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How I turned thousands of app store reviews into product insights in seconds

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If you’re building an app, one of the most valuable sources of product insight is already public:

App Store and Google Play reviews.

The problem is they’re messy.

Thousands of reviews mentioning bugs, feature requests, UX frustrations, and random complaints. Reading them manually takes hours.

So I built AppReviewLens.

It analyses reviews from any app and surfaces the patterns that actually matter:

• features users keep requesting

• UX issues hurting retention

• recurring bugs

• sentiment trends across reviews

Instead of guessing what users want, you can see exactly what they’re telling you.

I originally built it for my own apps, but realised other founders might find it useful too.

Curious how other builders here analyse competitor reviews when doing product research.

If anyone wants to try it or share feedback, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

https://appreviewlens.dev

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Rian Robertson

Wow, this is genius! App reviews are gold...but sifting through thousands manually? No thanks. Love how AppReviewLens pulls out the real patterns like feature requests and bugs.

As a fellow builder, I've automated knowledge intake too...launching The Sponge on PH soon (AI flashcard app that turns any webpage into spaced-rep study material). If you're up for it...would appreciate a follow (link in profile).

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@rianbrob Appreciate that Rian, really glad it resonated. That was exactly the frustration that led me to build it. The insights are already sitting in reviews, but spotting real patterns across thousands of comments is incredibly time consuming to do manually. Your project sounds really interesting as well. Turning webpages into spaced repetition study material is a clever idea. Good luck with the Product Hunt launch, I’ll give you a follow and keep an eye out for it.