Brand monitoring
Every new mention of your product, in one feed.
Find the pages that name your product across more than 60 communities, and keep watching: a monitor checks on a schedule, reads only what is new, and lists it in a feed you can work through.
- Hacker News
- GitHub
- Stack Overflow
- Quora
- Product Hunt
- 60+ communities
- Only pages that name you
- Daily or weekly checks
About $0.10 to $0.25 a check, paid per lookup from your own key. What it costs
What you get
Brand mentions across communities
Only real mentions
A page must contain one of your brand terms to be kept, and you can leave out words that bring noise, such as “jobs”.
Where people talk
Mentions are grouped by community, so you see which subreddits, forums and sites talk about you most.
Sentiment and replies
Each mention shows its community, author, age, reply count and sentiment. An optional AI check drops namesakes.
A feed to work through
Monitors add new pages after each run. Mark what you have replied to and ignore the rest.
How it works
How to use the brand mentions
- 1
Describe what to find
Your brand’s names, or the problem your product solves in a buyer’s words.
- 2
Pick the communities
Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Quora, review sites and more. The free ones cost nothing.
- 3
Read and reply
Results are ranked by date or intent. Reply yourself, then mark what you have replied to.
Use it to
Brand monitoring use cases
Answer questions about you
Someone asks whether your product does X: reply while the thread is fresh.
Catch complaints early
Negative mentions surface in the feed, where you can fix the problem and reply.
Collect testimonials
Positive mentions are proof you can ask to quote.
Watch competitors
A monitor for a competitor’s name shows where their users talk, and what they wish it did.
What it costs
Brand monitoring pricing
About $0.10 to $0.25 a check. The software is free. You pay the data provider for the lookups a search runs, from your own key, under a monthly limit you set. A daily monitor of one name over the default communities costs a few dollars a month.
| Part of the search | Price |
|---|---|
| One community searched through Google, per brand term | $0.01 |
| Hacker News, GitHub and Stack Overflow | Free |
| Optional AI check, per 25 results | from $0.01 |
Search data
Start with $5 of free search data
Creator, Google Maps and search data in OpenReach comes from YepAPI. Sign up there and new accounts get $5 in free credit, for a limited time. That is enough to try every tool before you spend anything.
- 1
Sign up at YepAPI
New accounts get $5 in free credit, for a limited time.
- 2
Copy your API key
It is on your YepAPI dashboard once you sign in.
- 3
Paste it into OpenReach
During account setup, or later in Settings. Every tool works from there.
The free credit is YepAPI’s limited-time offer and may end. After it, you pay YepAPI per lookup at its price. OpenReach lists every call with its cost and a monthly limit caps what you spend. See pricing
Brand monitoring FAQ
Which communities does it search?
More than 60: Reddit, Quora, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange sites, DEV, Indie Hackers, Product Hunt, X, LinkedIn, Facebook groups, review sites such as G2, Capterra and Trustpilot, app stores and forums. You pick them per search or per monitor.
How does it search Reddit and Quora?
Through Google search results restricted to each site, and through the free official APIs of Hacker News, GitHub and Stack Exchange. A self-hosted install can also use Reddit’s official API with its own app credentials. OpenReach never works around a site that blocks automated visits.
Does OpenReach post, comment or send messages for me?
No. OpenReach finds people, businesses and conversations and keeps them organised. You reach out yourself, in your own words. That keeps your accounts safe and your outreach honest.
Terms to know
Brand monitoring is tracking where and how your brand is mentioned online, from forums and social media to reviews and news.
Social listening is tracking public conversations about your brand, competitors and market, then learning from and acting on what people say.
Share of voice is your brand’s portion of the conversation in a market: your mentions compared with competitors’, as a percentage.
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Subreddit finder
Free to try, no account
Subreddits ranked by how often your topic comes up, how many replies those threads get and how recent they are.
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In the app: Influencer finder
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Free to try, no account
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