competitor-recon: Competitive Research Based on User Complaints

competitor-recon is an automated competitor research tool for DSH plugins. It scrapes competitor reviews, forums, and issue trackers to extract features, pricing, positioning, and user complaints. Core functionalities include competitor enumeration, information extraction, complaint clustering analysis, and generating comparison tables and build lists. The plugin prioritizes user reviews as the basis for requirement validation, using upvote counts to estimate frequency. This tool helps developers identify actual requirements at low cost and ensures feature development is evidence-based.