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I built a tool to find users on Reddit. It found me 40 users in a week
3 points by timjayas 69 days ago | hide | past | favorite
I was spending 3 hours every day manually searching Reddit for people asking about problems my SaaS solves.

The process sucked:

Click through 50+ threads Read hundreds of comments Find maybe 5 good opportunities Miss everything posted after I stopped searching

So I built an AI that does it for me in 20 minutes. How it works: You give it your website. Then it monitors 24/7, scores every conversation for buying intent, and emails you the best opportunities each morning. It also does a power scan which finds you high google ranking post

First week results: 50+ relevant conversations found 40+ users $350 revenue Just 20 minutes a day

The controversial part: Before anyone says "you're ruining Reddit" this isn't a spam bot. It finds opportunities. It generates AI replies but you still need to be helpful and authentic. It just saves you from manually reading 1000+ posts to find 5 good ones.

Technical challenges: Reddit's API is deliberately limited (they want ad revenue). So I index public posts, use LLMs for intent detection and built roadmap that guides you so you don't spam yourself into a shadowban. You can get the 3-day free trial on RedLeads.app

Happy to answer questions about the AI scoring, Reddit's quirks, or growth tactics.



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