SignalPipe is an agentic sales pipeline that monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and RSS feeds 24/7 for buying-intent signals. It uses AI to score each signal, draft a reply, and surface only real leads for human review and approval before anything is sent.

How does SignalPipe detect buying intent?

SignalPipe uses a three-stage pipeline: a keyword gate for cheap pre-filtering, OpenAI text-embedding-3-small for semantic similarity scoring against your anchor sentences, and a three-model LLM swarm (Optimist, Analyst, Skeptic) that evaluates each post independently. A hard skeptic veto suppresses any signal the most skeptical judge dismisses.

Does SignalPipe send messages automatically?

No. Every message requires human approval before it is sent. SignalPipe drafts the reply and queues it for your review — you approve, edit, or reject each one. Nothing is sent without your explicit sign-off.

What platforms does SignalPipe monitor?

SignalPipe monitors Reddit (via subreddit RSS feeds), Hacker News (via hnrss.org keyword feeds), and any RSS-compatible feed. You can add as many sources as you want per product.

How is SignalPipe different from Clay or Apollo?

Clay enriches contact lists you already have. Apollo is a cold email database. SignalPipe generates net-new leads by detecting live buying signals — finding people who are actively posting that they need what you sell, right now, in public communities.

SignalPipe has four tiers: BYOK ($19/mo — bring your own LLM key, 3 products, 50 leads/day, 1,000 prospects), Starter ($49/mo — 2 products, 25 leads/day, 500 prospects), Growth ($149/mo — 10 products, 250 leads/day, 5,000 prospects), and Scale ($499/mo — unlimited everything). Open Source is free for self-hosters. The first 100 waitlist members get 50% off for 3 months.

Does SignalPipe work with NVIDIA NeMoClaw?

Yes — fully compatible out of the box. NeMoClaw is NVIDIA's enterprise distribution of OpenClaw, so any OpenClaw plugin installs and runs on NeMoClaw without modification. For on-prem deployments, SignalPipe also supports local model inference: set COMPANION_LLM_PROVIDER=openai_compatible and point it at a locally running Nemotron or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Your leads, prospect data, and generated messages never leave your infrastructure.

Can I run SignalPipe fully on-premises?

Yes. Self-host the FastAPI backend on your own server, connect it to your own PostgreSQL database, and configure the companion message generation to use a local model via any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Nemotron via NeMoClaw, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM). The only external call that remains is the OpenAI embedding API for signal scoring — and that can be swapped for a local embedding model by request.

Reddit MonitoringSignal Methodology

Find Hacker News Leads Buyers on r/devops

r/devops surfaces hacker news leads discussions daily — evaluations, competitor complaints, and recommendation requests. SignalPipe monitors every post for genuine buying intent, 24/7.

Why monitor r/devops for Hacker News Leads buyers?

r/devops is a community of DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform engineers discussing CI/CD, infrastructure, monitoring, and tooling. Members are technical buyers with real purchasing authority for the tools they recommend. Tool evaluation threads are common and detailed. Hacker News Leads buyers in this community post with specificity — they describe their current stack, their pain, and what they need next. These are not passive researchers. They are active buyers.

Station RSS URL for r/devops

https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/.rss

Use this when calling signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit"

What do Hacker News Leads buying signals look like on r/devops?

"Hacker News is better than cold email for our product — how do you monitor it at scale?"

Why it's a signal: Channel discovery. Tool evaluation.

"Is there a way to get notified when people ask HN questions related to my product category?"

Why it's a signal: Direct HN monitoring need. High intent.

"We've been searching HN manually for 'ask hn' posts about our category — can this be automated?"

Why it's a signal: Manual process. Automation buyer.

"HN readers are our best customers — what's the best way to engage them systematically?"

Why it's a signal: HN channel commitment. Scale buyer.

Anchor sentences for Hacker News Leads buyers on r/devops

Add these to signalpipe_add_product to score r/devops posts for Hacker News Leads buying intent.

1"need tool to monitor Hacker News for buying signals in my product category"

2"looking for HN lead generation tool that alerts on relevant Ask HN posts"

3"want to automate monitoring HN for people asking about our solution area"

4"need systematic approach to finding warm leads from HN discussions"

How to start monitoring r/devops for Hacker News Leads buyers

Install SignalPipe

Run `openclaw plugins install signalpipe` inside OpenClaw. Takes under a minute.

Create a product profile

Call signalpipe_add_product. Paste the anchor sentences above into the anchor_sentences field.

Add r/devops as a station

Call signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit" and rss_url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/.rss". Then call signalpipe_reload_products.

Run your first scan

Call signalpipe_scout_now to trigger an immediate scan. Then signalpipe_get_missions to see Hacker News Leads leads from r/devops.

Start finding Hacker News Leads buyers on r/devops

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Full setup guide →

All 11 tools, anchor sentences, station types

All signals on r/devops →

Full subreddit monitoring guide

Hacker News Leads buying signals →

All platforms and signal examples

How intent scoring works →

4-stage pipeline explained