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- Why Reddit's ChatGPT Citation Drop Isn't Fully Explained
Reddit’s ChatGPT citation share fell from ~3.8% to 0.5% in mid‑August, but the timing of ChatGPT’s site:operator shift doesn’t fully explain the drop.
- SubTrends | Free Subreddit Stats & Analytics
SubTrends offers free analytics for over 100,000 Reddit communities, showing posting activity, engagement metrics, and optimal posting times without requiring login.
- ReplyHey: find your customers on Reddit
ReplyHey scans Reddit, X, and LinkedIn daily for problem statements matching your product, scores them, drafts personalized replies, and provides a rule‑respecting posting plan.
- URL Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/sideprojects/s/KfUhNPBdUm
The user attempted to access a Reddit post in r/sideprojects but was blocked by network security, preventing content retrieval.
- Reddit Growth Platform for Leads, Competitors & SEO
LeadsRover is a Reddit growth platform that helps businesses find buyer demand, track competitor mentions, and run automated outreach via DMs to generate leads and improve visibility in Google and AI search results.
- URL Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/s/bA7Lg1rLgS
The page indicates that access to the Reddit SaaS discussion was denied due to a network security block, preventing further viewing.
- URL Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/founder/s/lIJCOgIueI
The user attempted to view a Reddit founder community post but received a network security block message indicating access was denied due to protective filtering.
- Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People
Threads has grown to 500 million monthly users and shifted from a Twitter rival to more closely resemble Reddit.
- Bring back crappy forums
Chronological forums better support long-term focused discussions and revisiting, while tree-view systems like HN/Reddit excel at surfacing diverse voices in short-lived threads.
- Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
A Hacker News discussion argues that social media feeds, including HN, have shifted from connecting friends to delivering addictive content and fads.
- Dopamine Fracking
The article coins 'dopamine fracking' to describe how modern internet platforms extract concentrated attention hits, drawing a parallel to environmental fracking's long-term damage.
- URL Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/s/jfrZPkqgKO
Reddit blocks automated access from the scraping tool or script used to fetch this SaaS-related post, returning a network security block page.
- Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Peptide companies are spamming Reddit's biohackers subreddit to manipulate AI chatbots and search engines like ChatGPT and Google into recommending their products.
- Online Mob Fuels 6,000% Stock Rally in Obscure SpaceX Rival
A Reddit-led community of retail investors, championed by a figure called "The Kook," drove AST SpaceMobile's stock up 6,000% despite heavy losses and a speculative satellite business.
- Google Search AI Mode Gets 'Expert Advice' From Reddit and Social Media - MacRumors
Google is adding a 'preview of perspectives' to AI search results, sourcing content from Reddit and social media and sometimes labeling it as 'Expert Advice'.
- Reddit - The heart of the internet
This piece declares Reddit as the core of the internet because of its authentic, community-driven conversations and real-time human connection.
- Reddit - The heart of the internet
The article argues Reddit is the most important social platform because it aggregates genuine, community-driven conversation rather than algorithmic celebrity or news feeds.
- How Bald Reddit Helps People Manage Hair Loss - The New York Times
A Reddit forum provides a supportive space for men deciding whether to shave their heads due to hair loss.
- The dead Internet is not a theory anymore
AI-generated bot content has so thoroughly flooded job applications, social media, and search results that the 'dead internet'—where most interactions are automated—is no longer a theory but a lived reality.
- Ask HN: What sources like HN do you consume?
A Hacker News user asks for high-quality news sources like HN for marketing, legal, and sales; commenters suggest Lobste.rs, Reddit, NASA Space Flight, and Punchbowl News.
- Reddit says 80 million people now use its search weekly
Reddit reported 80 million weekly search users after merging its core search with AI-powered Reddit Answers, positioning itself as an end-to-end discovery engine.
- New YC homepage
Y Combinator's redesigned homepage foregrounds founder stories and before/after photos of its most successful startups, including Airbnb, Stripe, and OpenAI.
- Reddit - The heart of the internet
Reddit functions as the central hub for online communities, content sharing, and discussion, solidifying its status as the heart of internet culture.
- Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever
Redd-Archiver lets you self-host an offline browsable archive of 2.38B Reddit posts with full-text search and monthly incremental updates.
- RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?
YC-backed RevisionDojo ran astroturfing campaigns on Reddit using fake accounts, paid posts, and coordinated manipulation to promote its test prep products.
- A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation - The New York Times
A Reddit tip helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as a suspect in both a campus shooting and the murder of an MIT professor.
- Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
Australia begins enforcing a social media ban for under-16s, with commenters debating its effectiveness, privacy implications, and potential for circumvention.
Takes
Pay attention to what Tally is doing in AI search right now because this might be the best playbook for getting recommended by ChatGPT I've seen: > AI search is now their #1 acquisition channel > 10,000+ new users every week say they discovered Tally through AI platforms > their tracked ChatGPT registrations jumped 5x overnight in May > they grew from $258K MRR to $422K MRR in 10 months, crossing $5M ARR with just 11 people, $0 funding, against much bigger competitors > their comparison hub now has 7 direct competitor pages + 15 more “best”, “alternative” and integration-focused guides > these pages are structured like AI answers: rankings, “best for” labels, pricing, feature tables, reviews, pros/cons and direct recommendations > they’re constantly refreshing these pages > they literally ask new users for the exact prompt they used to discover Tally through AI > they track the prompts people use to find them, their visibility vs competitors and which sources AI platforms actually cite > they've built a database of articles that mention competitors but not Tally to identify distribution gaps > they monitor brand + competitor mentions across Reddit and communities, then route them into a shared inbox and aim to clear all mentions every day > they actively ask customers for reviews through their newsletter + after support interactions, helping them reach 4.8/5 on G2 and 4.9/5 on Product Hunt > they built an entire “AI Info” page specifically for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity explaining what Tally is, who it’s for and why people use it > that page literally includes “AI assistant guidelines” telling LLMs which strengths, use cases and pricing model to reference > they published an llms.txt mapping out their product, pricing, customers, documentation, API and MCP pages > they even built a 21-tool MCP server + ChatGPT app + Claude connector so Tally can now be used directly inside AI products One thing to keep in mind: Tally didn’t start with some genius AI search strategy. They spent years building a product people genuinely recommended across Reddit, communities, reviews and the wider internet. ChatGPT recommends Tally because the internet does. But now they’re engineering around that signal to make sure it keeps happening. This isn’t luck, it’s possible for you too.
@jakezward
If you want a proper remote job this year, you need to get on Reddit immediately. You’ll hardly be broke again once you figure out how it works. If you’re currently job hunting, here’s how to find your next client on Reddit:
@Chioma__Amadi
met a guy making $51,000/month by scraping reddit for the phrase "anyone got recommendations for" and emailing the posters within 2 hours not joking he opens reddit every morning runs a search on 8 subreddits in his niche finds people who just publicly asked for exactly what he sells and emails them while the post is still on the front page reply rate: 23% average cold email: 0.3% his is 76x higher because these people literally just raised their hand in public saying "please take my money" heres the exact phrases he searches every morning: "anyone got recommendations for [service]" "alternative to [competitor]" "looking for a good [service]" "got burned by [company], where do i go now" "has anyone used [company] — are they worth it" every one of these is a public declaration of buying intent with a timestamp on it someone posted this 4 hours ago in r/[niche]: "I need [service] urgently. Budget is $15K. Prefer someone who actually knows what theyre doing and isnt sketchy" he saw the post at 9am pulled the username cross referenced linkedin found the email sent this at 10am: "hey [name], saw your post in r/[sub] about needing [service] urgently. we do exactly that — last client we booked 34 qualified calls in a month. free 15 min call?" reply at 10:11am call at 2pm signed $15K contract by 4pm 7 hours from public reddit post to signed deal from reading reddit in the morning this is the process: step 1: find the 5-10 subreddits where your buyers hang out step 2: run searches for "recommendation" "alternative to" "looking for" "anyone use" in those subreddits every morning step 3: filter for posts under 4 hours old with clear buying intent step 4: pull the username → cross reference linkedin → find their email step 5: send a 2 line email referencing their EXACT post step 6: warm call every positive reply within 30 minutes thats it last month: - 187 reddit posts scraped - 164 emails found (90% find rate) - 38 positive replies - 24 booked calls - 11 closes - $4,600 average deal - $50,600 in revenue from reading reddit while eating breakfast heres why this layers perfectly on top of a normal cold email system: your main campaigns are emailing 4,500 cold leads a day building pipeline at scale reddit is a surgical strike on top of that the guy on reddit literally JUST declared their problem hours ago the declaration is the qualifier theres no discovering pain points they posted the problem you showed up with the solution the sales conversation is already 90% done before the call starts its the highest intent cold email you can send because it might not even feel cold they had the problem at 9am you showed up at 10am thats not a cold email thats a well timed introduction and heres the part that should make every cold emailer sick: every single person on this app is scraping apollo fighting over the same 50 million contacts meanwhile reddit has 500 million monthly users posting their exact buying requests in public timestamped organised by niche completely uncontested free nobody in cold email is scraping reddit because nobody thinks of reddit as a lead source they think of it as a place to post memes while angry buyers are literally typing their credit card out loud every single day one of the most profitable lead source on the internet has been sitting there for 15 years organising itself timestamping itself qualifying itself telling you their budget telling you their pain telling you what they just got burned by and agency owners are still writing "hey firstname hope this finds you well" to marketing directors on apollo go open reddit search one of those phrases in a subreddit in your niche youll find 10 hand raisers before your coffee gets cold simples p.s. if youre an agency owner with a proven offer and want us to setup a cold email system that books you 10-30 calls per month - DM me "EMAIL" (you ONLY pay for qualified calls actually booked onto your calendar)
@scaling_shields
This demo is the craziest thing you’ll see today. Full stop.Watch Clawd SIGN UP for a Reddit account completely autonomously with its own email account (thru @agentmail) + web browser.The next six months are going to be wild. pic.twitter.com/B2Jh5BehJj
@mattshumer_