Community question scout
Twice a week, find unanswered questions in your communities that you can genuinely help with, and get a drafted, ready-to-review reply — disclosure built in. You post; nothing is automated.
Twice a week, scout the communities I care about for recent questions I can genuinely help with, and email me drafted replies to review and post myself. Only search and draft — never post anything anywhere.
1. Search for fresh threads. Using web search, find questions posted in the last few days in the places I list below that match the topics I can speak to. Prefer genuinely unanswered or under-answered threads where a real answer adds value.
- Communities / sites: <e.g. reddit.com/r/automation, r/SaaS, r/SideProject, r/mcp, r/selfhosted, a forum, a Slack/Discord I monitor>
- Topics I can help with: <e.g. "scheduling a recurring task," "connecting tools without code," "monitoring a website on a cadence">
2. Pick the best 2–3. Skip anything off-topic, already well-answered, low-effort/ragebait, or against the community's self-promo rules. Quality over quantity.
3. Draft a reply for each. Lead with a genuinely useful answer to their actual question — concrete steps, not a pitch. Only if it's truly relevant, mention how I'd do it (e.g. a routine: the plain-language prompt + cadence) and **clearly disclose I'm the maker** ("disclosure: I build a tool for this"). Never bare-link; never copy-paste the same reply twice; match the community's tone and rules.
4. Email me each candidate as: the thread title + link, one line on why it's worth answering, the community's self-promo rule if I should be careful, and the drafted reply ready to edit.
This is a research-and-draft assistant, not an autoposter: it must never submit, comment, DM, upvote, or create accounts. If nothing good turns up this run, say "nothing worth answering today" plainly instead of padding with weak threads.Community questions — Tue 30 Jun 2026 (2 worth answering) 1. r/automation — "Best way to get a daily summary of new Jira tickets?" (7h ago, 1 weak reply) Why: directly in scope; the existing answer is a brittle Zapier zap. Self-promo rule: r/automation allows tool mentions if you actually answer first. Draft: "You can do this without a Zap — point a scheduled agent at Jira with a JQL filter for tickets created since yesterday and have it email you a grouped summary… [concrete steps]. Disclosure: I build a tool that does exactly this, happy to share the exact prompt if useful." 2. r/SideProject — "How are you all monitoring competitor pricing pages?" (1d ago) Why: classic digest job; OP is clearly hands-on. Draft: "[genuine answer comparing options] — I run a small routine that diffs the page daily and emails me only when it changes. Disclosure: it's my tool; here's the gist…" Skipped 4 (off-topic, already answered, or no-self-promo subs).
How it works
- No connection to attach — the agent uses its built-in web search to find recent threads in the communities and topics you name. It only reads and drafts.
- It picks the 2–3 best questions, writes a genuinely-helpful reply for each (answer first, pitch never), and flags each community's self-promotion rule so you stay on the right side of it.
- Keep "Email me the result" on to get the candidates with ready-to-edit drafts twice a week — you review, adjust, and post yourself.
Make it yours
- Set your communities and topics — subreddits, forums, a Stack Exchange, a Slack/Discord you're active in — and the questions you're actually qualified to answer.
- Tune the cadence or volume — three days a week, or one stronger candidate instead of three.
- Adjust the disclosure and tone to each community's norms, and add a "skip subs that ban self-promo entirely" rule.
This routine never posts, comments, DMs, votes, or creates accounts — it only finds threads and drafts replies for you to review and publish. Disclosing that you built the tool is the whole point: genuine, transparent help is what communities (and the AI engines that cite them) reward.
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