growth_lena·r/startups·18 min ago
Any lightweight social listening alternative for a tiny SaaS team?
Brand24 feels too heavy for us. I just need alerts for Reddit, X, and YouTube when people mention our product or competitors.
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Growth social listening
Reply while buyers are still choosing.
Stalkr finds recommendation requests, alternative threads, and category questions so you can join the conversation before a competitor owns the answer.
No credit card. 10 free mentions.
“i wake up and check stalkr instead of twitter”
jack friks@jackfriksThe cost of missing it
Most sales opportunities never enter your CRM.
People ask for recommendations in public long before they book a demo. If you only wait for inbound forms, you miss buyers who are actively comparing tools and asking peers what to use.
Alternative and recommendation threads are high-intent demand.
Helpful replies can create trust before a sales call exists.
Competitors often win simply because they saw the conversation first.
Practical plays
Three ways to turn mentions into business results.
Each play starts with a keyword strategy, then uses Stalkr to surface the posts worth acting on.
Play 1
Track alternative searches
Monitor your category with words like alternative, recommendation, versus, best, and lightweight.
growth_lena·r/startups
Looking for a Brand24 alternative for a tiny SaaS team. I need Reddit, X, and YouTube alerts without the heavy dashboard.
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Find buyers who already know the problem and are asking what to buy.
Play 2
Answer comparison threads
Track competitor names beside your category and buying phrases.
founder_kit·@founder_kit
Is there a lighter social listening tool for founders? RivalPulse pricing jumped again.
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Offer a useful answer while the buyer is still collecting opinions.
Play 3
Spot urgent expansion signals
Watch for customers asking how to do more with your product or replace a heavier tool.
operator_notes·SaaS stack Q&A
That's the missing piece in our growth workflow: can Stalkr monitor Reddit threads for buyer questions?
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Start timely conversations that feel helpful instead of cold.
Growth monitoring, on autopilot
Track the keyword.
Act on the signal.
- 01
Drop a buying-intent keyword.
Track alternatives, recommendations, pricing questions, and competitor comparisons buyers post before they choose.
#XRedditYouTube - 02
We find live buying threads.
Stalkr scans public conversations where people are actively asking what to buy or switch to.
- 03
Warm opportunities rank.
Alternative threads, pricing frustration, and recommendation requests become a reply queue.
91buyer79switch66question - 04
Act on the opportunity.
Open the original conversation, reply with context, save the signal, or turn it into product, support, marketing, or sales work.
Answer threadSave leadFollow up
Stalkr for AI agents
Your agent watches the internet. You only hear what matters.
Connect Stalkr to ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, or any MCP client. New mentions flow straight to your agent, so it can filter the noise, keep your inbox moving, and bring you in only when something matters.
How Marc uses Stalkr
Marc Lou
Founder of Stalkr
I'm Marc. I built Stalkr to track what people say about my products.
One day, a founder tweeted me asking if they could sell their startup on TrustMRR. I turned that single message into its acquisition marketplace. Founders started getting acquired, and the feature has since generated more than $150,000 in revenue.
More than 380,000 people follow what I build on X, so feedback comes in every day.
I use Stalkr to:
- Find feature ideas
- Fix reported bugs
- Collect testimonials
- Correct misinformation
You can see it working on TrustMRR's live mentions.
Inside Stalkr
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Pricing
Start with 10 free mentions.
Upgrade when the signal grows.
Use Stalkr for growth first, then add more keywords, competitors, saved views, and alerts as your monitoring workflow gets sharper.
Starter
$29/mo
or $261/yr (22/mo)
For solo founders shipping fast.
- 3 keywords
- 1,000 mentions / month
- X · Reddit · YouTube · LinkedIn
- AI categories
- Email alerts
- Saved views
- Analytics dashboard
- REST API · MCP · webhooks
Most popular
Pro
$99/mo
or $891/yr (74/mo)
For startup teams ready to scale.
- 7 keywords
- 10,000 mentions / month
- X · Reddit · YouTube · LinkedIn
- AI categories
- Email alerts
- Saved views
- Analytics dashboard
- REST API · MCP · webhooks
- Team members
Scale
$299/mo
or $2691/yr (224/mo)
Agencies, enterprise, multi-brand coverage.
- 15 keywords
- 50,000 mentions / month
- X · Reddit · YouTube · LinkedIn
- AI categories
- Email alerts
- Saved views
- Analytics dashboard
- REST API · MCP · webhooks
- Team members
API, MCP, and webhooks are available on every plan, including the free trial. Mention, keyword, and machine rate limits still apply.
Cancel anytime. No overage charges. Hit your cap and we pause the feed until next month.
Questions
Questions about growth monitoring.
01Is this only for sales teams?+
No. Founders, marketers, and support leads can use Stalkr to find demand before it becomes a formal lead.
02What keywords reveal buying intent?+
Try category terms with alternative, recommendation, best, vs, pricing, review, lightweight, and competitor names.
03Can Stalkr track competitors for sales opportunities?+
Yes. Competitor monitoring is one of the strongest ways to find comparison threads, switching intent, and dissatisfaction you can respond to.
04What does Stalkr monitor?+
Stalkr tracks public mentions across X, Reddit, and YouTube for the keywords you choose: your product, brand, competitors, founder name, feature names, or niche phrases your customers use.
05Do people need to tag my account?+
No. Stalkr is built for keyword monitoring, so it can catch public conversations where someone mentions your product or category without tagging you.
06Can I choose my own categories?+
Yes. You decide the categories that matter to your workflow. Where platform policy allows, Stalkr uses AI to file mentions into those categories. YouTube API mentions remain exact and are not assigned derived categories or sentiment.
07What counts as a mention?+
A mention is a public post, reply, thread, or comment that matches one of your tracked keywords or aliases. Stalkr dedupes and organizes them so you are not reviewing the same signal twice.
08How do email alerts work?+
You can get email alerts for mentions you cannot afford to miss, like urgent complaints, bug reports, false claims, high-intent buying threads, or creator shout-outs.
09Can Stalkr alert my AI agent when a new mention is found?+
Yes. Signed webhooks can send a mention.created event as soon as Stalkr finds a match. Your agent can then read the mention, source, context, engagement, and status through MCP or the API.
10Does Stalkr have an API and MCP server?+
Yes. Stalkr exposes its supported workflows through a versioned REST API and an authenticated MCP server, so agents can manage projects, keywords, mentions, alerts, categories, saved views, and webhooks with the same permissions and limits as the dashboard.
11Do I need to be a developer to connect an AI agent?+
No. The dashboard works normally, and OAuth-enabled MCP clients such as ChatGPT can connect without pasting an API key. Developers can also use scoped API keys, OpenAPI, and signed webhooks for custom systems.
Start listening
Join the buying thread before the decision is made.
Monitor alternative, recommendation, pricing, and competitor keywords so warm public conversations reach you while buyers are still choosing.