Every 30 minutes

Get Slack alerts for Reddit brand mentions

New posts naming your product reach Slack within half an hour.

Runs: Every 30 minutes
Apps: Reddit
AI: Not needed
Access: read

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 30 minutes, search Reddit for 'Brightloom' and post any new matches to #brand in Slack with the subreddit and link.

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

People talk about your product on Reddit whether you are watching or not: a user praising a feature, someone comparing you with a competitor, a customer venting about a bug in r/webdev. If you only find out weeks later through a referral spike or a screenshot, you have missed the chance to thank, correct or help in the conversation itself.

Every 30 minutes, ClickRuntime searches Reddit for your product name or brand keywords, sorted by newest. It remembers the posts it has already reported and posts only new ones to your chosen channel, with the title, subreddit and link. A quiet half hour sends nothing.

Founders, support leads and community managers who want to respond quickly to public feedback find it especially useful, particularly after a launch or an outage.

What you get out of it

Public complaints get answered fast
A user describing a problem in a thread gets a reply from a company representative within the hour. That reply is visible to every later reader and often turns a complaint into praise.
Praise can be amplified
A glowing comment about your product is worth thanking and sharing. Catching it quickly means you can engage while the thread is active and gather quotes for your own marketing.
Misinformation is corrected early
A wrong claim about pricing or security spreads through comments quickly. Seeing the thread soon after it starts lets you add a short factual correction before others repeat it. A calm, factual reply from the maker carries weight with readers.
Competitor comparisons are visible
Threads where people weigh you against alternatives show why they choose one or the other. Reading them regularly teaches you what to emphasize and what to fix. Those threads are free market research that arrives on its own.
Launch days become manageable
After a Product Hunt or Hacker News launch, mentions appear in many places at once. A single stream of new Reddit posts keeps you on top of one of the busiest sources without refreshing search pages.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every 30 minutes, ClickRuntime searches Reddit for the newest posts that mention your brand or keywords.
Posts it has already alerted you about are skipped.
Each new mention is posted to your Slack channel with the subreddit, the post title and a link.

Before it runs live

Connect Reddit

What you get

RunsEvery 30 minutes

Get Slack alerts for Reddit brand mentionstoday, 9:00Succeeded

Slack · #brandr/coldemail: Brightloom vs doing warm-up by hand? https://reddit.com/r/coldemail/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
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
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.

keyword_brand_mention_alert.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, report_fetched, state, notify, http, credentials

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("reddit", "main"), "User-Agent": "clickruntime-brand/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": "Brightloom", "sort": "new", "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 mentions"}
    for p in reversed(new):
        notify.slack(f"r/{p['subreddit']}: {p['title']}\nhttps://reddit.com{p['permalink']}", channel="#brand")
        seen.add(p["id"])
    state.set("seen", list(seen)[-1000:])
    return {"posted": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

Will it catch mentions of my product in comments as well as posts?

Reddit search covers posts, and comment search is more limited. This alert looks for new posts that mention your keyword. If comments are important to you, comment-level searching can be added, though Reddit may return less complete results for it.

How do I avoid false matches for a common word?

Use a distinctive phrase such as your full product name or a quoted combination, and exclude words that cause noise. For a brand called Spark, searching Spark app or Spark email avoids matching every post about electricity or fireworks.

How quickly will I see a new mention?

Within about 30 minutes of the post appearing, since that is how often Reddit is searched. For most brand monitoring that is fast enough. If you need near-immediate alerts during a launch, the interval can be shortened temporarily.

What permissions does it need?

read. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's 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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