The demand is already there.
You just can't hear it yet.

DemandSift reads Reddit the way a founder should. Not searching for keywords. Understanding when someone describes a situation, voices a frustration, or hints at a need they'd pay to solve. Then it validates the entire opportunity.

Live Signal Feed
Implicit Need r/smallbusiness
"I spend 3 hours every Monday manually copying invoice data from emails into our spreadsheet. My accountant says there's software for this but everything I've tried is built for enterprise..."
Demand: 94 WTP: High Gap: SMB Invoice Automation
Frustration r/webdev
"Why is every status page tool either $200/mo or looks like it was built in 2012? I just need something clean for my indie projects."
Demand: 87 WTP: Med Gap: Indie Status Pages
Direct Request r/realestateinvesting
"Does anyone know a tool that tracks rent comps across multiple markets without needing a Zillow API subscription?"
Demand: 91 WTP: High Gap: Rent Comp Tracker
From noise to validated opportunity
Three stages. Fully automated. What used to take weeks of manual Reddit scrolling happens in minutes.
01

Ingest

Scans thousands of posts and comments across targeted subreddits. Not just keywords. Semantic analysis that understands context, tone, and the difference between venting and genuine unmet need.

02

Classify

Every signal is categorized: direct request, implicit need, competitive frustration, workaround description, or feature wish. Each gets a demand score and willingness-to-pay assessment.

03

Validate

Cross-references against existing solutions, estimates market size, analyzes frequency of similar signals, and produces a full business case. Not just "here's a pain point" but "here's whether it's worth building."

Most tools find what people ask for.
We find what they need.
The best SaaS opportunities hide in conversations where nobody explicitly says "I need a tool." DemandSift hears them all.

Direct Requests

Someone explicitly asks for a tool or solution. The easiest signal, but also the most competitive.

"Is there an app that does X?"

Implicit Needs

Someone describes a situation or workflow that implies unmet demand. They don't know they need a product yet. This is where the gold is.

"Every week I manually export data from three different tools and cross-reference them..."

Competitive Frustrations

People complaining about existing tools. Pricing too high, features missing, UX terrible. Each complaint is a product spec in disguise.

"I'm paying $150/mo for this and it still can't do basic reporting..."

Workaround Descriptions

People describing hacky solutions they've built. Spreadsheets, scripts, manual processes. Every workaround is a product waiting to be built.

"I wrote a Python script that scrapes X and dumps it into a Google Sheet..."
The market leader died. The gap is wide open.
GummySearch shut down in November 2025. 135K users, $35K MRR, profitable. Gone. The remaining tools scrape keywords. None understand implicit demand.
108M+
Reddit daily active users
135K
Orphaned GummySearch users
74%
Reddit users influenced on purchases
$35K
MRR at GummySearch shutdown

Every Reddit thread is a market signal.
Most founders just can't read them yet.

DemandSift turns the world's most honest forum into a business intelligence feed. Not another database of scraped keywords. An engine that understands what people actually need, even when they don't say it directly.