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Find potential users on Hacker News, GitHub and niche forums

Find potential users in niche forums, Hacker News and GitHub.

  • Reddit
  • GitHub
  • Hacker News

The problem

Developer and niche communities are where early adopters talk, but they punish anything that looks like marketing. Joining well means reading first and helping for real.

How your agent runs it

  1. Explores the communities you name, plus relevant Hacker News and GitHub discussions.
  2. Finds people with an explicit, relevant need and reads each community's rules.
  3. Ranks the opportunities and saves the public source URLs.
  4. Publishes a helpful contextual reply, verifies it and records who was reached.

What you tell it

What you offer
For example: Bookkeeping for startups, first month free
Which communities to look in
For example: Indie Hackers, r/startups, the Stripe community forum

What counts as done

  • 10 fresh potential users reached with verified helpful contributions and source links.
  • 10 qualified people actually reached, with verified contact evidence. A list or draft alone does not satisfy this goal.

FAQ

About this play

How does the Find users across communities play work in Lanes?

Find potential users in niche forums, Hacker News and GitHub. A Lanes agent works in a real browser, signed in as you, in Reddit, GitHub and Hacker News. Explores the communities you name, plus relevant Hacker News and GitHub discussions. Finds people with an explicit, relevant need and reads each community's rules.

Does the Find users across communities play send messages from my accounts?

Find users across communities acts in public from your connected account, as the steps above describe, and reads a community's rules first wherever it posts or replies. It does not send private messages.

How long does a run take?

Each run of Find users across communities is budgeted at up to 1 hour of agent time, and reports what it actually completed, with evidence.

What do I need to connect?

Where a site needs you signed in, such as Gmail, LinkedIn or X, connect that account in Lanes and the agents work in your session. Other sources are read on the public web. This play works in Reddit, GitHub and Hacker News.

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