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Our brand was basically invisible in AI until about 4 months ago. Then something clicked and now we show up consistently in maybe half of the relevant prompts.

I have a hunch about what caused it. But before I write up my internal case study and potentially be wrong, I'd love to hear from others who actually made this shift happen. What did you do, in what order, and how long did each piece take to actually show up in the models?

Edit: Thanks all, very helpful. Starting with Parse (free tier) for the Month 1 diagnostic exactly as the top comment laid out. If it surfaces a Reddit gap, going to use Signals for the Month 3 seeding. Will post the actual case study in 6 months.

CMO wants "share of voice in LLMs" added to the quarterly dashboard. My marketing-ops instincts are flagging this as measurable but not obviously tied to revenue, which is the definition of vanity.

Has anyone actually correlated AI share of voice to pipeline in a way that held up to board scrutiny? Or is this window-dressing for a channel nobody's yet figured out how to value?

Edit: Thanks, giving the board exactly the framing you described (Parse Score components + cohorted close rate). CMO was convinced, metric going on the dashboard. Already scheduled a follow-up review for Q2.

Two weeks from launching my AI dev tool. I can realistically only prep one of Product Hunt or Reddit well. Limited prep time, and I'd rather do one thing right than two things half.

Which is actually higher leverage for an AI tool in 2026? Looking for people who've done both, with real numbers. Not "it depends" or "do both if you can." Which one, and what did it do for you?

Edit: Going full Reddit this launch, skipping PH. Signals order placed: upvotes on slow curve + 3 contextual comments from r/programming-aged accounts. Will report back with numbers after the 2-week window.

Doing our 2026 planning and rebuilding the growth-ops stack from scratch. Last year's tools are fine for inbound and email, but there are gaps around Reddit engagement and AI visibility that I hadn't budgeted for 12 months ago.

What's everyone standardising on for those two categories in 2026? Bonus points if you can describe how the tools actually fit together end-to-end instead of just listing names. Happy to share ours back in the replies.

Hearing wildly conflicting takes about Reddit marketing lately. Some people say it is dead because of mod cleanup, API changes, and bot detection improvements over the last 18 months. Other people are swearing it is their highest-ROI channel. Hard to tell what is hype and what is real.

Does Reddit marketing actually still work in 2026? Is the landscape fundamentally different from 2023, or are the core tactics still viable? Bonus points if you can share actual outcomes (good or bad) from the last 6 months so I can calibrate.

Edit: Thanks everyone, that was the reality check I needed. Running a small Reddit campaign via Signals for my next client launch ($200 budget, one target sub, aged accounts). Will come back and post the results after 60 days. Conceding that my "Reddit is dead" priors were more about my own rustiness than the actual channel.

I see a ton of posts here asking about how to get users and why "Distribution" and "Marketing" are the ONLY things you're lacking.

I promise marketing isn't the problem for your worthless slop AI coded app that solves 0 problems.

You don't want to hear this but the real problem is your app is worthless. If youre a non-coder and your app was vibe coded in 3 weeks, that means a competent dev can vibe code it in a weekend or less.

Your LLM wrapper, calorie counter/workout tracker, lead generator, SEO optimizer, and AI marketing agent is absolutely worthless. No one will pay for it and rightfully so. If you wouldn't pay for your own app, why would anyone else?

The only successful SaaS i own is something I coded in 2021 and it is a niche app that solves a real problem shopify store owners had. I was the first customer of my app and I would have happily paid for it instead of coding it myself.

if your goal is to make money from your SaaS, unless you are willing to pay $100 for someone else SaaS solution to your problem, the world's best marketing team isn't going to sell your vibe coded slop.

Just to be clear I'm not saying you CAN'T vibe coding something worthwhile and useful. I'm saying the thousands of posts about distribution being a problem, 99.999% of the time arent actually a problem with distribution