Find out where your customers are on Reddit — researched, not guessed
One hosted job reads about 1,000 posts and 3,000 comments, then hands you the subreddits that are actually yours, what each one allows, what to write, and the threads worth answering this week. Every claim carries a quote and a link.
First run free on every account. 14-day trial, no card. Read-only — Prowlo never posts.
Why a list of subreddits is not research
Every subreddit finder ranks community names by how closely a description matches your sentence. None of them read the posts. So you still open twenty tabs and do the real work by hand: skim the rules, scroll the top posts, guess whether these are your people, guess what to write, and hope you do not get removed on the first try.
That guessing is expensive in a way that is easy to miss. The rules differ far more than the advice suggests — one large SaaS community allows one mention or three links every 60 days and blacklists your URL if you exceed it, another wants 100 community karma before you share anything, another allows a single post if it carries the right flair, and one of the largest posts no rules at all. We checked what a dozen of them actually enforce.
What the report contains
Numbers are computed by code. Quotes are verbatim and link to the source. A verification step drops anything the model could not evidence.
Communities, ranked in tiers
8–10 subreddits, never 50. Tier 1 means post and comment; tier 2 comment only; tier 3 watch but do not engage yet. Each card carries quoted posts where your buyer describes the problem, who actually posts there, and activity figures with the date they were measured. Plus a "considered, not recommended" list with one-line reasons.
The rules, quoted not summarised
Self-promotion policy per community — banned, a ratio, case-by-case, a weekly thread, or welcome — with the real rule text quoted. Minimum karma and account age when stated, flair requirements, link policy, and the name and day of the promo thread if one exists.
What content wins there
Computed from about 75 posts per community: median and top-decile scores, how many posts get zero comments, text versus link, which formats win and which die, and what the top-decile titles have in common — with example winners and their permalinks.
Voice of customer
Recurring pains clustered with at least three quotes each, the exact vocabulary people use with counts, the objections they raise about tools like yours, and what they use today. This is messaging material, and it feeds your keyword monitors.
Competitors on Reddit
Where each competitor gets mentioned and in what stance — recommended, complained about, compared, or neutral — with example quotes. Mentions of your own product come first. Tools that keep surfacing in alternative-seeking threads get flagged so you can add them.
Where the conversation is moving
A weekly relevance index per community over the last 8–12 weeks, rising or falling, including communities that are becoming relevant before they earn a tier. It updates daily, so the report keeps working after the run finishes.
The report sets itself up
A research document you read once and forget is worth very little. Every recommendation in the report is one click from becoming something that keeps running.
- Watchers for the tier 1 and tier 2 communities, so new posts keep arriving after the research is done.
- Keyword monitors built from the vocabulary the report found, the competitor names, and the tools that kept coming up in alternative-seeking threads.
- An alert on competitor mentions, to Slack or a webhook.
- Everything over MCP. Your agent reads the finished report — the plan, the rules, the trend index — instead of trying to read a thousand posts itself. See the MCP server.
Research runs automatically right after you describe your product during onboarding. The first run is free on every account; later runs draw from your AI credit pool.
It tells you what to post. You post it.
Tools that post for you are how accounts get shadowbanned and products get URL blacklisted by moderators. Prowlo is read-only and always will be. The plan names the thread, the angle, and the rule you are posting under — a person writes it and hits submit. Auto-posting, vote manipulation, alt accounts, and ban evasion are refused outright.
Related reading
What subreddits actually allow
The self-promotion rules of a dozen founder and marketing subreddits, quoted from each community rather than summarised into one ratio.
ReadFinding buying intent on Reddit
How to tell a thread that is worth answering from one that will waste an afternoon.
ReadHow community research shipped
What the first version does, what it reads, and what is coming next.
ReadKeyword Monitor
The recurring half: keywords searched across all of Reddit daily, with relevance verification.
ReadFrequently asked questions
If you can't find what you're looking for, get in touch.
Reading them is the only method that works. Subscriber counts and keyword matches tell you a community is big, not that your buyers are in it. Community research reads about 1,000 posts and 3,000 comments across candidate communities and ranks 8–10 of them, each with 3–5 quoted posts where someone describes the problem you solve — so you can judge the fit from the evidence instead of the name.
Five sections: ranked communities in tiers with quoted evidence and each one’s promo rules; what content wins there, computed from the top posts; competitor and brand mentions with stance; voice of customer — recurring pains and the exact words people use; and a 30-day plan with live threads worth answering this week.
Yes, per community, quoted from the subreddit’s own rules rather than summarised. Self-promotion policy is classified as banned, ratio, case-by-case, weekly thread, welcome, or unknown; account requirements like minimum karma or account age are listed when the subreddit states them. Those requirements differ far more than the commonly cited 9:1 rule suggests.
No, and it never will. The plan tells you what to write, where, and under which rules — a person posts it. Prowlo is read-only by design. The report will not help with auto-posting, vote manipulation, multiple accounts, or evading a ban, and it refuses those requests.
The first run is free for every account. Later runs draw from your AI credit pool. Everything else is the standard plan — $19/mo flat with a 14-day free trial, no card to start.
Yes. The report is available over MCP, so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client can pull a section and work from it — draft posts against the plan, check a community’s rules before suggesting a thread, or watch the trend section. Your agent reads the finished research rather than redoing the reading itself.
A finder ranks community names by similarity to a sentence. Nobody reads the posts, so you still open twenty subreddits by hand to learn which are yours and what the rules are. Community research does that reading and shows its receipts: every claim carries quotes with permalinks, scores, and dates.
Community research is Reddit-only today, because "which subreddits" is the job it was built for. Watchers and Keyword Monitor cover the rest of the plan across subreddits, Reddit users, Hacker News, Mastodon, RSS & X.