Every post and every comment, across seven platforms: the subreddits your customers live in, all of Hacker News, Lobsters and any of its tags, the YouTube channels your buyers watch, the Instagram, TikTok and X accounts they follow — or all of Reddit at once. When somebody names your product, a rival, or the problem you solve — in a thread, under a post, or out loud in a video — you get it while the conversation is still open.
Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X land in the same feed, with the same filters and the same alerts. YouTube is read by what is said: when a new upload speaks your keyword, you get the caption line that said it and the second it was said. Instagram, TikTok and X are read by account: what a creator posts, and what people write underneath. 5 of these seven are real mentions from a live workspace, a different one on each load, with authors’ names left out; the ones marked “drawn” use an invented brand until that platform has one to show.
…will be making my startup just through my phone , chat gpt + work mode + Claude + GitHub + cloidflare + vercel + imagekit + firebase + supabase and much much more tech stacked on it . So I will be sharing my story here…
open the original ↗We moved to acme after the third silent failure — the missed-ping alert paid for itself in a week.
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Marques Brownlee◉ 7.8M views2026-07-13neutral“…All right, it's time to talk about iOS 27... coming to an iPhone near you. So I've been running the latest beta of iOS 27 for a little while now, since WWDC. Basically, the public beta is out now, too, which means you ca……”
▶ 0:05 — opens the video at the second it is said
@playstation1d agoneutral@PlayStation Thats Cloud and Cid... Vincent is KOed...
open the original ↗Measured from each subreddit’s own feed on Sep 11, 2026. A tool that only reads posts sees the first line of a conversation and misses everyone who answered it.
We read your homepage once and propose your name, the rivals worth tracking, the problems you solve, and the subreddits your buyers post in. You tick what is right.
Posts and comments in each subreddit, on Hacker News, on Lobsters or one of its tags, under any public Instagram or TikTok account, and every post and reply of a public X account — all of Reddit at once, or the captions of every new upload on a YouTube channel. Each source is polled once and shared by everyone watching it, which is why this is affordable.
Sentiment, intent and how sure we are it is really about you. Mark one as noise and the filter learns what noise means to you.
Complaints and people shopping reach your inbox or Slack in minutes. Everything else waits for the digest, so the alerts stay worth opening.
Comments are where products get named. Every watched source is read in both.
Your keywords, searched across every subreddit — for the thread in the place you never thought to add.
Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X in the same feed, the same filters and the same alerts — including what a video says out loud.
You against your competitors, week over week, in percentage points anyone can repeat.
“Not relevant” teaches the classifier, and offers the negative keyword that would have caught it.
j, k, e, x. Saved views, bulk actions, and a live “3 new” that never moves the row under your cursor.
Complaints to #support, buying intent to #sales, with Archive and Not-relevant buttons in the message.
A weekly snapshot for whoever pays — share of voice, how the week felt, the five that mattered.
A short, disclosed reply you edit and post yourself. It never posts for you — that is what gets accounts banned.
Every mention, keyword and count over REST, documented with a live Test button.
Invite colleagues into one shared inbox, and claim a mention so two people do not answer it.
Past your allowance we keep watching and hold the matches — “43 waiting” — instead of dropping them.
Most posts containing your name are people mentioning it in passing. Every match is read and labelled, so what reaches your inbox is the handful that can still be acted on — and the rest waits for the digest.
A place is checked once and shared by everyone watching it, so the price follows the sources you watch and the mentions you read — not how many people are reading them.
Every plan — Free included — comes with API keys and a monthly grant of credits. A credit is one API read. When the grant runs out, buy a pack: purchased credits never expire, and the grant is always spent first so nothing you paid for is wasted.
| API read | 1 credit |
| API write | 2 credits |
| AI reply draft | 5 credits |
| Site scan | 10 credits |
Free grants 100 a month; Pro 20,000. Every metered response carries what it cost and what is left.
Packs are bought on the billing page of any account, so a Free workspace with a pack is a complete developer plan: keys, docs with a live Test button, and only the calls you make on the bill.
Seven: Reddit — any subreddit, or all of it at once — Hacker News in full, Lobsters, either the whole site or a single tag like rust or security, YouTube — any channel, where the captions of every new upload are read for your keywords — Instagram, any public account, where the captions of new posts and the comments under them are read, TikTok, any public account, where the captions of new videos and the comments under them are read, and X, any public account, where every new post and the replies under it are read with their exact counts. They arrive in one inbox, with one set of filters and alerts, and each carries its own mark so you can tell at a glance where something was said.
No, on any of them. Reddit publishes every subreddit as a public feed, Hacker News serves its pages to anyone, Lobsters publishes JSON, YouTube ships captions with the video, and a public Instagram, TikTok or X account is public — no credential to create, nothing to keep alive, and no API bill that changes under you.
Yes — in every subreddit you watch, on Hacker News, on Lobsters, under every new post of an Instagram account, under every new video of a TikTok account, and under every new post of an X account. Comments are where most brand talk happens: in the snapshot on this page, r/ClaudeAI produced about twenty-four comments for every post. The exceptions are stated rather than discovered: All of Reddit searches posts only, because that is all Reddit’s search returns; a single Lobsters tag has no comment feed, so watch Lobsters whole if you want its replies; on Instagram and TikTok we read top-level comments and not the replies under them; on X we read the whole conversation under a post, reposts excluded; and on YouTube we read the video itself — the spoken captions — rather than its comment section.
Between one and thirty minutes depending on plan, and faster on busy subreddits: each one measures how quickly it moves and checks itself more often when it needs to.
The watching does not stop. Matches past your allowance are stored and counted, and you are told how many are waiting rather than losing them.
Yes. There is a REST API with keys you create yourself, metered in credits that every plan includes, and a reference with a Test button that runs the call against your own workspace. If the API is all you want, a Free account and a credit pack is a complete plan — the per-call prices are under Pricing.
It goes from here too. We re-check recent posts every night and remove anything the author removed on Reddit.
No. SocialEar is independent and is not endorsed or sponsored by Reddit, Inc., Hacker News, Lobsters, YouTube and Google LLC, Instagram and Meta Platforms, Inc., TikTok and ByteDance Ltd., or X Corp. We read their public feeds and pages under their terms — and, where a site publishes its own rate limits, well inside them.
