Reddit Keyword Alerts Ai

🚀 Reddit Keyword Alerts AI — the smartest way to monitor Reddit

Reddit Keyword Alerts AI is a free, private Chrome extension that watches Reddit for your keywords and sends real-time notifications when something matters. It works like Google Alerts for Reddit, but with AI intelligence, unlimited keywords, and zero subscription fees.

Unlike SaaS tools (Mention, Brand24, Awario) that charge $50-500 per month and store your data on their servers, Reddit Keyword Alerts AI runs entirely in your browser. Your keywords, matches, and API keys stay on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is tracked.

Who uses it: sales teams hunting Reddit leads, marketers tracking brand mentions, SaaS founders catching customer feedback, support teams monitoring complaints, recruiters scanning job/dev subreddits, researchers analyzing conversations, hobbyists following niche communities, and thousands of curious people who want a smarter Reddit experience.

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💎 THE 30-SECOND PITCH
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You tell it: "Alert me whenever someone posts on Reddit about X."
It tells you: "3 new posts matched — one looks like a sales opportunity (85% confidence), here's why."

Works with OR without AI. AI is optional. Bring your own OpenAI key. Typical cost: $0.50/month.

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⭐ WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
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✓ 100% FREE — no subscriptions, no paywalls, no "premium features"
✓ UNLIMITED keywords, rules, profiles, matches, history
✓ PRIVACY-FIRST — all data in chrome.storage.local, never leaves your machine
✓ BRING YOUR OWN AI KEY — use OpenAI (GPT-4.1-nano, GPT-4o-mini, GPT-5, GPT-4o), pay at-cost
✓ 11 LANGUAGES — English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic
✓ NO ACCOUNT — install, use, done
✓ NO ADS, NO TRACKING, NO TELEMETRY
✓ SIDE PANEL — stays open while you browse, like MetaMask
✓ OPEN & TRANSPARENT — inspect all data, export anytime

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🎯 USE CASE 1 — SALES TEAMS & LEAD GENERATION (With AI)
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You sell Plesk reseller hosting. In the AI tab, you paste this context:

"I sell Plesk reseller hosting in Turkey for small businesses. I'm looking for customers: (1) complaining about their current host, (2) asking where to migrate, (3) having technical issues with Plesk, cPanel, or WHM, (4) looking to upgrade from shared to VPS. I'm NOT interested in tutorials, marketing posts, or promotional spam."

Now every new Reddit post matching your keywords is automatically:
⭐ Scored 0-10 for relevance (with reasoning)
🎯 Flagged as opportunity or not (with suggested response angle)
✨ Summarized in 3 sentences (one click)

Your feed becomes a prioritized queue of actual leads. The top match:

⭐ 9/10 🎯 Opportunity (92%)
"r/webhosting — My reseller account keeps crashing, thinking about switching"
Angle: User frustrated with current provider, actively researching alternatives.
Mentioning Plesk reliability + Turkey-based support could win this.

That's a warm prospect delivered to you while you're drinking coffee.

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🎯 USE CASE 2 — BRAND MONITORING (With or Without AI)
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You run a SaaS called "Acme Notes." You add three rules:
• "Acme Notes" (your brand)
• "AcmeNotes" (no space variant)
• "acme-notes" (URL slug)

Plus filters: exclude subreddit "acmenotes" (your own promo), min 2 upvotes (filter spam).

You set a digest at 09:00 and 18:00. At lunch you get one notification: "7 new mentions today." Tap it — open side panel — see all of them sorted by time. Click to respond, pin the important ones, export as CSV weekly for marketing reports.

With AI: Each mention gets a sentiment + intent analysis. "Complaint about onboarding" → triage to support. "Praise" → repost to social. "Feature request" → feed to product.

Without AI: You manually scan. Still infinitely better than checking Reddit search manually every 2 hours.

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🎯 USE CASE 3 — COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE (With AI)
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You're a product manager. Add keywords for your competitors. AI context:

"I'm a product manager at Notion. Track mentions of Evernote, Obsidian, Logseq, Roam, Bear, OneNote. I care about: feature complaints (opportunity to differentiate), user migration intent (switchers), bugs they have (our marketing angle), new features they ship."

Every morning you get a priority queue of competitive intel. AI flags the switchers, the complaints, the viral posts. Turn it into a weekly memo for the team in 10 minutes instead of 2 hours.

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🎯 USE CASE 4 — CUSTOMER SUPPORT (Without AI)
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Your product has a subreddit community. Set a subreddit watch on r/yourproduct + keyword filters for "not working", "crash", "help", "bug". Forward to your Slack #support channel via webhook.

Now when a user posts a frustrated help request, your team knows in seconds, not 6 hours later. Reply with actual support. Turn customer anger into loyalty. No AI needed — just a smarter inbox.

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🎯 USE CASE 5 — CONTENT CREATORS & MARKETERS (With AI)
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You run a newsletter about AI productivity tools. Track keywords: "productivity hack", "ChatGPT workflow", "AI tool", "notion template".

AI context: "I write a weekly newsletter about AI productivity. I want posts about: new AI tools people are excited about, workflows and prompts that are resonating, frustrations with existing tools (content opportunities), trending discussions."

The AI prioritizes posts for your content calendar. Trending detection shows you what's picking up steam. Translate non-English posts automatically. Never miss a viral thread in your niche again.

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🎯 USE CASE 6 — RECRUITING (Without AI)
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You recruit senior developers. Watch r/cscareerquestions, r/ExperiencedDevs, r/forhire. Keywords: "senior engineer available", "looking for work", "10 years experience", "open to remote".

Add exclude filters: -crypto -web3 (if you don't want those).

Get notified the moment qualified candidates post. Reach out while they're warm. A recruiting funnel that runs while you sleep.

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🎯 USE CASE 7 — NICHE HOBBYISTS (Free Tier, No AI)
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You collect mechanical keyboards. Track r/MechanicalKeyboards for "Q2 review", "HHKB", group-buy announcements, firmware topics. Use thread watcher on hot discussions so you see new comments as they land.

You follow three favorite content creators (user watches) to see new posts from them immediately.

Free forever. No AI cost. Perfect Reddit experience.

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🤖 AI FEATURES (Optional, bring your OpenAI API key)
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✨ ONE-CLICK SUMMARIES
Long Reddit post? Click ✨ Summarize. Get 3 sentences: what the author is saying, what they need, what action is expected. Read 10 posts in the time it took you to read 1.

⭐ RELEVANCE SCORING (0-10)
AI reads every new match and scores it against YOUR business context. High scores rise to the top. Low scores are deprioritized. Filter feed by "score >= 7" and see only what matters.

🎯 OPPORTUNITY DETECTION
AI's secret weapon for sales. For each post, it answers: "Is this an opportunity?" — with a confidence score and a suggested angle. Stop reading posts you can't act on. Start responding to the ones that can become customers.

🌐 AUTO-TRANSLATION
Read any Reddit post in any language. Full title + body translated into your Chrome UI language. One click, modern modal UI, copy to clipboard.

🧠 CONTEXT-AWARE
Your business context is applied to every AI call. Global context + per-rule context. Super-powered by a single paragraph of who you are.

💰 BUDGET CONTROLS + USAGE LOG
Set daily cap in dollars. See every call with cost, tokens, duration. Never surprise-bill yourself.

⚡ SMART CACHING
Every AI result is cached forever locally. Same post = zero additional cost. Browser restart? Cached. Reinstall? ⚠ cleared. Cache keeps your OpenAI bill predictable.

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🔔 POWERFUL MONITORING (Works without AI)
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🔍 ADVANCED KEYWORD RULES
• Plain keywords: "plesk"
• AND operators: "plesk +hosting" (both must be present)
• NOT operators: "plesk -marketing" (exclude)
• Per-rule filters: min upvotes, min comments, blocked authors, subreddit whitelist/blacklist
• Per-rule snooze (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week)

📂 SUBREDDIT WATCHES
Watch specific subreddits for all new posts — optionally with keyword filter.

👤 USER WATCHES
Follow specific Reddit users. See their new posts instantly.

🧵 THREAD WATCHES
Monitor new comments on any Reddit post. Support teams use this for ongoing conversations.

⏰ CUSTOMIZABLE INTERVAL
Set scan frequency from 1 minute to hours.

🕐 TIME WINDOW
Only match posts from the last N hours: 1h, 6h, 12h, 24h, 3d, 1w, 1m, 1y.

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🔕 SMART NOTIFICATIONS
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• Real-time browser + OS notifications
• Quiet hours (e.g., 23:00–08:00)
• Digest mode — bundled notifications at scheduled times
• Optional sound alerts
• Smart batching — 10 matches → 1 notification
• Badge count on icon
• Click notification to jump to Reddit post

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🔗 INTEGRATIONS
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📨 WEBHOOK FORWARDING
Auto-send matches to:
• Slack (Incoming Webhook)
• Discord (Webhook)
• Telegram (Bot API sendMessage)

📄 CSV & JSON EXPORT
Export entire feed history for Excel, Google Sheets, Notion, analytics tools.

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🎨 MODERN UI
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• Chrome Side Panel — stays pinned while you browse (Chrome 114+)
• Auto light/dark theme detection
• Custom accent color picker
• 3 density modes (compact / comfortable / spacious)
• Keyboard shortcuts: J (next), K (prev), O (open), R (mark read), P (pin), / (search)
• Post cards: upvote scores, comment counts, thumbnails optional
• Pin to top, tag as "todo"/"important"
• Copy post as Markdown link with one click
• NSFW badges
• Filter by tags: Pinned, Unread, Todo, Important
• Live search/filter feed

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📊 ANALYTICS
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🔥 TRENDING — See which keywords are trending up vs. 7-day average.
🗓 HEATMAP — 7-day × 24-hour grid showing when matches occur.
📈 DAILY CHARTS — Volume over time.

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👥 MULTI-PROFILE
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Separate profiles for different use cases: "Work", "Hobby", "Research". Switch in one click. Each has its own keywords, watches, AI context.

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🛑 BUILT-IN REDDIT AD BLOCKER
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Hide sponsored/promoted Reddit posts and sidebar ads while you browse reddit.com. Cleaner feed, less distraction. Toggle on/off.

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❓ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Q: Is this really free?
A: Yes. 100% free, forever. No ads, no subscriptions, no "premium tier." You pay optional OpenAI API costs only if you enable AI (~$0.50/month typical).

Q: Do I need an OpenAI account?
A: No. All monitoring/filtering/notification features work without AI. AI is purely optional enhancement.

Q: Is my data safe?
A: 100% local. Everything (keywords, matches, API key) is in chrome.storage.local. Never uploaded anywhere. No accounts. No telemetry. Ever.

Q: What AI models does it support?
A: OpenAI models: GPT-4.1-nano (cheapest, recommended), GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-5-nano, GPT-5-mini, GPT-5, GPT-4.1, o3-mini, o4-mini. Dropdown selector with live pricing.

Q: How much does AI cost?
A: Typical usage is under $0.50/month with gpt-4.1-nano. Daily budget cap prevents overruns. Full usage log in AI tab.

Q: Can I use it without Reddit account?
A: Yes. Anonymous — we fetch Reddit's public JSON API. Works whether you're logged in or not.

Q: Does it scrape Reddit?
A: No, we use Reddit's official public JSON endpoints (reddit.com/search.json). No ToS violations. No rate limits hit in normal use.

Q: Side panel vs popup?
A: Side panel (Chrome 114+). Stays open while you browse, pinnable, better for monitoring workflows.

Q: Languages?
A: UI auto-detects your Chrome language. Supports 11: English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Arabic (with RTL).

Q: Can I export my data?
A: Yes. CSV or JSON export in Settings. Full feed history included.

Q: Does it block Reddit ads?
A: Yes, optional toggle. Hides sponsored/promoted posts and sidebar ads on reddit.com.

Q: Will it work with future Reddit redesigns?
A: Uses Reddit's public JSON API, which is stable. We maintain compatibility with both old.reddit.com and www.reddit.com.

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🏆 VS ALTERNATIVES
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vs paid SaaS (Mention, Brand24, Awario): free, unlimited, your data stays local.
vs IFTTT: richer filters, AI scoring, multi-source watches.
vs Google Alerts: real-time, advanced rules, AI intelligence.
vs Reddit native: entire Reddit, any keyword, cross-subreddit.

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🚀 GETTING STARTED (30 SECONDS)
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1. Click "Add to Chrome"
2. Click the extension icon → side panel opens
3. In "Rules" tab, add keywords (e.g., "plesk", "your-brand")
4. (Optional) In "AI" tab, paste OpenAI API key → test → save
5. Click "Scan" — matches appear in Feed

That's it. Now you're monitoring Reddit 24/7.

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🔒 PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS
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Permissions (and what they do):
• alarms — schedule periodic scans
• notifications — show match alerts
• storage — save locally
• sidePanel — show UI as side panel
• offscreen — play notification sounds
• scripting — inline keyword highlights on reddit.com (optional)
• reddit.com — fetch post data
• api.openai.com — only if AI enabled

Privacy guarantees:
✓ No user accounts
✓ No emails collected
✓ No browsing history tracked
✓ No analytics
✓ No advertising SDKs
✓ Data never leaves your device (except OpenAI calls if you enable AI — only post titles/bodies go to OpenAI, and only if you click an AI action)

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❤️ PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW
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If Reddit Keyword Alerts AI saves you time, helps you find leads, or catches important mentions — please rate & review. 30 seconds to help thousands of others discover it.

Bug reports, feature requests, translations welcome.

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