Buyers ask real people first
Before they buy, people search Reddit and ask Blind for honest takes from real users. Those threads are where the decision gets made.
For indie hackers, solopreneurs & small teams
Your next customers are already posting
BeaconBox watches Reddit and Blind for conversations your product can genuinely help with, then gives you a daily shortlist and a reply draft to review.
Reads from your own browserEven private communitiesOnly posts worth replying to
Why it works
The hard part isn’t the playbook, it’s keeping up
Answering the right threads early wins customers. BeaconBox watches for them and surfaces only the ones worth a reply, so it stays a ten-minute habit, not an all-day scroll.
A founder’s reply beats an ad
“I built something for this,” in the right thread, earns trust no ad can buy. And it keeps working: threads rank in search for years.
Keeping up is the hard part
Nobody can scroll every subreddit and Blind channel all day. BeaconBox watches them for you and surfaces only the posts you can answer.
How it works
From noisy feeds to a daily shortlist
Set it up once and it runs on its own. Because it reads from your signed-in browser, it can watch private subreddits and login-only Blind channels that cloud tools never see.
Tell it about your product
What you’re building, who it’s for, and what a promising post sounds like. A couple of plain-English sentences is plenty.
Point it at your communities
Pick the subreddits and Blind channels your customers read, and choose how often to check, from hourly to once a day.
It finds the posts worth replying to
On schedule, the extension reads new posts from your signed-in browser and keeps only the ones your product can answer. No keyword soup, just a shortlist of leads.
You review and post
Every lead lands in one inbox with the post, why it matched, and an editable draft if you want a head start. Approve copies the reply and opens the thread. Posting is always your move.
Use cases
Every kind of thread that turns into a customer
Find people asking for what you built
“Is there a tool that does X?” When X is your product, that’s a warm lead. Be the reply that says “yes, here.”
Catch switchers mid-search
“Any alternatives to the big incumbent?” Those threads are full of people ready to change tools. Show up while they’re still deciding.
Answer the pain before the ask
Plenty of buyers describe your exact problem without knowing a product exists for it. A helpful reply turns their complaint into your demo.
Hear your name when it drops
Know the same day your product or a competitor comes up, instead of finding out from a screenshot a week later.
Where it works
Reddit and Blind today, then anywhere your customers read
Because BeaconBox reads through your own browser instead of each site’s API, any forum you can open is within reach. Reddit and Blind are live, with more on the way.
New posts in the subreddits you choose, including private ones you’ve joined, read through your signed-in Chrome session. No Reddit API setup.
Blind is login-only, which keeps most monitoring tools out entirely. BeaconBox reads it from your account, the way you would.
Next up: any forum Chrome can open. Think Indie Hackers, Hacker News, or the niche forum where your customers live.
Get started
Install once, reply daily Free in early access
Five minutes, no fiddly setup. The dashboard walks you through the rest.
Install the extension
One click from the Chrome Web Store, on Windows or Mac. Pin it and your match inbox is always a click away. Get the extension
Describe your product
Sign in with Google, connect the extension, and tell your first monitor what you sell and who it’s for. Open the dashboard
Review your matches
New leads land in the dashboard and the side panel, each with an editable draft. Tweak, approve, and post as yourself.
FAQ
The questions everyone asks first
Will BeaconBox ever post as me?
No, never. Approving a draft copies it and opens the source thread so you can post it yourself, edited or not. Never auto-posting is a product invariant, not a setting.
Isn’t replying to promote my product just spam?
Not the way BeaconBox is built to do it. It surfaces only threads your product genuinely answers, drafts a reply that helps first, and leaves the posting to you, by hand, from your own account. You choose where to show up. Community self-promo rules still apply, so skip the ones that say no.
Why is it a browser extension?
Because your browser can already see what matters. BeaconBox reads forums from your signed-in Chrome session, so private subreddits and login-only communities like Blind are in reach. Cloud monitoring tools only see the public firehose.
Do I hand over my Reddit or Blind password?
No. The extension reads forums through the browser session you already have. It holds no passwords, no API keys, and no AI secrets. The paid AI runs on our server.
Do I need to leave my computer on?
Scans run from Chrome on your machine, so they pause while it sleeps. For all-day coverage, keep Chrome open and set your computer to stay awake while plugged in (on Windows under Settings → System → Power & battery, on Mac under System Settings → Battery → Options). If it sleeps anyway, the next scan looks back up to 24 hours so you don’t miss what happened while you were away.
Will the drafts sound like AI wrote them?
They’re drafted from your product description in a plain, first-person voice, with no corporate filler. Treat each one as a strong first draft: the thirty seconds you spend making it yours is what makes it land.
Which sites work today?
Reddit and Blind are live. Any forum Chrome can open is next on the roadmap.
Right now, someone is asking for exactly what you built
Be the helpful reply that gets there in time.
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