You scan 200 posts to find 2 worth replying to.
Most subreddit posts are noise. Filtering by hand burns hours — and you stop because the boring part outlasts your motivation.
LeadsRadar reads Reddit (and Hacker News) for you, scores every thread against your ICP with embeddings, and writes 5 reply drafts per lead — so the conversation is half-done before you open the tab.
Most subreddit posts are noise. Filtering by hand burns hours — and you stop because the boring part outlasts your motivation.
By the time you find a relevant question, it has 47 comments and an accepted answer. Your reply lands at the bottom, unread.
You re-read your draft. It reads like a pitch. You rewrite, lose your nerve, close the tab. Reddit's downvote army did the rest.
No real-time alerts. No daily emails. You decide when to engage — we just compress the work that happens once you do.
One short form. We turn your product + ICP + 3 URLs into ~30 personalized search queries.
We search 6–8 subreddits + Hacker News, run embeddings to rank by semantic fit, classify with GPT-4o-mini.
Each lead gets a relevance score 0–100, 5 reply drafts in different voices, and a Blitz mode for fast triage.
You bring 6 to 8 subreddits where your target customer hangs out. We search all of them on every scan — global Reddit search miss the niche communities, and that's where conversion lives.
Not sure which subs to pick? Use our free subreddit finder to discover the communities your customers actually post in.
Find your subreddits| Manual | F5Bot | LeadsRadar | Brandwatch | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free (your time) | Free | $19/mo | $249+/mo |
| Reddit search | ||||
| Hacker News | ||||
| Semantic relevance | ||||
| AI-drafted replies | yes (5 / lead) | |||
| Built for solo founders | ||||
| Time per lead | ~30 min | ~10 min | ~2 min | ~5 min |
See the full comparison: vs F5Bot, vs Sprout Social, vs Brandwatch, vs Gummysearch.
Reddit lead generation works when you treat the platform as a place to help people first, then mention what you built when the fit is there. It fails when you treat it like a billboard. Most founders fail the second way, get downvoted, and conclude Reddit doesn't work — when really, they just ran the wrong playbook.
Two general subs (r/SaaS, r/Entrepreneur), three to five niche subs where your customer self-selected, one or two adjacent subs. More than eight and you can't keep up; fewer and you go weeks between leads.
The best leads are direct asks ("what tool do you use for X?") and frustration posts ("X keeps doing Y, want to switch"). After 6 hours, the OP has moved on and your reply joins the comment graveyard.
The first 50 words should give the OP something useful even if they never click anything. Mention your product last, optionally, with context. Most replies should not include a link at all — save those for the threads where the OP explicitly asked.
For every promotional comment, write ten that are pure contribution. Most subs encode this as a rule, and mods will let the math slide if your other nine comments are obviously useful.
Engaging in good-faith conversation and mentioning a relevant tool when asked is fine. Posting spam links is not. Most subreddits enforce a 1:10 self-promotion ratio — one promotional comment for every ten genuine contributions. LeadsRadar drafts reads as contribution-first by design.
F5Bot is a free keyword-alert service that emails you when terms appear on Reddit. LeadsRadar adds three things F5Bot doesn't: semantic relevance scoring with embeddings (so we catch threads even without exact keywords), 5 reply drafts per lead, and a triage UI built for speed.
Pick 6–8 subreddits where your ICP hangs out (r/SaaS, r/Entrepreneur, r/startups, plus 3–5 niche subs). Search for the problem your product solves, sort by 'new', and reply within the first 6 hours of a thread. LeadsRadar automates the search + filtering + drafting; you do the engaging.
1 to 3 minutes per scan. You click Run, we hit Reddit's API across all your configured queries and subreddits, run embeddings + GPT-4o-mini classification, and surface the 10–25 best leads. On-demand only — no daily emails or push alerts.
We engineered the prompt to fight every AI tell — no "I'd recommend", no "hope this helps", no LinkedIn voice. Drafts feel like a founder typing fast on mobile. Each lead gets 5 voices: contributive, questioning, critical, supportive, and a DM variant.
For B2B SaaS: r/SaaS, r/Entrepreneur, r/startups, r/SideProject, r/indiehackers, r/marketing, r/sales. For developer tools: r/programming, r/devops, r/selfhosted. For consumer products: pick the hobby subs your audience already follows. Two general + 3–5 niche + 1–2 adjacent is the sustainable shape.
Sprout and Brandwatch are enterprise social listening platforms ($249+/mo, team-priced) built for brand monitoring across all channels. LeadsRadar is $19/mo, founder-priced, Reddit + Hacker News only, and optimized for finding the next sale — not measuring brand sentiment.
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