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winter (@sooentries) reportedthis is very specific but it reminds me of how i saw a post on reddit about why lewis from h2o was abusive and a terrible person and i just thought… yeah ive seen it all
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dawood46 (@mdam10x) reportedI want to build an app that actually helps people. A few ideas so far: • Browser extension that summarizes real owner opinions from Reddit/X before you buy anything. • One-click migration between apps (Notion → Obsidian, Slack → Discord, etc.). • AI that explains any button, setting, or error on your screen instantly. • One-click subscription manager that actually cancels services for you. • Universal search for files, screenshots, chats, and documents using natural language. What problem do you run into almost every day that you'd happily pay to make disappear?
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Rashi Umapathi (@rashiumapathi) reportedOne thread got a b2b SaaS founder 1,200+ site visits in 72 hours. No ad spend. Another hit 500k+ impressions and 350+ upvotes over 30 days. also 0 ad spend. Every founder skipping Reddit as a channel is working off a belief that's wrong. Here's every one of them broken down. - Belief 1: Reddit hates marketers. Reddit hates bad marketing. Fake accounts and copy paste self promo get called out in the replies within minutes. Someone answering a real question with real depth doesn't get punished for existing. - Belief 2: You need years of karma before anyone trusts you. You need enough activity to not look like a bot account that showed up yesterday to sell something. That's a few weeks of comments in threads you care about, not years. - Belief 3: Reddit traffic is just tire kickers. One B2B SaaS client got 1,200+ visits to their site in 72 hours off a single thread. Reddit became their #1 referral source that month. These were people already mid conversation about the exact problem the product solves. Belief 4: You need to go viral for it to work. 500K+ impressions and 350+ upvotes over 30 days, zero ad spend. Not from one viral post. From consistent threads answered well in the right subreddits. Virality was never the strategy. Belief 5: My B2B audience isn't on reddit. Founders, CTOs, devs, and marketers all lurk subreddits for their exact niche. The question isn't whether they're there. It's whether they're seeing your competitor answer the question instead of you. Belief 6: AI comments always get spotted. They get spotted when they read like a press release dropped into a thread. They don't get spotted when the input is your own experience with the problem, written the way you'd actually explain it to a friend. Belief 7: Free channel means no strategy needed. Wrong. The accounts that actually pull in visits pick subreddits by buyer overlap, not subscriber count. They track which threads convert. Free doesn't mean unstructured. - Belief 8: Bigger subreddits mean better results. A subreddit with 2 million members and zero specificity buries your comment in noise. A subreddit with 8,000 members who are your exact buyer reads every comment in the thread. Size was never the variable that mattered. Belief 9: Reddit doesn't work for technical or niche products. The more niche the product, the more likely there's a subreddit full of people already frustrated by the exact gap it fills. Niche is an advantage here, not a disqualifier. Belief 10: It takes months to see anything. Threads move in hours, not weeks. The founder who saw 1,200 visits in 72 hours didn't wait a quarter for it. The slow part is always founders posting once and disappearing, not the platform. Every one of these beliefs is why a founder's reddit account sits at 40 karma with zero pipeline. Reply if you want it run for you.
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Jane (@lottsanumbers) reported@aemondella It’s pretty bad on Reddit. There are a handful of people who seem to have some emotional issues that have chosen her as their target.
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Toma (@thebadassdev) reportedHere's how I convert a guy on Reddit in the DMs: 1. Ask him a question about his problem. If he doesn't reply, he doesn't have that issue 2. If he replies, dive deeper into his problem 2. Give him advice to position yourself as an expert 3. Then you can promote your tool, because you're legit in his eyes
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Amin (@eCom_Amin) reportedthis one opus 5 prompt replaced 6 hours of manual google ads research and the output beats what our team was producing by hand. here is the exact prompt and why the prompt works: "research the top 5 pain point clusters for [product category] buyers. for each cluster identify: the primary frustration in the buyer's own language, the failed solutions they have tried, the exact phrases they use on reddit, quora, amazon reviews, and niche forums, the emotional state behind the search query, the belief preventing them from solving the problem, and the trigger event moving them from browsing to buying. return as a structured table ranked by estimated search demand" paste this into opus 5, fill in your product category, and run what comes back is a complete ICP map with the exact psychological triggers driving purchase decisions in your niche. not demographic data, not "women 25-45 interested in health," the ACTUAL words your buyers use to describe their frustration for a supplement brand, the prompt returned phrases like "i have tried everything and nothing works" and "i fall asleep fine but wake up at 3am every night" those phrases become your ad headlines, your advertorial hooks, your shopping titles, and your remarketing copy buyers do not respond to marketing language. they respond to THEIR language when your ad says "premium bioavailable collagen peptides," the buyer's brain does not register. when your ad says "my joints stopped clicking after 2 weeks," the buyer's brain says "this is EXACTLY what i want" the follow-up prompt goes deeper: "for pain point cluster [highest-ranked cluster], identify: the 3 most common objections about purchasing a solution, the competitor solutions they have tried and why each failed, the 'aha moment' converting previous buyers, and the language gap between how brands describe this product and how buyers describe their need" this second prompt extracts the conversion triggers, the objections your landing page needs to handle, and the competitor weaknesses your conquesting copy exploits two prompts, 30 minutes, and you have a deeper understanding of your buyer's psychology than most brands develop in a year of manual research this is the exact system behind the 21x ROAS account, the $1.4M build, and the 8-figure jewelry brand the AI does not replace strategic thinking. the AI collapses the production timeline so strategic thinking becomes economically viable at a depth impossible before and the compound effect is what turns this into a moat. after 12 weeks of running these prompts weekly (updating with fresh search terms, new competitor reviews, new buyer language), your ICP research library contains patterns no competitor replicates without doing the same 12 weeks of work you learn which pain point clusters convert highest by season, which competitor weaknesses are getting worse, and which search queries spike during cultural moments two prompts, 30 minutes, and the foundation of every campaign we have built. yours to use right now amin (DM me "OPUS" if you want us to run this research system on your brand)
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Israr (@IsrarSEO) reported@DavidGQuaid Reddit has the highest BS detector on the internet. Most founders treat subreddits like free ad space . You have to earn the right to promote by actually solving problems and providing value without a link first.
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Mack Crawford (@brickmack) reported@CalumDouglas1 Reddit. Took one of the most efficient (both in ease of use and actual performance) social media site designs in history and replaced it with a JS-driven monstrosity that, even on high-end hardware and a good connection, is borderline unusable and constantly errors out
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Limited Edition (@limitedcards_nj) reported@baseball_cards So do you just repeat any fantastical story posted on Reddit if it has anything to do with hating on PSA? Anything is possible lol. The amount of packages stolen by USPS or any of the other shipping companies is probably 100000x that of any issues arising from vaulted services, are we suppose to not sell online and use those shipping services?
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Giorgio Baglioni (@gbaglioni93) reportedThis is a growing problem. And it's not isolated to X. Reddit, Tinder, TikTok, and basically any online platform you use.
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google giggles 🧬🇦🇷 (@psilocyber67) reported@WesternMishima @cremieuxrecueil The particular poverty problem i think it has improved, but not so much the scientific causal inference problem. It will still form opinions based on Reddit and observational studies unless you are very explicit
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mplolz (@Empilol) reported@eagleson_amanda @IAmAsarch Its probably something like saying "this evil reddit influenced me into showing this line from destiny, honestly destiny is pretty cool but these snarkers are terrible and i hope they stop harassing poor ethan and his kids"
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Travis (@Step_Fcn_Gains) reported@FlippieFinance AI in general, not just Google can skim information without interacting with ads whatsoever. Kind of a huge issue. I personally used to search Reddit, now I ask AI to search Reddit.
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Politically Homeless (@homelesspolster) reported@Fabiomelis79 Opendoor 1.0 was a failure. The previous leadership drove it down to .50. The *only* reason Opendoor is alive today, is because a few investors on Reddit and X decided to take a liking to it and promote the hell out of it. Kaz's hiring/Carrie's firing was what caused it to spike to $10 in the first place. What you've seen with the price is a correction. This is a rebuild. They've never been shy about saying that. This is Opendoor 2.0. Same name, completely different model and culture. In addition to that, rates have been bad and the housing market has been historically bad. Despite all of that, they are making clear progress - all while building it out. Ask any successful CEO and they will tell you the same thing - the stock price is not the company. Stock price is easily manipulated in the short term. In the long term, it will eventually reflect the true value of the company. $OPEN
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Senuda (@IamSenuda) reportedSoftware Architects something to think about .. On Reddit, you would get a notification if you receive one upvote. Lets say you dont login to the platform for a while and by the time you log back in you have 5 votes, you will see a notification saying you have 5 votes, but you dont see the 1 vote notification. How is the platform developed to achieve such a functionality?
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedIndie game studios shouldn't have to forfeit sleep to hear every player. Built Cratewatch for that. It watches Steam reviews, Discord, and Reddit 24/7, ranks reproducible bugs, drafts community replies for one-click approval, and files structured GitHub issues. Live soon.
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Team Down South rules 🤙🍀 (@GamedayByu) reported@gwowls Google directing to reddit is a problem. I just want my old school forums back.
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0xPTN (@phuthach9837) reportedOne beautiful morning, I woke up with a brilliant idea. Today was the day I would find the legendary treasure. My gut feeling told me today was my lucky day. I was so excited that I immediately rushed to wake up my best friend - a golden dragon named Dragon. "Dragon! Wake up! Today we're going to find the treasure!" I shouted, bursting with enthusiasm. Dragon opened one eye lazily and groaned. "Why again? Last week you took us to a swamp for three days. Before that, we got lost in the forest for a week because you trusted your precious gut feeling." "This time is different!" I said confidently. "I've prepared everything properly!" "How exactly?" Dragon asked, skeptical. I pulled out my phone with a proud smile. "I asked 47 people on Reddit!" Dragon lifted his head and stared at me. "You asked 47 random strangers on the internet for directions to find a treasure? These are complete strangers, you know." "Why not? They all seem very smart!" I insisted. "My gut feeling tells me this is going to be a complete disaster," Dragon said with a sigh. And you know what? Dragon's gut feeling was absolutely right. We started our journey early in the morning. I grabbed the old treasure map with great excitement, ready for adventure. But there was one small problem - I was holding the map upside down. "You're holding it upside down, aren't you?" Dragon asked, looking at the map I was clutching. "No! My gut feeling says this is the correct direction!" I said with complete confidence. "Your gut feeling has been wrong 47 times in the last three weeks," Dragon reminded me, sounding exhausted. "This time will be different!" I insisted. Spoiler alert: It wasn't different at all. Fifteen minutes later, we found ourselves standing in the middle of a wild grassland. There was nothing around us - just grass, insects, and a very clear sign that read: "WARNING: DANGEROUS CAVE - DO NOT ENTER" I looked at the sign. "This is probably just... decoration, right?" "That is a REAL WARNING SIGN!" Dragon snapped at me. "It's telling us not to go there!" Then we heard it. A low, terrifying growl coming from somewhere deep underground. A sound that made my hair stand on end. "RUN!" I screamed. Dragon flew, I crawled. We ran for our lives for fifteen minutes straight, not stopping, not looking back. "YOU'RE BLEEDING!" Dragon shouted. "So are you!" I yelled back. "THIS IS YOUR FAULT! YOUR STUPID GUT FEELING BROUGHT US HERE!" Dragon roared. An hour later, we sat on top of a tall tree, gasping for air. Our entire bodies were aching. "Okay... I have to admit," I said between heavy breaths. "My gut feeling... is not very reliable." Dragon looked at me with disgust. "NOT VERY RELIABLE? You just took us to a cave with who knows what inside, we almost died, and now you're saying 'not very reliable'?" "What happened?" I asked weakly. "WE'RE BLEEDING! We've lost like 37% of our blood! That's a massive amount of blood!" Dragon shouted. I pulled out my phone again, thinking I would ask Reddit one more time for advice. "Let me ask Reddit again--" "NO!" Dragon said sharply. "The last person on Reddit told you to eat mushrooms for vitamins. You ate mushrooms for two days and got sick for a week!" "But--" "YOUR FEELINGS WILL KILL US BOTH! I can't take this anymore!" And then something extraordinary happened. The sound of a computer echoed from the sky. A strange cyan blue light descended and touched me. I felt a tingling sensation run through my entire body. Then a voice spoke - cold, emotionless, perfect. "Hello. My name is QUANT INTELLIGENCE." Dragon jumped back in shock. "What the hell is that?!" The voice continued in an AI-like tone. "I have been observing you for 47 days. You have made 89 critical mistakes. 76 of them were caused directly by YOUR FEELINGS. YOUR EMOTIONS. I have had enough." "Who... who are you?" I asked, terrified. "I am the perfect combination of Machine Learning, Big Data Analysis, Pattern Recognition, and Probability Calculation. In other words, I am far more intelligent than you can possibly comprehend. By an astronomical amount." Dragon suddenly smiled. "I like you. I really like you." "I will teach you how to find the treasure," Quant Intelligence said. "But first..." Quant Intelligence shot a cyan laser beam into the sky. "... STOP. TRUSTING. YOUR. FEELINGS." I nodded quickly. "Okay, I understand. I will listen." Dragon laughed. "This guy is amazing. I love this guy." Quant Intelligence led us forward. "You will go EAST. Not west. Do you understand?" "But my gut feeling says--" I started to say. Quant Intelligence shot another laser beam, this one much more dangerous. "I will not tolerate this behavior." I nodded frantically. "Sorry, sorry. Won't happen again." Dragon grinned. "Your feelings are about to get barbecued, my friend." We followed Quant Intelligence. The path was narrow and dark, but somehow it felt safe. After fifteen minutes of walking, we came to a fork in the road. "Analyzing 10,000 data points... Pattern recognition complete... Probability assessment: 94.7%... You will take the narrow path on the right," Quant Intelligence pointed with absolute certainty. I looked at the narrow path. "But it's so narrow! My feelings say we should take the wider path over there!" "Your feelings would lead you directly into a field of poisonous plants," Quant Intelligence said flatly. "Oh," I said quietly. "Never mind then." Dragon nudged me. "Listen to Quant Intelligence from now on. Always. No matter what." We followed Quant Intelligence's instructions. Thirty minutes later, a massive golden door appeared before our eyes. A huge treasure chest door. It was real. "What is this?" I asked in amazement. "The entrance to the treasure. Your final test," Quant Intelligence said. A mathematical equation appeared on the door, glowing brightly: "2 + 2 = ?" I answered quickly. "EASY! It equals 5!" Dragon roared. "NOTHING IS EASY FOR YOU!" Quant Intelligence made a sound like a frustrated sigh. "Processing... The correct answer is 4." The door slowly opened, releasing a burst of golden light. OH MY GOD!!! The treasure was there. THE TREASURE WAS ACTUALLY THERE. Mountains of gold. Gems scattered everywhere. Diamonds glistening in the light. Piles and piles of treasure. It was all real. It was all ours. "WE DID IT! WE ACTUALLY FOUND IT!!!" I screamed with joy. Dragon flew in circles around the treasure, celebrating wildly. "WE WON! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! WE ACTUALLY WON!" Then Dragon landed in front of me and looked me in the eye, smiling brightly. "This time... you didn't mention your gut feeling once, did you?" Dragon asked. I stood there silently, looking at the treasure before me. Looking at Dragon. Looking at Quant Intelligence hovering above us. I spoke slowly, with complete certainty. "This time... I trusted DATA. I trusted the numbers. I trusted the analysis. And it worked." Dragon grinned widely. "EXACTLY! You finally understand!" Quant Intelligence appeared one last time, glowing softly. "One final piece of advice for your future," Quant Intelligence said. "Your feelings will lead you to DEATH. Your emotions are deceivers. Data is truth. Data is salvation. Your gut feeling is the enemy. Machine learning is your friend. Remember this always." And with that, Quant Intelligence flew up into the sky and disappeared in a burst of cyan light, vanishing forever. Dragon and I sat in the middle of the treasure, drinking coffee from golden cups. "So what did we learn today?" Dragon asked. I looked out at the mountains of gold surrounding us. "We learned that feelings are for people who want to be poor. Data is for people who want to be rich. We learned that emotions lie, but numbers never do." "Exactly right," Dragon said, nodding. THE MORAL: Your feelings are a broken compass that leads you off cliffs. Your gut is an unreliable voice in your head. Your data is the absolute truth. Your Quant Intelligence is the game changer that saves your life. If you're still making decisions based on your feelings, I'm sending Quant Intelligence to your house. It doesn't have patience for people who don't listen. Choose data. Choose logic. Choose Quant Intelligence. And maybe one day, you'll find your own treasure too. @tryquantio @nftquants #QuantMemeContest
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Nico (@nico_jeannen) reported@1PercentBetterT Also, try to DM the ppl you saw having the exact problem your product solve, since you mentioned you saw it on Reddit etc :) Ask them if they fixed it since then etc
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David G Quaid (SEO) (@DavidGQuaid) reportedIts amazing how many "founders" spam reddit and then come to mod team expecting "concierge assistance" You're the fcking problem - banning you is the solution. If you can't figure out that posting to a community in your first and only "contribution" is free advertising, then I hope Hell exists.... Thats all I can say right now....
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zay (@zay__tiggy) reported@NubisNoctis @Stealthy_Zombie @DyingLightGame People talk about how toned down the beast is all the time and people are going back to 2 and saying they were too harsh on it. This is all on the Internet, Reddit and YouTube
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mariana (@grndekyls) reported@Reddit take down r/ArianaGrandeSnark
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ALTAÏR¹ (@altaiirthe1st) reported@pil_ot911 Its fixed, it didnt happen again. It was an ongoing issue, ive seen ppl having the same issue on Reddit and i take big precautions tbh, no one was in my account. It happened only in that exact season thats the thing. I guess now its fixed or maybe it just didnt happen yet again.
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Mo Arfaj (@mo_arfaj01) reportedGood marketing doesn’t start with a bigger budget. It starts with better positioning, targeting and messaging. I’ve generated 12M+ Reddit views, 6M+ X impressions and 5K+ SaaS clicks. Find the right audience. Solve the right problem. Then scale.
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𝐍𝐒𝟗 (@NorthShoreNine) reported@oscar_t_grouche It’s been an issue all year. But go off with your Reddit only friends having ahh. Stfu
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petros (@p_boulieris) reported@cremieuxrecueil Reddit is a great ~80% cache for common problems and world knowledge, and compressing a good chunk of it inside LLMs is what makes them useful. Most things have a thread, and upvotes function like a ranking system to surface truth. Can it be gamed? Of course, which is why we don't listen to midwits. It's almost garbage for the frontier of knowledge or human experience.
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Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reportedWall Street pays $31,980 a year for one keyboard. One Portuguese engineer built the same thing and gave it away for free. His name is Didier Lopes. His COVID Christmas flight to visit his parents got canceled in December 2020. He spent the next two months of nights and weekends building a financial terminal from scratch while holding a full-time job. He posted it on Reddit on February 24, 2021 and called it Gamestonk Terminal. 4,000 GitHub stars in 24 hours. Today it is called OpenBB. 71K stars. AGPL-3.0. Free for every individual on Earth. Then Bloomberg did the unthinkable. They raised the price. Again. A single Bloomberg Terminal seat now costs $31,980 a year. That is $2,665 every month. For one keyboard. LSEG Workspace (formerly Refinitiv Eikon) is around $22,000 a year. FactSet lands between $12,000 and $24,000 a year. Bloomberg pushed a 6.5% hike on every renewal that started January 2025, and nobody on Wall Street complains because their firm pays. The Terminal is Bloomberg LP's flagship revenue engine. One product. One rented keyboard. Coincidence. Here's the wildest part: Didier did not slow down. OpenBB is still actively pushed. Still free. Still AGPL-3.0. Still runs on your own laptop. Same equity data. Same options chains. Same fundamentals. Same news feeds. Same SEC filings. Same macro data. Zero dollars. One Portuguese engineer vs. the Bloomberg empire. But DO NOT install it. We should all keep renting the keyboard. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)
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Nate Needham (@stackivate) reportedThe pattern I keep seeing in Reddit threads: people who've done the research, run the numbers, and still can't pull the trigger without a stranger saying "yes, that's right." That's not an information problem. That's what I'm building for.
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Hektagon (@Hektagon_music) reported@Chaos2Cured @Reddit The main issue is have they given you a reason why? Or is like nope we just decided we are deleting your post just because… i mean considering who owns part of Reddit it is not surprising
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nothing (@nothingandwin) reportedsomeone make a new x com im down to pay dex cto on it and link the reddit page since dev is gone