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# Cataloging industry pain points for software ideation

Extract real operational friction across business forums to evaluate potential software opportunities

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Opens BotBento. Paste the prompt into a bot; nothing is preconfigured.

- When you askDefine target industry
- ThenAnalyze workflow complaints
- ResultStructured problem matrix

Turn unstructured industry complaints and workflow friction into structured problem briefs. The bot monitors discussions across professional forums, identifies recurring manual tasks or operational bottlenecks, and logs key signals such as frequency, severity, and potential willingness to pay.

## Prompt to start with

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Analyze shared posts and discussion threads for explicit business problems and workflow friction. For each item, extract the affected industry, specific operational bottleneck, manual workarounds mentioned, and signals regarding urgency or budget. Organize the findings into a structured problem table in spreadsheet. Do not submit external survey responses or contact authors without explicit approval.
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## Tools it uses

BrowserNotesSpreadsheet

## Works with

BotBento

## Tags

- ideation
- market-research
- product
- validation

## Source

[Show HN: Backlog – a public repository of real work problems](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352310)
Hacker News · checked 2026-10-16

Summarized in our own words. Any results described there are the authors’ own, not measured by BotBento.

By BotBento Editorial · Added 2026-10-16 · Updated 2026-10-16 · [Suggest a correction](/contact/)

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