Frequently Asked Questions

SignalHunts (Community Signal Intelligence) is an AI-powered platform that turns discussions and news from Reddit, Google News, and Hacker News into quantified business intelligence. It helps product teams identify user pain points, validate demand, analyze competitors, and optimize content for AI search engines.

SignalHunts continuously monitors relevant communities and threads using natural language processing. It extracts pain points, scores severity, categorizes themes using topic modeling, and tracks trends over time. The result is structured intelligence you can act on, instead of raw threads you have to read manually.

Three sources are live today: Reddit, Google News, and Hacker News, each collected on a scheduled cadence. GitHub Trending has a working collector but is not yet on a schedule. If you need a specific source, let us know and we will prioritize it.

SignalHunts is designed for SaaS product teams, overseas marketers, indie developers, investors, and anyone who needs to understand user needs from community conversations. If you make product, marketing, or investment decisions, SignalHunts gives you data to back them up.

Pain scoring combines rule-based intent classification with an LLM fallback, sentiment analysis, and engagement signals, then clusters results by topic modeling. Every score links back to the original post, so you can verify the context yourself and adjust as needed.

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) Scoring is a simulation: an LLM assesses, from Reddit discussions, how visible your content would be in AI search answers such as ChatGPT and Perplexity — and suggests ways to improve your AI search presence.

SignalHunts generates contextual comment suggestions based on the thread topic, existing conversation, and your brand voice. These are starting points — you review and personalize them before posting. They help you engage authentically without spending hours crafting each response.

Yes. Signing up starts a 14-day full-feature trial (1 domain / 3 monitors / 5 subreddits) with no credit card required. When the trial ends the account becomes read-only — your historical data stays available, and subscribing restores collection and generation.

You can upgrade from your account settings at any time. Plans are billed monthly or quarterly (with a discount for quarterly billing). Changes take effect immediately, and unused time on your current plan is prorated.

Not yet. A public API is on our roadmap. Today, post data can be exported as CSV, and you can receive alerts via email and in-app notifications.

SignalHunts analyzes publicly available content from community platforms. We do not access private messages, personal accounts, or gated content. All data is processed securely and stored with encryption. We never sell user data to third parties.

SignalHunts only analyzes publicly available discussions. Data is accessed in ways that respect each platform's rate limits — we never access private messages, login-protected content, or personal accounts.

Yes. Post data can be exported as CSV, straight from the post list page.

Sign up for a free account, define your target communities and keywords, and SignalHunts will begin collecting and analyzing data within minutes. The onboarding wizard guides you through setup step by step.

SignalHunts currently focuses on English-language sources (Reddit, Google News, and Hacker News). Support for additional languages and platforms is on our roadmap. If you have specific language requirements, please contact us to discuss.