GummySearch is gone. Here's how to find your first users on Reddit anyway

What you're actually replacing

GummySearch did audience research on Reddit. You picked a group of subreddits, and it surfaced pain points, requests for tools, and threads worth answering, plus alerts when new ones showed up. The closure notice is still on their homepage (we looked on October 16, 2026), along with a link to alternatives they suggest.

If you were on a paid plan running daily alerts across dozens of subreddits, you probably want another paid tool. This page isn't for you, sorry. It's for the person who mostly wanted their first 20 conversations.

The free version, by hand

1. Get a starting list of subreddits. Our free Where do my users hang out? finder takes one line about what you built and gives you rooms for that niche. No signup. It's a list we keep by hand, so check each one is still active.
2. Search Reddit for complaints, not keywords. Try "is there a tool that", "I hate how", "alternative to" or "how do you all" plus your problem. Sort by new. Old threads are history, new ones are people you can still help.
3. Keep a plain list. A note or a spreadsheet with the thread link, the subreddit, and what the person said in their own words. After a week you'll see the same five complaints over and over. That's your landing page copy, more or less.
4. Answer first. Reply to the actual question. Don't drop a link unless someone asks or the subreddit allows it. Our Reddit launch guide and subreddits to launch in go into which rooms tolerate what.
5. Do the same on X. Different people complain there. The searches we use are in how to find users on X.

What you lose doing it this way is the alerts and the summaries. What you keep is the part that mattered, which was reading what people say before you try to sell them anything.

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