How are you systematically discovering real user pain on Reddit?

I’ve been thinking about how many of us use Reddit for problem discovery — but it’s messy.

There’s signal, but it’s buried under:

• Surface-level opinions
• Self-promotion disguised as advice
• Threads that look promising but lack depth

I’ve noticed that the most useful insights usually show up as repeated, unsolicited pain signals across different threads — not “would you use this?” responses, but people independently describing the same frustration.

Curious how others here approach this:

• Do you manually track recurring themes?
• Use saved searches?
• Build internal tooling?
• Just rely on intuition?

I’ve been experimenting with structuring Reddit discussions to cluster repeated pain points instead of reading thread by thread (redxinsight.com). It’s still early, but the goal is simple: reduce noise and surface validated problems faster.

Would genuinely appreciate how others in this community approach Reddit-driven problem discovery.