Free Research Tool

Find the subreddits your customers are already in.

Give it your website and a sentence about who you sell to. It reads your site, searches Reddit for the communities where that buyer discusses the problem you solve, then checks every one of them against a second live search so invented names never reach you. You get a target list, how to earn standing in each one, and the first move to make. No signup, nothing stored. It is the same first pass we run at the start of a paid audit.

The more specific the buyer, the sharper the list. Job title, company size and the problem they have all help.

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Enter a site and an audience to begin.

How to read the report

Fit matters more than size. A primary community is one where your buyer goes specifically to discuss the problem you solve. A 12,000 member subreddit where every post gets forty comments is a better target than a 500,000 member one that gets nine posts a day. Members measure history. Activity measures whether anyone is home.

Promotion climate is a warning, not a permission slip. Strict means the community removes anything that reads as marketing, so you earn standing there by being useful for weeks before you ever mention what you sell. Open does not mean unlimited. It means one disclosed, relevant mention will survive.

The first move is the point of the whole report. Anyone can produce a list of subreddit names. What decides whether this works is the first thing you post in each one, and whether it would have been worth reading if you sold nothing at all.

What this tool cannot tell you, and you must check by hand: the rules. Every subreddit sets its own self promotion rules in its sidebar and wiki, and they vary enormously between communities that look identical from the outside. No tool substitutes for reading them. The full method is in our guide.

What to do with the list in the first week

  1. Open every subreddit it named and judge the activity yourself. The tool confirms each one exists before showing it to you, but existing and being worth your time are different things. If a community has not had a post in a month, cut it.
  2. Read the top five threads in each keeper. You are checking register, and whether your kind of answer would be welcome there at all.
  3. Open each one's rules. Delete from your list anything that bans self promotion outright, unless you are willing to participate purely for the standing.
  4. Run the search terms. Paste each one into Reddit search. The threads that come back are where your buyer is asking the question you answer.
  5. Stop at five. Depth in a few communities beats presence in many, and a thin presence across fifteen subreddits is the exact pattern that reads as spam.

That is a real target list. It is also roughly the first hour of a paid engagement, which is why we are comfortable giving it away.

What to do next

If you are running this yourself, the pillar guide covers the rest: building account credibility, what to actually post, how to route intent to something you can track, and the four ways brands get banned. If you would rather have it run for you, Reddit lead generation is that service, and the cost guide sets out what shapes a budget before you speak to anyone.

Tool questions

Is the subreddit finder really free?

Yes, no signup and no export gate. Enter a website and a description of your audience and the report appears on the page.

How does it pick the subreddits?

In two passes. First it reads your website with a language model that has live web search, works out what you sell and to whom, then searches for the communities where that buyer discusses the problem you solve. Second, every subreddit it proposed gets its own separate search purely to confirm it exists. Anything that fails is dropped from the report before you see it, and the report tells you what was dropped. It is also instructed to describe size qualitatively rather than invent a member count.

Can the output be wrong?

Yes. The existence check removes invented subreddit names, which is the failure that used to matter most, but it cannot tell you whether the reasoning about fit is right. Open every subreddit it names, read the top threads and read the rules before you post anything.

How many subreddits should I actually target?

Three to five to start. The most common mistake in Reddit marketing is spreading thinly across fifteen communities, which produces no standing anywhere and looks like automation from the outside.

Does it know each subreddit's rules?

No. It gives a read on how tolerant a community tends to be, which is a different thing. Rules live in each subreddit's sidebar and wiki and must be read directly. That is not a limitation we plan to remove, the rules deserve to be read rather than summarised.

Got your list?
Here is what happens next.

Take it and run it yourself with our free guide, or book a 30 minute audit and we will go through your shortlist live, including which communities we would drop and why.

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