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Most Reported Problems
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- Website Down (56%)
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Reddit Issues Reports
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Matt Teixeira (@matt_teeixeira) reported@levelsio You were still just consuming the content anyway - AI or Google. Reddit doesn’t have less human content in absolute terms. Just in relatives - still a problem.
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borhen saidi (@borrhensaidi) reportedMost SaaS founders don't have a product problem. They have a distribution problem. You spend months building. Then launch. 5 upvotes. 2 signups. Silence. The founders who win aren't always building better products. They're talking to customers every day. Posting on X. Answering questions on Reddit. Writing content. Collecting backlinks. Showing up in AI search. The internet rewards people who are visible. Not just people who ship. What's your biggest source of customers today?
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LifeClicks 💻 (@lifeClicks25) reportedWhy it matters: LLMs treat everything as tokens. No clean data/code boundary like SQL. Real incidents (2024-2025): Zero-click email exfil in Copilot MCP tool poisoning GitHub issues hijacking agents AI browsers exfiltrating via Reddit spoilers
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mona (@Hereward99) reported@Retqoyo @kauljade And honestly maybe that was part of the problem. I mostly selected my next book based on Amazon's "customers also liked" for books that I liked. I guess that algorithm did not throw many female authors my way. Now I mostly go off award nominees and reddit recs
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Kimchi (@Serving_ahh) reported@SiennaMSnow @kubrickmagic @Fleyta_Fley I already was banned on reddit and their discord server for speaking up, I just want to alarm you that it happened but cannot say more, I would really like to but not today
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Based Orange Man (@Based0rangeMan) reported@DelusionPosting The down votes on the objectively correct comment is peak reddit
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Deanosim (@Deanosim) reportedI don't know why so many people on reddit are so happy to dismiss the Age Verification problem and say it's just because of the Australian or UK government, but they don't seem to realise it's expanding and rolling out to more and more countries, Theirs already US states 1/4
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Liam (@saasliam) reportedAfter publishing 500+ Reddit posts and comments for dozens of clients in the last 12 months for AI search, we noticed something odd: the comments ChatGPT cites are usually the ones buried halfway down the thread. (btw, just finished our off-page playbook - lmk if you'd like to preview it) So there's a pattern to which Reddit content LLMs trust, and thankfully it doesn't seem to be correlated with who buys the most upvotes Here's the framework we're using: (1) Find where models are already looking Two primary ways to do this: 1. (Preferred) find the Reddit threads being cited across relevant prompts in your AI visibility tracker 2. Search "[keyword] reddit" on Google and note which threads come up. It's not bulletproof but it's a good start The sweet spot is ICP-rich subreddits where your buyers actually discuss their problems. r/SaaS, r/Entrepreneur and r/startups are the obvious ones. The gold is in the niche ones. The more specific, the better because that's the content that will capture query fan-outs. (2) Understand what models actually extract Content quality seems to beat engagement metrics every time. I've often found a cited comment 50-60% of the way down a thread with 2 upvotes. Not exactly prime real estate. What models do seem to reward is entity-rich content, in other words content that associates "things" with your company: - specific tools and competitors - integrations - product differentiators - concrete use cases - firmographics When someone queries ChatGPT they front-load a load of context ("i'm an SaaS founder, we have 5 employees, based in the USA, struggling with manual expense tracking"). The model turns that into sub-query variations and goes looking. Your content needs to answer the long tail rather than the head term. That's the science of Reddit marketing. (this aligns with our research where we analysed 2M AI citations and found prompt-content alignment to have a standardised effect 3x more than the next tactic) There's also the art: (3) Navigate the Reddit culture without getting publicly humiliated Reddit isn't LinkedIn, you can't blatantly self-promote and expect it to work The frame we use is problem to solution, with your product as maybe 10% of the answer. Share expertise, answer the actual question, and if your company genuinely helps then mention it as one option among several with a fairly neutral take. We rarely post links unless it's a deliberate campaign to signpost a specific feature. -- These comments often rank on Google too so one good answer keeps working across both surfaces for months. Reddit is still the most underrated B2B channel i know of because it influences the LLMs that many buyers are using to consume information and research vendors. -- If you'd like to preview that off-page playbook for AI search, lmk and i'll send it over
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴏɴ. (@LUN4RH3X) reported@BLAZEB0RN // reddit is terrible
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ecomchigga (@ecomchigga) reportedhow to go from nothing to your first online sale in one weekend. no product yet. no audience. no money upfront. the full 48-hour playbook. saturday morning: open reddit. pick any niche you're even slightly curious about. go to the subreddit and search "how do i" and "struggling with." you're looking for the same question being asked by different people in different words. a complaint post with 200+ upvotes means thousands of people felt the same frustration and didn't type it out. you don't need to be an expert. you need to find the question nobody answered well yet. spend 45 minutes on this. pick the one problem with the most people asking and the fewest good answers available. saturday afternoon: open google docs. write the complete answer to that one problem like a long text to a friend who genuinely needs help. no formatting. no design. no headers. just the full solution with screenshots where a step needs visual proof. 11 to 22 pages. short enough to finish in one sitting. detailed enough that the reader doesn't need to google anything afterward. if you need to research, pull from the reddit threads themselves. the best answers are already sitting in the comments with upvotes proving they work. your job is organizing scattered knowledge into one clean walkthrough that doesn't exist anywhere else as a single document. saturday evening: export as PDF. open canva. free template. make a cover. 8 minutes. upload the PDF to gumroad. free account, they don't charge until your first sale, then 10% per transaction. write a title that describes the outcome, not the file. "the 2-week leash reset method" sells. "dog training guide v2" sits there forever. price it at $39. under $34 buyers assume it's worthless. over $50 they start comparing alternatives. $39 is the impulse zone where people purchase without overthinking it. create a free telegram group. pull 2 pages from the guide as a free preview. pin the preview at the top. pin the $39 product directly below it. this room is your entire sales infrastructure from now on. sunday morning: create a faceless twitter account. canva logo. one-line bio: who you help and the specific result. profile link goes to the telegram. not the product page. not a linktree. the telegram. find 10 accounts in your niche between 10K and 50K followers. screenshot their 15-20 best performing tweets. study the hooks. study the structures. you're not copying topics. you're learning what shapes travel in your corner of the platform. write your first 3 tweets about the problem your product solves. use the hooks you just studied as blueprints. post the first one. reply to everyone who engages within 30 minutes. sunday afternoon: post your first CTA. the first 80% is pure value about the problem your product solves, dense enough to bookmark without the ask. then: "i wrote the complete solution. [page count]. $39. comment [WORD] and i'll send you the link." drop the gumroad link in the first reply to your own tweet. never in the main post. the reply. sunday evening: check gumroad. the product was built in one afternoon. the account was set up in one morning. the first CTA went live 6 hours ago. the telegram room exists. the funnel is connected. every piece of the machine is live and running before monday. most people will spend the next 4 months planning a launch that gets fewer sales than this weekend produces. the difference is this one already exists by sunday night and everything from here is just doing it again.
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N E R V (@nervthunder) reported@Dexerto Kurzgesagt is low class nihilistic millennial reddit slop so I don't see the problem here
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Phasmid ASMR / VA / VT (@PhasmidASMR) reported@NotaCanus i absolutely ******* despise reddit mods. it doesn't surprise me that this would be a problem
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Cipherine (@GoonshinGrind) reportedregardless of reasoning, the post neither breaks TOS nor reddit rules so should not have been unapproved by the mods, I really don't know why a mod effectively took it down but it follows the rules so it shouldn't have been
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summer orion ‼️ (@summerthelesb) reported@BadGuitarGirl Reddit that’s the problem
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Christopher Birnbaum - Story Artist (@ScribbleAddict) reported@9RJP6 X seems like it's acting strange today. I got logged out randomly and had to pass a security test. Another friend had a similar problem. Then it showed my account following no one, which isn't true. Reddit randomly logged me out too. I assume this will has to do with AI.
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Qrows_Bones (@QrowsBones) reportedThere’s literally a @ColdOnes clip of this exact interaction. Down to Tom saying an equivalent to Chad’s “the Reddit will hear about this”
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Cat - 📺🦋📱 (@hellcatcute) reported@Msj07judith I was looking for a Val poster (the no consent? no problem) and I found a reddit post about Valentino being a complex character and it healed me. and ppl were talking about the fandom being ****** on twitter lol
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PoleStarRider (@juancarlolupat1) reported@Aiden58192024 I’m on Reddit for the first time in years going down the rabbit hole. The usual suspects are still trying to make excuses. Gutfeld summed it up nicely earlier. He was their creation.
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Shady (@shadymd_eth) reported@rasmr_eth Full port into this narrative ttps://x.com/i/status/2085494579655270803 Have you seen this story, guys wife left him, moves his kids to a new apartment, 2 days later it burnt down, lost everything He posted on Reddit about it looking for help, got 70k upvotes in a day, got onboarded into crypto and has been getting fees. Guess what he did, he helped his community He’s got a news panel on multiple broadcast stations on Monday, the story keeps growing 9uNefL6BciwknzLCkJ8BbXyf6CEuhrYeF7biyngHpump Insane narrative and chance to actually do some good
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Honey Syed (@honeydreamss) reported“I spend five hours a week just making mockups.” An Etsy seller wrote that on Reddit. To most people, it’s just someone venting. But that one complaint could give the right business a content idea, a search term, and maybe even a product to build. Bulk Mockup sells a Photoshop plugin that batch-creates product mockups for Etsy and print-on-demand sellers. Look at the questions its content answers: What is the best Photoshop plugin for Etsy mockups? How do you create mockups in bulk? How can you make listing images faster? These are basically the same questions Etsy sellers ask every day in places like r/Etsy and r/EtsySellers. An Etsy seller doesn’t wake up wanting “a streamlined visual asset creation workflow.” They want to stop spending five bloody hours swapping images into mockups. So they search: How to create Etsy mockups faster That search didn’t begin inside a keyword tool. It began as a complaint. And your buyers are posting complaints like these publicly every day. You just need to know where they gather. Every niche has a few places where people repeatedly describe what they can’t figure out, what takes too long, what they’ve already tried, and what they wish existed. Search for phrases like: “How do I…” “Is there a tool…” “I’m struggling with…” Then ignore the temptation to chase only the most upvoted posts. You’re looking for repetition. One person complaining might be having a bad Tuesday. Ten people asking versions of the same question is a content opportunity. Thirty people asking it may be a product opportunity. Save the exact wording. After a couple of hours, you’ll usually see the same problems clustering together. Those clusters become your content pillars. The complaint gives you the language. Google tells you whether there’s an opportunity. Take the complaint, turn it into the obvious Google search, and see what already ranks. If the results are vague, outdated, or clearly written by someone who’s never had the problem, there may be an opening. Then go back and answer the person who gave you the idea. Give them a genuinely useful response. Explain the options, the tradeoffs, and what you’d do in their situation. Don’t sprint into the comments waving a link around. Some subreddits allow transparent self-promotion. Others will boot you into the sun for it. Be useful first. Then take what you learned from the discussion and turn it into something you own. You’ve already seen the failed attempts, objections, edge cases, and language real buyers use. So your content can be far more specific than another generic “10 Tips for Better Mockups” article written from a keyword brief. Do this once a week. After six months, you have 24 pieces of content based on problems buyers have already proven they care about. Some will rank. Some will get shared. And a few may reveal products worth building. All because you paid attention when someone complained on Reddit.
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🌈Dream Juice🦄🌈 (@s_takme) reportedAfter spending last night on Reddit I found a solution. Generate handoff blocks and start new chats as often as possible. 1 task per chat. Now this would be a problem for complex 3D models cause we’d lose all context and start retraining the chat, but I keep a manifest.
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ecomchigga (@ecomchigga) reported7 digital products people are selling right now on X that you could build in a weekend: 1. AI UGC agency startup kit the "how do i start an AI UGC agency" question floods X and reddit weekly. a PDF covering which AI tools replace a $500/video creator, how to land your first 3 clients through cold DM, and a portfolio template using AI-generated samples. $37. the entire buyer pool is already scrolling X looking for exactly this. 2. cold email system for freelancers "how do i get clients without posting content every day" is one of the most common complaints from designers, developers, and copywriters on X. a google doc with 12 proven cold email templates, a lead-finding walkthrough using apollo or instantly, and a follow-up sequence that converts at 3-4%. $29. distribute by answering freelancer questions on X. they're everywhere. 3. AI chatbot agency starter pack "i'll build you a custom AI chatbot" is the new agency pitch flooding X right now. a done-for-you client proposal template, a walkthrough for building simple chatbots with no-code tools, 3 case study frameworks to fake-proof your first portfolio, and a pricing guide for charging $1,500-3,000 per bot. $36. every AI account between 300 and 8K followers pitching this service is winging it without templates. 4. micro-SaaS launch playbook build-in-public accounts are one of the fastest growing segments on X. a 19-page guide covering how to validate a SaaS idea in 48 hours, set up a waitlist with carrd, run a $0 launch through X posts, and convert free users to paid. $41. distribute by engaging with the build-in-public crowd. they repost playbooks religiously. 5. AI automation service template pack "i'll automate your business with AI" is the new SMMA pitch. a done-for-you proposal template, 3 case study frameworks, a pricing calculator for automation services, and a client onboarding doc. $33. every AI account on X with 500-5K followers selling services needs this and most are winging it with blank google docs. 6. SMMA client acquisition system SMMA isn't dead. the discovery channel just shifted from cold calling to X and cold DM. a step-by-step for building an X presence that attracts local business owners, a DM script pack, a results reporting template, and a pricing framework for retainers. $38. the SMMA niche on X is massive and starving for systems that aren't $997 courses. 7. newsletter monetization blueprint "i have 2,000 subscribers and no idea how to make money from this" is posted weekly. a guide covering sponsorship outreach templates, how to price ad slots based on open rate, a media kit template, and how to build a paid tier without losing free readers. $31. X is where every newsletter operator already hangs out. every product on this list solves a problem that someone on X is complaining about today. the buyer is already on the platform. the distribution is free. the product takes a weekend to build. the only thing separating the person reading this from the person selling one of these is a google doc and an afternoon.
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Syeklops (@Syeklops) reportedI have a major problem with packaging, and struggle to make good thumbnails and titles. I've tried turning to reddit posts but those guys reply in snarky attitudes and are just overall *****, so i'd figure id try to reach out to a good youtuber instead lmfao
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Soma「☾」 (Games on Youtube, etc.) (@ProgLJS) reported@Jehuttyy First issue here was Reddit
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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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Alex Boge (@alexboge) reported@Jenninkphx @TIME I’m not attacking you personally. I’m simply telling you that you’re talking to someone who has spent about 45 years following this subject. I’ve read the books, watched the documentaries, followed the alleged whistleblowers, dug through the FOIA releases, listened to the interviews, read the legal filings, studied the physics, and I understand the classification system and constitutional issues surrounding it. So yes, I’m willing to hear anything you have. In fact, I’d love to hear something genuinely new. But I should warn you: after four and a half decades, it would be quite an accomplishment to present a UFO claim I haven’t already encountered. More importantly, if there were genuinely substantive evidence, we wouldn’t be discovering it in an old Reddit thread, an X post, or the latest podcast. We’d have independently verifiable evidence that could withstand scientific scrutiny. It would dominate every major scientific journal and every major news organization on Earth. That’s the part that has never happened. What exists is an enormous collection of stories, testimony, rumors, secondhand accounts, anonymous sources, and promises that the real proof is always just over the horizon. Forty-five years later, it’s still stories.
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedGumroad has 146,000 templates and none of them fit the solo immigration lawyer tracking visa timelines. Built Nichequarry to fix that. I mine Reddit for 'I wish there was a template for X' posts and ship Notion systems into the micro-niches Easlo ignores. Live soon.
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) reported@ForkYeah07 When you say a lot of users are also facing this issue, are you talking about on places like Reddit? If so, do you have a link to a thread talking about it that I can forward to the team?
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Lupus Sebastien (@LSebastienWPG) reported@DelusionPosting Only on Reddit would that comment get down-voted. Reddit is the insane asylum of the internet.
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🇱🇧🇦🇲🇨🇦Wicked Purple Convoy: Optronix Prime (@OptronixSG) reported@ebonlocke @MegaTenStruggle The issue is that many reddit mods are redditors first before they're functional people so they don't ban this guy. Either that or they hate law and want him to be the sole one arguing for it especially since he just blocks other Abrahamic followers who can actually argue.