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Reddit is also becoming a top source for AI-generated answers

By Haider Shawl · Founder @ Lumen | Win customers from ChatGPT, Gemini | Prev: Founding Engineer @ Blaze AI (YC W22), Founder Q&A Bot (acq) · 2026-04-10 · thread · I turned a viral LinkedIn post into a free tool, and it’s finally live

Tier B · TL;DR
Reddit is also becoming a top source for AI-generated answers

Claim

I turned a viral LinkedIn post into a free tool, and it’s finally live. 3 weeks ago, I shared how I drove thousands of visitors to my side project by reverse-engineering high-ranking Reddit posts. Close to a thousand founders, marketers, and indie hackers commented “REDDIT” asking for help.

Mechanism

🔎 Drop in your product URL, and it surfaces viral Reddit threads that already rank on Google, so you can tap into buyer intent, not just random traffic.

Conditions

Holds when: the operating context matches the post's stated frame (team shape, stage, tooling, buyer type).

Fails when: the practice is lifted into a different stage or buyer context without reworking the underlying mechanism.

Evidence

"Reddit is also becoming a top source for AI-generated answers."

— Haider Shawl, LinkedIn, 2026-04-10

Signals

Counter-evidence

No opposing view in current corpus.

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