Customers do not always tag you
They describe the problem, ask for recommendations, or name a competitor instead.
Community monitoring for startups
Know when people discuss a problem your product solves.
MarkAI watches the communities your customers use, filters the noise with AI, and alerts you when a conversation is genuinely relevant to your startup.
14-day trial
No credit card
30 active keywords
12+ public sources
New relevant match
Example product · Reddit
“What’s the easiest way for a small team to collect customer feedback without checking five different tools?”
Why it matters
The author is describing the exact problem your product solves and is actively looking for a better approach.
Delivered to email and Slack
View conversation
Why founders need it
The right conversation is easy to miss.
Manual searching does not scale
Checking five communities every day steals time from building and talking to customers.
Timing changes the outcome
A useful reply matters while the discussion is active, not when you discover it next week.
What MarkAI can catch
Not just brand mentions. Moments where your startup can help.
People rarely use your marketing language. MarkAI monitors the words they use when describing their situation.
A problem you solve
Someone explains the exact frustration your product was created to remove.
A tool recommendation
A potential customer asks what software or approach other people recommend.
Competitor frustration
A user complains about a limitation, price, or workflow and may consider alternatives.
Your product or brand
Someone mentions, recommends, questions, or discusses your startup publicly.
How it works
Describe your product once. MarkAI keeps watch.
You stay in control of the keywords, platforms, relevance threshold, and conversations you choose to join.
Tell us what you do
Add your product, ideal customer, and the problem you solve.
Review your monitoring terms
MarkAI generates problem, solution, pain-point, and competitor keywords you can edit.
MarkAI checks communities
Your active terms are searched across the public platforms you enable.
Review only what matters
AI scores every match, explains its relevance, and alerts you when it meets your threshold.
Timely alerts, less noise
Find out while the conversation is still worth joining.
Set the minimum AI score you care about. When new conversations meet it, MarkAI sends one clear alert with the matches worth reviewing—without filling your inbox with separate notifications.
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Email alerts
Get notified when new conversations meet your relevance threshold.
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Slack alerts
Send the same high-quality matches to the channel where your team works.
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Daily digest
Get one scheduled recap of strong conversations across all projects.
MarkAI alert
3 relevant conversations found
Reddit
9/10
Looking for a simpler alternative to...
Hacker News
8/10
How are teams solving this workflow?
GitHub
7/10
Current tool is becoming too expensive
7 integrations · 12+ public sources
One focused view across the public communities that matter.
Monitor Reddit, Lemmy, Lobsters, Hacker News, GitHub, DEV.to, and six Stack Exchange communities from one place.
Candid questions, recommendations, and product discussions.
Lemmy
FederatedOpen-source communities discussing technology, products, and alternatives.
Lobsters
Curated computing stories and discussions from experienced technical communities.
Hacker News
Founders and technical teams discussing real operating problems.
Stack Exchange Network
6 sitesStack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, DevOps, Information Security, and Startups.
GitHub
Public issues and discussions that expose tooling pain.
DEV.to
Developer experiences, tutorials, and workflow discussions.
Missing a community?
Tell us where your customers talk and help shape what MarkAI monitors next.
Suggest a platform →A founder’s experience
“I’m the founder of Vulert. During our early access to MarkAI, it surfaced relevant Reddit conversations on the first day and showed me where I could contribute something useful. MarkAI is now part of how we find conversations related to the dependency-security problems Vulert solves.”
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Dawood
Founder of Vulert
Pricing by active keywords
Pay for how much you want MarkAI to watch.
Every plan includes all supported platforms, AI relevance scoring, the dashboard, email and Slack alerts, and the daily digest.
Starter
For a founder monitoring one focused product.
$19
/ month
15
active monitoring keywords
4,500
AI-analyzed conversations per month
Up to 300 per day
- ✓ Share keywords across projects
- ✓ AI scoring and relevance explanations
- ✓ New-match email and Slack alerts
- ✓ Daily email summary across all projects
Alpha
For a startup covering more problems and competitors.
$49
/ month
50
active monitoring keywords
18,000
AI-analyzed conversations per month
Up to 1,200 per day
- ✓ Share keywords across projects
- ✓ AI scoring and relevance explanations
- ✓ New-match email and Slack alerts
- ✓ Daily email summary across all projects
Growth
For wider markets, product portfolios, and growing teams.
$99
/ month
150
active monitoring keywords
60,000
AI-analyzed conversations per month
Up to 4,000 per day
- ✓ Share keywords across projects
- ✓ AI scoring and relevance explanations
- ✓ New-match email and Slack alerts
- ✓ Daily email summary across all projects
The trial includes 30 active keywords and 1,400 AI-analyzed conversations, with no credit card required. Competitor terms count toward your active-keyword allowance.
Frequently asked questions
Straight answers before you start.
What does MarkAI actually do?
MarkAI continually checks public conversations on Reddit, Lemmy, Lobsters, Hacker News, the Stack Exchange Network, GitHub, and DEV.to. It finds discussions related to your product, scores their relevance, and brings the useful ones into one dashboard.
What kinds of conversations can it find?
MarkAI can surface people describing a problem your product solves, asking for tool recommendations, discussing alternatives, mentioning your brand, or expressing frustration with a competitor.
How quickly will I receive an alert?
MarkAI sends email and Slack alerts when a monitoring cycle finds new conversations that meet your AI score threshold. Monitoring frequency varies by platform, so alerts are timely but not guaranteed to be instantaneous.
How does AI relevance scoring work?
Each conversation analyzed by AI is compared with your product, ideal customer, and the problem you solve. MarkAI gives it a score and a short explanation so you can focus on useful conversations and hide low-relevance noise.
Does MarkAI reply automatically?
No. MarkAI finds and organizes conversations, then links you to the original post. You decide whether and how to respond, keeping every interaction human and appropriate for the community.
Which platforms are monitored?
MarkAI currently supports seven integrations covering 12+ public sources: Reddit, the federated Lemmy network, Lobsters, Hacker News, public GitHub issues and discussions, DEV.to, and six Stack Exchange communities: Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, DevOps, Information Security, and Startups. Coverage depends on the public data and search access each platform provides.
What counts as an active keyword?
An active keyword is any enabled product, problem, solution, pain-point, brand, or competitor term that MarkAI searches for. The allowance is shared across all projects in your account, and disabled keywords do not use it.
What is a project?
A project is a workspace for one product, service, or brand. It keeps that product context, keywords, platforms, and matching conversations together. Projects are not billed separately; they share your account keyword allowance.
How does the 14-day trial work?
The trial starts when you complete onboarding and launch your first project. It includes up to 30 active keywords and 1,400 AI-analyzed conversations during the trial, with no credit card required.
What happens when I reach my AI-analysis allowance?
The allowance is shared across every project in your account. MarkAI prioritizes stronger and newer signals, defers recent overflow until capacity is available, and does not leave those conversations permanently stuck as processing.
What is the daily digest?
The digest is one scheduled email summarizing strong conversations across all your projects. It is a daily recap; new-match alerts are the faster notifications sent after monitoring cycles.
Will MarkAI find every relevant conversation?
No monitoring product can guarantee complete coverage. Results depend on public platform access, search limits, your enabled platforms, and the quality of your keywords. You can refine your setup as you learn which signals work best.
Start listening
Find the conversations your startup is missing.
Start a free trial, ask us about your use case, or schedule a conversation with the team.