SweepSonar

Features

Everything between “someone has this problem” and “I replied”

SweepSonar finds forum threads describing the problem your product solves, reads each one, and tells you which are worth your time — and how to answer without getting removed.

One scan reads all five sources

Reddit, Quora, Hacker News, Stack Exchange and Indie Hackers. The same problem gets described in all five by different people at different stages, and which one is worth your afternoon changes week to week.

Keyword, domain, or URL

Give it a phrase, your own site, or a single page. It derives the search terms itself, so you are not guessing at keywords.

Real search, not a keyword filter

Every source is searched properly and the results deduped, rather than string-matching a term against a firehose.
RedditQuoraHacker NewsStack ExchangeIndie Hackers

Know why a thread is worth your time

Every thread gets read and scored — not keyword-matched. You see the verdict, the reasoning, and the numbers behind it.

r/saas92ANSWER NOWSKIPNOWBUYERURGENTLINK FIT

Five verdicts, not a number

Answer now, worth a reply, link opportunity, maybe, skip. A score on its own does not tell you what to do next.

Intent and persona

Whether the poster is buying, researching, troubleshooting or just venting — and whether they can actually make a decision.

Why now, in one line

A sentence quoting the actual trigger in the thread, so you can judge it without opening the tab.

Reach, computed not guessed

Search position, estimated monthly visits, community engagement and how fast the thread is moving. No model opinion in this number.

Reply without getting banned

The thing most tools skip. Every lead shows the community's self-promotion stance, and the draft respects it.

Policy on every lead

Whether self-promotion is welcome, fine if helpful, restricted to a passing mention, or banned outright.

Drafts that obey it

In a community that bans self-promotion, the generated reply will not name your product — it writes something useful instead.

Wrong-language threads dropped

A German scan stops filling up with English threads you cannot answer.

A board that keeps replies moving

Leads land in a workspace, not a CSV. Four stages, because a lead is either new, replied to, won, or not worth it.

List and board views

Scan the list when triaging, drag the board when working. Keyboard shortcuts throughout.

Thread preview in place

Read the whole thread — post and replies — without leaving the app or tipping off the community that you were there.

Draft a reply

A genuine, non-spammy reply you edit and post yourself. Nothing is ever auto-posted.

Deduped across scans

The same thread found twice is one lead, and a thread already scored for your project never costs you again.
INBOXREVIEWREPLIEDWONLEAD 92

The problem it replaces

Searching forums by hand does not scale, and the good threads go cold while you are still reading.

COLDLIVEFOUND LATE = ALREADY DECIDED

Hundreds of threads, a handful of conversations

A keyword search returns volume. Almost none of it is someone describing a problem you can solve, right now.

Freshness is most of the value

A thread answered on day one gets a reply. The same thread three weeks later is an archive entry.

Questions

Does SweepSonar post replies for me?
No. SweepSonar finds and scores threads and can draft a reply for you to edit, but it never posts anything. Every reply is published by you, from your own account. That is deliberate — automated posting is what gets accounts banned.
Which forums does SweepSonar scan?
Reddit, Quora, Hacker News, Stack Exchange and Indie Hackers. One scan searches all five and deduplicates the results.
How does SweepSonar score a forum thread?
In three layers. Deterministic facts first (thread age, reply count, how fast it is moving, search position, estimated reach). Then a language model reads the thread and classifies intent, fit, persona and whether the question is still open. Then a fixed formula combines them into an opportunity score, a reach score and one of five verdicts. The reach number contains no model judgement at all.
Will replying to threads found by SweepSonar get me banned?
Not if you follow the policy shown on each lead. Every community has its own self-promotion rule, and SweepSonar shows that stance on every thread it returns, then writes drafts that respect it — including writing no product mention at all in communities that ban them.
What counts as a credit?
One credit is one thread hydrated, scored and stored. Starting a scan is free, cache hits are free, and a thread already scored for your project does not cost you twice. Generating a draft reply costs two credits.

Start with 100 free credits

One credit is one thread read and scored. No card, no trial timer — run a scan and see whether the leads are any good before you decide anything.

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