Show HN: We built a social listening AI for X, LinkedIn, Reddit, HN

Show HN: We built a social listening AI for X, LinkedIn, Reddit, HN(octolens.com)

4 points by CharlotteSophie 1 year ago | 2 comments

Hi Hacker News, Octolens is a social listening tool that helps early stage B2B software companies find social posts with buy signals.

I use Octolens to grow our business daily, this is how:

I track keywords related to our solved pain points, brand, and competitors. Octolens finds posts across sites like Reddit, X, LinkedIn, and more, then assesses them with AI for relevance and buying signals.

I receive alerts about highly relevant posts in Slack. I then engage with these posts to connect and convert potential customers.

As cold outbound becomes more challenging with AI automation and email spam restrictions, capitalizing on intent signals is more important than ever. Octolens helps with exactly that.

The best part of this journey is collaborating with Pepe Reyero, who joined as founding engineer.

We also have a free search tool on our website to play with as well as a directory of previous YC companies as some examples of mentions you can expect.

Free search tool: https://octolens.com/search

Free YC directory: https://octolens.com/mentions

Looking forward to your feedback!

Charlotte

lilouartz 1 year ago |

Curious to see how it does, as it was something I considered building! The thing that put me off from doing it is that it is just too simple for existing platforms to add AI feature on top of their existing offerings.

CharlotteSophie 1 year ago | |

Oh interesting! We've definitely seen that its not super easy to just add AI for relevance if you have a super diverse user base. Currently our customers are early stage b2b SaaS and we understand what their goals and use cases are. Therefore, adding something like relevance isn't so straightforward for a big player IMO.

But cool to hear you thought of building something similar! I think its a good sign that there is a need.