Hi, I’m Egis. I built Prowlo.
My full name is Egidijus Ambrazas, which nobody outside Lithuania has ever pronounced correctly, so — Egis.
I’ve been building software for about twenty years. Games, SaaS products, mobile apps, and a long stretch of building things other companies needed and couldn’t build themselves. Prowlo is mine.
Away from a screen I build other things. Lego, woodwork, whatever is on the bench. It’s the same itch, and it’s why a product like this exists at all — I started it because I wanted it, not because I found a market gap in a spreadsheet.
No posting, commenting, voting or DMs. Not a roadmap item — the point.
Reddit, X, Hacker News, Mastodon and RSS, all on one record schema.
How Prowlo started
In 2024 I was working on something else entirely: taking content that had already done well on one platform and giving it a second life on another. To do that you have to know what is actually working right now, not last quarter. So I wrote crawlers and monitors for Reddit to collect the topics and ideas worth paying attention to.
Then I connected them to an AI model, and the thing became properly useful. Not “ten times your growth” useful. Useful in the small, specific way where I stopped guessing what people cared about, because I could read it.
At some point it became obvious that the monitoring half was worth more than the reason I had built it. So I turned it into a product, on the assumption that other builders and hustlers had the same problem I did.
What I decided it would never do
Writing crawlers teaches you how short the step to the next thing is. Auto-reply. Auto-post. Run five accounts. Plenty of tools do exactly that, and they work right up until the subreddit bans you and your name is attached to it.
So Prowlo reads, and it does not write. No posting, no commenting, no upvoting, no DMs.
That is not a feature I am waiting to build — it is the point. Prowlo finds the conversations. You decide whether to show up, and what to say.
Who I built it for
People in roughly my position. Founders and small teams doing their own marketing, usually with an AI assistant open in another window, who know their customers are talking somewhere on Reddit or X and do not have the hours to go looking every day.
If you have a social listening budget and a team to run it, Prowlo is probably too small for you. That is fine — I would rather be the right tool for a few hundred people than a vague one for everybody.
How I run this
Prowlo is not a weekend experiment I will get bored of. I use it myself every week, I ship changes constantly, and the changelog is public if you want to see the pace.
Because it matters when you are trusting a small product with something you rely on: if I ever have to stop, you will get notice well in advance and a full export of everything Prowlo has collected for you — not a login screen that stops working one Tuesday.
Say hello
I read everything that comes in, and I am the one who answers it. Bug reports, feature requests, and “this didn’t work and here’s why” are all welcome — the last one most of all.
I also write about Reddit, MCP, and the economics of building developer tools — those posts are on my author page.