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  Lekhansh Ojha (@lekhanshojha12) reported 6 minutes ago

  “Claude Code writes my code. Why can’t it do my marketing?” I spend ~3 hours a day on Reddit. Not building. Not shipping. Scrolling. Hunting for the one post where someone describes my product’s exact pain. Writing comments that sound helpful instead of like an ad. Digging through profiles to find people who might actually buy. Then rewriting the same message 40 ways so it doesn’t feel copy-pasted. Most days I find the wrong post, DM the wrong person, and ship nothing. So I started building an MCP that hands the whole loop to Claude Code, finds the posts, drafts comments in my voice, builds the lead list, writes the outreach. Marketing runs while I go back to building and fix bugs. Would you use this, and what breaks first? Let’s talk in the comments. If you want in, drop “interested” and I’ll put you on the beta tester list.

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  Daddy No Legs (@questioncom) reported 8 minutes ago

  @NotLizBrody It’s like the number one thing coaches tell people. If you dont have money for the **** to support the cycle, stay off. Do they listen? No. They rush to Reddit and cry about their **** not working, all the acne, the gyno, etc. Then have to wait it out while everything crumbles

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  Kaleigh Moore (@kaleighf) reported 10 minutes ago

  B2B SaaS companies rank well in traditional search but still fail to earn citations in AI search. The fix? Getting experts to post about their knowledge on LinkedIn, YouTube, and Reddit. I built a system to make this programmatic, and it's forged from decade of reporting and vetting sources myself while writing for publications like Forbes, Vogue Business, and ADWEEK. It taught me something that most content strategists never learn: editors and journalists don't cite content, they cite PEOPLE — specific, verifiable, independently credentialed humans with a named point of view and a track record of being right about something.

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  Ben H (@benh_mecfs) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Z3R0Gravitas @JackHadfield14 @Gmwetz Do you mean 1/4-1/3 on the PWM reddit are chronically ill? Apologies if I have misinterpreted that. So yes, that’s when I noticed PWM being an issue, but my severity had become massively worse. I had to have a PWM-free LCD. Interesting the IPS had PWM. They’re usually my go-to!

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  Mick Jay (@mickjayofficial) reported 13 minutes ago

  @beffjezos Frontier labs have to stop pretraining/training their base models on internet sewage like Reddit (and other biased datasets) which is rife with moral relativism and ends-justify-the-means thinking. Guardrails won’t fix bad base training.

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  Amin (@eCom_Amin) reported 16 minutes ago

  fable 5.1 is insanely CRACKED at finding winning google ads angles to scale your brand past $1m/mo research capacities literally DOUBLED so here's every prompt you'll need to reverse-engineer competitors' funnels and rip some banger gads based on it: (actually run them all rn, don't just save this) 1. load the brain before you ask it anything the research is only as sharp as the context. upload: - pdps - reviews - website - funnel pages - competitors - report CSVs - brand docs - ICP info - winners - losers literally everything then run this: "act as the angle research lead for this brand. read everything uploaded and build a working profile: ICP segments ranked by revenue, the pain points in the customer's own words, the objections ordered by how often they appear, the proof we already own, and the beliefs a buyer must hold before purchasing. do not propose angles yet. summarise what you found, then tell me what context is MISSING" that last instruction is the whole game. prompt engineering is cope just have claude tell you what he needs from you and give it to him. anybody who disagrees just loves to overcomplicate things. 2. mine untapped databases that semrush misses prompt: "search reddit threads, quora answers, amazon reviews and Q&A sections, youtube comments on competitor and category videos, tiktok comments, trustpilot, and niche forums for people discussing [PROBLEM CATEGORY]. extract VERBATIM language, never paraphrase. for each goldmine you find, give me this: the quote, the pain underneath it, what they already tried, why it failed them, the outcome they want, and the emotional state behind it" paraphrasing is how angles end up sounding like ai slop. the whole value is in knowing your ICP's EXACT words and repeating them on ads. 3. reverse engineer every competitor funnel end to end "research [COMPETITOR 1, 2, 3]. use google ads transparency center, meta ad library, their landing pages, checkout flow and email capture. for each: every live ad and where it routes, the landing page TYPE, the hero promise, the mechanism they claim, the proof they lead with, the objections handled and in what order, the offer and guarantee, and what they are NOT saying" then: "for each competitor page, tell me which awareness level it was built for. then identify which of their traffic is landing on the wrong page type" this is how you find gaps in your competitors strategies that you can capitalize on 4. diagnose market sophistication BEFORE choosing an angle this is the step 9 out of 10 brands skip and it decides whether your angle has any chance: "assess the market sophistication level for [CATEGORY] using schwartz's 5 stages. analyse competitor ads and landing pages as evidence. stage 1 means nobody has made the claim yet. stage 2 means claims are escalating. stage 3 means mechanism differentiation has started. stage 4 means mechanisms are competing. stage 5 means the market is exhausted and identification wins. tell me which stage we're in, the evidence, and what type of angle still works at this stage" if your category is at stage 4, a bigger promise does nothing. every competitor already made one. if you're operating in stage 5, the mechanism is exhausted too, and the strategy has to shift again your ad is only good if it resonates with the market it operates in 5. score every angle against awareness and funnel stage "from the research, generate 15 google ad angles for my brand. for each: the awareness level it serves, the funnel stage it belongs in, the sophistication stage it's valid at, whether it's validated by competitors or white space, the proof required to run it, and the funnel type it should be tested through. rank by expected impact and flag any we lack proof to support" an angle without proof is a claim. claude will rank those last 6. map the keywords to the angles, not the products "build the keyword universe for [BRAND] using the customer language and competitor research. split into branded, competitor, problem-aware symptom queries, solution-aware category queries, comparison, use-case, and occasion. tag each with awareness level, the angle it pairs with, the funnel type it routes to, and the campaign that should own it" this will make everything nice and organized 7. turn the research into the campaign plan "turn everything above into a 30-day google ads launch plan for this specific brand, its AOV, margin structure and market sophistication stage. for each campaign, give me: the angle it carries, the keyword cluster, the landing page type, the creative direction, and the signal that decides whether it scales, holds, or gets cut. separate must-launch from phase 2 tests" then: "tell me which 3 angles to test first and why, given our sophistication stage and the proof we currently own" and that's literally it your competitors are testing angles with fat budgets while you analyze it all, learn from their mistakes, and (ethically) rip their winners with a unique twist and if you want me to audit your brand's google ads angles using this system and show you how we'd capitalize on the winning ones... DM me "OPP"

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  formless_electrons (@FormlessE) reported 18 minutes ago

  @DoctorLoops Reddit mods are like janitors. But unpaid and usually have terrible social skills.

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  Keegan Kreutzer (@keegankreutzer) reported 21 minutes ago

  That retatrutide vial in your fridge is now an exhibit in a federal lawsuit. Lilly sued six online sellers in August. Not for patents. For what they told customers: "research only" next to a dosing chart, "same as the real thing," "safe." Their lawyers used Reddit posts describing side effects as evidence. Three sellers took their pages down the same day.

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  Monter (@buildwithgoks) reported 21 minutes ago

  @pcshipp Reddit can work, yea. But I’d start with search terms where people already sound frustrated. Reddit threads, X search, niche forums. Reply first, then post the best answer again on your own profile. What problem does the app solve?

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  Dice (@builtbydice) reported 25 minutes ago

  @adamofk_ this is what most people get wrong with reddit. the best posts are usually about the problem and that’s how it should be

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  GOP & Me (@GOPandMe) reported 26 minutes ago

  @salowa87 @Noioso2A @reddit_lies You’re completely wrong, the infant was already in post care meaning the surgery was already done. The only reason the doctor was there was to tell them how the surgery went and to field any questions about post surgery. The question was asked after they heard how the child was faring from the surgery, and since nobody else in the family attacked the Aunt it’s clearly an appropriate question. You got some serious issues assuming that the angry doctor on Reddit is correct.

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  🏳️‍⚧️ R.I.P. LYDIATÁR (@volkmardeadguy) reported 27 minutes ago

  @slimesphere @penis_beast The monetization isn't even bad, my issue is their ****** mod manager is cheeks and the actual dev of it replies to every reddit thread saying "its just an issue on your machine not the app"

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  Arthur (@arthuryuzbashev) reported 31 minutes ago

  If your startup has no traffic right now, it's a skill issue. Reddit gets 10M+ daily visitors hunting for solutions to their problems as we speak. You don't need an audience. You don't need followers. You don't need a brand. Right subreddit. Right place. Right way to promote. That's the whole formula. The subreddits are public. The winning post formats are public. Everything is free. One post per 48-72 hours. 30 days. Zero bans. What's your excuse?

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  Harshal (@harshal_lfc) reported 35 minutes ago

  @Chikudi_US Also, according to reddit rumours they already had issues from 2nd or 3rd month itself. Plus, early months in marriage is mostly lovey dovey after which people show their true colours if they are hiding something

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  orange chainsaws (@westboundsign95) reported 36 minutes ago

  Why is there just so many bad guides to literally everything and somehow reddit is the one that solves all my problems

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  Clippa🐰✂️ (@CallMeClippa) reported 36 minutes ago

  @deverslath @tbdeinc @c_vinchenzo when no one could find the reddit leak that didnt exist, they created one hoping it would muddy the waters but people like you that are good at this are tracking everything in the **** show discord server already.

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  Simmo (@yoursimmo11) reported 37 minutes ago

  Stop f*cking adding so much stuff. Honestly. Please. Just stop. Stop stacking. Stop pill popping. Stop reading one more study at 11pm. Stop perusing Reddit and Ray Peat forums at midnight. Stop all of it. Think about it. If any of it actually worked, you'd have stopped by now (and you haven't). Pattern I see after coaching dozens and dozens of 7-and-8 figure execs is that not one was missing something. NOT ONE. Every single one had the opposite problem. Too much interference. Too many pills, too many rules, and way too much stimulus before 9am... all of it standing between his body and the thing it already knows how to do. Trust me on this: You're not under-supplemented. You're over-interfered. Your body doesn't reward effort. It rewards ORDER.

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  Yula (@Super_HunTTer) reported 39 minutes ago

  @OriTheOriginal Exactly my thoughts I respect how insane the lore is, and I enjoy some of his character writing, but overall the book is losing me more and more with each issue I don't want to read Reddit threads explaining wtf is going on to me after every issue 🫩

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  Mαulik (@maulik_5) reported 39 minutes ago

  there have been so many weird little chapters with my app lately started at $0. got my first $29 payment thought okay... we're doing this! then nothing for weeks visitors dropped signups came in but trials didn't someone literally told me they stopped because onboarding asked for a card too early so i rebuilt things then rebuilt them again landing page onboarding ui/ux performance basically everything i could convince myself was “the problem” at one point a post about my yc application randomly hit 84k views and brought in hundreds of followers and then my next posts went back to being... well, my next posts 😭 reddit got banned too cancelled claude because i knew i was spending too much time building then somehow burned another $20 on ai credits fixing onboarding again and honestly, there were days where i felt like i had absolutely no idea what i was doing especially seeing other founders move so fast while mailient barely moved but that's also when something changed i stopped thinking about how to make mailient look successful and started thinking about how to actually make it work one customer one problem one clear promise one real reason to come back still at $29 still going for $200 mrr still a long way to go but i'm still here building it. DON'T U EVER GIVE UP!

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  Billy Baggins (@BillyOfBagEnd) reported 40 minutes ago

  @dwanbrooks93 @rothschildmd And hopefully those broken records will send a message to Hollywood that people on X and Reddit don’t represent the mass audiences. The Odyssey, too

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  QuiescentCrescent (@qui_crescent) reported 44 minutes ago

  It's just very funny to me how positively tame whatever personal drama he has going on is compared to the gangbanging and serial killing of all the thug rappers reddit fellates. All performative, all the way down.

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  DingusCola SLOTS CLEARED (@fackinbuddy) reported 44 minutes ago

  @___EEF_ There are apparently people on Reddit as recent as 4 days ago having the exact same issue on me and the working theory that it’s due to paypal’s ai security. This could validate for a genuine law suit

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  Vit from joinrecall.com (@vitverb) reported 44 minutes ago

  @HeyAliux reddit, but only when the problem is already specific. one detailed reply in a niche sub brought us more beta users than a week of posting on X.

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  Kiana_SEO (@KianaS_00) reported 46 minutes ago

  If you’re spending budget on GEO right now, this test may save you from putting it into the wrong channel. Today, my client gave us around 500 queries their in-house team was tracking, saying that they want to do Reddit. We narrowed them down to 50 representative ones and ran each 10 times, roughly 500 real ChatGPT responses in total. In this sample, Reddit appeared as a referenced source only 4.8% of the time, with zero direct Reddit citations. At the same time, we started seeing YouTube show up much more often for this AI category. And this is exactly why, for the clients we already work with, we don’t treat distribution as a fixed strategy. Also, e didn’t wait for the Reddit citation drop to become a GEO headline. Our daily monitoring was already showing the shift. Around August 5, we started noticing changes in how ChatGPT was retrieving sources across real user responses. We adjusted the client’s distribution strategy before the broader data came out. Later, public tracking made the change much clearer. ChatGPT Search’s use of site:-specific fan-out queries jumped from roughly 0.37% to 16.8% in a day, while the average number of searches per response increased from around 1.08 to 1.83. A few days later, Reddit’s tracked share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from a previous average of 3.83% to around 0.52%. By the time this became widely discussed, we had already seen the direction in our own monitoring and started moving the client’s budget. But Reddit still matters for reviews, community discussion and long-term brand presence. Before scaling content, we now look at: which domains AI is actually retrieving from which formats keep getting cited which sources are gaining or losing share how those patterns are changing week by week Then we move the budget. For visual categories, that might mean more YouTube. For another category, it might be product pages, niche publications or first-party research. The useful takeaway is simple: Build your GEO distribution plan around what the model is retrieving now. And ideally, you see the shift in your own data before everyone starts posting about it.

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  Reese (@FPS_Reese) reported 49 minutes ago

  @GorgoKnight Looks like a common issue that’s happened to a bunch of folks over the past two weeks. Can’t pinpoint a fix, and without connecting to see the whole setup, there’s a lot of unknowns. A Reddit user shared this, try this, then reboot the computer after before trying the game again.

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  Mike Sulka (@SulkaMike) reported 49 minutes ago

  Fable 5.1 has been out for about a day and Reddit has already discovered why some people don't like the way it writes: THE WATERMARK. Except...probably not. Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are the first new Claude models carrying Anthropic's statistical text watermark, and some users are already wondering whether that's why the newer Claude models feel more verbose, structured or exhausting to read. I went through Anthropic's actual watermark documentation, and their explanation makes that theory pretty hard to defend. The watermark doesn't insert hidden characters or extra words. It only nudges the random choice between equally acceptable next words. Anthropic says its testing found no measurable effect on creativity, readability or output quality, and cites Google's controlled testing of the underlying SynthID-Text approach reaching the same result. It also adds no extra tokens and essentially no latency. And here's the detail I hadn't appreciated: Anthropic is applying the watermark globally, even though it exists largely because of the EU AI Act, because it says it doesn't yet have a durable way to apply it only by geography. Older Claude models are eventually getting it too. Code barely gets watermarked at all when exact token choices matter. Factual passages get less watermarking for the same reason. The watermark lives mostly in places where “grey” and “overcast” are equally good choices. So if Fable 5.1 suddenly feels like it swallowed a management-consulting handbook, I wouldn't blame Brussels just yet. But humans being humans, we quickly try to reverse-engineer model behavior from vibes. Yesterday people thought Fable 5.1 existed because Claude suddenly seemed smarter. Today people think its writing changed because of a watermark. Last week a Gemini model told somebody it was a model that hadn't even been released yet. The Behavioral-Fingerprint Trap keeps winning. We are getting very good at noticing that something changed. We're still pretty terrible at figuring out what changed underneath it. And in 2026, it could be the checkpoint, the harness, the effort setting, the router, the safeguard layer, the system prompt, the watermark... ...or Claude just decided it really wanted to give you twelve bullet points today.

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  Colin Sechay (@colinsechay) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Fran_Casaretto_ The Legendary Story: Tom Hanks is sitting at a diner in North Dakota having a beer. A few tables over, some kid is face-down, completely passed out. Hanks walks over to check if he’s okay, sees the guy’s phone sitting on the table, and can’t resist. He has the bartender snap a few photos of himself with the unconscious stranger — one where he’s looking concerned, one where he’s pointing and laughing like he just found treasure — then slips the phone back into the kid’s pocket and leaves. The next morning the guy wakes up, scrolls his camera roll, and finds Tom Hanks photobombing his hangover.  That’s the story that spread on Facebook, Imgur, and Reddit with captions like “Can you imagine finding these on your phone after a drunken night out?” What actually happened A fan ran into Hanks at a diner in West Fargo (Hanks’ niece worked there). The fan’s thing was posing with celebrities while pretending to be wasted. He asked Hanks if they could do it. Hanks said yes, handed over his glasses, and played along while a friend took the pictures. The original Reddit title was literally: “My friend met Tom Hanks, stole his glasses and pretended to be wasted.”  Hanks’ favorite version When a reporter asked him about it in 2013, Hanks gave both stories and then said he preferred the legend: “Well now, that second version is that I did just start taking pictures with a passed-out guy. I’m happy with this version, that it’s become somewhat of a legend. I wouldn’t want anyone not to believe that I am capable of turning up on their phones.” So the photos are real, Hanks really posed with a guy who looks dead-drunk at a diner, and he really used the guy’s phone. He just didn’t do it to a random unconscious stranger. The internet decided the better story was the one where Forrest Gump finds you passed out and photobombs your phone, and Hanks was happy to let that one live. @grok

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  Rhonda S (@Smeetsya) reported 55 minutes ago

  @s4intfelina That's the problem. Men hate women, but women hate women too. I'll bet 90% of these snark reddit are women.

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  hooftly (@hooftly) reported 58 minutes ago

  Something has happened in the trenches. We are seeing the emergence of a new meta that, to me, has always been obvious. If you troll my old Reddit posts, you will see me talking about this. I have always been adamant about one thing when it comes to memecoins... they need more than a meme. Bored Ape Yacht Club were pioneers here because they took an otherwise pretty useless meme and turned it into a social phenomenon. They achieved this by adding exclusive perks for holders, different levels, and more. The lesson learned here? Utility is required for any meme to survive long term or grow further. That utility can look like what BAYC did... Or it can look like something else. How many memecoins have you ever held? Were you glued to the charts, hoping it wouldn't nuke, with your finger on the sell trigger? This is psychologically draining. It's also dying as a meta. Enter MemeFi. The very thing I have been talking about for so long. I'm not the only one who sees this now. It started with Stonkbrokers piercing the veil and really setting it off. People started to realize memes could be more. They could be productive, and they could earn. Once you see this in one place, you start to realize where this is not happening... which is almost every OG meme in the space. Okay, cool, but SB was built from first principles by a builder who was deeply entrenched. They can't all be the same caliber, right? This may be true, because building DeFi is hard. But what if there were a way to make memecoins useful without needing to build massive rewards incentives internally? What if you could also tie it into the growing MEME/Stock pair meta? This is one of the things STATICS is trying to accomplish. You may have heard about our basket tokens and how, when created, Uniswap v4 pools are deployed pairing the Basket Token itself with each of its underlying assets. Three underlying assets in the basket? Three pools are created. This creates an arbitrage graph between the pools, the external venue value of the underlyings, and Basket Token mints and burns. Now enter memecoins and stock pairs. These are already seeing traction, and users are making real yield in liquid assets by LPing Meme/Stock pairs. But what happens when attention ends? What drives trading if no one is paying attention? ARBITRAGE. I know I sound like a broken record at this point, but the more opportunity you have for price divergence, the more opportunity arbitrage traders or bots have to rebalance and profit. This translates to volume. Volume translates to fees. Fees translate into rewards for LPs. And rewards can translate into attention coming back because the yield is good. See where I am going? Basket Token pools don't require speculation to attract volume. All they need is price divergence. In trading, divergence is an everyday occurrence. Imagine a basket with underlyings of NVDA and MEMECOIN. We call it NM1. You then have pools with: NM1/NVDA NM1/MEMECOIN If MEMECOIN dumps hard on an outside exchange, think about what just opened up... The MEMECOIN/NM1 pool has not dumped with it, and this has created a DIVERGENCE. A trader can buy MEMECOIN at the lower external price, sell it into the NM1/MEMECOIN pair, acquire NM1 tokens, burn NM1 for the underlying assets, and profit. The trader was able to profit AND pick up NVDA at the same time. And this is just a super simple example of all the possibilities that open up. $STATICS is building infrastructure to make existing assets useful and, ideally, bring attention back to them. The Uniswap v4 hook also compounds part of the fees directly back into Protocol Owned Liquidity that can't be removed until a pool is decommissioned. This means every trade deepens protocol-owned liquidity. MemeFi is here, and it's being paired with stock tokens. The frontier for this is on @RobinhoodCrypto, and @staticsprotocol is building for it.

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  Cushion Finish (@Cushionfinish21) reported 58 minutes ago

  @moonlarking @pixaxiq @CH4R10T_TV The easy way to tell is the lack of engagement on the post other than views and likes. You can easily find places that will charge you like 15c for 10 likes with a quick Google search - people use them all the time. It's a huge problem on this site as well as Reddit.