Hourly
Find Reddit posts asking for what you sell
Each hour you get the new posts from people who need a product like yours, with the reason they matched.
- Runs
- Hourly
- Apps
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- read
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Create a ClickRuntime automation: every hour, check new posts in r/smallbusiness and r/Entrepreneur, score whether the person needs an invoicing tool for freelancers, and email me the posts scoring 7 or higher with a one-line reason.
First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.
Why use it
Why teams use this automation
Every day someone posts in r/smallbusiness, r/SaaS or a niche subreddit asking for a tool that does exactly what you sell: a scheduling app for dog groomers, a cheaper alternative to a CRM, a way to automate invoices. Those posts are warm leads in public, but they sink down the page within hours and nobody on your team has time to search for them by hand every day.
Every hour, ClickRuntime pulls new posts from the subreddits you chose or from a keyword search, skips any it has already seen, and uses built-in AI to judge how well each post fits your product, giving a short score and a one-line reason. It emails you only the posts that look like a real match.
Solo founders and small sales teams with no budget for paid lead tools will find it the most valuable, since it turns free public conversations into a daily shortlist.
What you get out of it
Buyers are found at the moment they ask
Someone asking for a recommendation today is comparing options now. Replying within hours, while the thread is active, puts you in their shortlist before competitors have even seen the post.
The fit score saves you from noise
Most keyword matches are irrelevant. A score with a short reason lets you ignore the weak ones in a second and spend your attention on the two or three that really describe your customer.
Outbound without cold emails
These people raised their hand themselves. A helpful, honest reply in a thread is received far better than a cold message to a stranger, and costs you nothing but a few minutes.
You learn how customers describe the problem
Reading real posts shows the words people use for their pain. That language improves your website copy, ad text and sales calls, because it comes from buyers, not from your own assumptions.
No daily searching ritual
Searching Reddit by hand is a task that gets dropped after a week. An hourly check keeps going on holidays and busy days, so your pipeline of conversations does not depend on discipline.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every hour, ClickRuntime checks your chosen subreddits for new posts.
Posts it has already looked at are skipped.
AI reads each new post, scores how well it fits what you sell from 1 to 10, and writes one line on why.
Good matches are emailed to you with their score, the reason and a link to the post.
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
SUBS = "smallbusiness+Entrepreneur"
@on_trigger
def run(event):
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("reddit", "main"), "User-Agent": "clickruntime-leads/1.0"}
seen = set(state.get("seen") or [])
posts = [c["data"] for c in http.get(f"https://oauth.reddit.com/r/{SUBS}/new", headers=headers, params={"limit": 50}).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"}
matches = []
for p in new:
result = ai.generate(
"Score 0-10 how likely this person needs an invoicing tool for freelancers, then give a one-line reason.\n\n"
f"{p['title']}\n{p['selftext'][:1500]}",
json_schema={"type": "object", "properties": {"score": {"type": "integer"}, "reason": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["score", "reason"]},
max_output_tokens=80,
).json
if result["score"] >= 7:
matches.append(f"[{result['score']}] {p['title']}\n{result['reason']}\nhttps://reddit.com{p['permalink']}")
seen.add(p["id"])
state.set("seen", list(seen)[-1000:])
if matches:
notify.email_me(f"{len(matches)} Reddit leads", "\n\n".join(matches))
return {"checked": len(new), "leads": len(matches)}FAQ
Common questions
How does the AI decide whether a post fits my product?
Do I need to list specific subreddits?
Will it reply to the posts for me?
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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