About Painbase
Painbase is the brand-intelligence platform that turns the loudest customer complaints on the internet into validated startup ideas. Real pain, real sources, real opportunity.
What is Painbase?
Painbase scans Reddit, the App Store, Google Play, Reclame Aqui, Hacker News, IndieHackers, Product Hunt, GitHub Issues, TabNews, and the open web — every day — for the loudest customer complaints about real companies.
We score each complaint by pain intensity, group recurring themes, and hand founders a validated startup idea on a silver platter. Painbase is built for the founder who is tired of guessing.
How Painbase works
- 1.Listen. Painbase ingests complaints from a dozen-plus public sources where customers actually vent.
- 2.Score. Each complaint is scored on pain intensity, recurrence, and signal-to-noise — so the loudest real problems rise to the top.
- 3.Cluster. Recurring complaints across sources are grouped into a single "pain pattern" — the seed of a validated startup idea.
- 4.Activate. Save an idea and Painbase generates a Build Kit: a SKILL.md spec, a validation plan, a competitor sweep, and a customer-interview script — so you go from pain to prototype in one session.
Who Painbase is for
- Founders looking for their next idea — Painbase hands you ideas with real demand baked in.
- Product teams who want a live feed of what their users actually complain about — across every public channel.
- Investors and analysts who need a defensible "is this real pain?" check before backing a thesis.
- Solo operators who don't have time to lurk on ten subreddits and skim app-store reviews by hand.
How Painbase is different
Most market-research tools survey users. Painbase listens to them. Every problem inside Painbase is a real complaint from a real person — not a synthesised persona, not a forecast, not an LLM hallucination.
Painbase also ships an actionable Build Kit per saved idea — not just a chart or a CSV. The difference: every other tool stops at "here is the data." Painbase keeps going to "here is what to do next."
Who built Painbase
Painbase was founded by Tarso Bertolini in 2025. The team operates from Brazil and serves founders worldwide.
Reach the Painbase team at official@painbase.io or via the Work With Us form.
A note on the name
Painbase is at painbase.io. We are not affiliated with painbase.space, which is a separate blog at a different domain.
Ready to try Painbase?
Browse the live problem feed, pick an idea, and let Painbase generate your Build Kit.