Reddit· 2h agoExample
Lightweight tool for a five-person team?
Any recommendations for a project management tool? We just need a board and due dates.
Asking for a Recommendation
Caught by project management tool Lead
Platform · Buyer Intent
Find buyers while they're still deciding.
People ask for recommendations, compare alternatives and complain about the tools they use, in public, every day. VoxUno finds those conversations, so you can join in while the choice is still open.
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- On Reddit: Any recommendations for a project management tool?
- On Hacker News: Good alternative to Jira?
- On Stack Exchange: Is Jira too expensive for us?
- On DEV: Our sprint planning takes hours
What buying intent looks like.
Four kinds of conversation that mean someone is about to choose, and the match term that catches each one.
Comparing Alternatives
Hacker News· 5h agoExampleAsk HN: What do small teams use instead of Jira?
Is Linear a good alternative to Jira for a five-person team?
Caught by alternative to Jira Lead
Complaining About a Competitor
Project Management Stack Exchange· 1d agoExampleCutting tool costs for a growing team
Our bill doubled this year. Is Jira too expensive at this size?
Caught by Jira too expensive Lead
Describing a Problem You Solve
DEV· 1d agoExampleHow we stopped planning eating our Mondays
Our sprint planning took three hours a week until we changed one thing.
Caught by sprint planning Lead
Write monitors that catch it, and nothing else.
A monitor matches its match term as whole words, exactly as written, in a post's title and body. Excluded terms leave out what you don't want, and the Lead tag files every result where your team will look.
Example
New Monitor
- Match term
- alternative to Jira
- Excluded terms
- Excluded term: hiring Excluded term: job
- Tags
- Lead
What It Finds
Matched: lands in your inbox, tagged Lead
Hacker News· 5h agoExample
Ask HN: What do small teams use instead of Jira?
Is Linear a good alternative to Jira for a five-person team?
alternative to JiraLead
Excluded: contains "hiring"
Reddit· 4h agoExample
[Hiring] PM for a team moving off Jira
We're hiring a PM to lead our move to an alternative to Jira.
alternative to JiraExcluded term: hiring
Example monitors
Start with these, putting your competitor in place of Jira and your category in place of project management tool.
Example
| Match term | Tag | Excluded terms |
|---|---|---|
| alternative to Jira |
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| Jira alternative |
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| Jira too expensive |
| none |
| project management tool |
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Where intent shows up.
Different buyers ask in different places. VoxUno listens around the clock, checking every community you follow daily.
Developers
Ask for tools and compare libraries in technical communities.
- Hacker News
- Stack Overflow
- GitHub Discussions
Founders
Compare vendors and share their stacks in startup communities.
- Indie Hackers
- Product Hunt
Practitioners
Ask for advice and recommend tools in their own field's Q&A communities.
- Server Fault
- User Experience Stack Exchange
- Project Management Stack Exchange
VoxUno never posts for you. When you find a buyer, you reply in the thread yourself.
Questions
How do I keep irrelevant matches out?
Use exact phrases as match terms, and add excluded terms to a monitor or to the whole project. A post that contains an excluded term is left out.
Which tag should buyer-intent monitors have?
Lead, one of the three built-in tags. Filter your results by Lead to see only the buyers. A monitor can have several tags, or none.
Does VoxUno find replies, not just new threads?
In most communities, yes. In a few, such as YouTube, DEV and some forums, VoxUno collects new posts only.
Does VoxUno reply to buyers for me?
No. VoxUno never posts for you. You read the conversation and reply in the thread yourself.