What is Larvabot?
Larvabot finds blogs, threads and directories for your side project and drafts outreach you approve. One flat fee, unlimited use, no credits.
Larvabot finds the people already asking for what you sell. You give it your website. It works out who your customers are, then finds them: people posting "I need someone to…" or "is there an app that…" on Threads, Reddit, X, Facebook groups and more, and, when your buyers are businesses, the businesses and publishers worth a personal email. It's for freelancers and creatives, local and service businesses, startups and indie makers, and agencies. It writes a personal first draft for each one, and waits for you to say yes. Then it shows you which of those actually brought visitors.
You pay one flat platform fee, and then it's unlimited: no credits, no per-search or per-email bill. That works because it runs on the free tiers of tools you sign up for yourself (an AI key, a search key, an email account). It's a small tool on purpose: dozens of good conversations, not thousands of cold emails.
#What it does
- Email outreach Finds the businesses, publishers and pages that fit your project, reads them, finds who to contact and drafts a short, personal email plus two polite follow-ups.
- Conversations Spots people asking for what you offer, or asking to hire someone like you, on Threads, Reddit, X, Facebook groups, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, forums, YouTube, Bluesky and more, with a reply drafted for you to post. Can be limited to your city or country.
- Directories A checklist of free directories and launch sites, with copy written for each one and a Done box.
- Contacts Messages for people you already know, sent one by one from your own WhatsApp, SMS, Telegram or email. Import your list and Larvabot writes each message (WhatsApp outreach).
- Reports A cookieless snippet on your site tells you which emails, threads and listings sent people your way.
- Quota guard Hard caps under every free limit, checked against what the providers themselves report.
#What it doesn't do
- It never sends without you. Every email waits in a review queue until you approve it.
- It never posts on its own. Community replies are drafts. You make them sound like you and post from your own account, by pasting them in or, on Bluesky, with one click (or skip them).
- It doesn't do blasts. You set how many emails go out a day (Setup → Sending pace), and a meter shows what each pace means for your inbox's reputation and your quotas before you save it. Emails go out on weekdays, inside a send window.
- It doesn't buy lists. Contacts come from the pages themselves: bylines, contact pages and mailto links, with a few free email finders as a backup.
- It doesn't find WhatsApp numbers. WhatsApp outreach is for your own list of people you know. Larvabot writes the messages and you send them from your own WhatsApp.
Is this for me?
If you have a website and customers to find (a freelancer or creative, a local or service business, a startup or SaaS, an agency, a content site or a side project) and "marketing" currently means refreshing your analytics and hoping, yes. If you need 10,000 emails a week, Larvabot is the wrong tool (and a very confused caterpillar).
#Words you'll see around the docs
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Project | One website you're promoting. Each has its own analysis, campaigns, sender, tracking and reports. |
| Analysis | What the AI understood about your site: audience, value props, competitors, tone, cautions. Everything Larvabot writes is based on it. |
| Campaign | A goal plus a list of search queries. Email campaigns find leads, community watch finds threads, directory campaigns find listings. |
| Lead | A page (usually a blog post or list) and the person behind it, moving from found to sent (and, with luck, linked back). |
| Conversation | A thread or comment where someone is asking for something your project does. |
| Tick | The hourly background run that does a little of everything: search, research, draft, send, check the inbox. |
#Where to next
Read how it works for the full lifecycle, or skip straight to the quickstart if you like learning by poking things.