What You'll Build

A market research system that scans Reddit, X, and the web for the last 30 days of real conversations about any topic you choose. You type one sentence. It comes back with categorized pain points, trending complaints, feature requests, and gaps your competitors are missing.

No surveys. No focus groups. No guessing. Just what people are actually saying right now.

Alex Finn put it simply: "You can install this skill and literally within 15 seconds have a system set up where you are building products that you can sell and start making money off of."

Why This Works

Most people pick a product idea, build it, then hope someone wants it. That's backwards.

Reddit and X are where people complain in real time. They upvote the problems that matter most. They describe exactly what they wish existed. They trash competitors publicly and specifically. This is the richest, most honest market research data on the planet, and it's free.

The problem has always been volume. You can't manually read 30 days of Reddit threads across multiple subreddits and cross-reference them with X conversations. That's hundreds of hours of work.

This skill does it in 15 seconds.

It pulls posts from Reddit and X, weights them by engagement (upvotes, likes, replies), synthesizes patterns across all sources, and hands you the top 3-5 actionable insights. Not a wall of links. Actual patterns with evidence.

How It Works

Step 1: Install the skill (2 minutes)

Go to Last 30 Days on ClawHub and copy the skill link. Tell your OpenClaw agent: "Install this skill." That's it. The skill is live.

If you want Reddit scanning, add an OpenAI API key. If you want X scanning, add an xAI API key. If you want neither, the web-only mode works with zero API keys.

Step 2: Ask your question (15 seconds)

Type a natural language prompt. Here are real examples:

Step 3: Get categorized insights (automatic)

The skill's "Judge Agent" layer reads everything it pulled, identifies patterns, and returns a structured report. You get:

Step 4: Act on what you find

This is where it gets interesting. Alex Finn's workflow: find the pain, then tell your agent to build a product that solves it. "This is basically a software factory that I built. I didn't have to code. I didn't have to do any technical work."

You don't have to build software. The insights work for pitches, content, consulting proposals, or validating an idea you already have.

The Numbers

Prerequisites

Optional for full power:

Who Should Steal This

Agency owners preparing for a pitch. Run "What are [prospect's industry] businesses complaining about?" 15 minutes before the call. Walk in with specific pain points they haven't even articulated yet. You look like you did a week of research.

Consultants validating a new offer. Before you build a course, a service, or a productized offering, check if anyone is actually asking for it. 30 days of Reddit will tell you faster than any survey.

Solopreneurs looking for their next product. Stop brainstorming in a vacuum. The market is literally telling you what it wants. Every day. In public. You just need something to listen.

Content creators hunting for topics. "What questions are people asking about [your niche] this month?" gives you a content calendar built on real demand, not guesses.

Anyone doing competitive intelligence. "What are people saying about [competitor]?" returns the unfiltered truth. Feature gaps, support complaints, pricing frustrations. All categorized and ranked by how many people agree.

Tools Used

Depth Options

The skill has three scan depths depending on how thorough you want to be:

Query Types

Four built-in query types to shape your results:

The Bigger Idea

The gap between "I have an idea" and "I know this idea has demand" used to cost thousands of dollars and weeks of time. Now it costs one sentence and 15 seconds.

This isn't just a research tool. It's a filter for bad ideas. Every solopreneur has a graveyard of projects they built because they thought people wanted them. This skill lets you check before you build.

Run it weekly on your niche. Watch the pain points shift. Spot new complaints before your competitors do. The people who win aren't the ones with the best ideas. They're the ones who find the problems first.

The answers are sitting right there on Reddit. You just need to ask.

Source: @AlexFinn on YouTube (Feb 12, 2026). Alex runs CreatorBuddy ($300K/yr AI app) and the Vibe Coding Academy. Skill by Matt Van Horn on ClawHub.