I’ve been exploring ways to find potential clients without spending hours manually scanning Reddit, LinkedIn, X, and smaller niche forums. The goal isn’t just scraping it’s identifying posts where people are actively asking for solutions or services.

Some tools I tried either overwhelm you with irrelevant data or require constant manual tuning. I recently came across OptaReach, which promises to detect intent posts across multiple platforms and organize them for outreach. From a first glance, it seems to reduce noise and surface actionable leads.

Curious how others tackle this problem:

Do you rely on automated monitoring or manual searching for lead discovery?

Any strategies for filtering signal from noise without heavy coding?

How do you ensure outreach stays personalized and not spammy?

Has anyone tried tools like OptaReach or similar and did it actually save time?

I’m mostly interested in practical approaches, but happy to discuss technical aspects like scraping, NLP, and platform changes as well.