Free social listening tool
Type a brand, product or problem. See the last 7 days of mentions across Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, LinkedIn and more, each one scored for buying intent. No signup.
14 mentions of “HubSpot alternative” in the last 7 days
- 3 look like buyers
- 1 thread ranks on Google
- Reddit, LinkedIn and Bluesky
- u/ops_lena in r/salesHot 88Looking to buyRanks #6 on Google
Leaving HubSpot. What CRM are small agencies using?
Our renewal came in at three times the price. We're six people and need pipelines and email sequences, nothing fancy. What did you switch to?
- Marco Ruiz · LinkedInWarm 61Question
Has anyone compared Pipedrive and Attio as a HubSpot alternative for a 10-person team? Mostly care about reporting.
Prospy's Social Mention Search is a free social listening tool. Type a brand, product or problem and it searches the last 7 days of public posts on up to 11 sources, including Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky and LinkedIn, then scores each mention from 0 to 100 for buying intent so the people ready to buy come first. No account, no email.
- Sources you can search live
- 11
- Of public posts and comments
- 7 days
- Buying-intent score per mention
- 0–100
- No signup, no email
- $0
A social media search engine that reads every post for intent
Most mention trackers stop at “your keyword appeared”. This one tells you which mentions are people who might buy, so you know where to spend the next ten minutes.
- 1
Type what a buyer would write
Your brand, a competitor or the problem you solve: “HubSpot alternative”, “best CRM for a small agency”. Exact phrases work best.
- 2
We search every source live
Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, LinkedIn and Threads by default; YouTube, Quora, Product Hunt, GitHub, Medium and TikTok when you tick them. A slow source is marked, never counted as zero.
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Each mention gets an intent score
The model Prospy uses for paying customers reads every post: looking for a solution, comparing options, complaining or just chatting?
How to read an intent score
Every mention gets a lead score from 0 to 100: how relevant the post is, multiplied by how close its author is to choosing a solution. Hot means reply today; warm is worth a helpful answer; cool is research, not outreach. When the author wants something, the mention also gets one of four intents.
A Ranks on Google badge means the thread showed up in Prospy's daily Google checks. Those threads keep getting read for months, by searchers and by AI assistants that quote them. Scores are a guide: the model reads only the post, so read it before you reply.
What to do with a mention
Finding the conversation is half the job. The other half is showing up in it well.
Reply as yourself
Answer the actual question, say who you are, and link only where the community allows it. One honest reply in a hot thread beats ten cold emails.
Hand it to your AI agent
Connect Prospy's MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or Cursor and ask it to research today's hot mentions and draft replies. You review and post them.
Track it so you see the next one
A search is a snapshot. Prospy runs it all day on all 12 sources, X included, and sends the strong leads to email, Slack, Discord or your agent.
Reddit and Hacker News reward people who help and punish people who pitch. Prospy never posts for you: your agent connects through the MCP server or the REST API, and you post every reply yourself.
Brand mentions once, or every morning
This free social listening tool is a single look at the last week. Prospy is the same search running all day, with the parts you need to act on it.
| Free search | Prospy | |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | Up to 11 here | All 12, X included |
| Time range | Last 7 days | Every new post, all day, from the day you start |
| Intent scoring | Yes, on the top 24 mentions | Every mention, with summaries for hot leads |
| Alerts | No | Email, Slack, Discord, webhooks, daily digest |
| Saving, triage, team | No | Feed, statuses, saved views, shared dashboards |
| AI agents | No | MCP server and REST API |
| Price | Free, no signup | Paid plans, see pricing |
Coming from F5Bot or Google Alerts? F5Bot covers Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters and emails every keyword match; Google Alerts mostly finds web pages and news, not posts and comments. Prospy covers twelve sources, scores each mention so you only hear about the ones with intent, and sends them where you work.
Is this social listening tool really free?
Yes. You can search without an account, and there is no trial to cancel. To keep costs fair we limit how many new searches one visitor can run per hour; searches someone already ran today come back instantly from our cache.
Which sources does the social mention search cover?
Reddit (posts and comments), Hacker News, Bluesky, LinkedIn and Threads by default, and YouTube, Quora, Product Hunt, GitHub, Medium and TikTok when you tick them. X is not in the free search because its live search is slow and paid per result; Prospy accounts get X too.
How is the buying-intent score worked out?
An AI classifier reads each post and rates how relevant it is to your phrase and how close the author is to choosing a solution: no intent, general interest, exploring the problem, comparing solutions, or ready to buy or switch. The lead score combines the two on a 0 to 100 scale. It is the same model Prospy uses for its paying customers.
Why does a source say “didn't answer” instead of showing zero?
Each source gets a few seconds. If one is slow or fails, we tell you rather than pretend nobody mentioned you there. Run the search again a bit later, or let Prospy watch it: scheduled scans retry automatically.
Is this a good F5Bot or Google Alerts alternative?
For a quick look, yes: unlike F5Bot it covers more than Reddit and Hacker News, and unlike Google Alerts it reads social posts and comments as they appear. For ongoing alerts, Prospy is the full version: it runs the search all day and sends only the mentions with real buying intent.
Can I share my results?
Yes. Every search has its own link (the page address updates as you search), so you can send it to a teammate. Shared links show the same results for 24 hours, then search again.
Do you store what I search?
We keep the results of a search in memory for up to a day so repeat searches are instant and cheap, and we log failed searches to fix them. Nothing is tied to you and we don't build a profile from your searches.
What is Prospy?
Prospy is social listening for startups and B2B teams. It watches 12 sources (X, Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, Quora, Product Hunt, GitHub and Medium) for your keywords, scores every mention for buying intent with AI, and pushes the ones worth a reply to email, Slack, Discord, webhooks, a REST API and an MCP server for AI agents.
More free tools from Prospy
Reddit Search
Search Reddit posts and comments for an exact phrase, or see what one account posted, over the last day, week, month or year. Scored for buying intent.
Open the toolX Advanced Search Builder
Fill in a form, get the X (Twitter) advanced search query: phrases, accounts, likes, dates, language and a buyer-intent filter. Opens on x.com.
Open the toolYouTube Comment Finder
Find comments that mention a keyword on a video or across videos about a topic.
Coming soonAI Visibility Checker
See whether ChatGPT recommends you and which threads it reads to decide.
Coming soonReddit Shadowban Checker
Check whether a Reddit account is shadowbanned, suspended or ready to post.
Coming soon
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