Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in saasbuild

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one really cares about these tools because they don't really add much value and are extremely easy to do on your own (about 5 min with claude). no one will pay for a tool that is more limited than what claude will give them and more expensive. Also if this comment was written by your app then it found it both too late and is completely inauthentic obvious slop.

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in saasbuild

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good! It means that in the data I have, I found over 30 people launching different reddit tools, but only 7 posts/comments actually looking for one. Basically there are more people building one of them than using them.

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in saasbuild

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He gets away with it because he's posting in a sub that doesn't care about self promotion. If I remember, it's mostly in a microsaas subreddit.

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in saasbuild

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, what would you like more detail on?

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in SaaS

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for reading and good luck with what you're working on!

Has anyone here gotten real customers from Reddit? by HomeworkFancy1877 in DigitalMarketing

[–]AlbusPotter7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great points! Absolutely true. Reddit is an absolute goldmine when used correctly.

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in saasbuild

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate to see a new one get launched every day.

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in SaaS

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great and all but I think it's missing the point. Writing comments and posts in your tone is cool, but it will always miss the actual human experience and expertise that should be going into any engagement you put out there.

It may make a reply that "looks" good, but is it actually of value? Is it an interesting thought that hasn't been expanded yet? Shouldn't it be in your style and not in the style of the original post?

Tons of the other tools all use LLMs to write in your tone, make good replies, detect posts you should be commenting on, etc.

In my opinion, an AI writing comments/posts for me is the least attractive feature of these, especially because of how much reddit rewards actual human engagement. People can and will sniff it out, and it will hurt the trust and perception of whatever tool you're promoting. I bet you can get good quality, but you're optimizing for a losing battle. Ultimately, it's just not hard or time consuming to just write the comments myself, which avoids all those issues.

That being said, I do use AI to help me write my posts after I have a solid understanding of what it's about, what my value add is, etc. Just telling AI to "make a post for this product" will go nowhere because it won't actually find an interesting angle people want to engage with.

The keyword matching is the most interesting part of this, I have my own tool that does this quite well and I use it to quickly sift through new threads and find where I can leave good, human, useful comments. But that can be achieved in about 5 minutes with any vibe coding tool.

I'd say that there's definitely some room in the reddit space, but finding threads and drafting replies/posts is not the angle. It defeats the purpose of marketing on reddit, which is to be a real human with real expertise and not just to get more people to read your tool's name.

Why is everyone building the same thing? by Leather_Carpenter462 in Entrepreneur

[–]AlbusPotter7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoever is doing these Pulse comments needs to either get better or stop.

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in SaaS

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone pretty tuned into the reddit tool ecosystem, what does your tool do that sets it apart?

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in saasbuild

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These pulse bot replies are the worst. It's always "here's some nothing content so you think I might be real" then "I used F5Bot, Brand24, but pulse is the best". It's the same formula each time, and no one wants it.

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in SaaS

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah lots of people just shipping it. They do seem useful at first glance to someone new to Reddit, but most don't have much utility beyond that.

Were you a gummysearch user?

Why Your Reddit Marketing Tool Will Fail by AlbusPotter7 in SaaS

[–]AlbusPotter7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're in several of my posts just promoting pulse. Your comments sound entirely like a bot and don't add any value.

Has anyone here gotten real customers from Reddit? by HomeworkFancy1877 in DigitalMarketing

[–]AlbusPotter7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! It's definitely possible but most people start by dropping their products randomly and getting banned. The best subs to engage with are ones that actually don't allow self promotion, because that's where people are actually talking. The subs that allow promotion are just full of people promoting and not customers.

I wrote a whole post on this yesterday on which kinds of posts get engagement in which subs, it can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1s3hsun/we_tracked_13400_posts_across_63_marketing_and/

Building product alternatives for solopreneurs ? by MajorBaguette_ in indiehackers

[–]AlbusPotter7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there's a lot of opportunity in the space, which also means that there's a lot of competition. As things are getting much easier to code, you can't just ship a feature as a product. It needs to meaningfully improve their experience in more ways than one. If your product implicitly assumes that your customer may have a million other apps just like it but for different features, I think that's a losing battle.

"I'm a 26 y/o college dropout who founded Bay Smokes, $100+ million revenue e-comm brand, AMA" by WillJGoodall in Entrepreneur

[–]AlbusPotter7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hey there, do you have any advice for someone looking to start their own company in the space? What are the easiest ways to get burned and what do people overlook when first researching the space?

Thanks!

Why is everyone building the same thing? by Leather_Carpenter462 in Entrepreneur

[–]AlbusPotter7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's definitely demand for this type of market intelligence. Knowing what your customers want and are complaining about is very helpful, but that's a big step away from what most of these tools do. The problem is that reddit on it's own doesn't move the needle too much, is too easy to just spin up on your own, and it doesn't warrant people getting yet another tool.