Most social listening tools miss where developers are!!! Track mentions here instead: - Val Town (~free) → HN, Reddit, Bluesky - Octolens ($99/mo) → DEV.to, Stack Overflow, tech podcasts, newsletters - GPT-5 prompts (free but spotty) → GitHub repos,

thank you Buffer 🫡

✨ New in Octolens: AI Summaries for your brand and your competitors. Octolens now sends a weekly summary that turn's all of last week’s mentions into a short brief. You receive two summaries, your brand report, plus a competitor report. That way you can zoom out from your

🐙 August at Octolens… we kept the momentum from July rolling! Here’s my recap of what went well (and what didn’t): What went well: - MRR grew by 20% - Shipped improvements to GitHub monitoring, AI relevance, and onboarding speed (all Igor Kotua 👏) - Released our Octolens

Damn Octolens does exactly what i wanted and does it really well. Turns out they also run on PlanetScale!

😻 We just launched Conversation Rank on Product Hunt 😸 It's a free tool for AI SEO that measures your CR (analogue of DR) based on Reddit data Why Reddit? Well, you can learn about that in my comment under PH launch Link below, you know what to do Let's go

Reddit is shaping AI search results. Tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI rely on Reddit when recommending products. That's why at Octolens we built a new (free) tool: Conversation Rank. Conversation Rank shows how often real users talk about your brand on Reddit

The more your brand grows, the harder it gets to separate high-signal mentions from the noise. That’s why, alongside daily alerts, we introduced Octolens' weekly AI Brand insights. It gives you: - A short exec summary of past weeks mentions - Sentiment trends - Highlights &

Just shipped a new feature in Octolens Now you can receive notifications in hourly batches instead of instant This is a great middle ground between instant and daily notifications Instant might be overwhelming if you have too many notifications, and daily just too late to

I just launched our @octolens customer stories page A little over a year in, I’m really proud of the calibre of companies that trust us to monitor their brand. Many of them moving over from legacy tools. You’ll find stories like: - Prisma Postgres answering 600+ mentions a week within

How brand monitoring w/o Octolens feels like

We just launched Conversation Rank → your business’s Reddit visibility score. Think of it as Domain Rating for the AI age. But instead of backlinks, it’s dependent on your brand's Reddit mentions. Why Reddit? It’s one of the most cited sources for AI search. If you’re not

The spammy Reddit playbook (don’t do this) 👇 I sometimes hear this customer request at Octolens: “Can I auto post AI-generated answers from different Reddit accounts with Octolens?” Short answer: no. That’s a very short-term view and the fastest way to get banned. Reddit

🐙 September at Octolens another month of steady progress Here’s my recap of what went well and what didn’t: What went well: - MRR grew by 15% - Launched Conversation Rank, our free tool to measure Reddit + AI visibility - Added a Customer Stories and Features page to our

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"I don't mention (Octolens) at all on social media because I don't want my competitors using you" While I'd love the public referral, I will take this feedback any day. Thank you... anonymous!