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Reddit Operator: Answering the Reddit threads where buyers ask what to use
Free to start · Invites go out in batches
- Keyword alert emails
- Checking subreddits by hand
- Agencies that post for you
What's included
5 lists of records, 6 automations and 2 documents. Every automation works from the records you keep here, so a change made once is the one they all see.
Your records
Every list as your copy starts it: its fields, and sample records you can clear in one go.
| Name | Product Description | Value Props | Target Keywords | Voice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sample: Brindle | Brindle is a no-code database with automations built in, for agencies and small operations teams. Formulas and rollups are worked out on the server, so a base with 50,000 records stays quick. | Stays fast past 50,000 records. Priced per automation run, not per task or per seat. Imports an Airtable base in one go. | airtable alternative, lightweight crm, no-code database, zapier too expensive | Plain and practical. Lowercase is fine in comments. Answers first, and mentions Brindle only where it's genuinely the answer. |
- Voice Samples, Long text
- Ideal Customer, Long text
- Proof Points, Long text
- Enabled, Checkbox
- Run Requested, Checkbox
- Status, Select
- Max Threads Per Run, Number
- Max Item Age Hours, Number
- Watch Enabled, Checkbox
- Auto Draft, Checkbox
- Cooldown Hours, Number
- Last Run At, Date
- Cooldown Until, Date
- Last Stop Reason, Long text
- Threads Count, Rollup
| Name | Url | Project | Rules Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
r/SaaS | https://reddit.com/r/SaaS | Sample: Brindle | Self-promotion allowed only in the weekly thread. Answering questions is fine if you disclose affiliation. | paused |
r/Entrepreneur | https://reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur | Sample: Brindle | No promotion of any kind outside the Thursday thread. Strictly enforced. | paused |
r/nocode | https://reddit.com/r/nocode | Sample: Brindle | Tool recommendations welcome. Disclose if it is your product. | paused |
r/productivity | https://reddit.com/r/productivity | Sample: Brindle | No product links in top-level comments. Mods remove on sight. | paused |
r/smallbusiness | https://reddit.com/r/smallbusiness | Sample: Brindle | Recommendations fine in context. Affiliation must be stated. | paused |
r/Airtable | https://reddit.com/r/Airtable | Sample: Brindle | Competitor mentions tolerated when genuinely answering. Read the room. | paused |
- Notes, Long text
- Member Count, Number
- Last Checked At, Date
| Title | Status | Subreddit | Relevance | Posted At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
What are you all using for a lightweight CRM in 2026? | new | r/SaaS | high | 42 minutes ago |
Airtable alternatives that don't fall over at 50k rows? | drafted | r/Airtable | high | 2 hours ago |
How do you automate client reporting without Zapier costs? | drafted | r/smallbusiness | high | 5 hours ago |
Best no-code tool for a two-person agency? | new | r/nocode | medium | 11 hours ago |
Migrating off spreadsheets — where did you start? | skipped | r/Entrepreneur | medium | 20 hours ago |
Show me your productivity stack | skipped | r/productivity | low | Yesterday |
- Url, URL
- Project, Relation
- Intent Type, Select
- Upvotes, Number
- Comment Count, Number
- Why Relevant, Long text
- Discovered At, Date
- Age Hours At Discovery, Number
- Is Early, Checkbox
| Thread | Kind | Draft Text | Rationale | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Airtable alternatives that don't fall over at 50k rows? | comment | Check your formula and rollup fields before you blame the row count. 50k rows is nothing. 50k rows where every write recalculates forty computed fields is a different problem, and it's usually that one. I spent a week convinced we'd outgrown ours and it turned out to be six rollups nobody used. (I work on Brindle, which does that math on the server, so take the recommendation with the appropriate salt. The field audit is free either way.) | Leads with the thing they have not checked, and the aside is a real experience rather than a pitch. Affiliation disclosed, as the subreddit expects. | pending_review |
How do you automate client reporting without Zapier costs? | comment | It's almost never the reporting. It's the steps that fire on every record change and then do nothing, and you pay per task for all of them. Move the filter upstream so those never run, and batch the report into one scheduled pass instead of triggering per record. That got ours down by about two thirds without changing anything else. I build Brindle and we price per run rather than per task, which makes batching the default instead of a trick you have to remember. But do the filter thing first, it's free. | Names the actual cost driver, gives a fix that costs nothing, and only reaches the product where the pricing model genuinely is the answer. | pending_review |
- Voice Check, Select
- Posted Url, URL
- Posted At, Date
- Upvotes, Number
- Replies, Number
- Still Live, Checkbox
- Last Checked At, Date
What runs on its own
Every automation that starts by itself installs switched off.
Watch for New Threads
Runs on its ownEvery two hours, checks the Projects that are due for new threads where people ask what to use, and drafts an answer while the thread is still live. Does nothing when no Project is due.
Run Requested Thread Discovery
Runs on its ownSweep a project's subreddits right now for live recommendation threads, newest first.
Capture Current Reddit Thread
Runs on its ownSave the Reddit thread you're currently viewing as a mention target if it's recommendation-intent.
Draft Mentions
Runs on its ownGenerate rule-aware, natural mention drafts for your captured threads, freshest first. Drafts are saved for your review — nothing is posted.
Post Approved Drafts
Runs on its ownPosts the mention drafts you've approved, each as a comment or post on its thread in your logged-in Reddit session, a few at a time through the day. Only approved drafts are ever posted.
Refresh Karma & Post Stats
Runs on its ownEach day, sets aside threads that aged out unanswered, records your Reddit karma, and refreshes upvotes and replies on the mentions you've posted. Tells you only if one was removed.
Documents to run it by
- Guide
How Reddit Operator works
How it watches, drafts and posts, what it never does, and your first week.
- Document
Answering on Reddit
What makes an answer on Reddit land, and what gets it removed.
Set up in 7 steps
Reddit Operator finds the threads where people ask what to use, while they're still live, and drafts an honest answer in your voice that follows each subreddit's rules. Nothing is posted until you approve it. It arrives with a sample Project so you can see it working. These steps make it yours.
Learn how it works
How it watches, drafts and posts, what it never does, and a routine for your first week.
Connect your browser
Install the Cheqq Companion, approve browser access, and log in to Reddit there. It reads and posts from your own account.
Say what you promote
What it is, who it's for, and the facts an answer may use.
Teach it your voice
Paste a few comments you've written, or let it read your recent ones.
Pick your subreddits
Where your buyers ask for recommendations, with each one's rules on mentioning your own product.
Review your first drafts
Edit what you like and set the good ones to approved. They go out from your account on the next posting pass, within the hour, exactly as written.
Turn on the watch
Switch on its automations. It checks every two hours, reads each Project's subreddits about once a day, and tells you only when it finds something.
Before and after
Name the subreddits where people ask what to use, and a watch reads their New tabs for recommendation threads still worth answering, then drafts a comment that answers first and mentions the product only where it's genuinely the answer, saying plainly that you make it. Nothing is posted until you approve it, and then it goes out from your own account through the Companion extension.
Today
Buyers ask Reddit what to use, and those threads are what they find again in search and what AI assistants quote. Finding them means checking a dozen subreddits by hand, and the one that mattered turns up two days late, with sixty comments and an answer the asker has already thanked.
Replying well is slower still. Each subreddit has its own rules about promotion, some allow it only in a weekly thread, and one comment that reads as an ad gets removed and remembered by the moderators. So most weeks nobody replies at all.
With Reddit Operator
You describe the product, who it's for and the phrases buyers use, then list the subreddits to watch. Once a day to start with, and as often as every six hours if you shorten the rest, it reads each subreddit's New tab in your own logged-in session. It keeps only recommendation threads posted inside your window, 48 hours by default, youngest and least-answered first, each saved with when it was posted, how old it was when found and why it's worth answering.
Each fresh thread gets a draft comment in your voice. It answers the question in a way that helps even someone who never tries the product, never pitches to someone it hasn't talked to, and where the product is genuinely the answer, names the trade-off and says plainly that you make it. Where a subreddit's rules forbid promotion, the thread is skipped with the reason. You edit the draft, approve it and run Post Approved Drafts, and the Companion extension posts it from your account, on a computer that's awake with the browser open.
At 9 every morning your karma is recorded, your posted comments are checked for upvotes, replies and whether a moderator removed them, and threads that aged out unanswered are cleared from the queue. On Reddit, standing comes from a history of useful answers, so the karma trend is the number to watch.
How it works
Choose the subreddits
Name the communities where your buyers ask questions, and describe the kind of thread worth answering.
It reads them for you
New threads are checked against that intent rather than against keywords, so the noise stays where it is.
You get a draft, not a chore
Relevant threads arrive with a comment already written in your voice, for you to approve, rewrite or skip. Approved comments are posted from your own account through the Companion extension, on a computer that's awake.
What it replaces
Keyword alert emails
Threads are judged on whether someone is asking what to use, not on whether a word appears, and anything past its moment is dropped.
Checking subreddits by hand
The New tabs are read for you on a schedule, and only threads still worth entering reach the queue.
Agencies that post for you
Every comment is written for its thread and read by you before it posts, from an account that stays yours.
Change it by asking
Once it's yours, describe a change the way you'd ask a colleague, and Cheqq makes it.
- Add r/Bookkeeping to the subreddits I watch
- Only keep threads posted in the last 12 hours
- Sweep every eight hours instead of once a day
- Never mention pricing in a comment
- Which subreddits removed my comments this month?
Questions about Reddit Operator
Does it post to Reddit on its own?
No. Every comment stays a draft until you approve it, and approved comments go out only when you run Post Approved Drafts. Posting happens in your own logged-in Reddit session through the Companion extension, so it needs a computer that's awake with the browser open, and it never upvotes, awards, follows or messages anyone.
How often does it look for threads?
A watch checks every two hours, and each project rests 24 hours between sweeps to start with, so your account isn't seen working at machine pace. Shorten the rest to as little as six hours if you want to be earlier.
How does it deal with subreddit rules?
Each subreddit keeps a summary of its rules, read from the subreddit when you haven't written one. Drafts follow them, a subreddit that forbids promotion is skipped with the reason, and the rules are checked again before posting, so a comment that would break them comes back to you instead.
Will my comments read like marketing?
They're written not to. Each answers the question first, mentions the product only where it's genuinely the answer, and discloses that you make it. Drafts avoid the phrases readers spot as generated and never invent a number, a result or a customer, and you can edit every word.
What if Reddit asks me to log in or verify?
The run stops. A login wall, a verification prompt, an unusual-activity warning or a rate limit is never worked around, and the project is marked as needing attention with the reason.
Can I use it for more than one product?
Yes. Each product is its own project, with its own description, voice, subreddits and limits. Getting started on its Home sets up the first one with you: your browser, what you promote, your voice and your subreddits.
What does it cost to run?
8 of its 46 automation steps use AI, and draw AI credits each time they run: how many depends on the model you pick for the step. The other steps are fixed and draw none.
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Free to start · Invites go out in batches