Octolens - Social listening for the agent era
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Your AI agents read your code, docs, and CRM but can't see Reddit, Hacker News, podcasts, or the news. Octolens is one API for every mention across the internet. AI-filtered JSON via API, webhooks & MCP. Pipe it into Slack, your CRM, your warehouse, or your agents.
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Papermark
I like your philosophy of the best app is the one you don't have to open - instead of trying to change everyone over to your dashboard.
the pipe-it-into-tools-you-already-use angle makes a lot of sense over another dashboard nobody opens. curious how the AI filtering handles the gray area mentions though, the ones that are relevant but not obviously so. does it get stricter over time based on what people actually act on, or is the relevance bar fixed from day one
Smart positioning. The amount of online mentions and signals is exploding, and most traditional monitoring tools weren't built to keep up with agent-generated content mixed in with human content.
What does the alert-to-action workflow look like? Do users set rules manually or does the system learn what's worth flagging over time?
Is this for mentions only (like monitoring your brand for community engagement) or for finding intent signals? I'm more interested in the later as a founder but it's an interesting concept. I just don't see how this would apply as much as very early stage founders vs. more mature startups with better brand awareness.
Macaly
social listening reframed for the agent era is such a smart move 🎯 congrats on the launch!!
The filtering questions are well covered above, so the bit I'm curious about is latency. Half the value of jumping into a Reddit or HN thread is being there in the first hour, before it drops off the front page and replies stop getting read. What's the typical lag from a mention going live to it landing in Slack? And when one story gets crossposted to HN, Reddit, and X within an hour, does the agent see three mentions or one deduped event, so I'm not replying to the same conversation three times?
Congratulations on the launch. I took a quick look at Octolens and the product feels useful, especially for tracking brand mentions across different places.
One small clarity point I noticed: the hero says 5k free mentions, but the FAQ mentions up to 1,000 mentions for the free trial. I paused there because I wasn’t sure which limit applies.
Might be worth checking so new users know exactly what they get.