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GummySearch alternative: find people asking for your product
GummySearch closed to new users after failing to agree a Reddit data licence. Here's how First Adopter compares, and where it's different.
What GummySearch does
GummySearch was a Reddit audience-research tool: you picked subreddits ("audiences") and browsed themes, pain points and solution requests across them.
Where GummySearch is better
- Deep, Reddit-only audience research: subreddit groups, themes and trends over time.
- Browsing a whole community rather than starting from your product.
What First Adopter does differently
- Starts from your product or idea, not from subreddits: paste your site and we find the people.
- Searches Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Quora, Bluesky, Stack Exchange and forums, not only Reddit.
- Keeps only people asking for something like yours; ads, sellers and product pages are filtered out.
- Ranks who to reply to first and drafts a reply that follows each community's rules.
- A daily email with people who asked yesterday, including people unhappy with a competitor.
- We don't use Reddit's API: we find Reddit posts through Google and label them "open to check", so nothing depends on a licence.
Which one should you use?
If you used GummySearch to find leads and pain points for your product, First Adopter covers that job across more communities. If you used it for deep subreddit analytics, look for a dedicated Reddit research tool.
See who's asking for your product
Paste your website and get real, linked posts from people asking for something like it, with a reply drafted for each. First report free, no card.
Get my free report ↗Sources: GummySearch: "GummySearch is now closed". GummySearch is a trademark of its owner; we're not affiliated. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.
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