Conversations
Larvabot finds people asking for what you offer on Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, YouTube, Bluesky and more, and drafts a reply you post.
Every day, people ask the internet for exactly what you sell: "is there a free tool for…", "any alternative to…", "I need someone to build my website", "can anyone recommend a wedding DJ in Austin?". The Conversations tab collects those posts for each project, scores them, and drafts a reply for you to post yourself.
Get the browser extension from the Chrome Web Store to reply faster with your drafts in a Chrome or Edge side panel, one click to copy a reply and open the thread, and a right-click to save posts you find yourself (the easiest way to work private Facebook groups and LinkedIn).
For freelancers and service businesses this is usually the main channel: the people who hire you are individuals, and they ask in public. If your project serves one place, set Where your leads are in the outreach brief and Larvabot watches your local subreddits and groups and drops posts from people clearly elsewhere.
#Where Larvabot looks
| Source | Needs | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| nothing (better with F5Bot) | Watch keywords, your subreddits' newest posts, F5Bot alerts. More | |
| Hacker News | nothing | Recent stories and comments matching your keywords |
| Stack Exchange | nothing (optional key) | Questions on the sites your profile lists |
| Lemmy | nothing | Federated communities, through one instance |
| Discourse forums | nothing | The niche forums in your profile, searched directly |
| The wider web | a search key | Forums and Q&A threads anywhere, via your "how people ask" phrases |
| Ahrefs Firehose | a Firehose key (paid per match) | New forum threads and Q&A pages within minutes of the Ahrefs crawler finding them |
| Threads | your Threads account, read-only | Meta's official search: the newest public posts, every check |
| X, LinkedIn, Facebook groups (and Threads without the account) | a search key | Public posts that search engines index, one platform every other check |
| YouTube | a free key | Comments under tutorials and reviews |
| Bluesky | an app password | Posts asking for recommendations |
| GitHub | nothing (token recommended) | Issues and discussions, for developer tools only |
| Telegram | your account, read-only | Groups you've already joined |
Which sources run for a project comes from its profile's Communities fields. The analysis fills them in; you can edit them any time on the Analysis tab.
Checks run about every two hours. Click Check now to run one immediately.
#Threads
Connect your Threads account under Settings → Communities → Threads (official API). Click Connect Threads, sign in on Threads and approve read-only access. Larvabot then searches Threads through Meta's official API on every check, a few of your keywords at a time, and gets the newest public posts rather than whatever search engines have indexed.
- Read-only. Larvabot asks only to read: it never posts, replies, likes or follows. You reply yourself, from your own account.
- Your account's allowance. Meta allows 2,200 searches a day per Threads account; Larvabot uses a few dozen.
- Stays connected. The login lasts 60 days and renews itself. Disconnect any time in Settings, or remove Larvabot in Threads → Settings → Account → Website permissions.
Without a connected account, Threads posts still arrive through web search, just later and fewer. (Not seeing the Threads section in Settings yet? It is rolling out to accounts over the coming weeks.)
#Scores and what you see
Each conversation is scored for relevance from 0 to 100 and tagged with an intent:
| Intent | Example |
|---|---|
| asking for a tool | "Is there an app that…" |
| asking to hire | "I need someone to make me a website" (scored as asking) |
| wants an alternative | "Looking for something like X but free" |
| unhappy with the status quo | "X just got way too expensive" |
| describes the problem | "I keep losing track of…" |
| mentions you | Someone already talking about your project |
Anything under 50 is ignored automatically. The rest appear under To reply, best first, with the score, the evidence the AI found and a reply draft. Conversations that score 85 or more can also ping your phone.
Use the view buttons to switch between To reply, Posted, Ignored and Not scored yet, and the platform chips to filter by source.
#Replying
- Read the thread. Is it still open? Did someone already answer well?
- Edit the draft. Make it sound like you, and answer their actual question first.
- Post it. On Bluesky, click Reply on Bluesky: Larvabot posts your reply under the post from the Bluesky account in your Settings and marks it posted. Everywhere else, Copy & open copies your reply and opens the thread in a new tab; paste it there and post from your own account.
- Mark it. Click ✓ Posted, or Ignore if you decided against it. This keeps your queue clean and feeds your reports.
You post as yourself, under each platform's rules
Replying too often, without saying you made the thing, or where self-promotion isn't allowed can get your account limited or banned. Larvabot never posts on its own: a Bluesky reply goes out only when you click Reply on Bluesky, one at a time, and the draft always discloses that you built the product. Keep it that way.
#Why only Bluesky?
Bluesky lets apps post for you with an app password through its open API, so a reply from Larvabot looks the same as one from the Bluesky app. The others don't offer the same thing:
- Reddit limits its API to apps it has approved, and posting from a third-party app is a fast way for a new account to get flagged as spam.
- Threads lets apps reply only with extra permissions Meta must approve. Larvabot's Threads connection is read-only today.
- X, LinkedIn and Facebook groups don't allow it for this kind of tool at all.
On those, Copy & open (or the browser extension) keeps it to a paste and a click, from your own account.
Bluesky replies are 300 characters at most; the count shows under the draft. To post, add your Bluesky handle and an app password under Settings → Communities, the same login Bluesky search uses.
#Keeping a safe pace
The yellow box at the top suggests a daily number of replies per platform, and turns into a warning when you've gone past it in the last 24 hours:
| Platform | Suggested per day | Why |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | Many subreddits ban self-promotion; new accounts get filtered | |
| Hacker News | 2 | Readers spot marketing instantly |
| Stack Exchange | 3 | Answers must stand alone and disclose affiliation |
| GitHub | 3 | Maintainers hide promotional comments |
| Lemmy | 3 | Each community and instance has its own rules |
| Forums, Web, Telegram, Bluesky | 5 | Usually relaxed, but read the rules |
| YouTube | 8 | Links often get held for review |
These are tips, not limits: Larvabot never blocks you. Outreach etiquette