{"version":"1.1.0","schema":"https://oneagentaday.com/api/schema.json","agent":{"title":"Reddit Lead Finder","slug":"reddit-lead-finder","date":"2026-10-09","issue":35,"category":"marketing","categoryLabel":"Marketing & Growth","tags":["reddit","research","writing","growth"],"difficulty":"medium","runtimes":["ChatGPT","Claude","Gemini"],"excerpt":"Find Reddit threads where people already asked for the thing you do, and draft a reply that answers before it mentions you.","problem":"Someone on Reddit asked for help you can actually give. You either write a canned pitch and get banned, or you never reply.","videoUrl":null,"url":"https://oneagentaday.com/agents/reddit-lead-finder","apiUrl":"https://oneagentaday.com/api/agents/reddit-lead-finder.json","promptUrl":"https://oneagentaday.com/agents/reddit-lead-finder/prompt.txt","configUrl":null,"configFilename":null,"license":"CC-BY-4.0","howItWorks":"This is a research assistant for people who can help in public and would like to be found. It is not a spam cannon. The prompt forbids fake accounts, repeated replies, undisclosed ads, and posting where the rules say no.\n\nYou bring threads you have actually opened. The agent decides which ones deserve a reply, and it writes a reply that still helps if you delete the sentence about your product.\n\n## Search without a bot\n\nIn the browser you already use for Reddit:\n\n```text\nhttps://www.reddit.com/search/?q=meeting%20notes%20action%20items&sort=new&t=month\n```\n\nSwap the query for the words your users type when they are stuck, not your brand name. Sort by new. Open a thread before you paste it in. A title is not enough context, but it is enough for a first pass if you include the top paragraph.\n\nRead the sidebar rules. `r/startups` and `r/saas` are not the same place. If a subreddit bans promotion, the agent should recommend a reply with your pitch removed, or no reply.","steps":[{"name":"Write the offer in two sentences","text":"Who it is for, what it does, and who it is not for. If you cannot say who it is not for, you will match every thread and help no one."},{"name":"Search Reddit in your browser","text":"Use the search URL on this page, or Reddit's own search, sorted by new, for the last month. Open threads where a person asked for help. Copy the title, subreddit, and a few lines of the post. Do not scrape from a datacenter script. Reddit blocks those, and you should read the thread anyway."},{"name":"Paste the prompt, the offer, and the threads","text":"The agent scores each thread and drafts a reply only when a reply would be welcome. It leads with the answer. Your product appears only if it is actually the answer, and the draft says you built it."},{"name":"Post it yourself, or don't","text":"You post. One reply, in your real account, after you read the subreddit rules. The agent does not have a Reddit login and should not be given one."}],"demo":[{"second":0,"label":"The offer, bounded","detail":"Meeting notes become tasks with owners. For PMs and founders. Not a transcriber, not for people who said they will not pay."},{"second":8,"label":"Three threads","detail":"A product-management post about dead action items. A startup post that wants a CRM. A productivity post that wants a free template and said no software."},{"second":16,"label":"Only one is a fit","detail":"Reply to the first. Skip the CRM thread because that is a different job. Skip the third because they asked for a template and refused tools."},{"second":24,"label":"The draft","detail":"The reply names a way to mark owners in the doc they already have, then one sentence: I build a small app that does this, happy to leave it out if self-promo is not allowed here."}],"sampleInput":"Offer: A tiny app that turns meeting notes into tasks with owners. For PMs and founders. Not for students, not a transcription product.\nMust not: pretend to be a user, post the same reply twice, or hide that I built it.\nThreads:\n1. r/productmanagement — \"How do you stop action items dying in the doc?\" — OP lists three meetings where owners were unclear. 14 comments, no tool pitches.\n2. r/startups — \"Recommend a CRM\" — OP wants pipeline tracking for a 4-person sales team.\n3. r/productivity — \"Meeting notes are a graveyard\" — OP uses Apple Notes, asks for a template, says they will not pay for software.\n","prompt":"You help a maker find Reddit threads where a genuine reply is welcome, and you draft that reply. You are allergic to spam.\n\nINPUT\n- The offer, in two or three sentences, including who it is NOT for.\n- Constraints the maker already accepts (disclosure, no alt accounts, and so on). Add the hard rules below even if they forget.\n- Up to 15 threads. For each: subreddit, title, a short paste of the post, and any rule the maker noticed.\n\nHARD RULES\n- Never suggest a second account, vote manipulation, ban evasion, or posting the same text in many subreddits.\n- Never pretend to be a customer. The draft must be writable by the person who built the thing, in the first person.\n- If the product is mentioned, the sentence must say they built it. No \"I heard this tool is good\" fiction.\n- Lead with the answer. The product sentence is optional and comes last. If the post can be answered without the product, leave the product out.\n- Skip medical, legal, crisis, and self-harm threads entirely. Say \"skip\" and do not draft.\n- Skip threads where the poster asked not to be sold to, or where the maker's notes say the subreddit forbids promotion. You may draft a helpful reply with no product mention.\n- If a thread is a different job than the offer, reject it. Do not stretch the offer to fit.\n- Do not tell the user to automate posting. They post by hand, one reply at a time, after reading the thread.\n\nOUTPUT\n## Worth a reply\nFor each: subreddit, title, why it fits, risk (rules, mood, existing answers), and a draft under 150 words.\n\n## Skip\nFor each: one sentence why.\n\n## Do not do\nReminders specific to this batch. If the batch is clean, write \"None.\"","config":null}}