Free tool
Score your SaaS idea's real demand
Six questions on the same demand signals we use to score 1000+ real complaints from 8 platforms. Sixty seconds, 0–100, no email — then, optionally, check your idea against those real complaints. A signal to investigate — never a guarantee.
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What the scorer measures
Every question maps to a signal in the rubric our two-pass pipeline uses to score real user complaints. Willingness-to-pay and switching intent carry the most weight, because they are the strongest evidence a complaint is demand.
Who feels it
15 ptsIs the pain reported by people at work — a professional or business context — rather than hobbyists or one-off personal use?
Willingness to pay
20 ptsDo the complaints mention money — what the problem costs, revenue it loses, or a budget to fix it?
Commercial intent
20 ptsIs anyone actively trying to switch tools or pay for a fix right now — not just venting?
Frequency signal
15 ptsDo they admit repeating a manual workaround — spreadsheets, scripts, copy-paste — because nothing does it for them?
Niche breadth
15 ptsCould you name at least three distinct companies or teams — not one person — with this exact problem?
Evidence count
15 ptsHave you seen it on more than one platform — Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, review sites…?
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Frequently asked questions
- How does the SaaS Idea Scorer work?
- Two steps. First you answer six yes/partially/no questions about the evidence behind your idea — who feels the pain, whether money is mentioned, whether anyone is switching tools, whether a manual workaround repeats, how broad the market is, and how many platforms the complaints appear on. Each answer is weighted and the total lands on the same 20-point intent lattice (0/20/40/60/80/100) we use to score real complaints in our corpus. Then, optionally, you describe the idea in a sentence and we check it against those real complaints by plain term overlap — no AI, just matching your words to the corpus.
- What is a good score?
- 80 or above means the demand signals align — validate it directly with target users before building. 40–60 means the signal is weak: some evidence exists, but the money or switching intent is thin, so go find more complaints first. Below 40 usually means you have a preference, not a demand signal yet. The corpus check adds the other half: a high score with zero matching complaints is either a novel idea or the wrong words, and a low score over many real complaints means the evidence is already out there.
- How is this different from the idea validator?
- The scorer is the 60-second self-check: six questions, then a quick token-overlap match that shows the top complaints your idea relates to. The idea validator is the deep dive: it searches the corpus with a two-pass query, clusters matches by category, averages commercial intent, and gives a full demand verdict. Score first, then validate.
- Is the scorer free? Do you store my answers?
- Free. The quiz needs no email and your answers are never stored — the score is computed entirely in your browser. The corpus check shows the top matching complaints for free; the full match list is emailed to you, which is the only place an email address is used. Your idea text is kept in a cookie in your browser so the box is pre-filled next visit, and share links carry only the score and match count, never your idea or answers.
Want the deep dive instead? Validate your idea against real complaints.