§1 · DEVELOPER PAIN-POINT BOARD
Real review data · 2026-09-18

Developer Pain-Point & Demand Board

What are users of the leading apps in China, Japan and Southeast Asia complaining about? We continuously collect public negative reviews of leading apps across 13 industries, drop the pure venting, and keep feedback that describes a concrete situation — the kind that points to structural problems an AI agent can fix.

This is the public tool we built out of starting from real problems. Every cell and every ranked entry traces back to the original reviews; company and product names are open to members, so companies can find solutions, developers can find problems, and the two can reach each other directly.

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310
Leading products
13,163
Informative reviews
9,855 venting-only reviews removed
42%
Agent-fixable
8
Markets

Industry × pain theme

Support
Task flow
Login & KYC
Billing
Data & sync
Missing features
Stability
Ads
Content
Localisation
Output quality
Privacy
Legal services
Manufacturing
Business services
Media & publishing
Clinics & health
IT products
Brands & retail
Banking & fintech
Consumer apps
AI avatars
Live streaming
Short-video creation
AI assistants
Press any cell to read its numbersColour = share of the industry’s informative reviews in that theme (scaled per row)

Opportunity heat · industry × market

China
Japan
Singapore
Malaysia
Thailand
Indonesia
Vietnam
Philippines
Legal services
Manufacturing
Business services
Media & publishing
Clinics & health
IT products
Brands & retail
Banking & fintech
Consumer apps
AI avatars
Live streaming
Short-video creation
AI assistants
Press any cell to read its numbersColour = sum of opportunity scores in the cell; number = products. Opportunity = pain × agent-fixability × scale × ownership × reachability.

Rising / falling trends need at least two snapshots and will appear here once they exist.

Method

  1. 01Collect: public Apple App Store reviews of leading apps in China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
  2. 02Filter: drop venting with no concrete situation; keep feedback that says what actually went wrong.
  3. 03Score: opportunity = pain × agent-fixability × scale × ownership × reachability.

Source: public Apple App Store reviews · updated 2026-09-18 · the share of negative reviews reflects who writes reviews, not overall satisfaction.