Finally cracked Reddit lead gen after wasting months (sharing what worked)

Discussion in 'Social Networks' started by asphero hong, Dec 24, 2025.

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    Been lurking here for a while but wanted to share something that actually worked for me after a lot of trial and error.

    Like most of you probably experienced - I threw money at Reddit ads first. Around $3k over two months. Got two signups. Two. That's a $1500 CPA which is absolutely insane for my product. Complete disaster.

    So I thought okay, forget paid, let's go organic. Started commenting on popular posts - you know, the ones with 500+ upvotes already on the front page. Did this for weeks. Got some upvotes on my comments but zero conversions. My replies were just buried under hundreds of others.

    Was ready to give up on Reddit entirely. Figured maybe it's just not for B2B.
    Then I read this post from some solo founder who hit $20k MRR without any ads. One thing stuck with me - he said he responded to relevant questions "within 5 minutes" for 6 months straight.

    But here's what took me a while to figure out - responding fast to HOT threads is still pointless. By the time something hits the front page it already has 200 comments. You're invisible.
    So I flipped my approach.

    Started hunting specifically for LOW competition posts. New threads, less than 6 hours old, with like 0-5 comments. Stuff like "anyone know a good tool for X?" where only 2 people replied so far.

    When you're the third person to answer with actually helpful info - they read it. Sometimes they DM you. Sometimes they check your profile and find your stuff.
    My routine now is maybe 30 min each morning:

    - Check a few subreddits in my niche
    - Look for new posts with barely any comments
    - Find ones where I can genuinely help
    - Reply with value first, no promotion

    I use some tool filter by comment count across multiple subs. Speeds things up a lot. UI is kinda ugly honestly but way better than scrolling manually for 2 hours.

    After about 60 days:
    - Around 20 warm leads (people who replied or DMed)
    - A few converted to customers
    - Maybe 15 more still in my pipeline

    Not huge numbers but the QUALITY is different. These aren't cold leads. They were actively looking for solutions and I happened to show up at the right moment.

    What didn't work at all:

    - Hot/trending threads - invisible
    - Direct promo posts - removed instantly
    - Mass DMing - got one account banned lol
    - Reddit ads for niche products - terrible ROI

    Anyone else doing organic Reddit stuff? Curious what's working for others.
     
    asphero hong, Dec 24, 2025 IP