Free phrases
Buyer-phrase keywords for Reddit and X
People describe a problem in public long before they fill in a signup form. These are starter phrases, grouped by niche, for Reddit search and X search. They are examples. This page does not generate keywords live, and it does not watch the internet for you.
How to use these phrases
Quote the multi-word phrases. Search Posts on Reddit, not the mixed Comments dump, until you know the thread is live. Sort by New when you want someone who might still be watching. On X, search Latest, not Top, if you care about a person who posted this week.
If Reddit search is noisy, Google site:reddit.com plus the phrase in quotes, then open the thread itself.
Swap the product names for yours. "HubSpot" is an example, not a recommendation.
Niche examples
Indie SaaS and first customers
Founders naming distribution, not a feature comparison.
how do I get my first customerslooking for a tool thatI am struggling with outreachwhat do you use for CRM as a solo founderany recommendations for finding beta userstired of living in a spreadsheet for sales
Developer tools
People comparing a current stack with something they have not bought yet.
looking for an alternative toself-hosted vs SaaS foranyone using this for productionhow do you currently deploythe pricing on this is too highneed something simpler than Jenkins
Analytics and CRM
Replacement talk. Read the constraint before you pitch.
looking for something simpler than Mixpanelprivacy-friendly analytics that is not a toywe outgrew the free HubSpot tierCRM that does not need a sales teamtired of Salesforce for a five person companywhat do you use instead of Google Analytics
Design and no-code
Makers asking for a stack, not a Dribbble thread.
any recommendations for a no-code databaselooking for a cheaper Webflow alternativehow do you currently ship landing pagesneed a form tool that is not Typeform pricingFigma to production without a developer
AI tools
High noise. Keep people with a job and a constraint, skip model-war threads.
looking for a cheaper ChatGPT setup for supportlocal LLM for private customer datatired of wrapping GPT and calling it a productanyone using AI for customer research without spamneed summaries of support tickets, not a chatbot
Phrases that show up on X
X is noisier. Look for a person asking for help or customers, not a launch thread that already has two hundred replies.
looking for beta usersjust launched and need feedbackshipping in public, stuck on distributionwho should I talk to aboutfirst customers from Twitteropen DMs if you are hiring a tool for
What this is not
It is not a keyword generator that invents a hundred variants from a form. It is not an alert feed. Founder CRM does not poll Reddit every few minutes, and this page does not pretend to.
If you want email the moment a word appears, that is a mention tool. F5Bot is one of those. Keep it if that is the job. This list is for the hour you sit down to search.
When a flow helps
Copy one phrase into a Founder CRM flow and tell it who counts as a fit. It opens Reddit or X in your own session, keeps the people who match, and files them locally. You still write the comment.
A longer walkthrough lives in how to get your first customers from Reddit. Install Founder CRM if you want the list in the side panel.
Questions founders ask
- Is this a live keyword generator?
- No. It is a static list of example phrases. Change the product names to match what you sell.
- Do these phrases guarantee buying intent?
- No. They are starting queries. Read the post. Plenty of them are rants, jokes, or already solved.
- Will Founder CRM alert me when someone types these?
- No. There is no hosted monitor. You run a flow in your browser, then you write the reply.
Install Founder CRM
Paste a phrase into a flow, run it in the Chrome session you already use, and sit down to people who said the thing out loud. You write every reply.