How to Mine Forums, Reviews, and Q&A Sites for Pain Points

Forums are pain goldmines. DemandSonar’s “Forum Miner” specifically targets Q&A sites, niche communities, and support forums. It ranks threads by “Unsolved Percentage”, the ratio of unanswered to answered questions. In the “home automation” space, threads about “making different brands work together” had an 82% unsolved rate. That pain point, with a search volume of 5,100, led a founder to build a universal smart home bridge device. The thread responders became his first beta testers. Mining forums means reading the questions nobody has answered yet. [Mine forum pain points →]