Spot what Reddit's about to care
about — hours before it trends.
Every post, every comment, surfaced with surge detection that catches a subreddit warming up beforethe front page does. For founders mining demand, agents tracking discourse, and anyone who needs Reddit's pulse without spending the week parsing it themselves.
- ●Catch surges 4-12 hours early — statistical velocity detection on every subreddit you watch
- ●Mine unmet demand in plain English — canned niches for SaaS, indie hackers, and finance, or bring your own keywords
- ●Drop into Claude, Cursor, or your stack — native MCP server, REST, and webhooks — same data, three shapes
from $15/mo · cancel anytime
Three ways into the data — pick the one that fits your stack.
REST API
Twenty endpoints covering every subreddit, post, user, and search shape Reddit exposes — wrapped in a clean envelope with cursor pagination and predictable error responses.
curl https://api.redditintel.dev/v1/subreddits/python/posts \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"- →Faithful pass-through — nothing invented, nothing summarized
- →Cursor pagination that survives ranking changes
- →Generous rate limits — burst when you need to, no throttling games
Native agent server
One config block and Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-capable agent gets eighteen Reddit tools — including demand-mining and trend detection — natively.
"reddit-intel": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://api.redditintel.dev/mcp/",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"
}
}- →Every REST endpoint mirrored as a tool, plus agent-only helpers
- →Pre-tuned niches for SaaS, indie, and finance demand mining
- →Same JSON shapes everywhere — no second mental model
Signed webhooks
Get pinged the moment a subreddit surges, a keyword spikes, or a post starts climbing. Signed for authenticity, deduped for safety, retried so you don't miss anything.
POST /v1/webhooks
{
"url": "https://my.app/hook",
"event": "trends.surge",
"subreddit": "ClaudeAI"
}- →Three event types — surge, velocity, rising — pick what matters
- →Cryptographically signed so you can trust the source
- →Automatic retry with safe deduplication on your end
We sell signal. Here's how we don't lie about it.
Most Reddit APIs hand you the firehose and call it a day. The ones that try to be smart bolt on a sentiment classifier and hope nobody notices. Reddit Intel takes the unloved third path: math on facts only. Below are the three statistical commitments we make — auditable in plain language, plain code, plain literature.
Modified z-score, MAD-based
Velocity uses the median absolute deviation around the median, not the mean. One viral hour can't poison the baseline — outliers stay outliers.
Benjamini–Hochberg FDR
Keyword surge scanning runs hundreds of tokens per subreddit. We adjust for multiple comparisons so the keywords we promote as significant really are.
Cold-start guard
A freshly tracked sub has zero-padded history. We refuse to claim is_surging=true until the baseline median is non-zero AND we have 4+ hours of real observations.
We also don't inject sentiment classifiers, opinion fields, or generated summaries. The unstructured data Reddit returns is what you get — verbatim, with the volatile parts (html, body) opt-in.
Three canned niches. One MCP call away.
For agents that want to surface unmet demand without picking subreddits and regex patterns themselves. Each preset bundles relevant subreddits with the kind of phrasing that signals an unsolved problem.
SaaS
reddit://demand/saas“wish there was a CRM that didn't try to be everything”
Indie Hackers
reddit://demand/indie-hackers“how do you find your first 10 paying customers without paid ads”
Finance
reddit://demand/finance“ELI5: backdoor Roth IRA vs mega backdoor — when does it matter”
Indie pricing. Honest math.
Subscribe on whichever marketplace you already trust. Same key, same API, same SLA — pick by where your billing lives.
Pro
For the dev kicking the tires.
- Full REST + MCP access
- Surge, velocity, and keyword signals
- 1 active webhook
- Cancel anytime — no commitment
Business
For the team shipping a product.
- Everything in Pro
- 5 active webhooks
- Priority email support
- Custom rate-limit ceilings on request
Scale
For the agent platform with paying users.
- Everything in Business
- 20 active webhooks
- Slack support with response SLA
- Annual / volume billing discount available
Higher volume or custom SLA? hello@redditintel.dev