Social Stinger
Find people who are ready to buy what you sell
About Social Stinger
Social Stinger is a buying-intent search engine that finds people publicly asking for a product or service like yours. Every hour it searches public posts on Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Stack Overflow, drops the noise, and uses AI to read each real request, classify the kind of intent, score it from 0 to 100 and tag its category, stated budget, competitors mentioned and location. The result is one feed of leads sorted by how ready each person is to buy, with alerts when new matches appear.
The problem it addresses is the time it takes to find buyers by hand. Founders, agencies and freelancers who look for clients in online communities usually jump between subreddits, forums and feeds, reading hundreds of posts to find one real request, and often arrive after someone else has replied. Keyword alerts help only a little, because they fire on every mention, including jokes, general chatter and sellers promoting themselves. Social Stinger replaces that with intent scoring: a post such as "hiring a Webflow dev for a 3-page site, 2k budget" ranks above a passing complaint, and sellers advertising their own services are filtered out. It recognises five intent types: hiring a service, seeking a tool, asking for a recommendation, competitor pain and problem statements. It only uses public posts accessed through permitted methods and says it never scrapes Facebook, Nextdoor or LinkedIn. It does not post, reply or send messages on your behalf; you reply yourself on the original post.
First you describe what you sell. Social Stinger sets up a saved search for your offer, including subreddits picked for it, and you can add filters for intent type, category, countries served, minimum score, minimum stated budget, buyer type, company size and competitors mentioned.
Next it finds and qualifies. Sources are checked every hour. AI reads each request, tags intent, category, budget and location, scores it from 0 to 100, and removes sellers promoting themselves.
Then it alerts you. New matches arrive as a daily digest on the free plan, or as hourly, daily or weekly emails plus urgent alerts on Pro, and the feed in the app is sorted by intent.
Finally you reach out first. You save leads to lists, draft a reply, and answer on the original post while the person is still comparing options. Pro users can also export leads to CSV.
- •Intent Scoring - Every post gets a 0 to 100 buying-intent score and an intent type, so the feed shows people ready to buy rather than every keyword mention.
- •Lead Enrichment - Each lead carries a category, stated budget, competitors mentioned, buyer type and location, so a search like "CRM for agencies, leaving HubSpot" is one filter away.
- •Competitor Watch - Flags posts where people complain about or switch away from a competitor you name, and on Pro also tracks competitors' App Store reviews for up to 5 apps.
- •Saved Searches and Alerts - One saved search with a daily digest on Free, or 10 saved searches with hourly and urgent email alerts on Pro.
- •Reply Drafts - Draft a reply to a lead from inside the app: 10 a month on Free, unlimited on Pro. Replies are posted by you on the original thread.
- •Free Tools - A buying-intent keyword generator, competitor alternative finder, browser-based lead intent checker, subreddit finder and reply templates, usable without signing up.
B2B and SaaS teams and founders can track posts where people are looking for a tool in their category or leaving a competitor, and join the conversation with context rather than a cold pitch. Agencies and freelancers in areas such as web design, Webflow and React Native development, SEO, paid ads, video editing and bookkeeping can filter for hiring posts with a stated budget and reply before others do. Consumer app makers can catch posts like "is there a habit tracker without a subscription?" in their niche.
The free plan, with 3 leads, one saved search and a daily digest, is enough to see whether your market asks for what you sell in these communities. Pro at $19 a month is for anyone who wants every matching lead the moment it is found. Local service businesses are not its focus, and because it covers only five public communities it will miss requests made on Facebook groups, Nextdoor or LinkedIn.
