GummySearch is gone. BuyerTell mines Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, App Store reviews, GitHub Issues, and Lobsters — scores every signal by buyer intent, and hands you finished idea briefs every morning.
GummySearch, the paid Reddit-only audience and pain-research tool, was discontinued on November 30, 2025. It built a loyal following by making Reddit's raw chatter searchable — but a single-source tool lives or dies by that source's terms, and the economics of Reddit-only tooling shifted as Reddit's commercial API pricing changed.
Founders who relied on it for daily pain-mining need somewhere to go. BuyerTell is live now, reads six sources instead of one, and ships finished, scored idea briefs instead of a wall of raw posts to sift through yourself.
| Feature | GummySearch (discontinued) | BuyerTell |
|---|---|---|
| Status | ✗ Shut down Nov 30, 2025 | ✓ Live |
| Sources | Reddit only | Six — Reddit, HN, Stack Exchange, App Store reviews, GitHub Issues, Lobsters |
| Output | Raw posts & threads to sift through | Three finished, evidence-grounded idea briefs |
| Intent scoring | ✗ Manual reading required | ✓ Automatic, weighted ×1.0–×1.8 by phrase |
| AI synthesis | ✗ | ✓ Claude Opus 4.8 synthesizes each brief |
| Delivery | Log in and search | Telegram, Slack, or email — every morning |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ Self-hostable, ~$1–2/mo in API usage |
GummySearch proved that lesson the hard way. BuyerTell spreads risk across six independent sources, so no single API's pricing change can take the whole radar down.
No more scrolling search results for hours. Every morning, three ideas arrive already scored, synthesized, and grounded in the actual evidence that produced them.
Self-host the engine for ~$1–2/mo in API usage, or take the hosted plan. Either way, the mining logic can't disappear behind a shutdown notice.
The single biggest gap in Reddit-only research tools was never obvious until it mattered: Reddit only shows you people talking about a problem. It rarely shows you people who already pay for a solution and hate it.
That's the gap App Store reviews fill. A 1–2★ review of a tool someone already pays for is about as pure a switching signal as exists — they've cleared the hardest bar in SaaS, actually opening their wallet, and they're still unhappy enough to complain publicly. Reddit-only tools like GummySearch structurally couldn't see this signal, no matter how good their search was. BuyerTell treats App Store reviews as a first-class source alongside Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, GitHub Issues, and Lobsters, so switching intent shows up in the same morning brief as everything else.
The other gap is durability. A tool built entirely on one platform's API is one pricing change away from an existential crisis — which is roughly what happened here. BuyerTell's mining and synthesis engine is open source: you can read exactly how each source is queried, how signals are weighted, and how Claude turns them into briefs. Self-host it for a couple dollars a month in API usage, or use the hosted version and let it run in the background. Either way, the tool that finds your next idea isn't a black box someone else can switch off.
Want the mechanics? See how the engine works — the mine → synthesize → deliver pipeline, source by source. Or browse the blog for deeper breakdowns of how intent scoring and idea synthesis actually work.
Six sources, scored by intent, synthesized by Claude, delivered before your coffee's cold.