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Your category got forty new entrants this quarter. Buyers have stopped reading landing pages and started asking people who have used the thing.

What makes this hard

Every competitor has the same landing page and the same three benefits, so nobody believes any of them.
The evaluation now happens in Reddit threads and in the assistants that read them.
Your ad spend is competing with everyone who raised more than you.

Where these threads live

r/artificial
r/LocalLLaMA
r/MachineLearning
r/SaaS
r/ChatGPT

What ReplyHey does about it

Get named in the comparison threads

The “I tested nine of these, here is what actually worked” thread is the most-read artefact in any crowded category. Being in it as a straight answer, not an ad, is worth more than the quarter’s paid budget.

The assistants read this too

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity reach for Reddit when asked what to use. Threads you are useful in today are the source material for the recommendation someone gets in six months.

Proof beats claims

A comment where you explain the actual limitation of your own tool converts, in this category, better than any superlative — and it is the kind of comment that gets quoted back.

Every product you ship, no extra cost

Unlimited websites on one plan, which matters when you are shipping three things a year to find the one that works.

Questions

Is Reddit not hostile to AI products right now?+

It is hostile to AI-generated comments, which is exactly why nothing here is posted for you. A person answering a technical question honestly, including where the tool falls short, does fine.

Should I disclose that I built it?+

Always. It is required by many subreddits and it is the thing that stops a useful comment being read as astroturf.

Can it track whether ChatGPT recommends me?+

No. ReplyHey works the input side: the Reddit threads the models read. Measuring the answers is a different tool.

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B2B SaaS

Find the threads where teams are choosing tools in your category, scored daily with the reply drafted. For SaaS founders doing their own distribution.

Developer tools

Developers ask other developers what to use, and they are ruthless about marketing. Find those threads, and reply like an engineer instead of a campaign.

Ecommerce & DTC

Reddit decides which products people buy in dozens of niches. Find the recommendation threads for your category and be in them, without getting removed.

See which subreddits your customers are actually in

Paste your URL and ReplyHey derives the subreddits, the search terms and your first leads. About thirty seconds, and we do not ask for a card.

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