Founders.

YouTube's API reads comments at 1 unit a call and gives search its own 100-a-day bucket. What you can poll, what you can store, and where replies get flagged.

Show HN rules for a SaaS launch: why a signup wall costs you feedback, what HN's 2026 new-account limit says, and what to do before you post.

A ranked list of 20 buyer intent tools for founders without an enterprise budget, scored on six published criteria, with dated prices and each tool's limits.

Google counts subdomains as one sender, and Postmaster Tools shows nothing at low volume. When a separate cold email domain earns its keep, and when it doesn't.

Reddit has no ban on AI-written replies, but it labels bots, names AI tools in its spam policy, and now verifies humans. Where a founder's workflow lands.

Legal in the UK, conditional in the EU, consent-first in Germany. What B2B cold email needs under GDPR, checked against the ICO and the statute text.

The FTC just handed out its largest cold email fine ever. Here's what CAN-SPAM actually requires, verified against the FTC's own compliance guide.

Reddit's 2024 policy requires a contract for commercial data use and just sued Perplexity over it. Here's what CFAA and GDPR actually let you do.

Microsoft's 550 5.7.515 error targets senders doing 5,000+ emails a day. Founders sending 20 a day are getting bounced too. Here's the actual cause.

Indie Hackers' own terms ban the scrape, the unofficial RSS mirrors don't fix that, and unlike Quora or X there's no paid firehose to buy instead.

G2's terms ban automated review scraping outright. Here's the free tool, the paid one, and what's actually left for catching competitor switching signals.

Quora shut down its RSS feeds and its terms ban automated collection outright. Here's what's actually left for founders hunting buying signals there.

Meta shut down the Groups API for good in April 2024. Here's what's actually left for a founder trying to catch buying signals inside Facebook Groups.

GitHub's REST search covers issues and pull requests. Discussions live behind a separate GraphQL budget, and the reply rules differ by repo.

Product Hunt's API bans commercial use by default, and its own guidelines erase self-promotion in comments. Here's the room built for the pitch.

Slack caps outside apps at 15 messages a minute, and its API terms ban using one community's data for your pipeline. Here is what a founder can still run.

Bluesky streams every public post over one unauthenticated socket. We sampled 20 minutes of it and counted what a founder could actually reply to.

X charges half a cent per post read. The arithmetic on whether a keyword monitor on X pays for itself, and the point where it stops.

Most Discord lead-gen advice quietly breaks Discord's own Developer Policy. What rules 5, 6, 7 and 20 actually say, and the motion that survives them.

Fifteen tools for getting content seen across social platforms — schedulers, repurposing, listening, newsletter. What each is good at. Not a ranking.

Fifteen lead generation tools across prospecting, outbound, intent, and inbound — what each is good at, what it's bad at, who it fits. Not a ranking.

Christmas shoppers ask ChatGPT for gift ideas. If OAI-SearchBot can't crawl your products, you're invisible. The 2026 listing playbook.

Most cold email A/B test lifts are sample-size theater. The timing variable swamps copy variance. Here's what's actually testable in 2026.

Find paying clients on Reddit by being early, useful, and specific — not by spamming DMs. The honest 2026 playbook for freelancers and agencies.

Paid ads in the lead-gen toolkit: when ads work cleanly, when they quietly fail, the CAC math vs intent-based outbound, and why blended programs win in 2026.

Cold email didn't die in 2019. It died in February 2024 when Google and Yahoo rewrote sender rules. Here's what survived, the reply-rate math you can plan against, and where the trigger has to come from.

LinkedIn buying intent is real, sparse, and hidden behind API limits. Here's the exact signals we watch, the signals we ignore, and the pipeline that makes the channel work.

Honest cost breakdown of building sales intelligence in-house vs buying. Scraping infra, LLM APIs, classifier engineering, enrichment, maintenance — actual numbers.

We built Shadow Inbox with OpenClaw, an AI agent factory. Here's the agent role split, the 1-week MVP, the surprises, and what we'd do differently.

Reddit reply strategy for founders: why most marketing advice gets you banned, how moderators actually think, and the disclosure pattern that earns upvotes.