Guides
Find the conversation before it becomes a customer.
Public threads are the cheapest source of buying intent, and the easiest place to look like an ad. These guides cover the manual workflow: where the questions are, how to tell a buyer from a listicle, and how to answer without putting your account at risk.
How to find people asking for your product
A practical workflow for finding public buying-intent conversations on Reddit, Hacker News and the open web, and deciding which ones are worth answering.
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Reddit lead generation for SaaS
How to find Reddit threads where people are asking for a product like yours, reply without getting banned, and measure conversations instead of clicks.
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Hacker News lead generation
HN is not a lead list. It is where technical buyers describe problems in detail. How to find those comments, read them, and reply without getting flagged.
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Buying intent signals, explained
A practical definition of buying intent for founder-led sales, the five signals worth scoring, and the false positives that waste a week.
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How to choose a Reddit monitoring tool
A buyer's guide to Reddit monitoring and lead-generation tools, the questions that separate a keyword alert from an intent system, and when to build your own.
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