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Schneider: Local newsletters can hit Reddit's front page by buying early-morning upvotes
“There's actually a newsletter play that I see a lot of people use for local newsletters. They go to a subreddit for that, that area. So like Toronto as an example, and they're like, here's 20 things you can do this weekend in Toronto. And then it's like, you w…”
Ohanian: Reddit is a proof of concept for Web3
“In many ways, I think Reddit will be looked at as a kind of proof of concept for a lot of the stuff that Web Three is just gonna run away with in the next few years.”
Schneider: Marketers Manipulating Reddit for LLMs Are Creating a Dead Internet
“Reddit is being eroded right now by people manipulating it for like LLMs to rank on them.
but this is a way like you buy people like me that are basically creating the dead internet.
Let's be real.
It's already happening.”
Kevin Rose: Rebooted Digg Is a Reddit Competitor Run by CEO Justin
“We have Justin as a CEO who runs kind of like the day to day and builds out, you know, the Reddit competitor version of dig. And then we have, you know, me that I'm kind of more in the labs area where I'm pushing on the edges of ideas and saying, what might we…”
Kevin Rose: Gemini Search Grounding Bypasses Scraper Blocks on Sites Like Reddit
“Oftentimes they won't come out and say this, but they kind of crawl the article and give you back what the article actually says. And they might reword it a little bit, but it's largely what the article says. And I can prove that because they can, you can do t…”
Isenberg: AI-generated short-form 'slop' is highly valuable for driving app traffic
“Now, some people call this AI slop, and I understand that but some of them are super valuable, like this one, you know, it got 320,000 likes, so people obviously like it, and how powerful would it be if you owned a bunch of accounts that had like A 152 100,000…”
Ohanian: The Serial podcast team was dismissive of their Reddit community
“And I remember reaching out to the team there saying, hey, you all should really engage with this community. Like, this, whether you know it or not, is the most valuable part of your podcast. No offense. And to say that they were dismissive was an understateme…”
Ohanian: Reddit grew yearly for five years despite zero product investment
“Like, Reddit for five years between, I left in 2010, I came back in early, you know, late 14 as exec chair, had Almost no investment by con and asked in the product. The product didn't improve for half a decade, barely stayed online. Okay. There's no business …”
Howard Lindzon compares modern retail trading to Roman gladiator entertainment
“Speculation has become entertainment, and so gladiators, when the Romans had all this time, And they were fighting wars and moving people. People in Rome just said, you know what? We got a lot of fucking time. Let's have people kill each other and we'll watch.…”
Schneider: Scraping Reddit via Claude produces superior ad hooks
“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…”
Wilkinson built an automated local newsletter with Lindy AI in an hour
“I recently, I own like a local newsletter business and I was goofing around with Lindy and I was able in about an hour to build a Lindy agent that could go through. It would basically like choose this. I chose a city like a city near me. And I said, every day …”
Isenberg: Subtly linking a domain in a Reddit signature drives ban-free traffic
“Something I usually do is I'll respond. Well, I'll create a post and just add as much value as possible. And then at the end, just sign my name and like Greg and then, you know, Greg from buy it for now products.com and just link that. So you're not even sayin…”
Chou: Direct links in Reddit comments trigger automated bans
“Do not link to it because link automatically flags stuff on Reddit and then you're going to get your account clapped.”
Louis-Lucas: Answering Quora and Reddit questions will seed LLM responses
“I would heavily invest in replying to Cora questions and Reddit questions, because that's probably where a lot of LLMs are going to get their answers.”
Target 10k-100k member subreddits for startup ideas, not massive communities
“The mistake people make here is they focus just on these big subreddits. What I like to do is actually go to the 10,000 to 100,000 member subreddits. These aren't the massive subreddits, but they're the ones that There's, you know, it answers the why now quest…”
Isenberg: Reddit startup ideas have generated multimillion-dollar businesses
“I've come up with startup ideas from Reddit that have built me multimillion dollar businesses.”
Isenberg: Build transition coaching funnels using niche subreddits and memes
“The way I would build this, Teachers in transition or whatever in transition is I would actually go and build the subreddit if it doesn't exist, like go and build a subreddit, moderate the subreddit. I would try to collect as many memes as possible, and the me…”
Isenberg: Track viral Reddit community posts to validate business ideas
“I use, I like to use Reddit and see posts that, you know, go viral in particular communities as a way to validate a particular business idea.”
Greg Isenberg says major platforms like Spotify and Airbnb face unbundling
“I think there's a bunch of areas that you can unbundle that like people are not thinking about. A lot of people think about, you know, now, especially unbundling of Reddit, unbundling of Facebook, unbundling of Instagram. But what are some lesser known areas w…”
Van Horn's 'Last 30 Days' Claude skill searches recent social data
“It's called slash last 30 days. And it's gonna, for any topic you could possibly imagine from best prompting techniques for a particular tool to how should I use Claude bot to what are the greatest rap songs right now? It's gonna search X Twitter and the web f…”
Greg Isenberg: Searching Reddit for 'is there a tool' reveals unmet demand
“Search site Reddit is there a tool and then your niche, and then you're going to find users begging for tools that don't exist.”
Isenberg: Founders can find AI SaaS opportunities by searching social media complaints
“You don't necessarily have to ask people or be one of those people to come up with one of these patterns. You can also just go online and start searching and seeing what on platforms like Reddit, X, Instagram, what are people complaining about? And figuring ou…”
Chou: Top Reddit comments for VPN searches are dominated by NordVPN
“Why you know this works is if you search for any VPN keyword, you'll notice the top comments are always NordVPN. These guys are already dominated.”
Isenberg built designscientist.com into a 7-figure business using Reddit research
“Like design scientist.com is, you know, it's a seven figure business from this methodology.”
Founders can name their startups directly after trending subreddits
“When you go through all these subreddits, sometimes what you can do is actually, you can create a company with the same name as the subreddit.”
Isenberg: StumbleUpon was once larger than both Reddit and Twitter
“I was at StumbleUpon and StumbleUpon was bigger than Reddit. And that's crazy. It's crazy to think it was bigger than Reddit and at one point bigger than Twitter.”
Ohanian: Reddit's first revenue came from merchandise sales
“The first revenue Reddit made was merch.”
Isenberg says the ComfyUI subreddit ranks in Reddit's top four percent
“Their subreddit has skyrocketed in terms of membership. So it's now a top, you know, three or four percent subreddit”