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 MonitoringPain Points

Find Finding First Customers Buyers on r/SideProject

r/SideProject surfaces finding first customers discussions daily — evaluations, competitor complaints, and recommendation requests. SignalPipe monitors every post for genuine buying intent, 24/7.

Why monitor r/SideProject for Finding First Customers buyers?

Side project builders sharing launches, asking for feedback, and discussing tools for building products solo. Finding First Customers 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/SideProject

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/new/.rss

Use this when calling signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit"

What do Finding First Customers buying signals look like on r/SideProject?

"Show HN: I launched my SaaS 3 weeks ago and have 0 customers — how do people find their first 10?"

Why it's a signal: Peak distribution pain. Immediate buyer.

"I've been doing cold email for 2 months with no results — what else should I try?"

Why it's a signal: Channel pivot. Active evaluation.

"How do successful indie hackers find their first paying customers without cold outreach?"

Why it's a signal: Community-based acquisition seeker. Perfect fit.

"Ask HN: what's the most effective way to find early B2B customers in 2026?"

Why it's a signal: Direct early-adopter acquisition need.

Anchor sentences for Finding First Customers buyers on r/SideProject

Add these to signalpipe_add_product to score r/SideProject posts for Finding First Customers buying intent.

1"need to find my first paying customers without cold email"

2"looking for community-based approach to finding early adopters"

3"want to find buyers who are already looking for what I built"

4"need lead generation for early-stage SaaS without a sales team"

How to start monitoring r/SideProject for Finding First Customers 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/SideProject as a station

Call signalpipe_add_station with platform: "reddit" and rss_url: "https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/new/.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 Finding First Customers leads from r/SideProject.

Start finding Finding First Customers buyers on r/SideProject

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Full setup guide →

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Finding First Customers buying signals →

All platforms and signal examples

How intent scoring works →

4-stage pipeline explained