About Problem Mint
Problem Mint is a batch pipeline that mines public business discussions, extracts recurring pain points with an LLM, and validates each cluster as a potential business opportunity.
Where the data comes from
- Hacker News — Ask HN, Show HN, and top stories via the public Firebase API
- dev.to — articles tagged
startup,saas,productivity,entrepreneurshipvia the public REST API - Reddit — pending API approval; currently disabled
How clusters are scored
Each cluster carries two independent signals:
- Problem severity score(the old metric): frequency × pain × monetization — “is this a real, repeated problem?”
- Opportunity score(the new metric): demand × monetization × market gap × feasibility — “is this worth building a business around?”
What to trust
Demand and monetization signals are grounded in observable data (frequency, post upvotes, source diversity, time spread, per-problem LLM extraction).
Competition gap and feasibility are directional LLM estimates, not market research. The LLM has good general knowledge of crowded vs emerging markets but doesn’t actually know the niche-tool landscape. Treat these as starting points for your own validation, not conclusions.
What this is not
- Not financial advice or a startup recommendation.
- Not a market sizing tool — no TAM, no revenue projections.
- Not a guarantee that anything labeled “HIGH OPPORTUNITY” is genuinely under-served — it’s a starting point.