IntentOwl reads those communities all day, judges every post against what you actually sell, and sends you one ranked email at 7am. You write the reply.
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Inbox · 07:00 · IntentOwl daily digest
Tuesday, from 3,140 posts read across three communities in the last 24 hours.
Buying intent · 2 of 11
Ask HN: I spend two hours a day scrolling forums looking for people with the problem we fix. Better way?
Describes your exact workflow as a chore and is openly asking the room for an alternative.
Angle: Acknowledge the two hours before mentioning you built anything. Lead with how you would triage it by hand — the tool is the shortcut, not the answer.
Anyone moved off a keyword-alert setup? Mine fires forty times a day and I have started ignoring it.
Actively unhappy with the category you replace, and already past the point of tolerating it.
Angle: Agree that volume is the failure, not coverage. Ask what fraction of the forty were worth opening — the number makes your case for you.
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How it works
Setup takes about three minutes. After that the only thing you do is read an email and decide who is worth talking to.
Your product, who it is for, your competitors, and who is definitely not a customer. One paragraph each. This is the part that makes the results yours instead of generic.
Every ten to twenty minutes, across every source. A cheap keyword pass throws out the obvious noise, then Claude reads what survives against your description — not against a keyword list.
Ranked, grouped, fifteen at most. Each lead carries the post, why it matters to you specifically, and an angle to reply from. Nothing is ever auto-posted.
Why it finds things alerts miss
“Spent the weekend writing a script to ping our API every five minutes. There has to be a better way?”
“How did you all find your first customers?” never mentions your category, so no alert tool will ever show it to you. It is also the single best thread you could reply to this week.
Sorted by how close the person is to buying, then grouped by whether they are shopping, unhappy with a competitor, or just describing the pain. A digest you cannot finish is a digest you stop opening.
If nothing good turned up, the email tells you that in one line. Padding a slow morning with filler is the fastest way to teach you to ignore the thing you paid for.
Pricing
Starter watches one thing for you. Pro watches up to three at once. Either way, the first week is on us.
$15/month
$39/month
Free for 7 days, then billed. A card is required to start; cancel before day 7 and you are never charged.
Questions
A keyword alert finds the word. This finds the situation. Someone writing “how did you all find your first customers?” never mentions your category — but they are describing exactly the problem you solve, and a keyword tool will never surface that post.
No, and it never will. IntentOwl drafts an angle; you write and send the reply yourself. Auto-posting is an instant ban on most platforms and a trust-destroyer everywhere else.
You get an email saying so. A quiet day is real information, and a digest that pads itself with filler is worse than one that admits it found little.
Between zero and fifteen a day, depending on how broad your space is. If you are consistently seeing zero after a week the watch is wrong, and I will fix it by hand — that is what the concierge setup is for.
Hacker News, Lobsters, Stack Exchange, Bluesky, and any site with an RSS feed. Reddit is pending API approval. If there is a forum your customers live in that has a feed, it works today — and if it does not, adding it is usually a same-week job.
How many searches run at once. A search is one set of terms and places to watch. Starter runs one, and you can rewrite it whenever you change direction. Pro runs up to three side by side — a second product, a different audience, or a competitor's unhappy customers.
Your first 7 days are free. Checkout takes a card so there is nothing to re-enter if you stay, but nothing is charged until day 8 — cancel before then and you pay nothing.
Any time, from the link at the bottom of any digest. Monthly is monthly; cancel mid-month and the digest keeps coming until the period you paid for ends.
Nothing is ever posted on your behalf. You write every reply.