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The Scout: daily conversations

Every day the Scout sweeps Reddit and Hacker News, keeps only the conversations worth your time, and drafts the reply. You post everything yourself, and quiet days are the gate working.

Last updated July 12, 2026

A launch is a one-time push. The conversations do not stop after it: someone asks for a tool like yours on Reddit or Hacker News most days, and the thread is usually cold again within one. The Scout exists to catch those conversations while they are warm, without you living in a keyword feed.

01 · The ideaWhat the scout is

The Scout is a daily layer for one product. Every day it sweeps Reddit and Hacker News for three kinds of signal:

  • Core asks. People asking for exactly what your product does.
  • Problem talk. Your ideal customer talking around the problem you solve.
  • Mentions. Your brand or a named competitor coming up directly.

It watches the keywords and subreddits you confirm at setup (seeded from your launch if you have one), and you can tune the net at any time.

02 · The gateJudged, not dumped

Every match then passes through the same tiered judgment gate a launch uses. Most matches fail it: name collisions from a different world, dead threads, off-topic drama, mega-threads where a reply would drown. What survives arrives judged, with a plain reason on every card: what surfaced this thread, and why it is worth your reply.

That is why a quiet day is a normal day. The scan ran, the gate kept nothing worth your time, and the inbox says so plainly. See your Scout inbox for what arrives day to day, and the daily ritual for what you do with it.

03 · The priceWhat it costs

The Scout is $20 per month and is the one subscription Nilkick sells. Launches and warm-ups stay one-time ($15 each) because they are jobs that complete; the Scout is the job that never does. Billing, pausing, and canceling are covered in the Scout subscription.

A scout, not an autopilot

The Scout never posts, comments, or votes from your accounts. It finds the conversations, makes the judgment call, and writes the draft; the reply only exists in public because you read it and posted it yourself. That final human step is the point, and it is why the replies land as a person, not a pipeline. See why you tap submit yourself.

FAQ

Common questions

Yes, the only one Nilkick sells. The Scout is $20 per month, cancel anytime from the billing portal, with no retention flow. Launches and warm-ups stay one-time purchases ($15 each), because those are jobs that complete. Daily scouting never completes, so it is priced like what it is. See the Scout subscription guide for the full billing picture.
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Your Scout inbox, day by day
The inbox is where the Scout delivers: conversations grouped by day, newest first, starting with a one-month backfill. A digest email lands only on days with something new, quiet days say so plainly, and the keywords and subreddits are yours to tune. Here is how to read it and how to adjust the net.
The five-minute daily ritual
Working the Scout takes five to ten minutes a day: read each card's reason, dismiss what does not deserve you, and for the threads worth joining, copy the drafted reply, make it sound like you, and post it from your own account. Here is the loop, including the reply-shape variants.
The Scout subscription
The Scout is the one subscription Nilkick sells: $20 per month per scout, through Stripe, cancel anytime with no retention flow. Here is how billing works, what pausing does and does not do, what happens when a card fails, and what you keep after canceling.