subreddit-insights

Turn any subreddit into product research in 2 minutes.

What it does

Analyzes Reddit discussions and extracts:

• Pain points — what frustrates users
• Desires — what they wish existed
• Product hypotheses — testable ideas with evidence
• Audience language — how they talk, what terms they use

Installation

npm install -g subreddit-insights

Setup

Get an OpenAI API key and set it:

export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

Usage

subreddit-insights r/SideProject

Example output

## Pain Points

### High friction / too many steps (~18 mentions)
> "44 seconds and multiple steps to watch a 6 second video?"

### UI blocking content on mobile (~7 mentions)
> "Your oldman face blocking UI is very annoying on mobile."

## Product Hypotheses

### Users who want zero-friction access would benefit from
### a redirect-based viewer because copy-paste flows cause abandonment.
Confidence: high

Options

-p, --period    7d | 30d | 90d | 180d (default: 30d)
-l, --limit     1-500 posts (default: 50)
-o, --output    custom output path

Examples

# Last 7 days, up to 100 posts
subreddit-insights r/productivity --period 7d --limit 100

# Save to custom file
subreddit-insights r/remotework -o report.md

License

MIT