Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Lionel, founder of Startories.
Over the last few months, I noticed a big shift: more people are no longer only searching Google for products.
They ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity things like:
“Best tools for Reddit marketing?”
“Best AI support agent for startups?”
“Best SaaS boilerplate?”
“Best alternative to X?”
But many good startups never appear in those answers because there are not enough trusted public conversations about them.
That’s why I built Startories.
Startories helps startups grow visibility across AI search by creating targeted Reddit-led campaigns.
Every month, we help with:
✅ AI search keyword research
✅ 2 weekly Reddit posts
✅ 5 weekly strategic comments
✅ Publishing through our own aged, high-karma Reddit accounts
✅ Tracking posts, upvotes, replies, and URLs from a dashboard
The goal is simple: help your product become part of the public conversations AI tools already learn from.
I’d love your feedback on the positioning, the pricing, and the idea of “Reddit visibility for AI search.”
Thanks for checking it out 🙏
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honestly this looks pretty useful for getting visibility in AI search results, but one thing i'd love to see is some kind of dashboard that tracks which posts and comments are actually getting picked up by the LLMs over time. like right now you post stuff but it's kind of a guessing game whether it's actually influencing what ChatGPT or Claude recommends, so having data on that would make the whole service way more valuable.
@aysimatruc Totally agree! LLM pickup tracking is the next layer we’re working toward, so founders can see not just Reddit activity, but which posts/comments start influencing AI recommendations over time.
genuine question, not trying to be difficult - how is this different from astroturfing? using a stable of managed accounts to plant mentions so an LLM picks them up as organic sounds like exactly the kind of thing Reddit bans accounts for, and if it works at scale it also pollutes the training data everyone else's AI search relies on being real. what's the actual mechanism here, is it a network of real users posting genuinely or accounts you control?
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Reddit was always a blind spot for me on getting noticed by LLMs, so the angle here makes sense. Tried it on a small campaign and the keyword research surfaced a couple of threads I would have never thought to target.
@tahaawrj Thanks a lot! that’s exactly the gap we’re trying to solve: finding the overlooked Reddit threads where your product can build visibility before people ask AI for recommendations.
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One thing I'd love to see is a way to preview how a Reddit post might come across when scraped by the different AI models. Like a small panel that flags whether the tone or wording might get misinterpreted before you hit submit. Would save a lot of guesswork.
@fadimea2ds Great point. An AI-model preview/flagging panel would be a powerful next step, so teams can understand how each post may be interpreted by LLMs before it goes live.
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Cool tool - from my experience reddit is very restrictive for marketing purposes and the authority of the platform comes form its genuine content. How is this handling these guardrails ?
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love how the whole flow just feels built around what actually works on reddit instead of spamming, the aged account angle is a really smart touch honestly
@duygu167946 Thank you! that’s exactly the philosophy behind Startories: value-first Reddit visibility, using aged high-karma accounts to make the growth feel natural instead of spammy.
Scaloom
honestly this looks pretty useful for getting visibility in AI search results, but one thing i'd love to see is some kind of dashboard that tracks which posts and comments are actually getting picked up by the LLMs over time. like right now you post stuff but it's kind of a guessing game whether it's actually influencing what ChatGPT or Claude recommends, so having data on that would make the whole service way more valuable.
Scaloom
@aysimatruc Totally agree! LLM pickup tracking is the next layer we’re working toward, so founders can see not just Reddit activity, but which posts/comments start influencing AI recommendations over time.
Dial
genuine question, not trying to be difficult - how is this different from astroturfing? using a stable of managed accounts to plant mentions so an LLM picks them up as organic sounds like exactly the kind of thing Reddit bans accounts for, and if it works at scale it also pollutes the training data everyone else's AI search relies on being real. what's the actual mechanism here, is it a network of real users posting genuinely or accounts you control?
Reddit was always a blind spot for me on getting noticed by LLMs, so the angle here makes sense. Tried it on a small campaign and the keyword research surfaced a couple of threads I would have never thought to target.
Scaloom
@tahaawrj Thanks a lot! that’s exactly the gap we’re trying to solve: finding the overlooked Reddit threads where your product can build visibility before people ask AI for recommendations.
One thing I'd love to see is a way to preview how a Reddit post might come across when scraped by the different AI models. Like a small panel that flags whether the tone or wording might get misinterpreted before you hit submit. Would save a lot of guesswork.
Scaloom
@fadimea2ds Great point. An AI-model preview/flagging panel would be a powerful next step, so teams can understand how each post may be interpreted by LLMs before it goes live.
Cool tool - from my experience reddit is very restrictive for marketing purposes and the authority of the platform comes form its genuine content. How is this handling these guardrails ?
love how the whole flow just feels built around what actually works on reddit instead of spamming, the aged account angle is a really smart touch honestly
Scaloom
@duygu167946 Thank you! that’s exactly the philosophy behind Startories: value-first Reddit visibility, using aged high-karma accounts to make the growth feel natural instead of spammy.