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I built a database of 4,500 scraped and analyzed Reddit users to find SME's

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2 pointsOmPatel55 comments

Hey everyone! I'm a 15 year old developer and I just launched this application called linkeddit.com, which is a database full of analyzed Reddit users that are scraped from over 20k+ posts and 100k+ comments across 120 different subreddits.

I use this database to connect with subject matter experts on Reddit so that I can ask questions to professionals in different fields, such as marketing or SaaS development to improve my skills if I need help on something.

A lot of people don't know who to connect with for better advice on a specific topic, so to solve this problem, I scraped and analyzed posts, comments, user profiles, karma and user consistency/activity for different Reddit users to find the most experienced users in a specific subreddit. There are around 50 users of the highest contributors/relevancy for each subreddit.

After that, I put all of the user profiles in a database, and added some advanced filter options so that you can find users based on subreddit or specific keywords/niches.

For example, this is also how I got my first SaaS application from 0 to 72 sales, as I found it easier to get help from people who have experience in SaaS, and I connected with them to ask how I can improve my landing page, or my marketing skills etc.

If you are wanting to find and connect with relevant users, this database will save you tons of time!

Great job on the design and the aspirations here. I don't know that I understand the value prop though. Is there value in having reddit users arbitrarily ranked? What's the end use by the user? Is the goal for the user to leverage the connection and reach out directly? Does frequent posting / using the targeted keywords actually equate to being an expert or just someone that posts a lot? I'd argue that it's probably the opposite.

Thanks so much.

It's a database full of users that can be used for connecting with subject matter experts if you want to ask questions or ask for feedback/improvement on an application, or for research on anything

this can save you a ton of time on finding experts to ask questions to (like you said, it is used for reaching out directly)

And I am still experimenting for the best scraping algorithm to get the best experts, as I check various factors to filter out the best users in each subreddit

Did you get appropriate consent before adding them to your lead spam database?

It's public available data

And it's not a lead spam database. It's used for connecting with subject matter experts if you want to ask questions or ask for feedback/improvement on an application, or for research on anything

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