The method
How to find your first customers on social media
The whole method, start to finish: how to find the people who already described your problem out loud, how to judge which posts are worth answering, and what to say when you reply.
Method
How to find the people who already have the problem, and what to say.
Main topicEverybody Quotes a Number for Reddit in AI Answers. We Traced All of Them.Estimates of how often Reddit appears in AI answers run from 2.2% to 60%. We opened all nine sources: six check out, one is not in the article it cites.Read story
What Reddit Actually Banned in 2026 (It Is Not AI Writing)Reddit’s March 2026 policy targets accounts that post autonomously, not AI-assisted writing. The rule, the trust score nobody mentions, and how ReplyGuy fell.
X API Pricing in 2026: No Free Tier, and What That Actually CostsX went pay-per-use in February 2026: no free tier, a 7-day search limit, and a $42,000-a-month floor for archive search. Why you can’t build this yourself.
Cold Outreach Alternatives That Don't Need a NetworkEvery ‘cold outreach alternative’ guide assumes warm intros or events. The alternative none of them list: reply to a complaint someone already posted.
Twitter Reply Strategy: What the Data Actually SaysThird-party analysis of X’s algorithm reports a reply outweighs a like 27 to 1, and speed beats cleverness. What is confirmed, what is not, and how to use it.
Best Time to Post on X: What's Confirmed, What Isn'tX has never published a best-time-to-post study. What third-party analysis confirms about timing, and why the hour itself is the wrong thing to chase.
How to Find Customers on Reddit (And What to Do Next)How to find customers on Reddit: the search methods, the weekly routine, and what to do after — plus which subreddits let a promotional reply survive at all.
Reddit Lead Generation: A Phase-by-Phase PlaybookA five-phase Reddit lead generation playbook: the real rules, who presses send, why narrow boards invite bans, and the delivery-rate math nobody publishes.
First Customers as an Indie Hacker: 18 Comments, Zero KarmaEighteen Reddit comments, zero karma on every one. Why 87.2% of Reddit posts score 1 or less, and why the subreddit decides more than anything you write.
Reddit Marketing for SaaS: What Gets a Comment DeletedFourteen companies sell automated Reddit outreach to SaaS founders. Reddit’s spam policy names the tool most of them use; our data shows what gets removed.
Reddit Keyword Monitoring: Why Most Searches Return NoiseWe logged 50 search phrases across five campaigns and watched 35 die from eight causes. Why keyword monitoring returns noise, and what a live phrase looks like.
Reddit API Pricing: Who Gets a Contract, Who Gets SuedA Reddit tool with 140,000 users died because it couldn’t get a data license. Reddit signed Google and OpenAI, and sued Anthropic. What that leaves indies.
Reddit Self-Promotion Rules: What Actually Gets DeletedReddit’s spam policy, the 90/10 rule, and what 5,600 comments show: self-promotional replies are removed 1.45 times as often — but the effect reverses by board.
The Best Time to Post on Reddit Doesn’t ExistWe measured 1,175 Reddit posts across 8 subreddits: 87.2% scored 1 or less, and the median never moved by hour or day. The board beats the clock.
Reddit AutoModerator Rules: Why Your Comment VanishedA Reddit comment that vanishes in seconds was AutoModerator, not a human. What it checks — karma, account age, links — and how to stop tripping it.
Nobody’s Coming. Go Reply to Them Instead.Search social media for people complaining about the exact problem you solve, and reply to them. It is how Zapier got its first 800 paying customers before launch — and the 10 search patterns that build the list.Compare
What the alternatives do, what they cost, and when they win.
Main topicF5Bot Alternatives: What the Free Tier Still CoversF5Bot is free, fast to set up, and capped at 5 keywords. The three reasons to leave it, what each replacement costs, and why we left our own tool off the list.Read story
GummySearch Alternatives After the November 2025 ShutdownGummySearch closed to new signups on 2025-11-30 and deletes all data on 2026-12-01. The seven successors it named itself, what they cost, and how to move first.
Best Reddit Tools for Startups: 5,600 Comments MeasuredWhat to buy in month one, month three, and never — priced from $0 to $5,000 a month, and measured against 5,600 Reddit comments rather than vendor claims.
Best Reddit Monitoring Tools in 2026F5Bot, Syften, Octolens, Brand24, Awario, and Mention compared on price and coverage — and why 13 of 19 comparison articles about them ranked themselves first.
Google Alerts Alternatives for Reddit and XGoogle Alerts is free but misses Reddit and X. What F5Bot’s shrunk free tier gives you, what Talkwalker Alerts offers instead, and when paying is worth it.
Twitter Monitoring Tools After the ConsolidationFour of the nine biggest X/Twitter monitoring firms have been bought out since 2017. What is left costs real money, and building your own got pricier in 2026.