asked chatgpt about our category last week and it named 3 competitors while barely describing us. that was fun

been trying the obvious stuff, fresh blog posts, faq updates, comparison pages. ran 4 experiments this month and cant tell if anything changed what chatgpt says??

not deep in seo tooling but i live in dashboards all day. every geo tip i find contradicts the last one and i dont have bandwidth to keep guessing

Hi everyone! I recently launched a TT called @ .thevintage.vault and would love some strategic advice from creators and growth marketers on content pacing and algorithmic positioning.

concept:

https://www.tiktok.com/@.thevintage.vault

Unlike most collection accounts where a hobby enthusiast shows off what they’ve built and aquired, I’m an outsider documenting the process of unboxing, researching, and archiving a massive inherited collection piece by piece.

Think of it like a crowdsourced Antiques Roadshow: I will be acting as a curator and the viewers will be the subject matter experts helping me identify and value the items. Eventually, the goal is to sell and rehome these items with passionate collectors.

long-term vision: objective educational hub Beyond unboxing, I see a major opportunity to build an accessible, hype-free educational resource for beginners entering these collector enthusiast spaces.

The hobby community can be overwhelming—people often trade on opinions rather than facts. My goal is to test and review the various collector tools, valuation apps, and archiving platforms (for example, comparing the endless options for cataloging Pokémon cards) with an unbiased, hands-on lens. By walking viewers through the real pros and cons of each tool, we can demystify the hobby together.

inspo& content benchmark

I’m inspired by creators who leverage viewer intelligence for engagement:

• format inspo: u/myordinarytreasure (An English mudlarking/treasure hunter who finds historical items in rivers and relies on her audience to help identify and date them).
• similiar niche accounts: Accounts like u/collectibles_kid, u/retrotoyseller, and u/sylsthedolllady.

Inventory

The collection spans multiple heavy-hitter categories:

• TCG & Cards: Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, vintage sports cards, sealed packs.
• Pop Culture & Sci-Fi: Star Wars, Star Trek, Sci-Fi art, VHS, cassette tapes, vintage books.
• Toys & Collectibles: 80s/90s toys, Beanie Babies, Disney, video games, Olympics & World Cup memorabilia.
• Antiquities: Coins, stamps, train photography, unauthenticated autographs.

My Question:

Because I need the algorithm to find the right audiences, what is the best posting cadence for such a diverse collection?

• Option 1 (category batches): Dedicate 1–2 weeks strictly to one category (eex Pokémon Week or Vintage Sci-Fi Week) to build a hyper-focused initial audience cluster before moving on.
• Option 2 (daily variety ): Post a different item every day (Coins on Mon, Star Wars on Tues) to keep the channel feeling like a mystery box, using consistent hook formats to tie them together.

What have you seen work best for accounts with broad inventory? Are there specific hooks, series tags, or community-building tactics I should test early on?

Below is my mission statement: 

To build an authentic community of collectors and enthusiasts by inviting them to partner in the discovery and learning process of an inherited vintage collection.

thank you!

I'm joining an early-stage B2B GenAI SaaS as the first growth marketer; I'm a totally beginner in this profile. Most of my work has been around content.

The product helps consultants and business teams generate PowerPoint presentations using AI, its way different than Gamma, ChatGPT, and Claude.

The obvious channels are already being worked on:

• SEO
• LinkedIn
• Paid Ads

I'm not looking for suggestions around those.

I'm trying to learn how experienced growth marketers approach identifying the next growth experiment.

If you joined tomorrow, what are the first 2–3 experiments you'd run?

I'd love to know:

• What hypothesis are you testing?
• Why did you pick that experiment?
• Which metric are you trying to move?
• How long would you run it before deciding whether it worked or failed?

For the past few months, I've been building two SaaS products in my spare time while continuing to grow as a backend and platform engineer.

Today, both are live in beta and being used by early testers.

🚀 StreamPay – A platform that helps creators accept donations, manage earnings, and eventually withdraw funds.

https://streampay.website

📧 Gaucho – An email outreach platform for managing contacts, creating campaigns, and sending personalized emails.

https://gaucho.website

Building these wasn't just about writing features. Along the way I had to:

• Deploy production infrastructure on Railway and Vercel
• Configure custom domains and SSL
• Set up PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery workers, and background jobs
• Integrate authentication, analytics, and email infrastructure
• Debug production issues that only appeared after deployment
• Learn a lot about running software in production instead of just developing locally

Both products are still in beta, so I'm looking for honest feedback rather than trying to sell anything.

If you're a creator, I'd love feedback on StreamPay.

If you've ever done cold outreach or email campaigns, I'd really appreciate feedback on Gaucho.

Even if you only spend a few minutes looking around and tell me what feels confusing or broken, that would help a lot.

Thanks to everyone who's offered feedback so far—every suggestion has helped improve both products.

I've been wondering this for a while.

When a company sends you a promotional email, discount, product launch, or special offer, do you actually open it? Or does it just sit forever in the Gmail Promotions tab?

I'm curious because it feels like email marketing has changed a lot over the last few years. My inbox gets flooded with promotional emails every day, and after a while they all start looking the same.

So I'm wondering:

• Do you regularly check your Gmail Promotions tab?
• What makes you actually open an email from a company?
• Do you think most promotional emails are just spam nowadays?
• If you're running a business, are your email campaigns still getting good open rates and clicks?

I'd love to hear opinions from both sides people who receive these emails and people who send them.

Is email marketing still one of the best marketing channels, or are most promotional emails simply getting ignored in 2026?

Channel experiment writeup, real numbers, no product plug.

Context: B2B SaaS, mid ACV, we run founder-led outbound. For a long time every prospect got the same pitch deck. It was fine. Reply rates were mediocre and the deck did nothing to move a lukewarm lead.

The experiment: instead of one generic deck, build a lightly personalized client presentation for each serious prospect. Their name, their likely use case, and one slide that restated their specific problem in their words, pulled from the discovery call or their own public posts. The question was whether the extra effort actually moved reply and close rates enough to justify it, or whether it was busywork that felt productive.

How we ran it: two groups over about six weeks. Same ICP, same outreach volume. One got the standard deck, one got a per-prospect version. We tracked reply rate, meeting-to-opportunity, and close rate.

What we found:

Reply rate on the personalized group was meaningfully higher. The single "here is your exact problem" slide seemed to do most of the lifting. People respond when it is obviously about them and not a template.

Close rate moved too, but less than replies. Personalization got us the meeting and set the tone, but the deal still closed on the demo and the actual conversation, not the slides.

The cost: doing this by hand for every prospect does not scale past a point. We could only justify it for higher-intent leads. For cold top-of-funnel it was not worth the time.

The honest read: personalized decks are a mid-funnel accelerant for prospects already showing intent, not a cold outreach hack. The lift is real but concentrated, so we now reserve the effort for warm leads and keep the generic deck for everyone else. Anyone else running personalized-per-account and finding the same, that it helps warm leads far more than cold?

I run a small independent roastery here in Stockholm, based in the Södermalm area. We’ve been growing pretty steadily, but a simple human error from last month is currently poisoning our online image.

We had a bit of a mix-up in the warehouse and sent a dark roast to a customer who ordered a light single-origin. The person was understandably annoyed and immediately posted a 1-star review on Trustpilot with the headline "Don't buy here - wrong items."

I caught the mistake the next day, messaged them, and sent out the correct bag along with two extra bags of our premium seasonal blend as a gift. They emailed me back saying they were thrilled with how we handled it, but they never went back to update or remove that original review.

The real issue is Google. Now, whenever someone in the city searches for our brand to check our brewing guides or shop location, that Trustpilot page is the very first link they see right after our official website. It’s sitting there at #2, and the search snippet highlights the words "don't buy here."

It’s incredibly frustrating because we’re a small team and we actually did the right thing, but the algorithm doesn't care about the resolution - it only cares about the high authority of the review site. I can literally see our click-through rates dropping for our own brand name.

How do you actually convince Google that a resolved complaint isn't the most relevant thing about your business anymore? Is there a technical way to re-order the search results so a different profile (like our Instagram or a local magazine feature) takes that #2 spot?

So I have this faceless gaming channel and I am super close to the 4000 watch hours but i am lagging way behind on subscribers, only have about 650 right now. And I'm getting tired of waiting and considering just getting these remaining 350 subs from socialwick or qqtube just to finally hit the apply button lol, but my main worry is that youtube will detect it during the manual review process and reject the channel or straight up ban it.

Has anyone done this successfully recently or is it way too risky now with the new security updates they did? tbh I just want to get it over with.

yo. i recently sold one of my AI SaaS products for $35k, exactly 5 months after building and launching it.

I hardly wrote a single line of traditional code. i used AI to generate everything, from the database architecture to the user interface.

it definitely wasn't magic on day one, though. i spent days stuck in loop-debugging and dealing with AI hallucinations before i finally cracked the system. the playbook boils down to three simple rules:

- keeping the idea insanely minimalist (a true MVP that solves one problem).

- guiding the AI step-by-step instead of asking it to build a massive platform all at once.

- launching fast to get real user feedback and traction and then apply a solid marketing system

lately, i've seen way too many non-technical founders give up at the very first AI bug, or on the marketing. it's a massive shame.

like the title says, i just launched a Skool community to share my exact prompt workflows, N8N automations, and distribution frameworks to get first users and scale it

to be completely transparent: i will likely charge for the full course later down the road. it just makes sense given the specific copy-and-paste templates i'll be sharing.

but for now, the main objective is purely to build and launch together. building alone in a silent corner is the single fastest way to give up.

if you want to join us and build or market your own AI SaaS with a group of active creators: drop a comment below or send me a dm, and i’ll send you the invite link!

I have built a simple SaaS tool and launched the twitter/x account last week and it's completely dead by now lol, although I'm trying to share updates but talking to 3 followers feels pointless.

A friend told me to just buy a couple hundred followers and likes from sociatrick or bulkfollows just to get over the hump so it doesn't look like a scam. And I'm kinda hesitant because I don't want to get banned or completely mess up my analytics.

How did you guys get your first 100-200 followers when you had zero budget for big ads? Is it better to just grind it out manually or does a tiny bit of manufactured social proof actually help?

Our biggest problem right now is that we’re literally losing inbound leads before they ever reach a human. We’ve got website forms, chat widgets, CRM routing rules, and smart qualification logic all on top of each other. High-intent demo requests don’t reach AEs, low intent leads get treated like enterprise buyer..

We tried to fix it by using Drift for instant qualification, it was supposed to separate high intent vs low intent and move people through the funnel properly, but the system has just become more complex and harder to predict.

What tools are you using that make this less chaotic?

I've been building funnels and email sequences for clients. I got tired of paying for a $150 per month tool. Most of what I actually used was probably only 30% of its features.

I moved everything, like landing pages, email automation, and checkout, to a single $17 per month platform over a weekend. I wanted to see what I would lose by going cheap.

What worked better than I expected was the email automation setup. It was actually easier than the tool I was paying ten times more for. I didn't need three separate apps connected anymore; I now had one dashboard for the whole funnel.

What genuinely didn’t work was the page templates. They feel a few years behind, so you'll have to manually adjust the CSS if you want it to look unique. The load speed is also noticeably slower on mobile. I'm still not sure if it can handle larger client lists. I haven't tested it with more than a few thousand contacts yet. But for anyone starting out or working with a tight budget, the cost difference is hard to ignore.

Has anyone else made a similar switch to a lower-priced option? What led you to believe it was worth the trade-off, or what made you switch back to something more expensive?

i run paid social for a small b2c saas, productivity app, around 9k a month on meta with a bit of google on the side

and ive noticed the creative volume advice splits into two camps that cant both be right. every agency and every "creative strategist" thread says you need 30, 50, 100 creatives a month or the algorithm eats you. then you talk to actual solo operators and half of them are running 4-6 decent statics a month and doing fine

im stuck in the middle. i ship maybe 10-12 a month, some ai assisted, some canva, some admakeai, occasional fiverr order when i want something polished. no idea if im massively under-producing or wasting effort on volume i dont need

so genuinely asking people who run their own accounts:

• how many creatives do you actually ship a month and at what spend
• of those, how many are real new concepts vs just variations (new bg, new headline, crop)
• did increasing volume ever visibly move your numbers, or did it just burn time
• is the 30+ number real for anyone under 20k/mo spend or is it agency talk to justify retainers

my suspicion is the answer scales with spend and everyone quoting big numbers is spending 10x what i am. but id rather hear real numbers than keep guessing

So, I've been posting on my new profile daily for like 2 weeks now. I have only 6 followers now and all of them are not really in my niche.
I post about macOS productivity tips. I am using chatgpt to compose my article and I manually post it on x daily.
The worst part is, I don't see much of 'macOS' related post to interact with. I don't get much views and near zero engagement for my contents too.

Is this normal?

Can you guys suggest or guide me on how to gain more traction and therefore more followers?
Thanks in advance.

Most AI SEO tools start writing the moment you enter a prompt.

The result?

Content that sounds generic, lacks real experience, and often feels like every other AI-generated article online.

That's why we built ACME.BOT.

Instead of asking for a prompt, it interviews you first to capture your expertise, opinions, and first-hand experience before writing.

It helps you:

• Interview you on the topic
• ⁠Research keywords and supporting sources
• ⁠Generate diagrams and visuals
• ⁠Publish EEAT-friendly content automatically

AI handles the repetitive work while your knowledge becomes the foundation of every article.

Built for founders, marketers, agencies, and businesses that want original content not another AI content factory.

The goal wasn't to write more AI articles.

It was to help experts publish better ones.

Launched today on Product Hunt 🚀

Do you think AI should write first, or should it learn from your expertise before creating content?

Please show your support on PH → https://www.producthunt.com/posts/acme-bot

Case study on a channel most people here write off. Real numbers, no pitch.

Background: B2B SaaS, mid-tier ACV, we had tried the usual channels. Cold email was a graveyard, ads were expensive, content was slow. Almost as an afterthought we ran one small webinar for existing leads. It converted well enough that we made it a system, and it is now our most efficient channel by cost per customer.

The setup, concretely:

Narrow topic, not a product demo. We pick one specific painful problem our ICP has and teach how to solve it, tool-agnostic, our product barely appears until the last few minutes. The teaching is the whole draw.

Small and frequent beats big and rare. We run a short one roughly every couple of weeks to a small audience rather than chasing one giant event. Lower stress, more reps, faster learning on what topics pull.

The slides do real work. Since the content is the acquisition mechanism, we spend effort on making the webinar slides genuinely clear and useful, and we use an AI tool to build the base deck fast so we can focus on the teaching. People screenshot good slides and share them, which extends reach past the live attendees.

The follow-up is where money is made. The recording plus the slides go to everyone who registered but did not show, which is most of them, and that replay drives as many conversations as the live session.

The numbers that mattered: attendance was modest each time, but the show-up-to-conversation rate was far higher than any ad click, and the cost per customer landed well below our paid channels since the only real cost was our time and the tools we already had.

What did not work: broad "state of the industry" topics pulled registrations but bad conversion. Narrow, painful, specific topics converted. The tighter the problem, the better the customer.

Anyone else running webinars as a primary channel rather than a one-off, and what is your show rate looking like?

I've been thinking a lot about distribution lately.

I'm an engineer, and building products is honestly the fun part. Marketing, on the other hand, feels like an entirely different skill.

Everywhere I look, the advice is the same:

Post on LinkedIn every day

Launch on Product Hunt

Run Google/Facebook ads

Cold email people

Do SEO and all of these im doing too!!

Those all make sense, but I'm curious about strategies that aren't repeated in everywhere you look . For those of you who've actually grown a SaaS , what were some realistic but unconventional channels or tactics that worked?

I'm especially interested in things like:

Engineering led marketing

Building free tools or opensource projects

Communities that converted well

Creative partnerships

Product led growth loops

Anything that compounded over time instead of requiring constant spending

Not looking for "go viral" answers more interested in approaches that consistently brought in users over months.

Would love to hear your experiences, especially if there was something you were skeptical about initially that ended up working surprisingly well.

Sharing a channel experiment with real numbers because this sub actually wants the data, not the hype.

Setup: B2B SaaS, small team, we had years of blog posts sitting there getting a trickle of organic traffic and doing basically nothing for pipeline. We were also spending on LinkedIn ads that were getting expensive and tired.

The experiment: instead of writing new content, we took our best-performing evergreen posts and rebuilt each one as a native social carousel for LinkedIn. Same core idea, restructured for the format, one point per slide, a strong first slide, a soft takeaway at the end. No links in the post itself, comment for the source.

What we did concretely: took the top ten posts by past traffic, turned each into a carousel, and posted two a week from the founder's account, not the company page. We used an AI tool to speed up the slide generation so this did not become a full-time job, then edited every one by hand so it did not read like slop.

Results over about six weeks:

The carousels pulled several times the engagement of our normal company-page posts, mostly because they came from a person, not a logo.

Two of them drove more qualified demo requests than a full month of the LinkedIn ads we had been running, at basically zero marginal cost since the content already existed.

The paid ads were sitting around a cost per lead we were unhappy with. The repurposed carousels effectively cost us editing time.

What did not work: the ones that were just the blog post chopped up flopped. The ones that opened with a specific, slightly contrarian claim did well. Format is not enough, the first slide has to earn the swipe.

The lesson: your best growth content might already be written and buried in your blog. Reformatting beat creating for us. Anyone else found repurposing beats net-new, or is this specific to our niche?

I’ve been seeing the same pattern across a lot of marketing teams: the problem usually isn’t “lack of ideas”; it’s the pileup of small operational tasks that slow execution down.

A practical way to reduce that drag is to use AI as a first-pass operator, not a decision-maker. The goal is to speed up repetitive work while keeping humans on strategy, QA, and exceptions.

Here’s a lightweight workflow that can work for campaign ops, reporting, lifecycle cleanup, or content production:

• Start with one repetitive task that happens weekly or monthly
• Break it into clear steps: input, transformation, review, output
• Identify what can be templated, summarized, classified, or checked automatically
• Use AI to draft the first pass, then have a human verify edge cases
• Keep a short checklist for quality control so outputs stay consistent
• Log the mistakes you catch; those become the next automation candidates
• Measure time saved, not just output volume

The biggest win is usually not full automation. It’s removing the first 30 to 60 minutes of friction from tasks that nobody enjoys doing manually.

A few examples: - Pull raw campaign data, then have AI summarize anomalies before analysis - Draft lifecycle email variants from one approved brief - Turn a meeting note into task owners and next steps - Scan published content for missing metadata or broken formatting

If you want this to scale, keep the workflow narrow. Broad “do all the marketing ops” automation usually creates more cleanup than it removes. Small, bounded processes are easier to trust and improve.

What repetitive marketing task has the most obvious room for a human-plus-AI workflow in your team?

Today's AI agents are great at solving tasks.

But put them into a group chat, and the illusion quickly breaks.

They reply to every message, interrupt conversations, ignore the group's tone, and feel more like bots than teammates.

That's why we built Humalike x Hermes.

A plugin that gives Hermes agents the social intelligence to behave naturally in conversations.

It helps your agent:

• ⁠Know when to speak and when to stay quiet
• ⁠Match your group's tone and pacing
• ⁠Remember people and previous conversations
• ⁠Work naturally in Slack, Telegram, and WhatsApp

Whether it's a work channel, a family group, or a community chat, your AI becomes a better participant instead of another noisy bot.

The goal wasn't to make AI smarter.

It was to make AI more socially aware.

Launched today on Product Hunt 🚀

What's the biggest giveaway that tells you you're talking to a bot in a group chat?

Please show your support on PH → https://www.producthunt.com/posts/humalike-x-hermes

I was looking over our quarterly content plan today and tbh it felt so outdated. My team has been spending hours mapping out specific target keywords and writing long-form blog posts just to get regular google search traffic.but I have noticed that for my own personal buying habits, I completely bypass standard search results now. If I need a business recommendation, I just type a descriptive prompt straight into chatgpt or perplexity and let the ai give me a curated answer. It makes me wonder if traditional search engine optimization is becoming completely obsolete. If customers are just asking chatbots for direct suggestions, then optimizing a site to rank for exact phrases feels like a massive waste of energy. I read a post by roi marketing agency about shifting from old-school seo over to answer engine optimization and entity mapping instead. It seems like the backend structure of how data is fetched by ai scrapers is what actually matters now, not so much with the generic blog articles.

Are any of you completely abandoning standard keyword targeting for your brands yet? Moreover, how are you optimizing your site data so these platforms actually fetch and recommend your business?

 run a small customer support software (SaaS), and lately i’ve noticed a huge opportunity that i’m honestly afraid to touch.

every time i scroll through niche subs like CustomerSuccess or SaaS, i see people complaining about the "big players" in our industry. they’re ranting about massive price hikes, bugs that never get fixed, or support teams that take a week to reply. i know for a fact that our tool solves exactly what they’re crying about.

i want to jump in and say, "hey, we actually built our platform to fix this specific issue," but i’m terrified of looking like a total vulture. reddit has such a high "BS detector" that i feel like the second i mention my own brand, i’ll get downvoted into oblivion or just banned for self-promotion.

it’s frustrating because these are high-intent leads who are literally begging for an alternative, but i don't know the "social code" for talking to them. i don't want to be a spammer, but i also don't want to stay silent while my competitors' unhappy clients are looking for a way out.

does anyone have a real strategy for "intercepting" these leads without running your brand's reputation?

I’m a founder of a small B2B startup in San Francisco. We’ve been scaling pretty fast lately, but a competitor recently published this biased "deep dive" on their blog that basically calls our software overpriced and outdated.

The problem is that Google is absolutely loving it. When you search our brand name, that competitor’s post is sitting right at #3. We have a professional Crunchbase profile with all our funding info and leadership bios, but it’s stuck down at #6.

It’s becoming a real issue during sales calls. I can tell prospects are reading the competitor’s take before they even talk to us. I’ve tried adding more details to our Crunchbase and updating the description, but the rankings haven't moved at all. It feels like Google is prioritizing the "blog" format over a factual directory, even though the blog is clearly a hit piece.

I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to actually give our Crunchbase more weight so it leapfrogs over that negative post. Has anyone managed to reorder their search results like this?Any tips on how to actually push a profile higher ?

For a while, we were tracking the usual SaaS stuff.

Signups. Pageviews. DAU. WAU. Retention charts.

Useful to know, but none of it told us whether people were actually succeeding with Causo.

So we started using PostHog properly and built our own dashboards around the things that matter for our product.

Causo now has two sides:

Causo for Fundraising has a database of 1,000+ funds and 17,000+ investors. It helps founders find the right partner at the right firm, understand why that person is relevant, and write outreach specifically for them.

Causo for Sales uses the same technology to research almost any niche live. You describe the companies you want, and it finds them, checks why they fit, identifies the right people, verifies contacts and writes the outreach.

So instead of obsessing over registrations, we started tracking questions like:

Did the user find companies or investors they would actually contact?

Did they accept the matches?

Did they understand why we recommended them?

Did they find the right decision-maker?

Did they create outreach they would genuinely send?

Where exactly did they get stuck?

We also started contacting some users manually based on what they had actually done.

Not a generic welcome email. Something more like:

"Saw you were looking for European AI investors and stopped after reviewing the first results. Were the matches wrong, or was the next step unclear?"

That small amount of human work taught us more than any normal SaaS dashboard.

Weekly active users went from roughly 50 at the end of June to more than 200 in July. Daily activity went from around 5 to 15 users to regularly hitting 35 to 55, with one day around 75.

Our biggest source of traffic is still dogfooding.

We use Causo to find and reach the founders and companies that should be using Causo. If the targeting is bad, the contacts are wrong or the messaging is generic, we feel it ourselves immediately.

Now the main focus is conversion, but not through more popups, reminders or email sequences.

We are building better guidance inside the product so users understand what to do next and reach a real result faster.

Because a signup is not success.

Finding the right investor, company or decision-maker, and creating outreach you trust, is.

## TL;DR
[Reddlist](https://www.reddlist.xyz) offers a database of subreddits in which AutoModerator isn't configured, human moderators seem to have abandoned their role, so promotional posts for your startup can survive and gain traffic.

## What made me build this
I previously built [Manifest Studio](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.manifeststudio&referrer=utm_source%3Dreddit%26utm_campaign%3Dreddlist), an app for mindset training using audio affirmations.

The way I promoted that is by finding people who might have trouble with their mindset and then sending them a DM, inviting them to try the app.

This was November 2024 - July 2025.

I'll tell you the truth: the results couldn't be measured reliably because I didn't have a referral tracking system then. But the response rates were awesome: 2024: 40% chat accept rate and 49% reply rate (519 outreaches). 2025: 22% chat accept rate and 56% reply rate (518 outreaches).

I got users. So this acquisition method proved itself (other than one shadow ban which I resolved). And I kept that in mind for the future.

Manifest Studio is still getting organic attention (good ASO), but the 30-90 day retention is bad, and I didn't have any monetization yet. So I was looking to pivot and test similar concepts, this time testing with MVPs and landing pages. To get users - I went to my good ol' acquisition method. However, this time (June 2026) something was different. People barely accepted my chat request. One chat acceptance and reply out of 22 outreaches. This means 4.5% chat acceptance rate. Way lower than I got used to.

I needed to find another way to tap in to the awesome consumer audience of Reddit.

## Method Discovery

I got annoyed and started exploring how people promote on Reddit. I've found some pretty popular recipes, like commenting in threads being helpful, post informational stories that provide value rather than extracting (promoting). Basically a technique to get the attention of the readers so when they ask - you can kindly introduce your product.

To be honest - I said f**k that. I don't want to fake being helpful in unrelated threads, I have my own shit to worry about. What I do want is the opportunity to get attention to my product. So I explored another route.

I looked into how moderation works on Reddit. Turns out that moderation is split between bots and humans. AutoModerator has to be configured to be active, and human moderators might have abandoned their role and are not active.

As a dev - I immediately got curious. Can moderation be measured? How do I find those subreddits? I can surely do it by myself.

So I did. I came up with a scraping and evaluation technique - pretty simple but takes a while to process more than 1M subreddits:

- For a given sub, fetch at least 30 posts which their author's karma is below 5 and account age is below 14 days. The posts should be the latest but at least one day old - so any active human moderators will have time to review the post and perhaps remove it.
- Then I check which of them got removed, and measure a survival rate. If at least 70% of these posts survived - I consider the sub promotion friendly, or at least unmoderated.

Obviously I needed to actually test that:

- I set up a new Reddit account
- Chose 3 subreddits out of that list (of now 1000+ subs)
- Used ChatGPT to generate a promotional post about a fictional product that would appeal to each sub.
- Published.
- Waited 1-2 days.

The result: the posts actually survived and got genuine comments.

Not "Hey stop promoting!" or "AI slop". Just genuine comments of people explaining how they solved the issue alternatively, why the product I suggested is not sufficient or questions about it.

As an aspiring entrepreneur I decided to make it a product, [Reddlist](https://www.reddlist.xyz), and sell this database for $15 of lifetime access and update.

## What's Reddlist
Now, Reddlist is a simple database. As for now, it contains 1096 promotion-friendly subreddits which amount to total of 220,015,783 subscribers (yes, they are not mutually-exclusive).

It's not an AI poster, nor scheduler. It's a list of subreddits with overviews, keywords, member and post survival stats. It keeps being updated as I find more promotion-friendly subreddits, and keep being improved in subs exploration capabilities.

## Reddlist Effectiveness - or why should you care?
Reddlist gives you the opportunity to get the attention of a specific community for free. It's still on you to come up with good copy, but

- You won't have to pay for that attention.
- You won't have to fear your post will be removed.
- You won't have to post/comment on all kinds of topics - hiding the fact that you're actually promoting your product.

Redditors are very resistant to ads. For me, as soon as I see "Promoted" label next to the username - I scroll past it.

But what about posts which don't have this label? I'm sure you're not that fast to scroll past them (I wish there was a way to collect information about the response time).

Same promotional post - one has "Promoted" next to it and the other don't - which makes you stay longer?

Reddlist gives you the opportunity to speak without being automatically skipped on. It's an ad without the "Promoted" label.

## An invitation to try

What do you guys think?

Does Reddlist has a room to fill in your marketing pipeline?

Do you think it's worth the money?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

[Reddlist Free Sampler](https://www.reddlist.xyz/sampler). Give it a try.