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AI · July 6, 2026

Octolens

Hi Hacker News, Octolens is a social listening tool that helps early stage B2B software companies find social posts with buy signals. I use Octolens to grow our business daily, this is how: I track keywords related to our solved pain points, brand, and competitors. Octolens finds posts across sites like Reddit, X, LinkedIn, and more, then assesses them with AI for relevance and buying signals. I receive alerts about highly relevant posts in Slack. I then engage with these posts to connect and convert potential customers. As cold outbound becomes more challenging with AI automation and email…

Octolens launched on July 6, 2026 with 354 votes, #68 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

In plain words

Octolens is a social listening API that aggregates mentions from Reddit, Hacker News, podcasts, and news sources across the internet. It delivers AI-filtered data in JSON format via API, webhooks, and MCP protocol, allowing users to route information into Slack, CRM systems, data warehouses, or AI agents. The tool is designed for marketing teams and developers who need to monitor online conversations and integrate insights into their existing workflows and AI systems.

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From the sources

Your AI agents read your code, docs, and CRM but can't see Reddit, Hacker News, podcasts, or the news. Octolens is one API for every mention across the internet. AI-filtered JSON via API, webhooks & MCP. Pipe it into Slack, your CRM, your warehouse, or your agents.

The AI social listening tool for the agent era. Track brand mentions across Reddit, X, LinkedIn & 10+ platforms. API, MCP & webhooks on every plan.

Monitor Reddit, X, LinkedIn & 10 more platforms in one place. AI-filtered mentions for your brand and competitors — in your stack, not another dashboard. " The Octolens team built one of the most impactful products I've used in the last 10 years. It fundamentally changed how we run every product team at Vercel. " Octolens monitors 13+ platforms, filters the noise with AI, and delivers structured mentions wherever your team — or your agents — work. Reddit, X, GitHub, Hacker News, podcasts, news — where your customers actually talk. Monitor names like "Apple" or "Amazon" without drowning in noise — AI filtering keeps only what's about you. Slack, email, or webhooks — mentions land in your…from octolens.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi Hacker News, Octolens is a social listening tool that helps early stage B2B software companies find social posts with buy signals. I use Octolens to grow our business daily, this is how: I track keywords related to our solved pain points, brand, and competitors. Octolens finds posts across sites like Reddit, X…

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