The PainHunt Blog
Guides on validating startup ideas, honest tool comparisons, and data-backed opportunities — drawn from the real complaints founders usually never see.
Lightweight product analytics for indie developers
Indie devs ship apps with zero behavioral analytics — no funnels, no retention — then hit a pricing wall. What 42 threads reveal about the gap.
HubSpot data hygiene: dedup, imports, and hard limits
Small teams drown in siloed, duplicated CRM records and hit undocumented HubSpot limits. What 325 CRM threads reveal about the hygiene gap.
ATS resume checker: where the existing tools fall short
ATS software filters qualified resumes before a human sees them, and the checkers meant to fix it fall short. What 82 hiring threads reveal.
How to calculate automation ROI that survives finance review
Automation ROI reports get rejected because savings are overstated and costs are invisible. What 260 practitioner threads say about measuring it honestly.
Web scraping alternatives as sites close off public HTML
Scrapers that ran for years now fail with no code change, and platforms are moving data behind partner-only APIs. What 260 developer threads point to instead.
How to detect signup failures your users never report
People who cannot finish signup never become users, never file a ticket, and never show up in the funnel. The failure is invisible by construction.
Using Cursor and AI coding tools on Shopify themes
Agentic coding tools need fast local files. Shopify theme files sit behind an Admin API developers call too slow, so the tools never see the code.
When the paid tier gives you less than the free tier
Some products are more generous on the free plan than on the first paid one. Users only find out after upgrading, and they describe it as a trap door.