ContextPulse: Compliant Social Intent Listener for Indie Founders

I Built an AI Lead Generator... Then Cancelled the Project

You may have dodged something by cancelling at the discovery stage, because I think the wall you hit was the second-hardest problem, not the hardest one. I do this manually, a lot of it, across founder subs. Finding relevant threads isn't where the difficulty lives. What actually determines whether it works is that the reply responds to the specific rough edges of what someone wrote, including the parts that are unclear or slightly wrong, rather than a clean paraphrase of their point with advice attached. And people are extremely good at spotting the difference now. I've had comments called out as AI-written purely for having three evenly weighted paragraphs and a tidy closing line, when the content was entirely mine and I'd read the post twice. One thread I was in turned into a whole side conversation about dead internet theory, and the correct move was to concede it in one line and leave rather than argue. So the sequence you'd have hit: solve the API problem, get a working discovery pipeline, then start posting replies that pattern-match to automation, and burn the account in a subreddit you can't easily get back into. Reddit is the best source precisely because the norms are enforced socially, and the enforcement is aimed at exactly the thing an automated pipeline produces. Where I think a version of this survives: not the reply generation, just the triage. A tool that surfaces threads worth reading and, more importantly, filters out the ones that look relevant but aren't, the validation-fishing posts, the engagement bait, the soft plugs seeded as genuine questions, would save me real time. Skipping is most of the judgment. But then a human has to actually read and write the thing, which caps the value at maybe an hour a week rather than a scalable channel.