Schneider: Scraping Reddit via Claude produces superior ad hooks
Cody Schneider · The 6 Best AI Agency Niches to Make $50K/mo (Data-Backed) · Jul 23, 2025 · at 18:26
Cody Schneider explains to Greg Isenberg why e-commerce ad agencies should source hooks from Reddit rather than competitor spy tools.
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“What's going to be way more effective is like you go and you scrape a Reddit forum and you find this random quote, you know, about acne cream and like somebody describes it in this funny way or a different way. And like you extract that using Claude and you're like, oh my God, like that's the hook. Right. And then you run that that's going to create a totally different way or a different piece of content than what your other competitors.”
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