Lead Radar

# Lead Radar

**Stop cold outreach. Start warm conversations.**

Lead Radar scans 9 social platforms every morning for people actively asking for what you sell — then delivers the top 10 buying-intent leads straight to your Telegram, each with a pre-drafted reply ready to send.

## How It Works

1. **You describe your offer** — e.g. "I sell a CRM for freelance designers"
2. **Gemini 2.5 Flash generates smart keywords** tailored to your niche
3. **9 sources are scanned** for posts matching those keywords (Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Stack Overflow, Quora, Hashnode, Dev.to, GitHub Discussions, and Lobsters)
4. **Each post is scored 0-10** for buying intent using AI — filtering out noise and keeping only real opportunities
5. **Top 10 leads are delivered to Telegram** every morning at 8am, each with:
   - The original post title and snippet
   - A direct link to the conversation
   - An intent score with explanation
   - A pre-drafted reply you can copy-paste

## What Gets Detected

Lead Radar finds posts like:
- "Looking for a tool that does X" — direct buying intent
- "How do you handle Y?" — pain point that your product solves
- "We switched from Z and need an alternative" — active comparison shopping
- "Any recommendations for...?" — open to suggestions

## Sources

| Platform | Method |
|----------|--------|
| Reddit | API with automatic fallback chain (3 strategies) |
| Hacker News | Algolia search API |
| Indie Hackers | Jina web scraping |
| Stack Overflow | Public API |
| Quora | Jina web scraping |
| Hashnode | GraphQL API |
| Dev.to | Public API |
| GitHub Discussions | REST API |
| Lobsters | JSON feeds with local filtering |

## Source Health Monitoring

If any source goes down (rate-limited, blocked, or temporarily unavailable), Lead Radar:
- Continues scanning all other sources normally
- Appends a warning to your Telegram message listing which sources are down
- Shows scan stats: how many posts were scanned across how many active sources

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