Can't Find Where a Niche Audience Asks for Help — No Way to Locate Relevant Reddit Threads or Communities

Summary

Founders know exactly who their product is for but have no systematic way to discover the specific subreddits, threads, or communities where those people actually discuss the problem they solve. A penetration-testing/AI founder with real skills admits the hardest part is getting clients and that he has no idea how other startups land their first customers; a bottled-water founder is sitting on $8–10k of inventory and knows his buyers (caterers, gyms, events, convenience stores) but says outright 'I don't really know the best way to approach this at scale.' Manual searching across countless subreddits is slow, hit-or-miss, and easy to abandon. Existing social-listening tools are built for big brands doing broad keyword monitoring, not for a solo founder hunting for a handful of high-intent conversations about a very specific niche problem. The result: they never find the conversations, never reach customers, and their product stalls even though demand clearly exists. This is unsolved — there is no tool that maps a founder's niche problem to the exact online communities and live threads where their buyers are asking for help.