# The Nilkick Scout > Reddit + Hacker News monitoring, with the reply already written. Every day the Scout sweeps Reddit and Hacker News for the conversations that matter to your product: people asking for **exactly what you built**, your users talking around the problem, and every brand or competitor mention. Each kept thread arrives judged, with an honest "why this thread" and a drafted reply. **You post everything yourself.** $20/mo · daily scans · cancel anytime · no account access. Judged daily, kept rarely · drafts grounded in the thread · you post everything yourself. Launched on Nilkick? When your launch conversations are worked, the Scout keeps it running daily. It works standalone too. ## 01 · A day with it — from the digest to a posted reply, honestly No demo theatrics: this is the actual loop, four beats long, **five to ten minutes** on the days there is anything at all. The digest email only lands when the gate kept something; you make a few quick calls, copy, post, done. - **08:00 · The digest lands.** A quiet day sends nothing. When the email arrives, it is because the gate kept something. - **08:03 · Triage the day.** Each card says what surfaced it and why it is worth a reply. Skip anything, guilt-free. - **08:05 · Shape and copy.** The draft is already there; the variants reshape its tone, never the rules. Copy takes whatever is active. - **08:07 · You post it.** Open the thread, paste, tweak anything that does not sound like you, tap post. Mark it replied and the day is clear. ## 02 · What the judgment keeps out — the gate's job is to say no Keyword alerts hand you every hit and make the noise your problem. The Scout reads the thread first: is it alive, is it your buyer, is there something specific to say? It judges with the same tiered gate as a launch, reads a few hundred threads on a typical day, and keeps **two or three**. Some days it keeps **none**, and says so plainly: a quiet day is the gate working, not the product idling. Every kept card tells you both halves of the judgment: **what surfaced it** (the matched keyword, your brand, a competitor) and **why it is worth replying**. If either answer is weak, you never see the thread. Dropped, with the reason on each: "DJI Osmo Pocket monitor arm recommendations?" (same word, different world) · "Best monitoring tools?" with the last reply in 2022 (dead thread) · "Hot take: SaaS pricing is a scam" (drama, not your buyer) · a Show HN thread at 900 comments and climbing (a reply would drown). Kept: "Is there a tool that alerts you when a competitor changes their pricing page?" (core ask). ## 03 · Pricing — one subscription, the only one we sell A launch ($15) and a warm-up ($15) are one-time jobs that complete. Watching the conversations is the one job here that never completes, so it is the one thing priced that way. **$20 per month · daily scans.** Everything below, every day, for one product. **Cancel anytime** in the billing portal. Pausing stops the scans, not the billing. Cancel anytime · you post everything yourself · no account access needed. The Scout includes (every day): - **Daily scans of Reddit + Hacker News.** Your product, your named competitors and your problem phrases, read against every new conversation. The first scan backfills the last month. - **Tiered, honest judgment.** The same gate as a launch: core asks, adjacent talk, brand and competitor mentions, each labeled as what it is, with the reason on the card. - **A drafted reply on every kept thread.** Grounded in what the thread actually said, critiqued before you see it, written in a human voice. You post it yourself. - **Reply-shape variants.** More direct, softer, ask a question, shorter. Variants reshape the tone, never the rules a card carries. - **The digest email.** Lands only on days with something new. A week of quiet days is a week of no email. - **Account-standing awareness.** A cold or developing Reddit account gets seasoning notes and value-first drafts, not risky ones. ## 04 · Honest boundaries — what this is, and what it is not The Scout earns a subscription with judgment, not volume, so the lines are explicit. Your accounts stay yours, and what happens in a thread after you post is between you and the community. The Scout does: - Sweeps Reddit and Hacker News every day, and backfills the last month on its first scan. - Keeps only what deserves you, and says why: what surfaced each thread, and why it is worth replying. - Drafts every reply from what the thread actually said, with tone variants when you want a different shape. - Emails a digest only on days with something new. Quiet days send nothing. It never: - Posts, comments or votes from your accounts. You copy, paste and post everything yourself. - Scans beyond Reddit and Hacker News yet. No X, no Twitter in v1, and we say so instead of overselling. - Offers a dial that loosens the gate. The tone variants reshape a draft, never the rules it carries. - Blurs pause and cancel. Pausing stops the scans, not the billing; canceling, anytime in the billing portal, stops both. ## 05 · FAQ **Is this a subscription?** Yes, the one subscription we sell. The Scout is **$20/mo**, cancel anytime from the billing portal, no retention flow. Launches ($15) and warm-ups ($15) stay one-time, because those are jobs that complete. Daily scouting never completes, so it is priced like what it is. **What does it actually scan every day?** Reddit (your keywords across the site, plus the communities on your list) and Hacker News, read against three kinds of signal: your product's name, named competitors, and the problem phrases your buyers actually type. The very first scan reaches back and **backfills the last month**, so the inbox never starts empty. From then on it runs daily. **Do you post for me?** Never. Same firewall as everything Nilkick makes: we scan, judge and draft; **you read every reply and post it yourself**, from your own account. Tools that auto-post are how accounts get banned, and how communities get worse. **What if my niche is quiet?** Then you will see quiet days, and they will say so plainly: the scan ran, the gate kept nothing, no digest email is sent. If a whole week runs quiet we tell you that too, with an honest read on whether the niche is quiet or the keywords are cut too tight. We would rather show you nothing than pad the feed. **Why not just set up keyword alerts myself?** You can, and you will get every hit: the name collisions, the dead threads, the drama, the mega-threads where a reply drowns. Alerts make the noise your problem. The Scout reads each thread first and keeps the two or three a day that deserve you, each with a reason and a drafted reply. Mostly, **you are paying for the no**. **How is this different from a launch?** A launch ($15, one-time) takes one product from zero to launched: the plan, the real venues, every post drafted, including the Reddit and forum conversations worth joining on day one. The Scout is the layer that comes after: **daily** conversation scouting that catches threads as they happen, for as long as you keep it on. The natural moment to start one is when you have worked through your launch's conversations, and it works standalone too. **What does it cost?** **$20/mo**, flat. One product per scout, everything included: the daily scans, the judgment, every drafted reply, the variants, the digest. No per-mention pricing, no tiers, no seats. The launch and the warm-up stay $15 one-time; the Scout is the only thing we bill monthly. ## The conversations are happening either way. Someone asked for a tool like yours today. The only question is whether you were in the thread. $20/mo, daily scans, cancel anytime, you post every reply yourself. [Start the scout](https://nilkick.com/scout), or [see how launches work](https://nilkick.com/get-launched). Related: a [Launch](https://nilkick.com/get-launched) takes one product from zero to launched first ($15 one-time) · the [Reddit warm-up](https://nilkick.com/reddit-warmer) builds account standing before it ($15 one-time).