[graeme]

For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users:

Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT.

http://metareddit.com

[babs474]

You should give http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search.

I'd love any feedback.

[graeme]

Some quick notes. Mostly negative, only because I haven't used it long enough to notice advantages. Overall, it looks like a good site. Hope these are helpful:

* I couldn't block subreddits from the feed. In my case, LSAT is also a weapon in some popular videos games. On Metareddit, I was able to block the most common gaming subreddits so those results never came up. * Metareddit produced an actual feed I could check once a day for new comments. This is more of a search engine. * I have to hover over the link to see the subreddit. That's often very relevant

Apart from that, looks good. And obviously, these criticism depend on your use case. I used metareddit specifically for monitoring.

[babs474]

Thanks for the thoughts. I think the monitoring use case is a very natural next step. Basically "saved" searches.

On commentfindder you can exclude specific subreddits with "-subreddit:askreddit" syntax or target subreddits by removing the minus. Of course, I should make this more obvious, right now its kind of a cheat code.

[seltzered_]

I just spent some time on it - I like the concept! The one thing I noticed is that I noticed less comment-worthy opportunities on here compared to just doing a search on twitter (for my work, I just search for "photoshop shortcut" or "illustrator shortcut").

There might be some more worthy places to also incorporate search in (quora comes to mind)

[modemuser]

The metareddit monitor doesn't search through an index. It's a crawler that constantly fetches all new comments and submissions and looks for the (several thousand) keywords in each of them.

Source: I run metareddit.

[JayNeely]

I wish there were an RSS option for the search results sorted by recency. Would love to be able to see when there are new mentions for a term without having to come back and search frequently.

[rfnslyr]

Fantastic marketing tool.