loudship

A Bazzly alternative for founders who reply in their own name

Bazzly finds Reddit threads, writes the reply, posts it from an aged account it runs and lifts it with upvotes, for $199 a month. Loudship finds the threads and drafts the reply, then stops: you post it yourself. The real choice is whose name sits above the comment.

By Matthieu Audo, founder of Loudship · · 8 min read

A word on bias before anything else: Loudship is mine, and Bazzly is a direct competitor. What this page says about Bazzly is taken from bazzly.ai, its pricing and review pages, as they read on October 27, 2026. Sentences in quotes are Bazzly's own wording.

What Bazzly sells: a comment that is already up

Bazzly calls itself "a Reddit marketing automation tool for SaaS and product teams". It scans Reddit for posts your product fits and scores each one. It "prioritises threads that rank on Google and get cited in AI answers, so one reply keeps sending traffic for months." It drafts the reply "in a helpful, non-promotional voice", and then, unless you choose otherwise, posts it "through aged, credible Reddit accounts" and lifts it with upvotes. The headline promise is to "get your comment to rank #1 in every thread."

On autopilot, none of that needs you. In manual mode you approve each reply before it goes out. Separately, Bazzly finds people asking for what you sell and drafts a private message, which its Chrome extension sends from your own account. The reviews it publishes praise drafts that read well and a founder who ships requested features within hours, and the traffic argument holds: Reddit threads rank in Google, and AI assistants quote them. What the $199 buys is the finished result, placed and voted up, without your time and without your account.

Loudship stops one step earlier, on purpose. Every morning it sends the few threads on Reddit, Hacker News and Bluesky where someone is asking for what you built, each with a draft written from facts you approved about your product. Then a person reads the thread and decides. That person is you.

Bazzly: from its own website, checked October 27, 2026. Loudship: this site.
CriterionBazzlyLoudship
Who presses postBazzly, through its warmed-up accounts, on autopilot or after you approve; or you, through its Chrome extensionAlways you, from your own account. Loudship has no post button
Whose profile growsThe aged account that posted the commentYours: every answer adds to your own history
VotesUpvotes sold at 0.2 credits each, added after postingNone. Loudship never votes
Threads it picksPosts your product fits, ranked toward those that rank on Google and get cited in AI answersThreads from the past week where the author is asking for what you built
Private messagesFinds leads, drafts the DM, sends it from your account through the extensionNo DMs
Where it looksRedditReddit, Hacker News and Bluesky
Your time each dayNone on autopilotReading up to five threads, editing the drafts you keep, posting them
At the base price170 credits a month: about 17 warmed-account comments, or 15 with five upvotes eachUp to five threads a day with a draft, about 150 a month
Agents and codeMCP server, REST API and OpenAPI spec includedNone; release kit posts can go to Typefully
Price$199 a month per product, teammates free$29 a month for one product; $79 for up to five

Cases where Bazzly fits better

  • You want it off your plate entirely. Loudship asks for a few minutes every morning: read the thread, fix the draft, post. If that time does not exist, a tool that posts for you is the only kind that will get used.
  • The goal is traffic from Google and AI answers. Bazzly aims at threads that already rank and get cited, where a reply keeps earning clicks for months. Loudship aims at the person asking this week, which is a different bet.
  • You sell by direct message. Bazzly finds leads and drafts the DM. Loudship has no private messages at all.
  • Agents run your marketing. An MCP server, a REST API and an OpenAPI spec come with Bazzly's plan, so Claude Code or Cursor can drive it. Loudship has nothing an agent can call.
  • You have no Reddit history and no wish to build one. Warmed-up accounts exist for exactly that case.

Warmed accounts and upvotes: read Reddit's rule yourself

Two lines of Bazzly's offer deserve a slow read. The first is the accounts. Bazzly says they have "lower comment drop rates because Reddit trusts them more", and that with them "your Reddit account is never involved". The second is the votes: its pricing lists an upvote at 0.2 credits, so a comment with five upvotes costs 11 credits instead of 10.

Here is the rule they sit next to. Rule 2 of Reddit's content policy reads:

Post authentic content into communities where you have a personal interest, and do not cheat or engage in content manipulation (including spamming, vote manipulation, ban evasion, or subscriber fraud) or otherwise interfere with or disrupt Reddit communities.

Whether a given service crosses that line is Reddit's call, not mine, and I am not going to make it for them. What I can say is where the risk lands. Bazzly is right that your personal account stays clear: it posts nothing. But every one of those comments names your product, and the product is what a moderator acts on. A removed comment, a domain added to a subreddit's filter, a reader asking in the thread who the account really is: all of that attaches to the name you are trying to build. Bazzly refunds the credits of a warmed-account comment removed within 48 hours. Nothing refunds the thread that saw it.

Whose reputation each comment builds

On Reddit, a recommendation is judged by the profile behind it. When a reply sounds a little too sure of a product, people click the username, and moderators do the same before they approve a post that mentions a tool. A comment from an aged account adds to that account's history. A comment from you adds to yours.

That compounds. Months of plain, useful answers in the communities where your buyers ask questions become a profile that earns the benefit of the doubt when you do mention what you made, with a disclosure. It also means the follow-up question, the "does it handle multi-currency?" two replies down, reaches the one person who knows the answer. A comment someone else posted cannot carry on the conversation as you. How to promote your product on Reddit without getting banned covers how to build that profile from a new account.

The arithmetic: 17 comments or 150 drafts

Bazzly's plan comes with 170 credits a month for one product. At 10 credits per warmed-account comment, that is 17 comments; with five upvotes on each, 15. So a placed comment costs about $11.70 inside the plan, or $13.30 with the upvotes, and $10 to $11 at the top-up rate of $1 a credit. Drafts are cheap at 0.1 credits, and posting from your own account through the extension costs no credits at all.

Loudship Solo is $29 a month for one product, and it sends up to five threads a day, each with a draft: about 150 a month on a busy month, fewer on a quiet one, since the radar keeps only threads that pass its score. The price does not cover the part Loudship leaves to you, which is your time: reading, rewriting, posting, answering the follow-ups. For a second product, Bazzly adds $199 a month; Loudship Pro covers up to five for $79.

The two numbers do not measure the same thing. Seventeen comments placed and lifted for you, or a hundred and fifty openings you still have to answer. Which one is cheaper depends on what an hour of your week is worth and on what you want your account to look like in a year.

Five questions to ask any tool that posts for you

  1. Whose accounts are these, and how did they get their age and karma? An account's history is what makes its recommendation credible, so it matters where that history came from.
  2. Does the comment say the poster is connected to my product? Most subreddits that tolerate self-promotion expect the maker to say so.
  3. What happens when a moderator removes it? Bazzly refunds credits for removals within 48 hours, except in subreddits it flagged as strict where you chose to post anyway. Ask what else is affected.
  4. Who answers when someone replies? A recommendation that goes quiet at the first question reads worse than none.
  5. What is left of my presence when I stop paying? Comments on accounts you do not own stay theirs. A history you wrote yourself stays yours.

The same questions apply to tools that post from your own account, with different answers and their own failure mode, explained in why automated Reddit replies get banned.

Switching from Bazzly to Loudship

If you already use only Bazzly's own-account route, through the extension, you work the way Loudship does: the tool finds, you post. The differences left are the product memory behind each draft, Hacker News and Bluesky, the release kit, and the price. If you use warmed-up accounts, the move is bigger:

  1. Keep what Bazzly taught you. Write down which subreddits and which kinds of threads brought signups. That list is worth more than any setting, and it goes into Loudship's product memory as the communities to watch and how each one likes to be approached.
  2. Check your own account before it speaks for the product. If it is new or silent, spend a few weeks answering questions with no link and no product first.
  3. Leave the old comments alone. Do not reply to them from your account as a stranger who found the tool. One person agreeing with themselves through two accounts is the kind of coordination moderators look for.
  4. Paste your URL. Loudship reads your site, proposes the memory (what the product does, the limits to admit, the claims a reply must never make), and you correct it before the first digest, which is free. The radar page shows what one morning looks like.

Before you leave Bazzly: questions

How much does Bazzly cost next to Loudship?

Bazzly has one plan: $199 a month for one product, with 170 credits that reset each renewal (bazzly.ai/pricing, checked October 27, 2026). A comment from a warmed-up account costs 10 credits, an upvote 0.2 and an AI draft 0.1; extra credits are $1 each, and each extra product is another $199 a month. Loudship charges $29 a month ($290 a year) for one product on Solo, or $79 a month for up to five products on Pro. Neither price changes with the number of replies.

Does Bazzly post from my own Reddit account?

Not on its default path. Bazzly says it posts "through aged, credible Reddit accounts" instead of yours, on autopilot or after you approve each reply. Its Chrome extension is what acts from your own account: it sends the DMs Bazzly drafts, and can post a reply if you pick that route.

Can Loudship post replies or upvote them for me?

No, and that will not change. Loudship does not post, vote or send messages on Reddit, Hacker News or Bluesky. It finds the thread, writes a draft from the product facts you approved, adds a note on what to check, and stops. You open the thread, rewrite what needs rewriting and post it from your account, or skip it.

Does Loudship target threads that rank on Google or show up in ChatGPT answers?

Not deliberately. Loudship ranks threads by how clearly the author is asking for something your product does, and it keeps recent ones, where the reply still reaches the person who asked. Bazzly makes the other trade: it favours threads that already rank on Google and get cited in AI answers, for traffic that keeps arriving long after the thread is quiet. If visibility in AI search is your main goal, that point goes to Bazzly.

Can I try both before paying?

Bazzly offers a 7-day trial: a card is required at checkout, the first charge comes when the trial ends with a reminder three days before, and the trial includes 5 credits for warmed-account posting. Loudship's first digest and first release kit are free without a card, and if the first paid month surfaces nothing worth posting, it is refunded on request.

Your name on every reply. Nothing posted for you.

Loudship finds the Reddit, Hacker News and Bluesky threads where someone is asking for what you built, and drafts the answer from your product's facts. You decide what goes out.

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