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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.

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Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
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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.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.

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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

  1. Every hour, ClickRuntime checks your chosen subreddits for new posts.

  2. Posts it has already looked at are skipped.

  3. AI reads each new post, scores how well it fits what you sell from 1 to 10, and writes one line on why.

  4. 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

RunsHourly
Find Reddit posts asking for what you selltoday, 9:00Succeeded
Email · 2 Reddit leads[8] How do you all chase late-paying clients? Freelance designer manually tracking invoices in a spreadsheet https://reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/1g...

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.
  • 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

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
find_leads_asking_for_a_product_like_mine.pyexample
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?
It reads the post title and body against a description of your product and ideal customer, then returns a score and the reason. The better your description, the better the match, so it helps to include who you serve and what you do not do.
Do I need to list specific subreddits?
You can choose subreddits, search by keyword across all of Reddit, or both. Specific subreddits give more relevant results, while a site-wide keyword search catches posts in communities you would not think of. Many people start with five or six subreddits.
Will it reply to the posts for me?
No, it only emails you the matches with links. Replying yourself keeps the tone human and avoids breaking subreddit rules about self-promotion. A common approach is to answer the question first and mention your product only if it truly fits.
What permissions does it need?
read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
Yes. It uses ClickRuntime's built-in AI, so you don't need an OpenAI or Anthropic key. Every plan includes a monthly AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it checks. Checks that find nothing new and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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