Discover Real Market Problems From Reddit Posts with Openai

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  "name": "Discover Real Market Problems from Reddit Posts with OpenAI",
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        "content": "## Discover Real Market Problems from Reddit Posts with OpenAI\n\nThis workflow fetches fresh Reddit posts from **Teachers**, **Education**, and **RemoteWork**, filters for relevance, analyzes them with **OpenAI GPT-4.1**, and appends structured insights to **Google Sheets**.\n\n**What it detects:** real problem \u2192 underlying pain \u2192 proposed solution \u2192 impact, confidence, ease \u2192 ICE score.\n\n**Configure before running:**\n- Credentials: Reddit OAuth2, OpenAI API, Google Sheets OAuth2.\n- Google Sheet: set your **Spreadsheet ID** and **Sheet/Tab name** in the Google Sheets node.\n- Optional: Adjust the upvote threshold in the **+5 UPS** filter."
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        "content": "## Variables & Credentials to Configure\n- **Reddit OAuth2**: connect your Reddit account in all Reddit nodes.\n- **OpenAI API**: set your OpenAI credential in the *Message a model* node.\n- **Google Sheets OAuth2**: connect to your Google account in the Sheets node.\n- **Spreadsheet ID**: replace the current ID in the Sheets node with your own.\n- **Sheet/Tab Name**: set to your target tab (e.g., `Sheet1`).\n- **Upvote threshold**: change `> 5` in the filter node if you want stricter/looser selection.\n- **Subreddits**: replace `Teachers`, `Education`, `remotework` to target other domains."
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        "content": "## Google Sheets Fields (Schema & Meaning)\n- **SubRedit** *(string)*: Source subreddit name (e.g., `r/Teachers`).\n- **URL** *(string)*: Link to the original Reddit post.\n- **Title** *(string)*: Reddit post title.\n- **Content** *(string)*: Reddit post body (`selftext`).\n- **Short Description** *(string)*: Problem in <200 chars.\n- **Detected Pain** *(string)*: The explicit/implicit pain point.\n- **Possible Solution** *(string)*: Concrete, tech/AI-enabled solution idea.\n- **Impact** *(1\u201310)*: Size of affected population (10 = millions).\n- **Confidence** *(0.0\u20131.0)*: Confidence the problem is real.\n- **Ease** *(1\u201310)*: Ease to prototype/MVP (10 = hours, 5 = ~24h, 1 = weeks).\n- **ICE Score** *(number)*: `Impact * Confidence * Ease` (auto-calculated in the node)."
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        "content": "## Prompts (English, Neutral)\n**User Prompt**\nAnalyze the following Reddit post to determine if it describes a real problem related to the future of work or education. If it does, identify the underlying pain point, briefly describe the problem, and propose a viable solution, preferably using AI or technology. Also evaluate its impact, your confidence level that it is a real problem, and how easy it would be to prototype a solution. Return ONLY a structured JSON.\n\nPost Title: `{{ $json.title }}`\nPost Content: `{{ $json.selftext }}`\n\n**System Prompt**\nYou are an expert analyst in detecting signals of real market problems, especially those related to the future of work and education. Your task is to analyze Reddit posts as potential symptoms of broader issues that could be solved with innovative, technological, and/or AI-based solutions.\n\nYour goal is: assess relevance (work/education), identify pain, propose feasible tech/AI solution, and score **impact**, **confidence**, and **ease**.\n\nJSON schema:\n```\n{\n  \"is_related\": true | false,\n  \"short_description\": \"<200 chars>\",\n  \"detected_pain\": \"string\",\n  \"possible_solution\": \"string\",\n  \"impact\": 1-10,\n  \"confidence\": 0.0-1.0,\n  \"ease\": 1-10\n}\n```"
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• googleSheetsOAuth2Api
• openAiApi
• redditOAuth2Api

About this workflow

This workflow is perfect for entrepreneurs, startup founders, product managers, researchers, and market analysts who want to automatically discover and analyze real market problems from online discussions. While this example focuses on identifying issues in the future of work…

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