Reddit monitoring for founders who post themselves
Every morning: the handful of people on Reddit, Hacker News and Bluesky who are asking for what you built, and a draft reply written from your product's facts. You read it, you post it. Loudship never does.
Why most Reddit tools get founders banned
The tools that made "Reddit marketing" a dirty word all did the same thing: they posted for you. Replies at volume, from accounts that never read the thread, saying roughly the same thing everywhere. Reddit's spam detection caught up in weeks, the accounts were shadowbanned, and the founders behind them lost the one thing that mattered — the right to speak in the communities where their customers are.
Loudship is built on the opposite rule. It never posts. Not a comment, not a vote, not a message. It finds the conversation, it writes a first draft, and it stops. You post from your own account, when you have read the thread and decided the reply is worth it. There is nothing to detect because there is nothing automated on Reddit's side.
What arrives every morning
One email. Up to five conversations, ranked by how clearly the author is asking for something your product does — not by how often your keywords appear. Each one comes with the thread, why it matters, and a draft reply of about a hundred words.
The draft is written from your product memory: the facts you approved, the limitations you want stated honestly, the claims that must never be made, the tone you use, and how each subreddit likes to be approached. Loudship reads your website to propose all of this; you check it before anything is written. A draft can only say what you allowed it to say.
Below the draft, a note: what to check before posting — read the full thread, this subreddit forbids self-promotion on weekdays, the snippet may be a commenter rather than the author. The note exists because a wrong reply costs more than no reply.
It learns from what you actually post
When you mark a mention as replied, you paste what you really posted — as is, or edited. When you skip one, you say why. Both become examples in your product memory. The next drafts imitate your voice and your length; the scoring stops surfacing the kind of thread you keep skipping. After a month, the drafts are yours, not a model's.
Built to still be here next year
Most Reddit monitoring tools live on borrowed time. Some scrape, and get cut off. Some depended on Reddit's data API, and closed the day Reddit stopped licensing it to small companies — GummySearch is the best-known case. Loudship does neither. It reads public threads through a licensed web-search index whose terms allow storing results, the same public web that Google indexes, and it uses the official, open APIs of Hacker News and Bluesky. Nothing is scraped, nothing breaks Reddit's terms, and your radar does not stop the day Reddit changes its mind again.
What it is not
- Not a scheduler or an auto-poster. There is no "post" button in Loudship, on purpose.
- Not a keyword alert. An alert says a word appeared; Loudship says whether the author is asking for something, and drafts the answer.
- Not a content generator. It does not turn your commits into tweets. It finds people who need what you shipped, and helps you answer them honestly.
Who it is for
Founders and indie developers who would rather answer five real questions a day than run ads, and who know that one honest reply in the right thread is worth more than a hundred posts nobody asked for. If you have ever typed your product's name into Reddit search at midnight to see if anyone was talking about it — this replaces that.
Questions
Will this get my Reddit account banned?
Loudship never posts, comments, votes or messages on your behalf — there is nothing for Reddit to detect. You read a draft, decide, and post it yourself, from your own account, at your own pace. The tools that got people banned were the ones posting for them.
Is this compliant with Reddit’s terms?
Yes. Loudship does not scrape Reddit and does not automate anything on it. It reads public threads through a licensed web-search index whose terms allow storing results, and uses the official, open APIs of Hacker News and Bluesky. Scraping is what gets tools cut off; public web search is what Google does.
How is this different from a keyword alert?
An alert tells you a word appeared. Loudship reads the thread, asks what the author actually wants, scores it, and writes a reply grounded in the facts you approved about your product — with the things it must never claim. Alerts give you noise; this gives you five conversations worth answering.
What if the draft is wrong?
Then you fix it before posting, and Loudship learns from the fix. Every reply you post and every mention you skip becomes an example; next week's drafts sound more like you. Drafts only ever state facts from your product memory, so a wrong claim can only come from a wrong fact you can correct.
Which communities?
Reddit, Hacker News and Bluesky today. You tell Loudship how to behave in each subreddit that matters to you — some allow self-promotion, most want help first — and the drafts follow those notes.
No card. Refunded if the first month gives you nothing worth posting.