1. Open Perplexity
And select the «Research» mode. It can usually be used for free up to 3 times a day. Why Perplexity specifically? Based on our experience, it searches Reddit best. Perhaps something better will appear in the future, so we will monitor and update this information. If you find something, please mention it in the comments.
2. Paste this prompt:
You are a professional analyst. It is necessary to validate the problem by searching for people on Reddit who are also experiencing this problem:
[Copy the entire problem text from ProblemHunt and paste it here]
Provide all found comments as a list with direct links to them.
[Copy the entire problem text from ProblemHunt and paste it here]
Provide all found comments as a list with direct links to them.
3. Results:
As a rule, the majority of problems on ProblemHunt can be validated this way. But if it cannot be done using Perplexity, we recommend using the regular search within relevant thematic forums, group chats on Discord, Telegram, and other places where your target audience is presumably active.
We also recommend using the found users who are also experiencing the problem — as a source of additional feedback and as your first potential customers.
We also recommend using the found users who are also experiencing the problem — as a source of additional feedback and as your first potential customers.
4. And estimate the market size:
Once you are convinced that the problem is not unique to just one person, you can proceed with high confidence to calculate the potential market size. Unfortunately, we don't have a universal prompt yet, but you can use any prompt in a free form to have the AI calculate the potential market size for you.
Some recommendations: instruct the AI to do this as conservatively as possible, without inflating the results, and to rely only on authoritative sources for the calculation. We also recommend specifying a particular country for the calculation that interests you, and ask about the market's year-over-year growth there to understand whether it is a promising market or not.
If you can offer any further recommendations, you can also do so in the comments under the post.
Best of luck,
Your ProblemHunt team
Some recommendations: instruct the AI to do this as conservatively as possible, without inflating the results, and to rely only on authoritative sources for the calculation. We also recommend specifying a particular country for the calculation that interests you, and ask about the market's year-over-year growth there to understand whether it is a promising market or not.
If you can offer any further recommendations, you can also do so in the comments under the post.
Best of luck,
Your ProblemHunt team