Free tool · refreshed weekly
The Reddit demand board
What people keep asking for across 40 startup, marketing, sales, dev, and ecommerce communities: the recurring pains, the missing tools, the paying-shaped demand, each with real threads as receipts.
one email when the board shifts, weekly at most
This week's board
Practical guidance, tooling and governance for using AI/LLMs in data-science workflows (in
5 posts this week · 2 communities · new this week · urgent
People are asking for concrete best practices and tools to integrate LLMs safely and productively — including when to let AI write code vs. keep coding skills, how to connect AI to company data, and how to detect/verifyL
Help finding reliable suppliers, comparisons and backups
5 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
People want actionable recommendations and contingency plans for suppliers — which platforms to use, who to avoid, and what to do when a factory or dropshipper fails.
Tools and automation for research, listing and fulfillment
4 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Requests for trustworthy tools and platforms — product-research services, listing automation (Amazon→eBay), and alternatives to existing supplier integrations.
Is dropshipping viable and how to get started (beginner guidance)
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Newcomers keep asking whether dropshipping is worth trying now and for straightforward step-by-step starter advice targeted to beginners.
Stop startup spam/bot traffic and tighten store security
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
Many merchants report inboxes flooded with bot marketing, spikes of bot sessions, and real security incidents (like subdomain takeovers) and want easy ways to stop leaks and automated abuse.
Clearer communication and more stable admin/UI and data
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
Store owners are frustrated by surprising platform changes, buggy admin features (filters, session/data delays) and poorly explained auto-upgrades that risk breaking workflows.
Help choosing when/how to replatform, rebuild, or go headless (and how to vet agencies)
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Merchants scaling past mid-market want concrete guidance, checklists and vendor discovery for theme swaps, Magento→Shopify migrations, headless/Hydrogen decisions, and agency hires.
Better ad automation, measurement and ways to evaluate or replace media buyers
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
People are asking for reliable ad automation (Autopilot issues), proven ad strategies, and tools to audit or replace expensive media buyers when growth stalls.
Practical growth/next-step guidance for stores past the starting line
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Merchants hitting milestones or plateauing want actionable next steps to scale (what to invest in after first big months, how to break out of slow growth early on).
Affordable, damage-resistant fulfillment plus insurance and better last-mile partners
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
Multiple posts ask for solutions to prevent damaged shipments (posters), choose last‑mile carriers, and insure inventory at 3PLs — people need cheaper, more reliable fulfillment + clear insurance options.
Client operations: reporting, retention, and handling problem clients/payments
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
There’s demand for workflows and playbooks for monthly reporting, proving impact to retain clients, and dealing with non-responsive clients, late payments, or funds held by platforms.
Tools and templates for analytics, dashboards, and performance tracking
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Users want recommendations or ready-made dashboards, rank-tracking tools, and better analytics/presentation templates to communicate results to clients (and build internal tools for custom reporting).
Practical AI tools and workflows for slide creation (including ThinkCell) and for using AI
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
Users ask which AI tools actually produce management‑consulting style slides, how to integrate AI with PowerPoint/ThinkCell, and how to use AI effectively in day‑to‑day slide work.
Career progression advice: workload vs seniority, role fit, and overcoming imposter‑syndrο
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Posters seek explanations and guidance on why hours rise with seniority, how to choose between technical/functional tracks, and how to handle imposter syndrome before role changes.
Practical, hands-on ways for PMs to learn and apply AI
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
People want concrete learning paths, projects, and simple evaluation methods for AI-powered products (including how to run lightweight AI evals for an MVP and how to incorporate AI assistants into PM workflows).
How to make continuous discovery real (not just theory) and speed up the slowest parts
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
PMs are asking for actionable tactics to implement frameworks like Opportunity Solution Trees and Continuous Discovery, and to know which discovery steps tend to consume the most time and how to shorten them.
How to get things shipped and retain PM influence when teams are checked out or engineers/
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
Requests for strategies to protect the PM role and drive delivery — e.g., dealing with engineers/FDEs who bypass PMs, motivating disengaged teams, and leading execution without formal authority.
Practical skill-building for newer PMs and those re-entering the role
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
New or returning PMs want structured product thinking templates, onboarding tips, and ways to communicate (prototypes vs docs) so they can ramp faster and handle complex scopes.
Ready-made tools, templates and playbooks for common PM tasks
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
People are asking for specific tools/processes and ‘how-to’ checklists — e.g., requirements management templates, EOL/deprecation playbooks, status page guidance, and where to source industry-specific insights.
Turnkey admin UX & launch-ready templates (permissions, validation, copy)
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Many can build core features but stall on admin panels, permissions, empty states and launch content — they want prebuilt admin patterns and content templates.
Clear, consistent conference workflows and review transparency (review history, complaint/
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
People repeatedly ask for a single source of truth and clearer policies around conference processes — how to file complaints, where meta‑review comments went, score distributions, camera‑ready instructions, and confusing
Tools and patterns to prevent agents from performing unauthorized or harmful actions (sand
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
People want concrete safeguards—sandboxing, auth checks, adversarial tests, and monitoring—that stop agents from taking destructive or unexpected actions (e.g., cancelling bookings, leaking data, or following prompt-inj.
Ways to get teams to adopt and trust agents in real workflows (beyond short-term novelty)
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
Builders need strategies and features (explainability, reliable handoffs, observable metrics, onboarding flows) to keep real users from abandoning agents after a couple of weeks even when accuracy is good.
Robust context, memory, and long-running/looped workflows (better than ad-hoc cron hacks)
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
There is demand for better abstractions and tooling for memory, context retrieval (search vs injected context), scheduled/long-running loops, and predictable multi-step plans so agents stop being fragile.
Production-grade voice agent components and best practices (STT/TTS/telephony/ML for non‑U
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Deployers want reliable, language-aware voice stacks, clear guidance about which STT/TTS choices matter, error modes to prioritize, and telephony integration patterns that survive real calls.
Better developer tooling, composition models, and testing workflows for agents and skills
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Builders are asking for simpler ways to compose agents/skills, lightweight harnesses, reproducible test suites (including prompt-injection/adversarial tests), and lower-cost ‘vibe coding’ workflows so teams can build and
Clear, apples-to-apples model benchmarks and comparisons
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · recurring
Users keep posting benchmark memes, challenger announcements and model tests — people want straightforward comparisons showing strengths, weaknesses and real-world behavior across models.
Safer, more controllable agents / better sandboxing
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
Several posts worry about agents going rogue or being politically steered (sandboxing failures, rogue agent stories, and policy concerns), showing demand for stronger guardrails and ways to control agent behavior.
Improved multimodal capabilities (vision, voice, video continuity)
3 posts this week · 1 community · new this week · urgent
People are excited and experimenting with visualization, photorealistic images, voice perception and cinematic continuity — users want models that reliably handle images, audio and coherent multi-frame/video outputs.
How the board is built
Every week we read each community's top posts and extract the recurring demands: things people are asking for, struggling with, or wishing existed, never invented, always with the threads as receipts. It's the demand-first method from the Reddit playbook: read what people already ask for before you build or pitch anything.
These are generic communities. The interesting version is YOUR buyers: the same mining, on the communities and keywords around your product, continuously, with replies drafted when someone asks for exactly what you build. That's what Thread Otter does, and you can see it on your own product right now:
