ChannelScout
Scout the channels where your first users are hiding.
ChannelScout launched on May 6, 2026 with 15 votes, #1,002 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Generic AI advice burns tokens. Generic "post on Reddit" filler wastes weeks. Scout solves both. How it works: Drop your app's URL and answer a few questions to get back a ranked Blueprint of the actual rooms where indie apps like yours get noticed (subreddits, Discords, newsletters, X, TikTok, wherever your people are), a 30-day roadmap sized to your real free hours, a brand guide downloadable free, and copy in your voice. Built by someone who learned the hard way so you don't have to.
Scout the channels where your first users are hiding. Get a Launch Blueprint, a 30-day roadmap, posts drafted in your voice, and 30 days of Scout to keep iterating. $19 one-time.
Your app isn't the problem. You just haven't found your people yet. Drop in your app's URL. Scout hands back a ranked list of the rooms where indie apps like yours got traction, plus a 30-day roadmap sized to your hours. Subreddits, Discords, newsletters, X, TikTok. Wherever your people actually hang. No signup, no email. Walk through the wizard, the Blueprint, and Scout's Hunt yourself. Scout reads your app, your audience, and your capacity. Then hands you a plan the way a marketing hire would on day 90. Subreddits, Discords, newsletters, X, TikTok, wherever your people actually hang. Each one scored, each one explained. Plus the channels Scout ruled out and the reason why. Drop a URL or…from channelscout.co
Does a similar job
all alternatives →
OverleadFeb 2026 · overlead.co · ▲146Here's the problem: I launched two products. I wrote blog posts. I posted on X, built in public. I tried running ads. And you know what actually got me customers? Replying to someone on Reddit who asked, "What's the best tool for this?" One reply. Three signups. I felt like an idiot for not doing it sooner. But here's the issue: I don't have time to refresh Reddit all day looking for these posts. I have products to build. Bugs to fix. Emails to answer. Life to live. So I built Overlead to do the searching for me. Overlead scans Reddit, Quora, and Hacker News (and many more to come) for…
ScriptmineFeb 2026 · scriptmine.ai · ▲86I built this for myself. I make videos, and my biggest bottleneck is figuring out what to say to my audience without staring at a blank page. So I built Scriptmine: a tool that listens to Reddit conversations in my niche, finds high-signal topics, and turns them into scripts. How it works: - Track subreddits and discussions relevant to a niche - Rank topics by engagement/momentum - Generate a hook/body/CTA draft in a chosen voice/format
FoundersWall2025 · founderswall.com · ▲35I used to be just a blogger. Now I build internet products, still without code, using AI, design, and taste. I was building in public on X for last 2 months. And honestly, I got tired of how it became performative and started to feel fake. I shipped 2 products. Both failed to get any real traction. I kept sneaking into popular builders’ profiles, hoping to learn how they do it. One thing I kept seeing everywhere, product launch directories. I thought here is the scope. So I started building one. Same UI like the rest. Nothing special. Suddenly one day when it was half built, I realized…
CandySearch2025 · candysearch.vercel.app · ▲8Excited to share something I've been building recently called CandySearch. I made it to solve a personal pain with a SaaS product I built, which was that we were always monitoring Reddit and Twitter to see if anyone had mentioned keywords indicating they were looking for us. Before, we had to go manually respond to posts, often missing good mention opportunities. Would love for HN folks to try it and let me know what you think!
I built a tool to make AI recommend you (and I'm conflicted about it)Dec 2025 · firstclick.so · ▲7So I've been obsessed with a weird question for the past 6 months, what happens to SEO when everyone starts asking ChatGPT for recommendations instead of Googling? The answer, apparently, is chaos. And maybe opportunity? I built FirstClick because I noticed something strange. My previous startup was getting zero traffic from AI assistants, but our competitor (objectively worse product, sorry not sorry) was getting mentioned by Claude and Perplexity constantly. It drove me crazy. So I reverse engineered why. Turns out there's a whole new game being played and most founders don't even know it…
- IMI made a fool that finds potential customers for you2024 · ▲5
Hey everyone! I wanted to share a tool I built to help you quickly find potential customers across social media for your product. It's a really simple concept: you simply paste in your landing page URL, and it shows you highly relevant posts across Reddit (Working to integrate few more) from people who likely need your product or service. For example, if you have a minimal to-do list app, it will show you posts like "Anyone know of a minimal to-do list app?" or "Really starting to dislike how complex Notion is." These posts are from the last 48 hours, updated in real-time, and uniquely…
More ai this month
the category →
Paintings by AI models: programs run through a simulation of oil paint.
AI · 20d ago · stillwet.art
PixVerse R2▲381A real-time world model you can explore and change
AI · 29d ago · world.pixverse.video
Source: Product Hunt launch ↗
Launched alongside, May 2026
the whole month →
Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons
Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…
Life & fun · May 2026 · github.com
🌱 Private, quiet space for thinking. Simple app for .md files. - zakirullin/files.md
Dev tools · May 2026 · github.com