Reddit Answer Engine
This automation monitors Reddit for conversations on specific topics, identifies relevant threads, and uses AI to generate insightful comment drafts. The drafts are then sent to a Slack channel for review and potential posting.
Eduardo Rodriguez
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This agent acts as your personal Reddit scout and content assistant. Here's how it works:
- Topic Monitoring: The automation begins by taking a list of topics you want to track.
- Reddit Search: For each topic, it performs a search on Reddit, focusing on discussions from the past week to ensure relevance.
- Intelligent Filtering: It sifts through the search results to find the most promising threads, specifically targeting questions that don't yet have a high number of comments. This provides an opportunity to contribute to a conversation early.
- Content Analysis: The agent navigates to each qualifying thread and carefully reads the original post and the top comments to understand the context and flow of the discussion.
- AI-Powered Drafting: Using this context, it leverages an LLM to draft a helpful, well-structured comment. The draft typically includes a summary of the discussion, key bullet points, and quotable sentences, all written according to your specified guidelines for tone and style.
- Digest for Review: Finally, it compiles all the drafted comments, neatly organized by topic, and posts them in a single, easy-to-read message to a Slack channel of your choice. This allows you or your team to quickly review the suggestions, make edits, and decide which ones to post.
Usage Ideas
- Brand Monitoring: Keep an eye on what people are saying about your company or products and draft responses to address questions or feedback.
- Proactive Lead Generation: Find potential customers asking for solutions that your product or service provides and draft helpful, non-promotional comments to start a conversation.
- Content Ideation: Discover trending topics, common questions, and pain points in your industry to fuel your blog, social media, or video content strategy.
- Community Engagement: Establish expertise and build goodwill by consistently providing valuable answers and insights in relevant subreddits.
- Competitive Intelligence: Monitor discussions about your competitors to understand their strengths, weaknesses, and customer sentiment.
Customization Ideas
This template is highly adaptable to your specific needs. You'll be able to easily customize it by:
- Defining Your Niche: You can specify any set of topics or keywords to monitor on Reddit, allowing you to focus on conversations that matter most to you, your brand, or your industry.
- Controlling the AI's Voice: The style, tone, length, and format of the generated comments are fully customizable. You can instruct the AI to be formal, casual, humorous, or strictly technical to perfectly match your brand's voice.
- Fine-Tuning Your Targeting: You can change the rules the automation uses to select threads. For example, you could target threads from the last 24 hours to be highly timely, or change the comment count threshold to engage with either new or more established discussions.
- Choosing Your Review Destination: While the template defaults to sending drafts to Slack, you can have them delivered to other services, such as email, a different team messaging app, or saved directly into a document for later use.
- Changing the Source: With some guidance, you can adapt the core logic to monitor other websites besides Reddit, such as Quora, Hacker News, or other online communities.
Agent Inputs
Required Parameters
Name | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
slackChannel | string | None |
Slack channel where drafts will be posted (e.g., "#reddit-drafts" or channel ID like "C1234567890") | ||
Optional Parameters
Name | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
commentGuidelines | string | Write a comment that summarizes the thread discussion with 3-5 bullet points highlighting key insights. Include 1-2 quotable sentences. Keep it under 200 words, neutral and factual tone, no emojis. |
Instructions for how to write the draft comments. Customize this to adjust tone, length, and content style. | ||
numDraftsPerTopic | number | 3 |
Maximum number of comment drafts to generate per topic. The automation will process up to this many qualifying threads for each topic. | ||
searchTopics | array<string> | ['web automation', 'browser agents'] |
List of topics to search for on Reddit. The automation will search for questions related to each topic. | ||
