Community Signals

Extract high-intent leads from developer community forums by detecting buying signals in public discussions. Currently supports Hacker News and Reddit.

When to Use

• User wants to find leads from developer communities or forums
• User wants to identify people publicly expressing pain with competitors
• User wants to find people asking "what tool should I use for X"
• User mentions Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow, or developer forums as lead sources
• User describes prospects who discuss tools, complain about solutions, or ask for recommendations in public forums
• User wants to find developers who built DIY/hacky solutions for problems the user's product solves

Prerequisites

• Python 3.9+ with requests and optionally python-dotenv
• Apify API token in .env (for Reddit scraping)
• No auth needed for Hacker News (free Algolia API)
• Working directory: the project root containing this skill