A field guide to Reddit patterns.
Explore community guides, review patterns and the latest saved reports. The guides are a curated reading list, not a claim that every community is currently being scanned.
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Latest saved Reddit reports
- I just realized we've been shipping AI slop :(
- Why Your Vibe Coded App Will Crash At 5000 Users
- I built Wren, an open-source AI agent platform using Claude Opus 5.5
- 3 months of building a tool for the arranged marriage search, as a marketer who doesn't code
- I kept wasting hours every day, so I built an app to fix that
- A main memory for Codex: when a chat gets too long, start a new one and say "continue my last chat"
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Community field guides
r/Entrepreneur
Course funnels, affiliate sponsorships, and AI-tool promotion posts appear often here because the audience is actively evaluating business opportunities.
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r/personalfinance
DM funnels that target debt and credit anxiety. The useful advice stays public; the risky pitch moves to DMs.
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r/cscareerquestions
Bootcamp funnels, recruiter sockpuppets, and AI-resume-tool promotions. The audience pays attention to anyone claiming inside information.
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r/cryptocurrency
Token-promotion rings, fake-launch funnels, and off-platform community pivots. The subreddit is a stress test for coordination detection.
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r/Forex
A dense mix of "signals" offers and copy-trading affiliate funnels. Many posts claim outsized returns.
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r/SaaS
Indie-hacker promotion posts and "I built this in a weekend" affiliate funnels. The audience is exactly the buyer profile.
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r/marketing
Agency funnels, "growth hack" courses, and AI-tool pitches with little concrete marketing detail.
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r/passive_income
Course-promotion funnels run at high volume. Many top posts are selling a course about how to sell courses.
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