Shut down Nov 2025
Reddibee vs GummySearch
The Reddit research tool most indie hackers used. It closed on 30 November 2025.
Free to start. No card. Nothing posts until you approve it.
| Feature | GummySearch | Reddibee |
|---|---|---|
| Where you use it | Its own web app | The Reddibee web app, plus Claude Code, Cursor and Claude Desktop |
| Sources | Reddit, X and Hacker News | |
| Drafts replies in your voice | No | Yes |
| Posts to Reddit | No | Only what you approve, from your account |
| Price | $29 to $59 a month | $0, $9, or $19 a month |
About GummySearch
Where it came from.
GummySearch was a web app for Reddit audience research: pick a set of subreddits, then browse pain points, solution requests, and trends with saved searches and email alerts. It charged $29 to $59 a month and was a standard recommendation on r/indiehackers for years.
This page is for you if
You used GummySearch to check demand before building, or to keep an eye on a few communities, and you have not found a replacement that is not a spreadsheet. Reddibee does that research, then helps you answer the threads it finds.
Side by side
What each one does.
| Feature | GummySearch | Reddibee |
|---|---|---|
| Where you use it | Its own web app | The Reddibee web app, plus Claude Code, Cursor and Claude Desktop |
| Sources | Reddit, X and Hacker News | |
| Demand evidence with counts and links | Yes | Yes |
| Classified asks (tool, alternative, problem) | Keyword patterns | Classified per thread, with the reason |
| Community discovery with rules and promo tolerance | Size and topic | Yes |
| Saved searches and alerts | Yes | Watches on Pro (email alerts coming soon) |
| Output | Dashboards and CSV | Threads in the app, drafts in your queue, JSON for your agent. Permalinks everywhere. |
| Drafts replies in your voice | No | Yes |
| Posts to Reddit | No | Only what you approve, from your account |
| Cooldowns and rule checks before posting | No | Yes |
| Free tier | Trial only | 10 requests a day, no card |
| Price | $29 to $59 a month | $0, $9, or $19 a month |
Where GummySearch wins
Reasons to stay.
- Audience browsing. GummySearch was built for scrolling through pain points across big audiences. Reddibee is built around the subreddits you track and the threads worth a reply.
- Years of saved audiences. Reddibee starts from the communities you pick, and fetches new ones on demand.
- One-off exports. Reddibee has no CSV export. Results live in the app and in your agent.
Where Reddibee wins
Reasons to switch.
- It goes past research. Reddibee drafts the reply in your voice, inside the sub’s rules, and posts it from your account once you approve.
- Two more sources for research. Hacker News and X are where devtool demand often shows up first; GummySearch never had them.
- Classification, not keywords. "Anyone found a tool that chases late invoices?" is an ask; "I use an invoicing app" is not. Reddibee tells them apart.
- It still exists, and it costs less: $0, $9 or $19 a month.
Switching
Three steps, one evening.
Sign up and paste your website
Reddibee writes your brand profile and suggests subreddits. Add the ones you tracked in GummySearch, up to 20.
Open Opportunities
Your first threads show up in a minute or two, best openings first. Ask the research chat the questions you used to click through.
Re-create your saved searches as watches
Watches are part of Pro. New matches collect in one feed your agent can read. Email alerts are coming soon.
Questions
Asked by people switching.
Can I import my GummySearch audiences?
There is no import file to read, but the audiences were lists of subreddits. Add them on the Subreddits page, or ask your agent to track them all in one call.
Why did GummySearch shut down?
It announced its closure for 30 November 2025. Reddibee is designed around Reddit’s rules as they stand today: it reads public threads and communities, never builds a profile of an individual user, and posts only from accounts that connected themselves.
Is there a web app?
Yes, a full one: threads from your subreddits, subreddit intel, a composer with each sub’s rules and an approval queue. Your coding agent gets the same tools if you want them.
Run it next to GummySearch for a week.
Free to start. No card. Nothing posts until you approve it.