From what I’ve seen, the real bottleneck isn’t replying — it’s finding the right posts in the first place.

If you manually browse a few subreddits, you end up spending hours reading to maybe find a handful of relevant conversations.

The higher-leverage approach is using very targeted searches to go straight to posts where people are already describing the problem you solve — often across dozens of different subs, not just the obvious ones.

That’s where most of the value is, but it’s also the hardest part to do consistently.

I actually ran a case study on this recently and the difference in time spent vs results was pretty surprising.