[Dwolb]

I believe there's a ton of uncovered value in parsing Reddit threads, especially those centered around buying or discovering things. Subreddits like r/BuyItForLife, r/malefashionadvice, r/rawdenim, and any city subreddit have great suggestions.

In fact when I need a new laptop, I'll use Google to search Reddit and change the filter settings to show only recent reviews i.e.

```windows laptop site:reddit.com/r/suggestalaptop```

[TkTech]

It's not really uncovered, it's actively used and exploited. There are thousands of companies doing trend & sentiment analysis that use Reddit as one of the input. I've been paid to do it a couple of times.

[sean_patel]

> I believe there's a ton of uncovered value in parsing Reddit threads, especially those centered around buying or discovering things

I'm very interested in doing something like this for an app idea. Can you (or OP or someone else) tell me what the "path of least friction" is, to parse sub-reddits programatically? Is it using their API? Are there PaaS (Parsers as service) available? After that, what would I do? Apply some sort of NLP or AI?