
Forum Keyword Alert Monitoring
Find public forum threads and replies from people already asking about your market, competitors, integrations, and problems.
- Forum threads and replies
- Source, title, and author filters
- Slack, email, RSS, API, webhooks
- Archive search and AI filtering
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Forums are where people describe real problems in detail
Short-form social feeds move fast. Forums are different. People write longer posts, explain what they tried, compare tools, ask for integrations, and leave threads that keep ranking in Google for years.
Syften watches those public discussions and alerts you when your filters match, so you can help while the thread is still active.
This is the same basic playbook behind Zapier's early forum strategy: find people already asking for help, answer the specific problem, and let the thread keep working after the conversation ends.
Find integration requests
Track phrases like "connect to" zapier, competitor names, and product categories to spot workflows your product can solve.
Catch competitor complaints
Monitor competitor.com, "alternative to", pricing complaints, missing features, and migration questions.
Answer while the thread is fresh
A useful forum reply helps the original poster, the lurkers reading today, and the searchers who find the indexed thread later.
Which forums do you monitor?
Syften can currently alert you about new posts and replies from these forums:
- 32-Bit Cafe 32 posts/day
- 3D Slicer Community 18 posts/day
- 4D Forum 57 posts/day
- a_lilian's garden 43 posts/day
- Aave 11 posts/day
- ACCESS Hive Community Forum 15 posts/day
- Ada Forum 13 posts/day
- Adalo 60 posts/day
- adminForge Community 5 posts/day
- Adobe Creative Cloud Developer Forums 5 posts/day
- AlmaLinux 6 posts/day
- Alpaca Community Forum 10 posts/day
- Amazon Developer Community 17 posts/day
- Amazon Seller Forum 12 posts/day
- American Homebrewers Associationยฎ Forum 17 posts/day
- Anki Forums 45 posts/day
- AnkiHub Community 172 posts/day
- Ansible 12 posts/day
- APH Hive Discussion Board 36 posts/day
- AppliancePartsPros Forum 57 posts/day
- Arbitrum 10 posts/day
- Arduboy 9 posts/day
- Arduino Forum 451 posts/day
- Arlo Community
- Art of Memory Forum 51 posts/day
- Asana Forum 231 posts/day
- Aseprite Community 6 posts/day
- Asterisk Community 19 posts/day
- Atlassian
- Audacity Forum 30 posts/day
- Auth0 Community 67 posts/day
- Autonomi Forum (Safe) 4 posts/day
- Babylon.js 31 posts/day
- Bear Community 36 posts/day
- Better Transport Queensland 35 posts/day
- Bitwarden Community Forums 95 posts/day
- Blood Cancer UK Online Community Forum 40 posts/day
- Blue Robotics Community Forums 21 posts/day
- Brain Aneurysm Support Community 7 posts/day
- Brave Community 119 posts/day
- Brinkley RV Owners Forum 77 posts/day
- Bubble Forum 89 posts/day
- Bubble Forum 89 posts/day
- CalculiX 8 posts/day
- Camunda Forum 10 posts/day
- Canadian Football Forum 304 posts/day
- Canton Network Forum 7 posts/day
- Car Talk Community 45 posts/day
- Cardano Forum 32 posts/day
- Carers Connect - The Carers UK online community 57 posts/day
- Casino World 12 posts/day
- Casino.org Forum 141 posts/day
- Casino.org Forum 141 posts/day
- Catholic Talk 36 posts/day
- Cayas Community 16 posts/day
- Celigo Connective 4 posts/day
- Celo Forum 4 posts/day
- Cesium Community 26 posts/day
- CFI Forums 7 posts/day
- Cfx Forum 309 posts/day
- Chapel Programming Language 22 posts/day
- Chesapeake Light Craft Community Forum 12 posts/day
- Chiff & Fipple 14 posts/day
- Choice of Games Forum 178 posts/day
- CHUWI Forum 8 posts/day
- Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association 321 posts/day
- CLARIN 3 posts/day
- ClarionHub 15 posts/day
- Clark Howard Community 11 posts/day
- ClearanceJobs Blog - Security Clearances 4 posts/day
- clockworkpi 46 posts/day
- Cloudflare Community 290 posts/day
- Code with Mosh Forum 4 posts/day
- CodeAI Professional Learning Community 9 posts/day
- CodeCombat Discourse 9 posts/day
- CodeCrafters 4 posts/day
- Collabora Online 6 posts/day
- Community Smart Home 52 posts/day
- Complaint Hub Citizen Community 8 posts/day
- Compound Community Forum 4 posts/day
- Computation Layer Support Forum 4 posts/day
- Core Electronics Forum 7 posts/day
- Cosmos Hub Forum 6 posts/day
- Creality Community Forum 41 posts/day
- Crossref community forum 6 posts/day
- Crystal Forum 4 posts/day
- Cumulocity Tech Community 4 posts/day
- Cursor - Community Forum 898 posts/day
- cybozu developer community 5 posts/day
- Dark Gaming 33 posts/day
- Dataquest Community 5 posts/day
- DayOne Forums 127 posts/day
- DeepLearning.AI 66 posts/day
- Defold game engine forum 15 posts/day
- Delta Chat 13 posts/day
- Deriv community | Resources | Deriv 3 posts/day
- DEVONtechnologies Community 36 posts/day
- DHIS2 Community 62 posts/day
- DigiKey TechForum - An Electronic Component and Engineering Solution Forum 56 posts/day
- Digital Spy
- Directus Community 5 posts/day
- Discourse Meta 444 posts/day
- Discuss Kubernetes 6 posts/day
- Discuss the Elastic Stack 95 posts/day
- discuss.pixls.us 198 posts/day
- Discussions on Python.org 68 posts/day
- DJ TechTools Forum 8 posts/day
- Django Forum 11 posts/day
- Dlubal Community 12 posts/day
- Docker Community Forums 12 posts/day
- Drone Hub 28 posts/day
- Duelists Unite 7 posts/day
- Duplicati 5 posts/day
- Dynamo 20 posts/day
- Electric Forum 8 posts/day
- Elfsight Community 175 posts/day
- Elite Fourum 206 posts/day
- Elm 9 posts/day
- EndeavourOS 240 posts/day
- Epic Developer Community Forums 384 posts/day
- Epicor User Help Forum 109 posts/day
- Eris Online Forum 17 posts/day
- Ethereum Research 21 posts/day
- eufy Community 297 posts/day
- EVE Online Forums 382 posts/day
- eWeLink Forum 21 posts/day
- Fairphone Community Forum 87 posts/day
- Fatoora Developer Community 7 posts/day
- Fatshark Forums 386 posts/day
- Fedora Discussion 221 posts/day
- Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians 29 posts/day
- FEniCS Project 4 posts/day
- Fibery.io Community 14 posts/day
- Film Community at Negative Lab Pro 4 posts/day
- Finance Heros Forum 11 posts/day
- Firecore 36 posts/day
- Flathub Discourse 6 posts/day
- FlightAware Discussions 13 posts/day
- Flow Forum 4 posts/day
- Fly.io 22 posts/day
- FMOD Forums 8 posts/day
- FMSoup 4 posts/day
- Folksy Forums 120 posts/day
- Formlabs Community Forum 11 posts/day
- Foro Tuenti 45 posts/day
- Fortran Discourse 16 posts/day
- Forum de Trictrac 155 posts/day
- Forum HomeExchange 38 posts/day
- Forum juridique Juritravail : Posez votre question juridique 23 posts/day
- Frame.io Developer Forum 3 posts/day
- Framework Community 94 posts/day
- Freeletics Forum 5 posts/day
- FreePBX Community Forums 25 posts/day
- FreeRTOS Community Forums 4 posts/day
- FUDiabetes 22 posts/day
- Funcom Forums 199 posts/day
- FxSound 6 posts/day
- Gainium Community 9 posts/day
- Galaxy Community Help 9 posts/day
- GameDev.tv 8 posts/day
- Garuda Linux Forum 62 posts/day
- gCaptain Forum 37 posts/day
- GCE Electronics 19 posts/day
- Gems of War 30 posts/day
- genealogy.net 95 posts/day
- GetBiotechJobs.com Forum 4 posts/day
- GetLegalNurseConsultantJobs.com Forum 4 posts/day
- GetVeterinaryTechnicianJobs.com Forum 4 posts/day
- Ghost Forum 21 posts/day
- Gig Performer Community 45 posts/day
- GitLab Forum 14 posts/day
- Glide Community 13 posts/day
- GNOME Discourse 49 posts/day
- GNU Octave 17 posts/day
- Go Forum 6 posts/day
- Godot Forum 186 posts/day
- Going to Seed 23 posts/day
- Gradle Forums 6 posts/day
- Grafana Labs Community Forums 18 posts/day
- Gravity Forms 4 posts/day
- Graylog Community 5 posts/day
- Grey Arrows Drone Club UK 213 posts/day
- greytHR Community 20 posts/day
- gridX Developers 4 posts/day
- Grin 6 posts/day
- GROMACS forums 4 posts/day
- HAProxy community 7 posts/day
- HashiCorp Discuss 4 posts/day
- Haskell Community 25 posts/day
- hobbyDB 19 posts/day
- Home Assistant Community 518 posts/day
- Home Renovation Reviews | Your Local Renovation Forum 4 posts/day
- Homey Community Forum 276 posts/day
- HubSpot Community 248 posts/day
- Hue Essentials Community 5 posts/day
- Huel 7 posts/day
- Hugging Face Forums 65 posts/day
- HUGO 9 posts/day
- Hungry Onion 200 posts/day
- I Love Philosophy 197 posts/day
- Ice711 Community Forum 259 posts/day
- ILGISA Forums 4 posts/day
- Image.sc Forum 39 posts/day
- iNaturalist Community Forum 189 posts/day
- Inductive Automation Forum 60 posts/day
- Infinite Conversations 16 posts/day
- Infinite Flight Community 2024 posts/day
- InterNACHI Forum 194 posts/day
- Internet Computer Developer Forum 171 posts/day
- invantive 13 posts/day
- InvestEngine 5 posts/day
- Invvest Community 5 posts/day
- Ionic Forum 9 posts/day
- IPFire Community 16 posts/day
- iSharkFly 4 posts/day
- It's FOSS Community 49 posts/day
- iunctis.fr 216 posts/day
- Jag-lovers Forums 218 posts/day
- JetBrains Platform 9 posts/day
- Jitsi Community Forum - developers & users 8 posts/day
- Joplin Forum 23 posts/day
- JUCE 19 posts/day
- Julia Programming Language 55 posts/day
- Jupiter Community 33 posts/day
- JusConecta 19 posts/day
- KartPulse - Presented by TBD 35 posts/day
- Katalon Community 31 posts/day
- Keap Integration Q&A 8 posts/day
- Keyboard Maestro Discourse 23 posts/day
- Kinsta Community 16 posts/day
- Kirby Forum 5 posts/day
- kirupaForum 23 posts/day
- Klipper 11 posts/day
- Knockology - Mechanical Pencil Forum 31 posts/day
- Kodular Community 178 posts/day
- KSEC Community Forum 16 posts/day
- Kurviger Forum 37 posts/day
- Lab Automation Forums 14 posts/day
- LAJI.FI-foorumi 71 posts/day
- LangChain Forum 16 posts/day
- Last.fm Support Community 72 posts/day
- Leasehackr Forum 467 posts/day
- Let's Encrypt Community Support 44 posts/day
- let's talk 17 posts/day
- Lexware Community 15 posts/day
- Lido Governance 8 posts/day
- LightBurn Software Forum 105 posts/day
- Linux Containers Forum 21 posts/day
- LINUX DO 40060 posts/day
- LINUX-USER 6 posts/day
- Living with Eagle 40 posts/day
- LivingAI Forums 15 posts/day
- LLVM Discussion Forums 37 posts/day
- Local Community 7 posts/day
- Logik Forums 18 posts/day
- LotusElan.net 34 posts/day
- M10Z 11 posts/day
- Make Community 87 posts/day
- Maker Forums 9 posts/day
- Manager Forum 208 posts/day
- Manjaro Linux Forum 160 posts/day
- Mapillary Community Forum 8 posts/day
- Maslow CNC Forums 24 posts/day
- Mattress Underground 61 posts/day
- Mautic Forums 3 posts/day
- McNeel Forum 168 posts/day
- MedBound Hub 144 posts/day
- Media Spy 325 posts/day
- MediaTek Genio Community 25 posts/day
- MessengerGeek 23 posts/day
- MetaGrid Forum 6 posts/day
- Metallica Forums 584 posts/day
- MetaMask 6 posts/day
- MetaMask Builder Hub 5 posts/day
- Microsoft Community Hub
- Microsoft MakeCode 100 posts/day
- Microsoft Power BI Community
- Ministry of Testing Club 6 posts/day
- Mirai Forum 4 posts/day
- Mixxx 12 posts/day
- Modular 8 posts/day
- MoneySavingExpert
- MongoDB Community Hub 33 posts/day
- Monzo Community 172 posts/day
- MorphMarket Reptile Community 76 posts/day
- Morse Micro Community 9 posts/day
- Motley Fool Community 84 posts/day
- Mozilla Discourse 14 posts/day
- MPU Talk 50 posts/day
- n8n Community 242 posts/day
- Naim Audio - Community 519 posts/day
- Nature Photographers Network 79 posts/day
- Navigraph 30 posts/day
- Neo4j Online Community 28 posts/day
- NetBird 6 posts/day
- Netgamers.it 590 posts/day
- Netwrix Community 123 posts/day
- Neural DSP 33 posts/day
- Nextcloud community 103 posts/day
- Nextworld User Community 5 posts/day
- NGINX Community Forum 14 posts/day
- NHS England Developer Community 31 posts/day
- Niantic Wayfarer Community 181 posts/day
- Nintendo-Online.de Forum 43 posts/day
- NixOS Discourse 100 posts/day
- Niyo Community 10 posts/day
- No Rest For The Wicked 23 posts/day
- Node-RED Forum 39 posts/day
- NodeLoc 2564 posts/day
- Nomad Gate Community 26 posts/day
- Nomad Sculpt 8 posts/day
- NTP Pool Project 5 posts/day
- NVIDIA Developer Forums 450 posts/day
- OCaml 12 posts/day
- ODK Forum 8 posts/day
- Okta Developer Community 7 posts/day
- Onefinity CNC Forum 17 posts/day
- Open edX discussions 7 posts/day
- Open OnDemand 5 posts/day
- Open Robotics Discourse 45 posts/day
- Open Robotics Discourse 45 posts/day
- Open Robotics Discourse 45 posts/day
- Open Science Data Repository Analysis Working Groups 9 posts/day
- Open Technology Fund 6 posts/day
- OpenAI Developer Community 359 posts/day
- OpenMandriva forum 13 posts/day
- OpenMC 4 posts/day
- OpenRent Landlord & Tenant Forum 62 posts/day
- OpenSearch 6 posts/day
- OpenStreetMap Community Forum 199 posts/day
- openSUSE Forums 113 posts/day
- OpenWrt Forum 212 posts/day
- openziti 4 posts/day
- OSGeo Discourse 18 posts/day
- Particle 9 posts/day
- Passbolt community forum 3 posts/day
- Patient Communities 912 posts/day
- Patients Community 44 posts/day
- Penpot Community 4 posts/day
- Percona Community Forum 8 posts/day
- Perplexity API Platform Forum 9 posts/day
- Philippinenforum 19 posts/day
- Pi-hole Userspace 29 posts/day
- Pimoroni Buccaneers 4 posts/day
- Pinegrow Community Forum 5 posts/day
- Playdate Developer Forum 4 posts/day
- Plex Forum 187 posts/day
- Plotly Community Forum 8 posts/day
- Pocket Community 9 posts/day
- Polkadot Forum 19 posts/day
- Polyend Backstage 8 posts/day
- Postman Community 9 posts/day
- Pragmatic Entrepreneurs Forum 5 posts/day
- PrePoMax 14 posts/day
- Privacy Guides Community 102 posts/day
- Processing Community Forum 13 posts/day
- Progression Project Forum 82 posts/day
- protaxcommunity.com 8 posts/day
- PS Audio 153 posts/day
- PSAppDeployToolkit Community 5 posts/day
- PsychoPy 12 posts/day
- PyTorch Forums 4 posts/day
- PyTorchKR 30 posts/day
- QField community 5 posts/day
- Qlik Community
- Qoder forum 47 posts/day
- Quarter To Three Forums 467 posts/day
- RapidWeaver Elements Forum 59 posts/day
- Readymag Forum 4 posts/day
- Real Time VFX 13 posts/day
- RealEquity Developer Forum 21 posts/day
- Rebble Developer Forum 13 posts/day
- Replit Community Forum 9 posts/day
- Retool Forum 40 posts/day
- Retro Game Boards 8 posts/day
- Revopoint 3D 26 posts/day
- Rewire Companion Forum 33 posts/day
- Roboflow 5 posts/day
- Robotime Community 1149 posts/day
- Rocket.Chat 4 posts/day
- Rocky Linux Forum 8 posts/day
- RootsMagic Community 18 posts/day
- RPG Foren 38 posts/day
- Ruby on Rails Discussions 4 posts/day
- Rust Internals 17 posts/day
- SailPoint Compass Community
- SailPoint Developer Community 273 posts/day
- Sanctuary 232 posts/day
- SanDisk Forums 7 posts/day
- SanForum.at 7 posts/day
- Scaler Music - Community Forum 9 posts/day
- Schizophrenia Support Forum 558 posts/day
- Scientific Python 4 posts/day
- Sellers Ask Sellers Ecommerce Forum - Amazon Seller Help, eBay, Walmart and more 51 posts/day
- ServiceNow Community
- Shaper Community 14 posts/day
- Shapr3D Community 16 posts/day
- Shopify Community 805 posts/day
- Sierra Wireless Forum 7 posts/day
- Sigma Community 5 posts/day
- SignalRGB 7 posts/day
- SilverBullet Community 5 posts/day
- SIM Dispatcher Forums 15 posts/day
- simon42 Community 254 posts/day
- SitePoint Forums 24 posts/day
- SketchUp Community 112 posts/day
- Skiff HQ Community 98 posts/day
- SmartThings Community 49 posts/day
- snapcraft.io 38 posts/day
- Snapmaker: where creation happens 33 posts/day
- Soaps.com's Message Board 695 posts/day
- SocialHub 5 posts/day
- Softr Community 7 posts/day
- Sonar Community 129 posts/day
- Sovol3d forum 11 posts/day
- SparkFun Community 20 posts/day
- Spiceworks Community 373 posts/day
- Square Developer Forums 24 posts/day
- Stalker Team 8 posts/day
- Steinberg Forums 438 posts/day
- StepSmash Community 4 posts/day
- Straight Dope Message Board 1213 posts/day
- Sublime Forum 9 posts/day
- sunnypilot Community 41 posts/day
- Superhuman Community 20 posts/day
- Support Forum 5 posts/day
- Surety Support Forum 63 posts/day
- Svet Androida Community 13 posts/day
- SWAPD 5387 posts/day
- Swift Forums 85 posts/day
- T Nation by Biotest 176 posts/day
- TARDIS Guide Forum 476 posts/day
- Tax Q&A by Quicko - Get answers to all your tax related queries 5 posts/day
- telecomHall Forum 4 posts/day
- Temporal Community Forum 4 posts/day
- Text Blaze Community 52 posts/day
- THE ANFIELD NOISE 575 posts/day
- The Atlassian Developer Community 41 posts/day
- The Barbell Medicine Forum 6 posts/day
- The Commons 185 posts/day
- The Construct ROS Community 21 posts/day
- The Den 258 posts/day
- The freeCodeCamp Forum 209 posts/day
- The freeCodeCamp Forum 209 posts/day
- The Gasroom 111 posts/day
- The Gramps Project (Discourse Forum & Mailing List) 28 posts/day
- The HEADPHONE Community 10 posts/day
- The Interactive Fiction Community Forum 81 posts/day
- The Last Forum 109 posts/day
- The Nonsuch Community Forum 11 posts/day
- The Observable Forum 5 posts/day
- The Rust Programming Language Forum 77 posts/day
- The South Pacific 125 posts/day
- The Spaghetti Western Database Forum 18 posts/day
- The Stan Forums 8 posts/day
- The Things Network 10 posts/day
- The Uncharted Blue Community Forums 22 posts/day
- three.js forum 35 posts/day
- TidBITS Talk 43 posts/day
- Tiller Community 28 posts/day
- Time Travel Institute 24 posts/day
- Toggl Community 8 posts/day
- Topaz Community 84 posts/day
- Tor Project Forum 8 posts/day
- Trading 212 Community 30 posts/day
- Trading Q&A by Zerodha - All your queries on trading and markets answered 79 posts/day
- Trakt Forums 239 posts/day
- Triumph Motorcycle Forum 22 posts/day
- TrueNAS Community Forums 77 posts/day
- TrustedHousesitters Community Forum 135 posts/day
- Tryton Discussion 4 posts/day
- Tulip Community 4 posts/day
- TWiT.Community 11 posts/day
- Typst Forum 25 posts/day
- Ubuntu Budgie Discourse 4 posts/day
- Ubuntu Community Hub 111 posts/day
- UiPath Community Forum 296 posts/day
- Umbraco community forum 13 posts/day
- Umbrel Community 5 posts/day
- Unicyclist.com 38 posts/day
- Unity Discussions 334 posts/day
- Universal Blue 6 posts/day
- Universal Robots Forum 8 posts/day
- Upstox Community 38 posts/day
- USCCA Community 165 posts/day
- User Forum - Morningstar Engineering 8 posts/day
- Vaadin Forum 8 posts/day
- Vercel Community 143 posts/day
- Victron Community 178 posts/day
- vint-aide 31 posts/day
- Virtualmin Community 34 posts/day
- vLLM Forums 4 posts/day
- VRChat Ask Forum 11 posts/day
- WAGO Automation Community 5 posts/day
- Wahoo Forum 11 posts/day
- WaniKani Community 430 posts/day
- Water Polo Exchange 39 posts/day
- Waterloo Cycling Club Forum 28 posts/day
- WD Community 6 posts/day
- Weather-Watch Forum 12 posts/day
- WeWeb Community 8 posts/day
- WHOOP Community 16 posts/day
- wikiHow 6 posts/day
- WLED 6 posts/day
- Wohnzimmer Neurodivers e.V. 286 posts/day
- World Radio League 27 posts/day
- WorldGuessr Forum 11 posts/day
- WoW Lazy Macros 23 posts/day
- Wyze Forum 84 posts/day
- X Developers 108 posts/day
- Yarbo Forum 95 posts/day
- YoYoExpert Forums 551 posts/day
- Zammad - Community 17 posts/day
- Zcash Community Forum 57 posts/day
- ZigZaGame Forum 38 posts/day
- Zoom Developer Forum 40 posts/day
- Zorin Forum 131 posts/day
- ุนุงูู ุงูุฑุงูุชุฑุงุช 8 posts/day
- ๐ซ The Prodigy Game Discourse Group 12 posts/day
So what can forum monitoring be used for?
You can use Syften to receive alerts whenever a new thread or reply matches the keywords you care about. That means you can be one of the first people to reply usefully instead of finding the thread months later through search.
This is especially useful for founder-led sales, developer tools, agencies, and niche SaaS products where buyers ask detailed questions before they buy.
You can also monitor your own articles, docs, and product pages. If someone shares your link in a forum, your team can join the conversation while it is still fresh.
Example forum alert filters
Syften filters are not Google queries. Words and phrases on the same line must all match. Use separate filter lines when you need alternative keywords or phrases. Repeated site:, author:, and replyto: values on one line are treated as alternatives.
| Goal | Example filter | What it finds |
|---|---|---|
| Domain mentions | example.com | Mentions of a domain, including subdomains and common obfuscated forms like example[.]com. |
| Product name | "Acme Analytics" | Mentions of a multi-word product name. |
| Alternative searches | "alternative to" calendly | Threads and replies where someone is comparing options around a known product. |
| Integration demand | "connect to" zapier | People describing integration needs, automation workflows, and missing connectors. |
| Forum-specific alert | site:meta.discourse.org title:`[paid-job]` | New Discourse threads with a specific marker in the title. |
| Multiple sources | site:indiehackers.com site:news.ycombinator.com "email warmup" | Matches from either source that also mention the exact phrase. |
| Reply notifications | site:news.ycombinator.com replyto:yourusername | Replies to your account where replyto: is supported, such as Hacker News, Indie Hackers, and Stack Exchange. |
| Noise reduction | "wordpress theme*" `?` NOT `https://` | Questions about WordPress themes while excluding posts that are mainly links. |
Other than forums, we monitor these communities:
Syften's filter syntax is built for exact matches, source filters, exclusions, tags, and AI filtering, so useful forum conversations can reach you without the junk.

Operating since 2019
Check out what our customers are saying

At Rewardful, we're huge believers in word-of-mouth marketing. I've used most of the social monitoring tools on the market and most have a lot of noise in the results or miss important conversations happening online. Syften returns the most relevant social mentions with the least amount of noise out of all the tools I've tested so far. Their community listening is the best on the market and I love how you can fine tune by source.
I love that Syften monitors all the communities I am part of but don't have enough time to check all day. Now, I can check my email and see conversations happening on Twitter, Reddit, Indie Hackers, and many more places. It's incredibly useful. Worth every dollar.


We use Syften to react to people saying things about us on the internet every single day. It's a set once and forget tool that just helps your team keep your pulse on whatever it is you care about.
Syften is awesome. I use it for my business so I can monitor the brand, and participate in online discussions which can help us attract new customers. I also use it personally to keep track of niche subjects that I'm interested in like emerging tech and products.


We love Syften at PostHog and find it incredibly useful for listening to our open-source community. The Slack integration enables our entire team to find ways to connect with our users, whether it's the Marketing team sharing new content or the Engineering team answering technical questions. The filtering system is especially powerful and helps us separate the signal from the noise.

I've written a couple books and like to keep an eye on how and where folks are talking about them. Syften has helped me catch several key conversations that I otherwise wouldn't have seen. Even on the days without any notable alerts, I'm still happy to know that I haven't missed anything. A very useful tool.


Syften has become integral to our business. It allows us to monitor *and* respond in real-time using their super simple webhooks. For example, when people mention our competitors being expensive on Twitter, Syften finds it and enables us to respond instantly with Zapier. It's paid for itself many times over. It even helped us secure $5M in funding for one of our community members. Michael has been overwhelmingly supportive over the past 18+ months we've been a customer and we couldn't be more grateful.
I use Syften every day and have been for a year. I looked at various other social listening tools but they were mostly aimed at big brands and enterprise customers and carried a hefty price tag. Syften tracks all of the major networks that I'm interested (even ones the big tools don't) and it's affordable for businesses of every size. Every day I get an email digest of people talking about my product for me to take immediate action on.


I gather the mentions I get from Syften and add them to our customer sales and partner presentations to show how our product is gaining mindshare amongst users on Reddit and forums. These slides are very impactful.
Syften has been a great tool to understand in which communities my website is being mentioned, or topics relevant to my business. It allowed me to engage in meaningful discussions and to identify some important actors in my niche.


Syften has enabled us to keep an eye on the topics related to our product. We can easily track posts about discount codes, email marketing, and e-commerce. We can then suggest using our service, or just be helpful answering questions on subjects that we are familiar with.
Pricing
It pays for itself if you find just one customer (easy)
Entry
Keep an eye out for your product name
- Communities filters: 3A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 100/day
- Web filters: 1The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 5/day
- Archive search: 7 daysSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
Standard
AI filtering, API access, more filters, more archive, Slack integration, and optional Twitter and YouTube support
- Communities filters: 20A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 200/day
- Web filters: 5The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 20/day
- Archive search: 1 monthSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
Syften PRO
More matches, more filters, unlimited archive, API access, and webhook support
- Communities filters: 100A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 500/day
- Web filters: 20The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 50/day
- Archive search: unlimitedSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
- WebhooksPush new matches to your own endpoint. Click to read more.
- MCPConnect Syften to AI tools that support MCP. Click to read more.
Tailor made
We also offer custom solutions built just for you, whether it's integrating Syften into your product or supplying your marketing team with the right data.
Frequently asked questions
Which forums does Syften monitor?
Syften monitors the public forums listed on this page, including Discourse forums and other niche community sites. The list is generated from sources we can reliably fetch and monitor.
Can Syften monitor forum replies, not just new threads?
Yes. Forum monitoring covers threads and replies where the source exposes them. That matters because many buying questions and competitor comparisons happen inside replies, not only in the first post.
Can I monitor one specific forum?
Yes. Use the site: operator to limit a filter to a forum domain or path. For example, site:meta.discourse.org migration only matches items from that forum.
Can I monitor forum authors?
Yes, when the source exposes an author name. Use author: together with site: when you want alerts from a known account on a specific forum.
Can Syften notify me when someone replies to me on a forum?
It depends on the source. Syften supports replyto: on some communities, such as Hacker News, Indie Hackers, and Stack Exchange, but not every forum exposes enough reply structure for this to work.
How do you reduce noisy forum alerts?
Start with exact product names, domains, competitor domains, narrow problem phrases, or forum-specific paths. Then add exclusions, type: filters, tags, or AI filtering for broad words.
Can I search older forum mentions after signing up?
Yes. Syften includes archive search so you can test filters and inspect recent forum matches from before you created an alert.
Do you support other communities, or just forums?
Syften monitors the public web and these communities:
- The public web (articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and competitor blogs)
- X/Twitter
- Indie Hackers
- Hacker News
- GitHub
- ProductHunt
- The Stack Exchange family
- Forums
- Lobste.rs
- Dev.to
- Steemit
- Various Slack communities
- Newsletters
- YouTube
- Podcasts
- Bluesky
- Mastodon
I have more questions.
Use the chat widget or email us at hello@syften.com (we'll reply within 24 hours).
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