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GummySearch stopped taking signups on 30 November 2025 and shuts down completely on 1 December 2026, when every account and its data is deleted. Its maker could not get a commercial licence for Reddit’s Data API. If you still rely on it, export first, then pick a tool that does not stand on Reddit alone.
1 December 2026GummySearch shuts down and deletes all user data.Source
The closest replacement for the job most people used GummySearch for. Every post is read by AI against a Brief of what you sell, labelled Asking for recommendations, Comparison, Has a problem or Complaint, and given a Reply call and a draft in your voice — the Solution Requests and Pain & Anger themes, as a ranked inbox. Ten platforms, so Reddit is one source of several rather than the whole product, and the Free plan covers 10 keywords with alerts, the API and an MCP server. What it does not do is GummySearch’s audience research: there is no subreddit browser or audience builder.
See how FishOut is priced →The widest catalogue in the category — around twenty sources including Reddit, Hacker News, podcasts and public Slack communities — with fast boolean filters, from $29.95 a month. It filters rather than reads: AI filtering is a yes/no on Standard ($49.95) and up, and there is no reply drafting. Good if you know exactly which words to watch.
FishOut vs Syften →If you only used GummySearch’s keyword tracking, F5Bot is the free version of that, and has been running since 2017: Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters by email, 5 keywords free. No themes, no ranking and no audience research — every match arrives looking equally important — and Slack starts at $49.99.
FishOut vs F5Bot →Cheap, fast keyword alerts across six platforms with a free tier and a $19 plan. Keywords are counted per platform, so the $19 plan is 20 Reddit and 20 Hacker News keywords but only 2 on X; there is sentiment but no relevance ranking, and the API and MCP start at $79.
FishOut vs KWatch.io →Polished and built for developer tools, with relevance ratings, about fifteen sources and API and MCP on every plan. It is also the most expensive here at $199 a month, or $159 billed annually, with a 10-keyword entry plan — a step up in price from GummySearch’s $29 and $59 tiers.
FishOut vs Octolens →| FishOut | Syften | F5Bot | KWatch.io | Octolens | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | Free, then $19/mo | $29.95/mo | Free, then $9.99/mo | Free, then $19/mo | $199/mo, $159 annually |
| Platforms | 10 platforms | About 20 | 3 platforms | 6 platforms | About 15 |
| MCP server | Every plan, including Free | PRO only ($119.95), read-only | Not offered | Business and up ($79/mo); manages alerts | Every plan (from $159/mo) |
| Alert destinations | 13, every plan | Not on the pages we cite | Email at entry | Not on the pages we cite; webhooks from Business | Webhooks; others not on its pricing page |
| Sales call needed | No | No | No — Diamond is from $500 | No | No — Enterprise is contact-sales |
The Leads and Reply now views are that list, across Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and more, with a draft reply waiting. Free for 10 keywords; $19 a month for 50.
F5Bot if email is enough and you want no AI at all. FishOut Free if you want the matches ranked and sent to Slack, Discord or Telegram rather than an inbox you have to read.
Its source list is the longest here, and its boolean filters are the most exact. You trade AI reading for control.
GummySearch’s audience builder and subreddit analytics have no direct successor in this list — monitoring tools tell you what is being said now about the words you track. Export your saved audiences and reports before 1 December so the research itself is not lost.
Export everything before 1 December 2026
Log in to GummySearch and download your account data — saved audiences, searches and reports. Free accounts can still do this. After 1 December the data is deleted and cannot be recovered.
List what you were tracking
Write down your tracked keywords, the subreddits in each audience, and the themes you checked most — Solution Requests and Pain & Anger are the common ones. That list is your setup for the next tool.
Describe what you sell in one paragraph
In FishOut this is the Brief. It is how the AI tells someone asking for your kind of tool from a post that merely shares a word with your brand, so keywords can stay broad without flooding you.
Add the keywords and let the history fill in
Paste your keywords — the Free plan takes 10, Plus 50 — and FishOut backfills recent posts on every one (2 days on Free, up to 90 on Business), so the inbox has something in it on day one rather than next week.
Send the good ones somewhere you already look
Point alerts at Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, email or a webhook. Only posts that pass triage are sent, and a burst inside five minutes arrives as one digest rather than a dozen pings.
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r/SaaSpatchwork_pm40mWhat do you use to find people asking for a tool like yours?
Keyword alerts give me fifty posts a day and maybe two are people actually shopping. Is there anything that reads them first?
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Fifty a day with two buyers is the usual ratio. I work on AcmeMail, so weigh that: we stopped reading alerts and started reading a list sorted by who is asking.
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