Reddit and X lead discovery
Searches public conversations for people asking for alternatives, discussing category problems, leaving competitors, or building their own solution. Results are organized around projects, keywords, and communities.
lurk
Freemium
lurk monitors Reddit and X for conversations that may indicate buyer intent, then scores and explains the leads it finds. It also surfaces Reddit SEO opportunities, competitor mentions, and recurring pain themes for product and marketing research.
What is lurk?
lurk by AnyAPI is a buyer-intent monitoring tool for public Reddit and X conversations. It searches a product profile’s keywords and communities, reads shortlisted discussions, and presents scored leads with an explanation and the phrase that matched. The product is intended to help people decide which conversations deserve attention; it does not post or send direct messages.
The workspace also covers Reddit SEO opportunities, competitor recommendations, and recurring pain themes. A read-only API and MCP endpoint expose project data and scored Reddit results for programmatic review. The hosted free offering has documented usage limits, with additional usage available through a connected AnyAPI wallet or self-hosting.
What can lurk do?
Context-aware lead scoring
Shortlisted Reddit posts and comments are read in context and scored with a written reason, the matched phrase, an intent stage, and a seller-side flag. The score orders attention; it is not a probability that someone will buy.
Lead triage workspace
Review untriaged leads and saved conversations in the app, including the surrounding discussion and the reason a result was considered relevant. The product leaves the decision to engage with the user.
Reddit SEO opportunities
Finds Reddit threads for a project’s keywords that already appear in Google results, giving users a way to identify public discussions with existing search visibility.
Competitor and pain-theme analysis
Shows which competitors are recommended in relevant threads and clusters recurring complaints from a project’s leads into pain themes.
Read-only API and MCP access
The API and MCP endpoint provide programmatic, read-only access to projects, leads, SEO opportunities, pain themes, and usage. Lead queries support status, score, date, pagination, and optional full text.
Use Cases
“Find active buying conversations”
A product team can monitor Reddit and X for people explicitly seeking an alternative, asking for a recommendation, or describing a problem the product addresses, then review the highest-priority discussions manually.
“Plan useful community participation”
A marketer or founder can inspect the full discussion, community context, and matching explanation before deciding whether a reply would contribute value. lurk does not automate the reply.
“Identify search-visible discussions”
A content or SEO practitioner can review Reddit threads already ranking for the project’s keywords and use them to understand where prospective customers encounter public answers.
“Research competitors and customer pain”
A product or research team can examine competitor recommendations and grouped complaints across leads to understand alternatives, objections, and recurring problems.
“Build a read-only research workflow”
A developer or agent can use the API or MCP endpoint to retrieve projects, filter lead queues, pull full post or comment text, and sync newly scored results without sending actions through the product.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does lurk automatically contact prospects?
No. lurk finds and scores conversations for human review. It does not post, reply, or send direct messages.
What does a lurk lead contain?
A lead is scored output from a Reddit post or comment. It can include a 0–100 attention score, a written reason, the matched phrase, an intent stage, a seller-side flag, and the source text when requested through the API.
Is the score a prediction that someone will buy?
No. The documentation describes the score as a sort order for human attention, not a probability of purchase.
Can lurk be used programmatically?
Yes. lurk provides a read-only API and an MCP endpoint. The API can list projects, retrieve leads, filter by status or score, request full text, paginate results, and retrieve SEO opportunities, pain themes, and usage.
What are the available hosting and usage options?
The hosted app has a free offering with documented limits. Users can connect their own AnyAPI wallet for more usage or self-host the MIT-licensed source without app limits. Exact paid-plan pricing is not established in the supplied evidence.
Quick Facts
- Product type
- Buyer-intent monitoring and public conversation research
- Sources
- Reddit and X
- Primary outputs
- Scored leads, Reddit SEO opportunities, competitor mentions, and pain themes
- Automation boundary
- Read-only discovery and analysis; no posting, replies, or direct messages
- Developer access
- Read-only API and MCP endpoint
- License and hosting
- MIT-licensed source; hosted and self-hosted options are described
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