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Find Customers on Reddit & Hacker News: Buyer Intent Playbook

Discover high-intent users in Ask HN and subreddits—pain, constraints, switching language—and turn public threads into a weekly habit to find SaaS customers.

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Context: Agentic Revenue Operating System — Graph → Memory → Agents. Communities and forums are Revenue Graph signal sources for Scout, not the product category. Start with the Learn hub or hire Scout.

Global does not mean generic. It means the structure of intent repeats: someone has a workflow breaking, a vendor failing, or a deadline forcing change.

Reddit: hunt evaluation language

Look for posts that include comparison, migration, budget reality, or team size. Avoid pure motivation threads unless you sell to that emotional job-to-be-done.

Hacker News: read the Show HN and Ask HN subthreads

The first-level question often hides the real buyer in nested replies. Skim depth-two for people describing production constraints.

One weekly cadence

  • Monday: build a keyword and community list (15 minutes).
  • Wed–Thu: triage new threads (20 minutes) and publish two high-quality replies.
  • Friday: log outcomes—DMs, trials, calls—so you know which phrasing worked.

We unpack tactics step-by-step in Scout channel guide. For India-specific angles, pair with SaaS ideas and GTM.

Wavly exists to make scanning and scoring continuous once this manual loop feels natural.

Links: Home · Find SaaS customers · Prioritize threads

Frequently asked

Is this only for devtools?

No—but developer-heavy products map cleanly to HN and Stack Overflow. Vertical SaaS often lives in industry subreddits and specialist forums.

What is the biggest etiquette mistake?

Pitching before you have understood the constraint thread. Lead with diagnosis; disclose when recommending your product.

Same Graph → Memory → Agents cluster — keep reading, then hire the workforce.

SaaS Customer Discovery from Reddit, HN & Communities (No Spam)Find customers and early users from real conversations: Ask HN, subreddits, and developer communities—reply with substance, attribute signups, skip cold outreach spam.First 10 Customers from Graph Conversations (Not Cold Lists)Land early Pipeline $ from public evaluation threads: Scout discovers, Closer converts with substance, Memory records what worked.How to Find Early Users from Reddit, HN & Communities (Not Cold Lists)Find high-intent early users where they ask for tools in public — communities and forums as sources, not cold lists. Land-and-expand entry to the same revenue OS runtime Wavly runs at scale.

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