Every 2 hours
Draft helpful replies to Reddit posts
You get draft comments for fresh posts on your topic, and your product is only mentioned where it fits.
- Runs
- Every 2 hours
- Apps
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- read, submit
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 2 hours, find new Reddit posts about 'cold email tools', draft a helpful reply that mentions my product only if it's relevant, and email me the drafts with links to each post.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Founders and community managers know that a helpful comment on a Reddit thread where someone asks for advice can bring in real users, but finding those threads takes hours of scrolling. Posting low-effort replies is worse, since subreddits quickly spot promotion. Most people give up, and the conversations about their topic carry on without them.
Every two hours, ClickRuntime searches for fresh posts matching your topic, skips any it has already seen, and uses built-in AI to draft a useful, non-salesy reply for each one. It emails you the drafts with links, and nothing goes on Reddit until you have read, edited and approved it yourself.
It is designed for people who want to take part in communities honestly and need help finding the right moment and a starting draft.
What you get out of it
Good threads are found for you
The search runs all day, so a question posted at 2am is waiting with a draft by morning. You answer while the thread is fresh, which is when replies get read.
You decide what gets posted
Every reply is a draft sent to your inbox, not a comment on your account. Subreddits punish spam, so keeping a human in the loop protects your account and your reputation.
Starting from a draft saves real time
Writing a thoughtful reply from nothing takes ten minutes. Editing a decent draft takes two, so you can respond to five threads instead of one in the same time. The saved minutes let you take part in more conversations.
Community presence builds slowly and lasts
Helpful answers stay visible and keep bringing traffic long after they are posted. A steady habit of contributing builds recognition that no ad can buy. Old threads keep sending visitors for months.
Posts you have seen are not repeated
The same thread never appears twice in your inbox. Your attention goes to new conversations, and the drafts stay manageable even on busy days. Your inbox stays useful instead of filling with duplicates.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every 2 hours, ClickRuntime searches Reddit for new posts that match your keywords.
Posts it has already looked at are skipped.
AI writes a genuinely helpful reply for each relevant post.
The drafts are emailed to you with links to the posts, so you can review them and post the ones you like.
Before it runs live
- Connect Reddit
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Reddit steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, state, notify, http, credentials, ai
PRODUCT = "Brightloom, a cold email tool that warms up inboxes and schedules sequences"
@on_trigger
def run(event):
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("reddit", "main"), "User-Agent": "clickruntime-replies/1.0"}
seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
posts = [c["data"] for c in http.get("https://oauth.reddit.com/search", headers=headers,
params={"q": '"cold email tools"', "sort": "new", "t": "day", "limit": 25}).json()["data"]["children"]]
new = [p for p in posts if p["id"] not in seen]
report_fetched(len(new))
if not new:
return {"summary": "No new posts"}
drafts = []
for p in new:
reply = ai.generate(
f"Draft a helpful Reddit reply to this post. Mention {PRODUCT} only if it genuinely fits.\n\n"
f"{p['title']}\n{p['selftext'][:1500]}",
max_output_tokens=250,
).text.strip()
drafts.append(f"{p['title']}\nhttps://reddit.com{p['permalink']}\n\n{reply}")
seen.add(p["id"])
state.set("seen", list(seen)[-1000:])
notify.email_me(f"{len(drafts)} Reddit reply drafts", "\n\n---\n\n".join(drafts))
return {"drafts": len(drafts)}FAQ
Common questions
Will the drafts mention my product?
How does it choose which posts to reply to?
Does it post on my behalf automatically?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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