ShovelScout
See who's asking, not just who's talking
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Details
- External ID
- 1266395
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ShovelScout
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Sales, Marketing, SaaS
Description
A keyword alert tells you something was mentioned. ShovelScout tells you what someone is asking for. It searches public posts and comments across Reddit, Hacker News and business forums, and returns the ones where a person is asking for something: looking for a tool, asking for a recommendation, or stuck on a problem. Every result carries a short label of what the poster wants, and links back to the original thread. Search is free without an account. New threads are picked up every 5 minutes.
Enrichment
- Niche
- b2b lead generation software
- Vertical
- Sales
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- intent data tool for monitoring questions across community platforms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building the user alert dashboard and sending notifications is trivial, but real-time multi-platform social scraping, intent classification, and handling strict rate limits (Reddit API costs/limits, anti-scraping protections) require resilient data pipeline engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires distributed background scrapers/crawlers or commercial social feed streams with robust proxy rotation to circumvent anti-bot walls. Ingested posts must flow through a streaming pipeline (e.g., Kafka or RabbitMQ) into a fine-tuned NLP intent-classification model (to differentiate buyer intent from general chatter) with vector search indexing (e.g., Qdrant or Pinecone) for sub-second relevance filtering.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 52 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #18 of 53 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
- Threadscout · ph · 2026-10-01 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HNswered · hn · 2026-04-24 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- CurbKEA · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Beanie · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- CRAWLTY · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Tingle · ph · 2026-09-22 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Who is hiring" search tool with chat / other features · hn · 2025-12-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Outposts · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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