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Thats a great way to practice user acquisition.

by vidar 13y ago

rlu 13y ago
Yep. Reminds me a lot of when it was fairly common to start your own forum back in the early/mid 2000s. (phpbb, vBulletin, IPB, etc.)
graeme 13y ago
For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users: Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT. http://metareddit.com http://metareddit.com
- rfnslyr 13y ago
  Fantastic marketing tool.
- babs474 13y ago
  You should give http://www.commentfindder.com http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
  - seltzered_ 13y ago
    I just spent some time on it - I like the concept! The one thing I noticed is that I noticed less comment-worthy opportunities on here compared to just doing a search on twitter (for my work, I just search for "photoshop shortcut" or "illustrator shortcut"). There might be some more worthy places to also incorporate search in (quora comes to mind)
  - graeme 13y ago
    Some quick notes. Mostly negative, only because I haven't used it long enough to notice advantages. Overall, it looks like a good site. Hope these are helpful: * I couldn't block subreddits from the feed. In my case, LSAT is also a weapon in some popular videos games. On Metareddit, I was able to block the most common gaming subreddits so those results never came up. * Metareddit produced an actual feed I could check once a day for new comments. This is more of a search engine. * I have to hover over the link to see the subreddit. That's often very relevant Apart from that, looks good. And obviously, these criticism depend on your use case. I used metareddit specifically for monitoring.
    - babs474 13y ago
      Thanks for the thoughts. I think the monitoring use case is a very natural next step. Basically "saved" searches. On commentfindder you can exclude specific subreddits with "-subreddit:askreddit" syntax or target subreddits by removing the minus. Of course, I should make this more obvious, right now its kind of a cheat code.
  - JayNeely 13y ago
    I wish there were an RSS option for the search results sorted by recency. Would love to be able to see when there are new mentions for a term without having to come back and search frequently.
  - modemuser 13y ago
    The metareddit monitor doesn't search through an index. It's a crawler that constantly fetches all new comments and submissions and looks for the (several thousand) keywords in each of them. Source: I run metareddit.

Thats a great way to practice user acquisition.

by vidar 13y ago

Thats a great way to practice user acquisition.

rlu 13y ago

Yep. Reminds me a lot of when it was fairly common to start your own forum back in the early/mid 2000s. (phpbb, vBulletin, IPB, etc.)

graeme 13y ago

For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users: Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT. http://metareddit.com http://metareddit.com

rfnslyr 13y ago
Fantastic marketing tool.
babs474 13y ago
You should give http://www.commentfindder.com http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
- seltzered_ 13y ago
  I just spent some time on it - I like the concept! The one thing I noticed is that I noticed less comment-worthy opportunities on here compared to just doing a search on twitter (for my work, I just search for "photoshop shortcut" or "illustrator shortcut"). There might be some more worthy places to also incorporate search in (quora comes to mind)
- graeme 13y ago
  Some quick notes. Mostly negative, only because I haven't used it long enough to notice advantages. Overall, it looks like a good site. Hope these are helpful: * I couldn't block subreddits from the feed. In my case, LSAT is also a weapon in some popular videos games. On Metareddit, I was able to block the most common gaming subreddits so those results never came up. * Metareddit produced an actual feed I could check once a day for new comments. This is more of a search engine. * I have to hover over the link to see the subreddit. That's often very relevant Apart from that, looks good. And obviously, these criticism depend on your use case. I used metareddit specifically for monitoring.
  - babs474 13y ago
    Thanks for the thoughts. I think the monitoring use case is a very natural next step. Basically "saved" searches. On commentfindder you can exclude specific subreddits with "-subreddit:askreddit" syntax or target subreddits by removing the minus. Of course, I should make this more obvious, right now its kind of a cheat code.
- JayNeely 13y ago
  I wish there were an RSS option for the search results sorted by recency. Would love to be able to see when there are new mentions for a term without having to come back and search frequently.
- modemuser 13y ago
  The metareddit monitor doesn't search through an index. It's a crawler that constantly fetches all new comments and submissions and looks for the (several thousand) keywords in each of them. Source: I run metareddit.