Ask HN: How do you know if a tool is solving a real problem?

Hi HN,

I’m building a system that sits between application events and downstream consumers (analytics, decision systems, AI, etc.).

The goal is to make raw product events more structured and canonical, so deriving patterns, insights, and higher level signals becomes easier.

Before going deeper, I’m trying to sanity check the problem itself:

* How do you validate whether a tool like this is actually needed?

* Have you felt real pain around event schemas / analytics / telemetry?

* What tools already solve this well (or badly)?

* What would make you try a new solution here?

Not pitching, just trying to avoid building something nobody wants

Would love to hear your experiences.

Thank You