for our own prospecting, then noticed founders needed it more than we did.